🌿 Exploring dream Irish Gardens: June Blake’s Garden & Hunting Brook Gardens 🌿
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Join me as we explore the beauty of two stunning Irish gardens! First, we visit June Blake’s Garden, an incredible fusion of inspired design and artistic planting set around a charming Victorian cottage. This breathtaking Irish cottage garden in West Wicklow is filled with lush, colourful plants and peaceful meadows, making it a must-see for garden lovers.
Next, we take a short drive to her brother Jimi’s Hunting Brook Gardens, a spectacular five-acre contemporary exotic garden nestled in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains. With an additional fifteen acres of enchanting woodland, it’s the perfect place to wander and enjoy nature. You’ll get a glimpse of a vibrant, tropical-inspired space full of tall perennials and exotic plants from cloud forests.
Whether you’re planning to visit Ireland, looking for garden inspiration, or just love exploring unique Irish cottage gardens, this video has something for you!
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Happy Sunday 😊 this video accidentally went live at 12am 🫠 my mistake! So I rescheduled it to go up at the usual 7pm time. Apologies if you got multiple notifications for this video ❤
@@DaintyDiaries it was a lovely morning treat. 💕
Yay, it's back! It went offline mid-watch for me! Lovely video ❤
That was such a relaxing watch, thank you for taking us to these beautiful places! Nature is definitely the best medicine for anxiety & stress ❤
Don’t compare your sweet beautiful garden to those large ones, yours is absolutely gorgeous and you’ve made it that way all on your own, what an achievement 😘
I love forest walks & the sound of the birds singing just melts the stress away ❤
Thanks Catherine - the gardens are beautiful. Would be great to see them in the spring and summer too!! I love when gardens have plants for sale! 🥀🪻🐞🌷🦋🌺🐝😊
Definitely one to revisit in the spring 😍🌸 thanks for stopping by xx
A BIG cheeky Hello 👋 to all.
The autumn chill has arrived. Just pulled out the zip-up hoodie! 🍂
Same, autumn is here and you can smell the chil and rain in the air 🍂
You can absolutely feel the chill these days, cosy time is here!! 🍂🍁
Canadian here & I too have my sweaters out & just took my down duvet out of the back closet. lol. I'm ready for cozy time. Cheers Collen. 💚
I don't know where to begin. The gardens, the woodland, the meadows, the bird song. It was all wonderful. It really makes me miss my old dog so much. He used to encourage me to go on these walks and I've just not got into the way of going without him vut u really must. Also, can I just say, Catherine, your choice of background music is always on point and never ever too loud. You are such a skilled videographer. As well as a talented gardener, crafts person, beekeeper and author. Oh, and a great auntie too, which is not the same as a great aunt. Thank you for such a lovely video, even if the multiple postings was a little confusing for a Sunday 😂
Good morning from Minnesota! My husband & I visited Ireland in the end of May into early June in celebration of our anniversary of 40 years.whata beautiful country and the most wonderful people. We are definitely coming back!
Thankyou for sharing this beautiful part of the world with us. I strongly believe this is the closest to the garden of Eden i would ever be❤❤❤
Oh Catherine thank you for sharing your visit and wander through these beautiful gardens ❤
This was simply breathtaking. A quiet life in nature is more fulfilling than a busy social life. These heavenly spots are ideal places in which to explore & take a moment to sit back and unwind. I go to nature to be soothed and healed as well as to have my senses put in order.
The stunning scenes you captured brought inner peace & calm. I love the tranquility of the gardens. This was wonderful. Thank you so much ❤x
Catherine what beautiful gardens. Magical. Thank you so much for the adventure.
It felt magical for sure 😍🌸 thanks for stopping by Donna! Hope you have a fab week ❤️
I would be looking for a four leaf clover and maybe if I’m lucky I might catch me a leprechaun. Beautiful gardens and the music selection was perfect. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
The second garden really spoke to me. I loved the whimsical art mixed in the garden.
Lovely gardens, so peaceful and sense of calm. Much needed in theses times of stress .
Thank you Catherine for sharing your day with me. Love and hugs ❤❤❤
Good for the soul 🍁☀️ thanks for watching! Hope you’ve a lovely week x
Thank you Catherine, for letting us tag along on this amazing day out. Beautiful Ireland, it's so magical and so good for the heart and soul all this nature .
