Weekly Garden Tour - Secret Cottage Garden - Reality Gardening!
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Lets talk chaos in the garden, come on along and see why I enjoy it even if it isn't perfect!
Hi, I am Pamela and I garden in the mountains of Northern California. I am in Zone 8. I defy convention and break many garden 'rules' yet my garden is a tapestry of color and unruly beauty! I want you to be inspired to create a beautiful garden on a tight budget.
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Lessons from gardening apply to life. Isn't it amazing how that is? Nothing is ever perfect in life and we need to appreciate all of the beauty despite all of life's weeds. Lol! I find as I get older, I am more relaxed about things than I used to be. You are so right, Pam, we can't let our joy be robbed from us. I so appreciate you! ❤
Absolutely! You are so correct, as I age I am appreciating the little things so much more and rein myself in when I start to get overwhelmed.
I appreciate what you said about messy gardens and finding time. Sometimes I can watch gardening channels and everything is so perfect that I feel bad about my weeds and mess. But you have to remember every one is different. Some people have more time , more money, maybe gardeners to help out. I try to just appreciate the joy my plants bring even if everything isn’t perfect. 😊🌹 🌸
Yes, we need to just enjoy, and that goes for some many more things in life. Thank you for chiming in!
I truly enjoy your gardens, the way you garden. I love that they are filled to overflowing and that everything is mingling together and not too refined. I love that you enjoy so many different types of flowers, and you're real and genuine. Everything you share is such a blessing. Just keep doing what you do and, as you said, don't sweat it. Thank you!!
It isn't to everyones taste but many of us do garden for the love of it and not for a pristine view. It is often what you see on UA-cam or Instagram and we all know that is not real life.
Your garden is a *real* garden and that’s why I enjoy watching you in your garden 😃
I am starting a new job soon and it will eat up more time than I would like so my garden time will be cut into, so this garden is about to get "more real"! 🤣
I love your voice as you narrate the garden tour. Very relaxing.
Thank you, I do try to make it as relaxing as I feel when I walk it. It truly is a getaway for me and something I look forward to all winter.
You don't have to explain a thing and never apologize. The joy.is in the individual plants that are all unique and beautiful. I have several gardens that all are chaos but I love all my plants.
They bring me much happiness and tranquility through their beauty. That is my therapy. Love your videos
I hear you and I don't bother aplolgizing, I just used this opportunity to encourage others to just enjoy and remind them of why we actually garden. For many of us it is a means to relieve stress.
Love everything about your gardens. You’re a girl after my own heart. Your tours are very encouraging! I don’t know how you even have time to video and post but I’m SO glad you do!! Thank you!!
It is very time consuming and probably why my garden is a bit more wild in places. I am trying to be smarter about it and get out in the garden early in the morning to work then come in when it is hot and work at my desk. As will everyone, I just do not have enough hours in a day!
Even though I enjoy such a wide variety of the flowers you grow my favorite part of your garden tours is when you get to the poppies. The red is my favorite but I really love all poppies. I live down the street from Sonoma State University and I saw a fried egg poppy growing wild. I’ve gone back several times to enjoy it. Thank you for all the time you take working on your channel to bring us so many different flowers!🌺
The Matilija Poppies are so gorgeous. I would love to get one for my back hillside. They can be quite vigorous and spread easily, which would not bother me at all.
I have been so inspired by all of your garden creativity! I appreciate your down to earth style and easy going nature. I'm kind of shocked that someone would actually criticize your garden. We would never judge a painting before it's finished, and a garden is a living piece of art. Keep on doing what you're doing, it is wonderful!
I think it was well meant as more of a helpful hint than true criticism but I am thankful as it gave me the opportunity to share some encouragement to others who may be beating themselves up because their garden is not as pristine as many of the ones shared on UA-cam and Instagram.
The gardening videos I really enjoy are the wild and messy one, very relatable. One of my favorites was a garden tour from Dig, Water, Plant, Repeat, where Janey toured and interviewed two botanist who transformed their yard into California native garden…
Wild and messy is just my favorite style even if I do crave a bit of calm beauty at times too. I just try and find little ways to provide a spot for the eye to rest which helps tame it some.
I really enjoy seeing all of your flowers in your gardens, they're really beautiful. I know gardening takes a ton of work especially having multiple gardens. My garden isn't perfect either its a real garden like yours and I only have one.I personally think you're doing a great job. You are so right we also need to take the time to enjoy what we already have in our gardens.Have a peaceful day!
Thank you so much, I do enjoy sharing. Really, my many gardens are just different areas around the house. But I love the idea of 'garden rooms' so I just name my areas with different garden names. Instead of front garden, side yard, and back yard. I like to pretend I have a grand garden walls and pretty arched doorways to the next garden etc. But the garden in my mind would take a few full time garden employees!
Dont listen to nay sayers,yours looks like a proper cottage garden is supposed to look like.I always enjoy your videos so keep on doing what youre doing
No worries, I just keep on plugging. I do love the beautiful mess. It makes you slow down and really look at each area closely to enjoy each plants attributes.
There are always going to be haters! Don't let them take your joy! I love all your beautiful flowers. Keep up the good work!
