Your Hot Mess turned into a beautiful space. It takes lots of time and hard work to clean up a Hot Mess. Your path is wider so that anyone coming to visit can have a safe walk to your door. Now they can appreciate the shrubs. If it were me, I'd only add colorful annuals in pots in various heights, for interest next summer. Easy to change out. I'm old and it seems like I aged a decade in one year. So this year has been a real struggle.
For the last several years my mantra has been “make it low maintenance “. I have changed my garden beds every 2 or 3 years making them more beautiful and less work (less, not no work-I still love the digging and garden care, but definitely don’t want it a continuous weeding project). Really enjoyed this video and watching you rip the “hot mess” apart. It looks so fresh!
Ha ha when you put the paper bag over your head - and half of your body 😆 just watched your video about bulbs you inspired me to get out and get digging - I've just planted some tulips and daffodils ready for spring time - saved about 50 tulips for another day 🌷🌼🌱 am in UK it's getting colder by the day now 🍃
Ahhh! Everything looks like it can breathe. My best friend rejuvenated her garden several years ago and it was gorgeous! I took many photos and they inspired my plans for my garden makeover this year. She and I used to call ourselves plant collectors, we picked up unusual plants at the U of MN arboretum plant sale each year. I toured her garden this summer. I was sort of disappointed because it looked crowded. Now, in her defense, her busy schedule prevented her from doing her regular weeding maintenance. It's an enormous property overlooking a large lake. My garden is new so lots of space between plants. I'm feeling the end-of-season pressure to get things planted or moved. To get started on this makeover, I thought I'd manage by focusing on one quarter of the space. Well, that was the plan anyways. This bed was FILLED with quackgrass and that slowed me down. I suffered from burnout and took day-long breaks to rest my body. I ignored my back yard and was shocked by the jungle of weeds. Now that the front makeover is under control (a garden is never finished) I hope I have time to attack the back garden. Retired doesn't mean one's time expands. Nope. In fact, my friends and I wonder how we managed to get so mich done when we worked at our jobs full time. Happy dreaming this winter. That's what I did last year. 😊
Oh quack grass it the absolute worst.....it is the bane of my existance. I think it is worse than thistle. Just keep pacing yourself and tackle a little at a time.
Great video. Beautiful property and wonderful results! I have been slowly transforming my back yard from "hot mess" to "pocket park." In a few years retirement is coming, so it is a present for myself. The work is fun though. Oddly, I enjoy digging, pruning, raking, chipping, weeding, planting... Probably because I have an office job.
Absolutely gorgeous Michelle! I am doing my best to do low maintenance beds now as well. I love puttering around in my garden but I fizzle out in the heat. Thank you for the inspiration and motivation to keep trying something different until we get what we want in our gardens. Have a blessed week! ❤❤
This is so relatable! I love how you open the new bag, I do the same. 😂 Thanks for being real and showing us how to tackle a project like this and encouraging us in our learning (vs thinking of things as failures).
This really looks awesome, I so relate to what you do in your gardens I too am moving plants next spring because I pulled out daylilies because I need to put in plants that doesn't take so much of my time since I'm older. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts visuals in all your videos which I look forward to every day.
Good for you!!!! Isn’t that what gardening is all about??? Trials and errors, what works and what you don’t like!!! Love you, keep posting videos can’t watch enough 😂 Thank you 🙏
Another great video! It looks great! I like your advice to do a little at a time. Take a break or do some the next day. I feel overwhelmed sometimes when I look at all that has to be done. Looking forward to your next video.
Great video… as always keeping it real 👍 I didn’t understand the little wall idea until the last when you walked around the corner towards the cottage garden and then it all made sense and it is a fabulous idea!!! Will look so manicured and changes in elevation are one of my favorite features in a landscape. As for the nasty comment you received, in our chosen professions this is how we learn… which makes us great consultants and yes we let things go sometimes because we can’t say no to our clients wanting our time!! You fit one heck of a lot into your day and still maintain a cheery attitude. Thank you 🇨🇦
If you don't want pea gravel on your stones, potentially look into mulch glue. It lasts for a couple years and is generally waterproof. As long as you expect your path to stay about where it is, it will keep your rocks in your path :)
My bad back always determines how long I can go before I have to give up for the day. :-) You have me worried. This fall, I have planted so many perennials in the beds around my house....and now I'm hoping I won't find myself pulling it all out 3 years later. I'm not getting any younger either!!