I feel so relaxed and calm hearing the birdsong.
See you on the next one.
Oh my goodness beautiful garden 😊thanks for taking us along 😊
I loved these videos of the two gardens. I also love your technique where you don’t rush around but move slowly. It gives time to focus on the plants.
What a beautiful day! My dream is to live in June’s Garden in that Cottage! Thank you for taking me along. The music you put with your posts is always enchanting, relaxing and transports me to where you are filming!
Aww that’s so nice to hear, I’m so glad ❤️🍂🥹 it is a gorgeous garden and cottage 😍
Magnificent gardens. So peaceful.💐🌻🍁🍂
Thank you for taking us on a beautiful view of the gardens. 💐
Thank you for this video. Nature has really healing properties ❤
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Catherine, for this visual feast! I can can imagine how happy it made you to see it in real life. I had to watch it twice. ❤
It was autumnal magic 😍🍁🌸 I got so lucky with the weather too, so sunny 😍 I’m glad you enjoyed! Thanks for stopping by xx
Hi Catherine absolutely beautiful thanks for taking us along.😊🌼🌸🌺🪻🌻
That was such a nice place and peaceful too! Thank you for taking us!❤
The gardens as well as your calm and kind voice work together to ease my mind and mood...you are truly a blessing in my life....from the other side of the world...I dont think you realize that you are like an oasis on a crazy busy week....thanks for always being a blessing !! Summer love from South Africa 🇿🇦 Sunday night ...cup of coffee and my Dainty Catherine...blessing on blessing...
Aww that’s so kind of you to say and it truly means a lot to me Juanita ✨🧡 I’m glad you had your nice relaxing Sunday evening! Hope you’ve have a lovely week xx
I watched most of the video on Sat when it came out. I was so surprised to see a Sat video. Pleased though. Now I understand what happened. Just finished viewing, this is such a beautiful and calming experience. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. ❤🦩
Ireland is a treasure❤. I love the country. The lovely cottages,flowers and gardens,the beautiful green country. Catherine, you are so lucky 🍀❤️🤗. I would love to visit Ireland some day.
Me as well Suse. I'm not much for travelling but Ireland would be my only choice if I won the lottery.
This was lovely, I would love to see bot in the spring & summer as well!
Thank you, Katherine!
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Thank you for taking us along. Catherine this was truly a spectacular experience. ❤
Thanks for this tranquility on your post, Catherine - exactly what I needed!
Beautiful gardens and beautiful and relaxing video! Thanks so much for sharing!!♥
They’re stunning aren’t they 😍 thanks for watching! Hope you have a lovely week 💕
Such lovely surprise to see an early posted walk through magical gardens. Glorious colours and techtures, and that little cottage snuggled in the midst of the garden was such dream. Thank you for taking us along on your rambles, Catherine 💕
Breathtaking gardens. I had never grown dahlias until this year. I learned from you to deadhead them, a huge thank you for that. Almost all my other flowers are finished. The dahlias are still going strong and stealing the show. My new favorite flower. Thank you for all you share.
Aww I’m so glad I could be a part of your journey with the dahlias 😍 I’m sure they turned out beautiful! 💕🌸
Catherine, thank you for taking us along with you. Such beautiful countryside. 👍👍♥️♥️
Thanks for watching Cathy💕
Beautiful countryside be a nice spot for a picnic and a good book looks so peaceful
Thanks for sharing this with us ☺️ Memphis Tennessee 💜
What a gorgeous garden! Thanks for taking us with you!
Dear Catherine, Thank you for taking us to see the cottage gardens, stunning. I wish it was possible to see them for myself. I am lucky to be able to see them at all. Thanks to you, I did. I like your high lights, lovely.❤❤❤
Cheeky 👍👍👍👍👍👍
I hope you enjoyed coming along with me Sharon ❤️🌸 hope you have a lovely week xx
@DaintyDiaries I did. Beautiful dahlias. It's overcast here, but I try to find the good. Enjoy it all. Cheeky 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you for sharing two stunning gardens
Great to see your garden visits Dainty 🙌🏻wow those gardens still look amazing for September, just love September in the garden especially when we got some of the best weather this year. Definitely going to plan my garden better for next year and have more plants for autumn time .beautiful place to just go and chill on my list for next year thank you for sharing your world with us.hope you got your ice cream 🍦😁.love from the sunny southeast 💚☘️🍂🍂🍂
Hi Catherine, just loved this video beautiful scenery and how amazing are the flowers for this time of year . 💞🙋🏻♀️Patricia x.