No worries, I know their is less than perfection in my gardens but I share them anyways rather than waiting for them to be picture perfect so others know they are not alone in just enjoying the process.
Thank you Pam for what you said. I really needed to hear that! 🙏😇❤️👍
Reminders are good. Sometimes all we see in garden videos are the successful bits and not the fails or in-between times. I enjoyed your bathtub planter reality and how you had a jolly time replanting it. That is the ticket, see those moments as an excuse to plant something different!
Beautiful natural looking garden with a great selection of plants, its a pollinators dream.
Thank you. Yes, I get a wide variety of pollinators!
Another beautiful tour. I completely agree with you on moving the Vego garden bed. I think that's a perfect location, and you'll be able to walk all the way around it to do some planting. I see how it's very hard to plant in the corner of it. I look forward to your videos every day. Your garden is a lush, thriving, blooming cottage garden. It is exactly the way it's supposed to be... relaxing, magical, beautiful, and peaceful! I wait for the day that you find a spot in your garden sit there and paint a picture of part of your garden. That would be so beautiful! ❤❤
Sitting and painting the garden is truly something to look forward to. I would really love to get back to doing more painting. It has taken a back seat this past few weeks.
@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse sometimes that happens.
I needed that pep talk. Thank you. Sometimes I feel like why do I bother. A lot of the time I find joy in the little individual plants, but if I take it all in as a whole I get somewhat disappointed.
Yes, just enjoy each little plant for its beauty and as everything fills in it may surprise you at how great it looks.
Another beautiful garden tour. Thank you Pamela. Your gorgeous flowers, that you have mostly grown from seed, serve as a great encouragement for me to keep on sowing seed. I am almost out of time here in Australia to start my cool season flowers. I adore the Campions and have never thought of growing them until I saw yours on this video. You have a stunning, cottage garden.💚🌲
So nice of you, thank you! Growing from seed is so fun as you can grow varieties that you cannot find in garden centers. I found a surprise seed grown plant this morning, I know I did not grow that color and yet, there it is. It will be in my next Rose Cottage Garden tour.
Thank you Pam well said ! Some people do work an ,enjoy a garden! Mine is weedy but I work 6 an 2 s so that is what it is!!!!!
And our gardens are our respite from our work and though its called "work" when we garden it truly is a pleasure and I can feel stress melt away. I want everyone to get that kind of relaxation from their gardens, even perfectionists. I have a friend who has to have things in order or she can't relax but I am coaching her. ☺If I find a weed in her garden I will know I am successful.
I don't think of it as work. I skimp on my household tasks so that I can "go out to play" in the garden.@@FlowerPatchFarmhouse
Thank you Pam! I love your real and authentic garden that you share. Keep up the great work, helpful information and inspiring plants for us to try.
Thank you, I do love testing new plants out and finding what will really thrive in my condition with little help from me.
Your garden looks wonderful. It’s a cottage garden. It’s a garden with a lot of varieties. It’s developing.
I know I don’t plant once and forget it. It takes time to see if a plant does well in my garden and it can take several years to figure it out. Right plant in the right place-exactly! What I’m discovering is the larger the oak gets the stronger the Columbine and astilbe get-they are Really taking off and I’ve had them for 7 years. The plants tell you eventually where they want to be. Plants I thought would work sometimes work too well and then some not at all. I had to rip out the poppies as they took over-well, now I have a gap, but I still had Scabiosa I grew from seed waiting to get planted and in they went. Will they work there? I don’t know 🤷♀️ and we wait and see.
I have So many new varieties this year and until spring we never know what makes it through the winter and so it begins.
I’m just in awe that you’re not swatting mosquitoes-Oh they are bad with the rain we’ve had. We had none in our year long drought and almost forgot about them.
The cannas I overwintered looked fine and didn’t come up. Good thing I kept some seeds and on a whim I threw them in a winter sow jug-🎉they grew! I wonder if the clover got reflection from GH door and fried it.
About not the right thing you ordered-this is the second go around with Swallowtail for CORAL geraniums! I told them they are scarlet last year and they resent what is suppose to be coral-Well, they are about to bloom and they look scarlet! I guess I will try orange next year in hopes we get into the right color zone. I have no idea why they are scarlet and don’t believe they can be that off in color no matter the soil-haven’t a clue why they are called coral.
I have some orange geraniums started but they are small yet and I have been negligent in getting them potted up. I will see if I can get to that tomorrow. Your gardening style sounds like mine. In my Artists Garden where I put those verbascum that are white, well they are turning into monsters and one would have been more than sufficient. I will have to move all but one in the Fall. They are crowding out other stuff and stealing all the show. But it was an idea and as you say, we don't know how it will work until we try it. For me, that can be part of the fun.
Ha! I am adding more shrubs each year to tame some of the chaos. Your garden is delightful!
I am trying to do some of the same. And some edging too and maybe gravel paths, the spot of calm like that bring a touch of taming to the wildness.
I'm amazed that you still have pansies blooming. I have pressed and dried my last ones for the season (temps in 90s with heat index 105). I use the dried flowers for journals and to put in cards to friends. Love your garden - never feel you have to spologize for it.