It happens sooner or later to most gardeners. This year I had my Japanese anemones take over in one garden. They were planted there for years. I revamped another garden a couple of years ago and kept only the peonies and a rose. Plants do what they want to do. Bonny
Beautiful transformation! I kept my front yard pretty plain and concentrate mostly on the back with plants and containers. Between your channel, Garden Answer ‘s 🌼channel and Garden Queen’s channel, my yard looks better than ever! Thank you!!
Michele- have you watched Janey, her page is Dig, Plant, Repeat, she bought a new property and is trying a new planting method... she is putting a couple layers of cardboard on top of the existing soil, then she is putting inches of compost on top of the cardboard. When she plants, she moves the compost, cuts a hole in the cardboard and digs a hole, puts the plant in and moves the compost around the plant. I think its called the no-till method. I think the science behind it is that tilling disturbs the soil biom or something, not sure. The cardboard smothers the weeds and will eventually decompose. When you were talking about tilling up your clay soil, i thought of Janey and her no-till method. I probably didnt explain it very well, but thought it was an interesting concept. Your yard is looking great, you're such a hard worker, love your videos!
I have watched a few of her videos. She is great. I personally think that works great for perennials, I'm still on the fence when it comes to shrubs and definetly trees. Once their roots leave that compost they have to grow in our native clay soil.....so while it gives them a great start, how do they do after? I have not tried it, but I probably should just to check it.out. Only tiime will tell.
It looks beautiful with all of the plants removed and now the remaining ones can breathe so well. I hadn't realized there was a weeping tree there and it looks beautiful! The cleomes really looked so pretty. I want to plant them in my backyard next year. I have a cedar fence that I think they will look beautiful in front of. A friend has some that have grown 5 ft tall and they are stunning, but of course she lives in North Carolina, so that helps with the height of them. They will get all day full sun though, so I am hoping they grow a little taller, even with me in 5b. My friend is in zone 7b. Thanks so much for taking us along on the adventure! It will be fun to see what you choose for this area for next year!
Looks amazing! can’t wait to see how you evolve it next year! the stone wall will look amazing and give you a beautiful tiered effect! you should definitely doodle on that! ❤
I had a bed just like that and pulled everything out in the spring and left it empty all summer. I did put bubblegum supertunias in there for the summer to suppress the weeds. I just replanted it last week. I had all summer to think about it. I am so happy with it now.
I removed my black eyed Susan, but replaced it with Glitters Like Gold rudbeckia…it grows in clumps vs spreading with the runners. So far, so good. Plus, it blooms for months!
Love your approach to the cleanup. Little chunks at a time and it seems doable. also, do you sell the leaf and lawn chute? I’ve never seen that. What a great tool.
Looks great! I’ve just starting to learn to put something in the oven on days I’m working in the gardens because if not, we end up eating at 9 pm lol so much to learn still, thanks for all the good advice
I so love how you explain what and why you did certain things in this renovation. It looks awesome! I recently started mixing shrubs with perennials in my flower beds and love how my eye rests on the green. Next addition will get a weeping Norwegian spruce (I hope)!! Thanks for the awesome ideas!!
I'm wondering if you could keep the sedum from spreading by inserting a piece of black edging in a ring around them and fencing in the roots in the ground...do you have a faucet close to this area? I'm thinking of the labor of hauling water to your pots. From a 62 year old gardener ;-)
I really love watching your videos. I’m from Yorkville IL so we share a lot of the same gardening issues. You most likely are my neighbor!
Your Hot Mess turned into a beautiful space. It takes lots of time and hard work to clean up a Hot Mess. Your path is wider so that anyone coming to visit can have a safe walk to your door. Now they can appreciate the shrubs. If it were me, I'd only add colorful annuals in pots in various heights, for interest next summer. Easy to change out. I'm old and it seems like I aged a decade in one year. So this year has been a real struggle.
I feel ya sister...I am all about trying to garden easier.
For the last several years my mantra has been “make it low maintenance “. I have changed my garden beds every 2 or 3 years making them more beautiful and less work (less, not no work-I still love the digging and garden care, but definitely don’t want it a continuous weeding project). Really enjoyed this video and watching you rip the “hot mess” apart. It looks so fresh!
Ha ha when you put the paper bag over your head - and half of your body 😆 just watched your video about bulbs you inspired me to get out and get digging - I've just planted some tulips and daffodils ready for spring time - saved about 50 tulips for another day 🌷🌼🌱 am in UK it's getting colder by the day now 🍃
Excellent video. You are so enjoyable and as others have said very real. I think the transformation is wonderful restart point.
💕💕🎶🎶
Thank you so much! Thank you so much for watching!
Ahhh! Everything looks like it can breathe.