Happy Sunday 🤗 such a lovely way to enjoy a beautiful peaceful Sunday....thank you Catherine for taking Us along, big hug n many Blessings!!💗🌻🪻🌿🐝
Happy Sunday! Thanks for stopping by💕🌸
Thank you Catherine, beautiful gardens and a treat to sit with my morning cuppa watching. Everyone is still asleep🤫 and it’s bliss ❤️
Sounds like the ideal time to chill out with a cuppa ❤️ glad you enjoyed Charlotte, thanks for stopping by xx
So beautiful and to be reminded of that lovely sunshine and delicious warmth......yes please x
That Autumn sunshine just hits different 🍂😍
Wonderful. Soooooo beautiful thank you 🙏🏽
Love love love. You Glow girl.
Thank you for taking us on your ramble! 🌸🌺🌻
I just found you yesterday and what a joy you are. I live in Canada, but I'm from the UK. However, my family were Irish, and last September, I traveled around the Wild Atlantic Way. Watching your videos makes me miss Ireland so much. I can't wait until I can come back again.
Aw what a stunning trip to do, I have only seen some parts of the wild Atlantic way, its such a fun trip to do x
It was amazing. Highly recommend it if you can.
Yay a very pretty little ramble! 😊 🍂🫶🌻
So incredibly beautiful! Thanks for sharing! ❤
Thanks Sue 😍🌸 glad you enjoyed ❤️
Extremely beautiful!!!! Wish we had more of the wildlife walking areas in the US
Lovely video and great to see you in your happy place ❤
Catherine. Glad you are back🙏❤️
What a great treat. Would love to see it in high summer.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful ❤
Such wonderful views! I need to hunt around my state for gardens to explore! So relaxing.❤
How absolutely magical,and perfect to watch 4 am on my "sleep break". Maybe I will visit in my dreams,for now.❤
Now I know what to call those wide awake hours when I should be asleep. Sleep breaks! Thanks.
Such gorgeous gardens! Definitely on my bucket list. ❤
Thanks for the lovely look around the large garden it was spectacular. Catch you next time. 😊😊😊😊
Glad you joined me! Hope you enjoyed ❤️🌸
What a beautiful garden with the grasses and breath taking colours. Your Dahlia heart must have bloomed too ❤
Thank you Catherine, for such a beautiful, relaxing video ❤
Thank you for sharing they are beautiful. ❤❤❤
Loved the tour ❤. They remind me of Filoli Gardens in San Mateo CA. 💖 Thank you for the tours of magic 💖
Beautiful. 🌸🏵Love all those single dahlias - I have grown a few like that from seed, I think I am gonna grow more now :) bees love em too and u get a surprise to see what colours they come out as 🥀You could grow some easy in your green house then plant em out in your borders - they don't all have to be tall ones. Hope your soul was filled visiting the gardens.
That was so lovely such stunning gardens, I only wish I could identify more of the plants, your so right about the weather improving after school holidays end , here in Cornwall we had some really warm days, however we’re in October now and it’s raining really hard. So your little walk in the sunshine really brightened this gloomy Tuesday morning❤️
It looks beautiful. So different from my area ( Southeastern US) and that makes it all the better. Thanks for sharing your wandering with us.
Easy to explore through our screens 😍❤️ thanks for stopping by 🌸
Thank you for a lovely video. I’m so happy too see you doing what you enjoy. Xx
Love this! 💚💐 I’ll be visiting Ireland next June and I’m adding these gardens to my list of stops! Thank you!
Sweet garden. Thank you!!! ❤❤
Wonderful gardens!
Delightful video. Thank you so much.
Oh yes i have being there, just wait till spring, it will blow your socks off and in the summer, June is a lovely lady,
So Beautiful, Thanks for sharing!