I am just as surprised, I did not think they would last to July. We are to get near 100 degrees by this next weekend so they may bite the dust. I used to dry violas and pansies to use for crafts, I haven't done that in years.
Someone who likes structured contemporary landscaping is always going to see a cottage garden as messy even if there aren't weeds. It's just the wild nature of what a cottage garden is. I think mine looks messy but that's what a cottage garden IS. I often think my food forest and garden in the back look messy but it's what I want and the "messy" one in front matches my 1910 bungalow.
I want to add more perennial veggies, one on my list is asparagus, I will incorporate it in with the flowers somehow.
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Someplace where they'll get a lot of water. Asparagus like water. Also a companion with strawberries.
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I went to look up companion flowers for asparagus but it listed many flowers and herbs so I'll leave you to check what they are and where they might fit in. They don't all have to be in one spot. I have my clover path lined on the sides with 12" beds of strawberries and asparagus.
Dear flower patch lady, oh my i have thoroughly enjoying the whole video, every second ofnit,the pam chat and the chicken chat is my perfect listening. I love everything you have shown us today, i need a 3rd look to remember some as i have some the same,my petunias are getting chewed by slugs im very upset with those slugs. Thankyou so much, your garden s again very very beautiful, the natural way,i love it,take care from me and my garden girls, 🐔,, to you and your s.xx
Yes, the slugs are being particularly pesky this year. I wish I could let my chickens free range so they could eat them up but their is a rascally coyote hanging around lately.
If someone is complaining, tell them to not watch. You don't need that negativity. Welcome to gardening, it is a lovely slow process to be enjoyed. If you want instant gratification, go to a landscaping channel. Anyone can plop a couple of flats of flowers in a bed 😂
I think it was more of an attempt to be helpful and not really a complaint but many do get used to the garden videos of beautifully maintained pristine gardens which are not our reality and then they think that is how things should be before they are shared. I wanted to use the comment as a means to encourage others that it really does not have to be perfect to be enjoyable and lovely in its own right. Yep, it is so much easier to have a gorgeous garden if you get sent a truck load of plants to plop in but that is the fantasy and not our reality.
I love your gardens. I battle weeds constantly, have plants that want to get 3 feet tall then spread in the middle and flop, I constantly relocate, stake etc... I don't care for perfectly manicured lawns ,shrubs cut into cubes and everything meticulous. The wooded back drop you have is just beautiful and I'm so jealous of your Delphiniums ( which I struggle with) If I had more free time mine would probably be a bit more weed free but I wouldn't change my taste for a more naturally wild design. I wanted the koko loko rose so badly but its not hardy to my zone. Vicki
You sound like me, I always think that a plant may work better somewhere else. I do love my Delphs and I usually am fairly successful and yet I have had some disappear too. My Pagan Purples ones were glorious at one point. They are in this video at the 15 minute mark: ua-cam.com/video/O9bSe50rONE/v-deo.htmlsi=-A3v2rwNZfPMheV_
I enjoyed the tour of your garden! Just beautiful things and you are doing a great job! Inspirational for sure! ❤ Zone 3b gardener
Thank you so much, I appreciate your encouraging words.
I'm with you , I have to work outside the home.and garden when I can , it's still a work in progress probably will never be done some areas look better than others, the heat,time and weeds are the hardest things for me to deal with, wish i had done some things differently, I'm learning alot watching youtube and being inspired and motivated.
Thank you. My garden is my space to enjoy, I share it to do just that, inspire and motivate. I share all the imperfections too so folks know that they are not failing at gardening. Many others only share the good spots and don't show the undone things and it can be pretty and fun but then when we compare our reality it can make us feel like we are not enough.
Hi Pam! ❤ negative Nancy's can just hush 🤫
Lol 😂 your garden is wild AND beautiful and bountiful and lush and so many good things! #realgardens
I so enjoy your videos. I love that you're relatable!! My garden is beautiful but never "done" and certainly never perfectly tidy! 😅😅 I have too many projects to be tidy 🤣
Yes, too many other things to enjoy to keep it too tidy. I really want to get back to some painting, it has been weeks since I have picked up a brush. I love doing too many things!
All of your garden's are so beautiful.
I admire what you achive. There is so much in there! Wow.😊😊😊😊😊
Achieve, this phone changes what I'm saying....😮
Don't you hate it when the phone does that??? I know I do and it happens all the time!
Trim a few inches off the legs of the tall bench (to make it the height you like of the other one). Tall benches hurt the legs of short people. They make you want to bring your legs up onto the bench.
That is definitely a consideration.
Dang, moving an 8' raised bed. I think a husband would say "why don't you just plant the lettuce on the side that's behind the greenhouse?".
I have tried that and it does work but I think I would rather be able to walk back into there and utilize it differently. But I don't think I have ever done anything the easy way.
Gorgeous! Tell me about your watering can tree.
Watering can tree? So sorry, I don't know what you mean.
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Welcome to my channel! Be sure and chime in and will and share your ideas, suggestion etc. I get so much inspiration from viewers who share their thoughts with me.