Front Garden Tour 🌿 Curb Appeal 🌿 [2023]

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  • Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
  • It looks like after a prolong cold spell, we are finally coming into warm weather. How delightful! Sun is shining, it is still a bit windy, but everything is so green and lush. I am walking with you at the front of my house. Enjoy!
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  • @be4jesus
    @be4jesus Рік тому

    Hello Olga and good morning! Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful gardens with the rest of world. You are very inspiring and quite a lovely person. God bless you and have a wonderful day. :)

  • @kristineobrien8878
    @kristineobrien8878 Рік тому

    Love the little yellow flowers❤ Beautiful❤

  • @bruceyang7255
    @bruceyang7255 Рік тому

    Olga, wonderfully beautiful1

  • @camirichardson7485
    @camirichardson7485 Рік тому +4

    If I lived in your neighborhood, I would walk past your house every morning! It's such a lovely home!

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому +1

      You wouldn't believe it, but some people told me that they bought their houses nearby, just to walk past my garden every day! Wow! I would love to have you as a neighbor, we would have afternoon tea under our roses!

    • @camirichardson7485
      @camirichardson7485 Рік тому

      @@OlgaCarmody YES! What fun that would be! I would make sure to arrive at the tea party with extra plants to gift you. I'm being overrun with four different ground covers I need to tame back a bit.

  • @bethyoung3654
    @bethyoung3654 Рік тому

    Beautiful ❤

  • @Holly_at_gypsyhollergardens

    What a beautiful entrance to the dinning courtyard !!! You always have the best ideas !!!

  • @sarmishthabanerjee1057
    @sarmishthabanerjee1057 Рік тому

  • @Edu_Kate
    @Edu_Kate Рік тому

    I hope my mophead hydrangeas come back. These are the second trio of plants, last year I replaced them with even bigger plants hoping that would ensure they'd return. Our winter was extremely severe. Third highest snowfall on record! Rabbits ate anything they could, they even ate my dwarf apple tree above 2' trunk collar. They ate my blue spruce halfway up making it into a 🌴 tree. Heavy snow bent my arborvitae hedge limbs down and I don't think they'll fully stand upright. I'm thinking of topping them.
    So, I look at your protective fencing and am dubious that barrier will deter the aggressive rabbits I have.
    I'm redesigning a front yard garden and so far, all the new plants are rabbit resistant. Including my beloved nepeta.

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому

      Ah, those rabbits and cold winters! If those hungry animals are desperate for food, they probably would eat fence and everything inside of it. As for arborvitaes, maybe you want to consider training them to one central leader...Just a thought.

  • @vickiperkins476
    @vickiperkins476 Рік тому

    I love when I see you posted a new video 😊

  • @willaerley7140
    @willaerley7140 Рік тому

    Nice! The bunnies always eat my creeping phlox, but I actually saw some blooms this year where it crept through my hardy geranium. My hydrangea sticks don’t seem to be budding out either. 😢 We’ll see.

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому +1

      There are always unpredictable situations. I was so looking forward to the first blooms of Boscobel rose, my transplant rose, and one day squirrels ate the buds. What can you do!

  • @mandyt8178
    @mandyt8178 Рік тому

    What a beautiful, peaceful tour. Thank you for sharing your love of gardening with us.

  • @elmaelmar2761
    @elmaelmar2761 Рік тому

    Looking beautiful!!

  • @AmirsAllotment
    @AmirsAllotment Рік тому

    Beautiful sharing. Greetings from UK 🇬🇧 😊❤

  • @HarmonyHillsHomeandGarden
    @HarmonyHillsHomeandGarden Рік тому

    Beautiful gardens in the front. I like the perennial bed in the street strip. Very good use of space!

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому

      Thank you, that street strip is a wonderful small extra buffer for our front. Happy gardening!

  • @agnex7432
    @agnex7432 Рік тому +2

    Absolutely gorgeous 😍
    P. S. You can make smudge sticks from your sage

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому +1

      Thank you Agne, what a great idea!!

  • @tawnab6059
    @tawnab6059 Рік тому

    Such a beautiful space. What is the small tree right by the front of your house with white flowers? I love it!

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому

      Thank you, I am trying to locate the name of that tree. I used to remember it... sorry. And my plant identification app is wrong on it.

  • @marykappesser5145
    @marykappesser5145 Рік тому

    Olga, your garden is lovely. Especially the sidewalk garden. All of my hydrangea look like that. I have been on this same property for 38 years, and the hydrangea was here when we moved in. I think it was the artic blast at Christmas time that froze all the stems. Sigh... nothing you can do but hope for another year.

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому

      Yes, Mary, this year a lot of us will enjoy green hydrangeas without blooms. Happy gardening!

