I love how real this garden tour is. Anyone who gardens knows about the imperfections and the evolving nature of gardens but we don’t often see that portrayed in videos. Very refreshing to see that and it in no way takes away from the beauty. Thanks for keeping it real,
Thanks Erin. Your gardens are all beautiful. Perfectly imperfect just like we are. I have learned so much from you. You are willing to think outside the box which makes your gardening so endearing. And I am so grateful to you for introducing Roy on your channel. What a treasure of a person he is. One of the trailblazers in a new gardening movement. He provides gardening as well as life tips. Stay as authentic as you are. It's a sweet message to put out into this crazy world of ours. Be Well!!!
I originate from Wisconsin, when you said crick instead of creek many childhood memories came to mind, that and the fact that some things will always stay the same, especially my terminology. I’ve lived in Michigan now much longer than I lived in Wisconsin but I will always consider Wisconsin my home. There’s just something about Wisconsin that you fall in love with even at a very young age. Wisconsin will forever be in my heart. 🌸💚🙃
Erin! Your gardens are fantastic. Don’t worry about imperfections, that’s what makes them unique. Love your videos, your comments, your autocorrecting of plant names. You’re my fav!
You have really been a busy girl! It looks sooo beautiful! You would never guess that your new gardens are only a few months old. Just imagine next year! And seriously...they look very manicured. Thank you for sharing!💐❤
Thanks for showing us the "honest garden tour". We all struggle with imperfections in the garden and its nice to see that garden experts do too. Unless you have a team helping you, its tough to keep up with everything and it can be discouraging when you see these perfect garden tours. Looking forward to meeting you in person at the Proven Winners show at Mackinac Island.
I drop the dry echinacea blooms on the soil in the garden and in the spring I have bunches of coneflowers. If it's a hybrid it may revert, but it's nice to have those new plants for free!
Thanks for showing us your garden as it is. I think it is perfection! We all see the imperfection in our gardens when we really should focus on the progress we make. I is all a work in progress.
Like that you kept it real. I think it helps the rest of us relate better. You’ve done a ton of work and it all looks promising. Love the mix of Betony. I think I will move some of mine to create that nice mix of pink and purple.
Erin, everything looks amazing. I love the way you let things hang in there for awhile to give them time to bounce back. I’m sad for the loss of your gorgeous tree. It’s part of gardening, but oh, it hurts. We lost a huge maple in an ice storm a year ago in February. I cried. My boys climbed that tree. I moved hostas and put in a sun garden. I love it now!
Just beautiful, Erin! I iove the casual, meadowy feel of your gardens. They just invite one in to enjoy and explore. You and Roy make a good team. ~ Lisa
You crack me up! A friend at the office introduced me to your channel a few months ago and I totally love your videos and garden tours. I've really been enjoying watching instead of spending so much time scrolling through social media. It's refreshing, stress relieving, and educational. I'm making a list of all the plants I would love to have in my garden someday. Thank you for doing what you do!
Finally!! If I waited until my garden was perfect, nobody would ever see it. I thought it was so cool when I found a jewelweed plant in my garden...until it seeded itself all over the yard. Now all I do is pull it out. Same with rose of sharon. I will only plant a sterile variety. Thanks for the tour. 😁
Nice garden tour, Erin. Not so perfect works very well. Everything is filling in nicely in the new beds. Sorry you lost that beautiful old Beech. It’s sad when an aged tree succumbs to disease. 🥰
Omgosh. You did so much this year. It's a gorgeous garden. It was a lovely peaceful feeling looking at everything. I relate to looking out the window... When ever I get a chance. Truly enjoyed this video
I really love your videos! Someone said "I love your informative, casual videos". I 100% agree! I was just watching your video on planting dahlias from about 3 years ago and in some of the comments they were talking about dirt on the hands and feet. So I wanted to tell people to google "is dirt the new prozac". I don't want to share the link here because if I am paranoid about clicking on random links, I have to assume others are as well. There is actually a chemical reaction that happens in the brain when we get the microbes from dirt into our skin. This reaction mimics what our brain does when we take antidepressants.IT'S SCIENCE!! It would be great if you wanted to share this in one of your videos. I love sharing this info because, it is a natural antidepressant to work in the garden! What an amazingly wonderful thing....on top of the joy from watching the garden grow!!! Thank you for all you give us!!!