My best friend rejuvenated her garden several years ago and it was gorgeous! I took many photos and they inspired my plans for my garden makeover this year.
She and I used to call ourselves plant collectors, we picked up unusual plants at the U of MN arboretum plant sale each year.
I toured her garden this summer. I was sort of disappointed because it looked crowded. Now, in her defense, her busy schedule prevented her from doing her regular weeding maintenance. It's an enormous property overlooking a large lake.
My garden is new so lots of space between plants. I'm feeling the end-of-season pressure to get things planted or moved.
To get started on this makeover, I thought I'd manage by focusing on one quarter of the space. Well, that was the plan anyways. This bed was FILLED with quackgrass and that slowed me down. I suffered from burnout and took day-long breaks to rest my body. I ignored my back yard and was shocked by the jungle of weeds. Now that the front makeover is under control (a garden is never finished) I hope I have time to attack the back garden.
Retired doesn't mean one's time expands. Nope. In fact, my friends and I wonder how we managed to get so mich done when we worked at our jobs full time.
Happy dreaming this winter. That's what I did last year. 😊
Oh quack grass it the absolute worst.....it is the bane of my existance. I think it is worse than thistle. Just keep pacing yourself and tackle a little at a time.
@@gardeningTLC I set my mind to the task and finished it today...until it got too cold. Still didn't plant what I intended to though. Tomorrow. 🥴
😊LOL. Love your way of opening the new bags. You really get into it:)😊
Great video. Beautiful property and wonderful results! I have been slowly transforming my back yard from "hot mess" to "pocket park." In a few years retirement is coming, so it is a present for myself. The work is fun though. Oddly, I enjoy digging, pruning, raking, chipping, weeding, planting... Probably because I have an office job.
I love all of that too...Blessing to you.
Absolutely gorgeous Michelle! I am doing my best to do low maintenance beds now as well. I love puttering around in my garden but I fizzle out in the heat. Thank you for the inspiration and motivation to keep trying something different until we get what we want in our gardens. Have a blessed week! ❤❤
Thank you, you too!!😀😀
This is so relatable! I love how you open the new bag, I do the same. 😂 Thanks for being real and showing us how to tackle a project like this and encouraging us in our learning (vs thinking of things as failures).
Hahaha. I am so glad I am not the only peraon who opens a bag that way. 😉
Great composting material
This really looks awesome, I so relate to what you do in your gardens I too am moving plants next spring because I pulled out daylilies because I need to put in plants that doesn't take so much of my time since I'm older. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts visuals in all your videos which I look forward to every day.
You are so down to earth and fun to watch. Love this channel very informative.❤
So glad! Thanks for watching.
You are real deal. What I love about your channel is that you address things that we do as home gardeners. ❤
Wow, thank you!
Good for you!!!!
Isn’t that what gardening is all about??? Trials and errors, what works and what you don’t like!!!
Love you, keep posting videos can’t watch enough 😂
Thank you 🙏
So true! Thank you for watching.
thanks for sharing. this was a great video enjoyed it very much. be safe.
Thanks, you too!
Another great video! It looks great! I like your advice to do a little at a time. Take a break or do some the next day. I feel overwhelmed sometimes when I look at all that has to be done. Looking forward to your next video.
Thank you!
Great video… as always keeping it real 👍 I didn’t understand the little wall idea until the last when you walked around the corner towards the cottage garden and then it all made sense and it is a fabulous idea!!! Will look so manicured and changes in elevation are one of my favorite features in a landscape.
As for the nasty comment you received, in our chosen professions this is how we learn… which makes us great consultants and yes we let things go sometimes because we can’t say no to our clients wanting our time!! You fit one heck of a lot into your day and still maintain a cheery attitude.
Thank you 🇨🇦
Oh I didn't think it was nasty, just interesting that that was the perception...
It looks awesome, great job.😍👏😍.
Thank you! 😊
Kính chúc chị ngày mới thật vui vẻ nhiều sức khỏe nhiều Mai Mắn trong công việc ❤❤❤❤
Looks much better!!
If you don't want pea gravel on your stones, potentially look into mulch glue. It lasts for a couple years and is generally waterproof. As long as you expect your path to stay about where it is, it will keep your rocks in your path :)
Thanks 😀
Looks great!!!
My bad back always determines how long I can go before I have to give up for the day. :-) You have me worried. This fall, I have planted so many perennials in the beds around my house....and now I'm hoping I won't find myself pulling it all out 3 years later. I'm not getting any younger either!!
Fingers crossed!