  • @quailhollow7955
    @quailhollow7955 Рік тому

    Our hydrangeas on Cape Cod look just like yours. It makes me sad to have a year without flowers, but it is an opportunity to cut some of my larger ones down. We are attributing it to a milder than usual winter and then one extremely cold temp drop in February, where it went from 48 degrees one afternoon to well below zero by the following morning. We are also noticing this temp swing impacting some roses and butterfly bushes. Maybe you are seeing the same thing in Ct? It is the talk of the gardening community here! Your garden looks beautiful.

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому +1

      I totally agree about winter conditions. That bad frost did a lot of damage, and our hydrangeas suffered. Well, hopefully next year we will have beautiful blooms! Happy gardening!

  • @richbishop7896
    @richbishop7896 Рік тому

    Olga you have beautiful curb appeal. I could never plant that close to the street because of our snow plow removal in my zone 5b. Bonny

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому +1

      Our plow does some damage too, but not too bad, it just goes in a straight line and our flower bed ends up with a lot of snow. I was worried that hydrangeas won't like it, they do. Happy gardening!

    • @richbishop7896
      @richbishop7896 Рік тому +1

      @@OlgaCarmody We use a lot of salt on our roads here.

    • @walksthroughlife900
      @walksthroughlife900 Рік тому

      ​@@richbishop7896 How about some salt tolerant plants?

  • @Forevergardening99
    @Forevergardening99 Рік тому

    So awesome! I love watching your videos. You are super talented. What is the name of your azalea shrub at the beginning of the video?

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому

      I really don't know, we inherited it with the house many years ago. Isn't she pretty?

  • @Sazza21
    @Sazza21 Рік тому

    If I remember correctly you planted the Roald Dahls all in one hole. Could that possibly have something to do with it?

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому +1

      I planted them around 1.5 feet apart in a circle. They didn't even fill that small space around them. I am patient, even if I have to move them to my secluded back garden, away from wind and rabbits.

  • @OmendsFavor
    @OmendsFavor Рік тому

    I had one just replanted 7 wks ago, leafed out but no new shots since and its having trouble leafing out. All my transplants are doing good except the Roald Dahl. Olga, I have two bareroot planted almost teo months ago and not leafing out. Any tips will be welcome

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому

      I have a feeling that Roald Dahl is a slow starter. As for your bare roots. Give them time, of course, make sure that their basic needs are met. And wait, that is the only thing.

    • @OmendsFavor
      @OmendsFavor Рік тому

      @@OlgaCarmody thank you, Olga. Will do on them. Happy gardening.

  • @southernwind5660
    @southernwind5660 Рік тому

    It looks to me - you are missing a couple of ackers to expand your gardening activity :)

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому

      You are so right!! It would be nice to have a nice "chunk" of land to be lost in. Meanwhile we have raised beds at the front of the house. Many passers by pause for a minute near them. I wonder what they think...

    • @southernwind5660
      @southernwind5660 Рік тому

      @@OlgaCarmody I would do the same if I were your neighbor :)

  • @rahiarman123
    @rahiarman123 Рік тому

    olga why your queen of sweden is so small in breadth....is it bad performing or it doesnt spread much....or its age is less

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому +1

      There are several reasons. Biggest one would be, those roses don’t get morning sun, deer eat the leaves in the fall, and this late winter here in CT we had strong late freeze, many stems were damaged. I had to do some serious pruning. Plus, in the future that area will be in shade, I would need to rethink that spot all over again, no matter how much I want roses under that front window.

  • @John-wr6yo
    @John-wr6yo Рік тому

    I live in a national tree city with a population of eight hundred twenty-five people. We are surrounded by hard wood woodland trees. Still local people want to plant full blown wood land trees aft of city sidewalks close to streets. The planting of urban trees must be intelligently thought out. I think the fifteen foot or smaller
    Japanese maples are the perfect low maintenance tree. I would rather have woodland trees in the woods ,and have plenty of open lit vista's for herb food and flower production in my town.
    In small cooperative communities properly placed and managed fruit trees might be a good alternative for urban plantings. Our irrigation comes from pure deep well water. I am petitioning the trust and our local council to do exploratory drilling and establish at least two more fresh water wellsprings. A cherry tree orchard was planted last year on state owned historic property in the town , and that was on one of the sunniest plots in the city. Sorry for ranting, i just had to put my two cents worth in. Food,herb,vegetable,and fruit production is essential .

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому

      Lovely read, you are involved in very interesting projects, John! And our kids would benefit from veg gardens everywhere, that is for sure. Have a great day!

    • @jacquelinelauri848
      @jacquelinelauri848 Рік тому

      Your front is lovely. I love the yellow and the purple so pretty. ❤

  • @John-wr6yo
    @John-wr6yo Рік тому

    I also had die back from freeze on my hydrangeas,and crape myrtle.

    • @OlgaCarmody
      @OlgaCarmody  Рік тому

      Yes, I started to cut those hydrangea stems, no point of waiting any more.