Those gardens are gorgeous. Thanks for taking us along.
Love watching your videos.
Of the two you visited, Hunting Brook Gardens is my favorite. Bird song there was amaaa-zing!!! 🐦🐦🐦
Beautiful Catherine. Just reading your first book which I have save for the darker days👍
Lovely Gsrdens.
Hi Dainty, I've been following you for a little while but I had to say hi after seeing you were in my home village - Newcastle and then you were in June Blake's beautiful garden and at my favorite car boot sale in Straffan... Pretty sure we must have driven past each other at some point!! 😂😂 Lovely to see places I love appearing on UA-cam! Thanks... Jo
Thank you Catherine for yet another great viewing! Have you ever been to North Wales? If not then I highly suggest toy do as we have several stunning gardens. The best of the best being Bodnant Garden, Eglwysbach. They have the famous Laburnum arch there. I was brought up not all that far from there and my great grandmother was the Lady of the Manor's personal seamstress! Another is Plas Cadnant Hidden Gardens which is in Menai Bridge, Anglesey. You also have Portmeirion and Gardens Italian village which is situated near Porthmadog is out of this world. The owner and designer of Portmeirion, Sir Clough Ellis Williams himself lived nearby in Plas Brondanw Gardens. There are several others like the National Trust's Plas Yn Rhiw, Powis Castle (highly reccomended), Penrhyn Castle, Plas Newydd, Erdding Castle to name a few. Bangor University owns the nearby Treborth Botanical Garden which is open to the public and is free of charge. I could go on and on!!!! If you choose a small holiday make sure you try and aim for the sunniest days 'cos believe me you won't be disappointed!
All the best Catherine, keep your videos coming as I truly love them!! x 🙂
Thanks so much for your lovely suggestions! I haven’t been to North Wales yet, but it sounds absolutely amazing, especially Bodnant Garden and the Laburnum arch! I’ll definitely keep those spots in mind for a future trip 😍Your great grandmother’s story is fascinating too, I’d say she has some incredible stories 💕 thanks for sharing and stopping by xx
Just lovely 💕
So lovely thanks for sharing💗
It's good mentally to get out in nature as I found today, hope you're OK ❤❤
Absolutely good for the soul 🍁☀️ nature this time of year is pure magic!
A wonderful video thank you
Shall add it to my list for when I’m next in Ireland
Its a beautiful place ❤
Beautiful tranquil gardens. It must be nice to just sit and look at those views,it does make me want the spring summer time, I hate the cold wet dark winter days but those walks would be lovely on a cold crisp winter day. I do hate putting the garden into hibernation for 6 months, nothing nicer than getting out into the garden, stress buster,lifts your mood. Saying that I have azaleas in flower at the moment,do you have something growing now that shouldnt??? I just hope the frost doesn't kill it,it's one of my favourite plants . Your new plant looks familiar but can't place it, Salvia or agateashe??? I am way of the mark usually🤔. Anyway great video see you soon. Take care x
How lovely ❤....we too have some gorgeous green spaces on the Isle of Wight where I live . Wonderful to see all those glorious flowers in the autumn sunshine ❤
Oh I can imagine how much nature you have around you!! 😍 beautiful place the Isle of Wight ❤️ that autumn golden hour makes everything look magical 🍂
Beautiful 🌸💕🌻
Enjoying your extra content lately Catherine! Thank you 💕
What a beautiful place! A gorgeous way to spend the day ❤❤
Lovely!
Beautiful flowers, the gardens look very natural.🌱🌾🌿
Beautiful ❤️
Thank you! That was a gorgeous video. Last time I was visiting my cousins in Skerries (from Virginia) we went to see a children’s’ sensory garden in Carlow. Have you been? Great trip for the littles, but we all enjoyed the beauty 🐝
I’ll have to add that to my list! Thanks for that 😍 hope you had a lovely time on your visit 🌸
You are glowing!
Lavendar!
Thank you so mutch Katherine for za lovely. Video so relaxing ❤❤❤❤
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you
beautiful!!
Beautiful gardens and can’t wait until you visit them next spring or summer!
It will feel so different I’m sure 😍 thanks so much for stopping by Debbie xx