This is a super helpful video. Thanks for sharing your approach to a job like this!
Glad it was helpful!
It happens sooner or later to most gardeners. This year I had my Japanese anemones take over in one garden. They were planted there for years. I revamped another garden a couple of years ago and kept only the peonies and a rose. Plants do what they want to do. Bonny
They sure do 😀😀
Like it very much.
Beautiful transformation! I kept my front yard pretty plain and concentrate mostly on the back with plants and containers. Between your channel, Garden Answer ‘s 🌼channel and Garden Queen’s channel, my yard looks better than ever! Thank you!!
Love that!
I was freaking when you started thinning but then the finished product is so much better.
Michele- have you watched Janey, her page is Dig, Plant, Repeat, she bought a new property and is trying a new planting method... she is putting a couple layers of cardboard on top of the existing soil, then she is putting inches of compost on top of the cardboard. When she plants, she moves the compost, cuts a hole in the cardboard and digs a hole, puts the plant in and moves the compost around the plant. I think its called the no-till method. I think the science behind it is that tilling disturbs the soil biom or something, not sure. The cardboard smothers the weeds and will eventually decompose. When you were talking about tilling up your clay soil, i thought of Janey and her no-till method. I probably didnt explain it very well, but thought it was an interesting concept. Your yard is looking great, you're such a hard worker, love your videos!
I have watched a few of her videos. She is great. I personally think that works great for perennials, I'm still on the fence when it comes to shrubs and definetly trees. Once their roots leave that compost they have to grow in our native clay soil.....so while it gives them a great start, how do they do after? I have not tried it, but I probably should just to check it.out. Only tiime will tell.
It looks beautiful with all of the plants removed and now the remaining ones can breathe so well. I hadn't realized there was a weeping tree there and it looks beautiful! The cleomes really looked so pretty. I want to plant them in my backyard next year. I have a cedar fence that I think they will look beautiful in front of. A friend has some that have grown 5 ft tall and they are stunning, but of course she lives in North Carolina, so that helps with the height of them. They will get all day full sun though, so I am hoping they grow a little taller, even with me in 5b. My friend is in zone 7b. Thanks so much for taking us along on the adventure! It will be fun to see what you choose for this area for next year!
LOL! I put the bags over my head also.
Hahaha..my arms aren't long enough to reach the bottom.
Me too! :D
Looks so good already. I have to live with most beds awhile too, before I know what I want. Going to be better next spring, Michelle.
Looks amazing! can’t wait to see how you evolve it next year! the stone wall will look amazing and give you a beautiful tiered effect! you should definitely doodle on that! ❤
I had a bed just like that and pulled everything out in the spring and left it empty all summer. I did put bubblegum supertunias in there for the summer to suppress the weeds. I just replanted it last week. I had all summer to think about it. I am so happy with it now.
I removed my black eyed Susan, but replaced it with Glitters Like Gold rudbeckia…it grows in clumps vs spreading with the runners. So far, so good. Plus, it blooms for months!
Love your approach to the cleanup. Little chunks at a time and it seems doable. also, do you sell the leaf and lawn chute? I’ve never seen that. What a great tool.
No. I bought that at home depot
Very inspirational! Looks awesome!
Thanks so much!
I smile everytime I walk by it now...
Looks great! I’ve just starting to learn to put something in the oven on days I’m working in the gardens because if not, we end up eating at 9 pm lol so much to learn still, thanks for all the good advice
I can totally relate to that. Lol
It’s beautiful
Looks really nice
I have a gravel path like this also. Love it
That was some hard work Michelle!! Good job! I have a question, what brand of landscaping fabric did you use? Thank you! 😊♥️
sorry I just saw this. it is a superior spunbond fabric
I so love how you explain what and why you did certain things in this renovation. It looks awesome! I recently started mixing shrubs with perennials in my flower beds and love how my eye rests on the green. Next addition will get a weeping Norwegian spruce (I hope)!! Thanks for the awesome ideas!!
Glad it was helpful!
Are yarrow perennials in zone 5? Love what you did with your garden bed.
Yes they are
@@gardeningTLC thank you
I'm wondering if you could keep the sedum from spreading by inserting a piece of black edging in a ring around them and fencing in the roots in the ground...do you have a faucet close to this area? I'm thinking of the labor of hauling water to your pots. From a 62 year old gardener ;-)
I do have a spicket close by...I just need to repair it, just never got around to it this year.
I do have a spicket close by...I just need to repair it, just never got around to it this year.
You’re so fast!!!
I get ants making nests under my rocks.
Hmmm...I have not had that happen...yet...