It IS good that it's not perfect! Thank You for NOT being a stale, perfect, HGTV look-a-like!! Perfect is boring, and also unattainable in my own garden. I look forward to the not-so-perfect-tours coming up!!
Good morning Erin, happy Friday! Thanks for this tour! While watching the videos you made with Jim I was hoping for a more in depth look at this new area. Love your channel! Thanks for sharing 🤗
This was a great tour! Everything looked so lush and it seems to be a very peaceful place to be. Thanks for being so honest in how you corrected the names, it made me smile. I'm glad it wasn't perfect. That's how most of our gardens look, so you are just keeping it real. I appreciate that alot. Thanks so much!
So beautiful and I appreciate seeing gardens that look like they need to be weeded because that is how mine look! It’s so much better than always seeing perfection and feeling like I am falling short. Life happens and the garden is a place to enjoy not to feel stress. These new areas will be so spectacular and natural looking. I just love them!
I love the "not perfect" garden because I have one of those, lol! I think everything looks great and I really love your plant and color choices. Looking forward to updates as it all matures.😊
Loved the video. You cracked me up when the camera flipped to talk about eating plants…hahaha the tour was great please do another soon I miss seeing you on UA-cam. Gardens are looking beautiful, I am so impressed with the amount of growth in Roy’s garden…it will be full in no time. Thank again love the content. 😁✌🏻🌱
It was fun to watch you and Jim Putnam on your garden. Then to see his July tour then yours. Wow what a huge change this year for both of you. Great job guys
Thank you for the imperfect garden tour (although it all looked looked pretty terrific to me). Its nice to see some of the earlier stages of your gardens. It gives me hope that my imperfect garden will someday look even a teeny bit like parts of your lovely one..
It's been so humid here in south eastern Tn. My garden is definitely in need of work but humid. Glad to see and imperfect garden also. We alway that others are perfect 🥰
Love the not perfect garden tours! I've come to the conclusion that's just the way it is! Especially if you want to have friends over....can't wait for that perfect moment. Mine was just hitting peak, then huge dead tree limb fell in middle of garden....that's when you have to just step back and accept we are not living in a perfect world! Go with the flo! As for those weeds, such an opportunity for a good bottle of wine :)
I loved this tour. Especially the comment about the not perfect! I love in zone 4, Minnesota. Your tour gives me permission to have some areas that need more time. Thank you
This tour was especially interesting in that it displayed a "work in progress". Looking forward to seeing "Roys garden" in late summer. My three dahlias are not looking great - I am blaming cool nights at 4,300 ft. I was so hoping to send you pictures. Well, I have 2 1/2 months left to produce some flowers.
That 'Spot On' pulmonaria is a great shade perennial! I have one that I got from a bargain rack somewhere and I am on the hunt to add more to the garden. It is such a smooth transition plant in a woodland garden! Great upload Erin....your garden is so versatile and plenty visual interest! Very inspiring!
I just created a bed that is sun on one half and shade on the other. I planted the Spot On about two weeks ago and it has already shot up several leaves with many more forming. I'm very pleased with it and I can't wait to see it in bloom next year.
Oh what a beautiful property you have! I love Midwest gardens and yours is particularly pleasing to look at. I’ve got a few ideas for my young Chicago garden. Thank you for sharing.
The garden looks so free flowing and whimsical Erin! I love the combination of plants and it’s filled in so beautifully in one season. Wow! Just an FYI, I’ve been so inspired by your gardens and especially your Dahlias that I planted 9 for the first time as tubers and 3 more from seed that are all ready to bloom. Actually, Garden Desire has bloomed first and is loaded! It’s a shorter version for the front of the border. Thank for your inspiration! I always anticipate your new vlogs because they are peaceful and bring me so much joy! 🌼🌸🪴👩🏼🌾
Erin, This is gorgeous! I am speechless at how this area has turned out! I have taken to watching your videos with pen and Garden Journal in hand as I learn so much
Your successes are wonderful but I also enjoy seeing plants that are struggling, have been repositioned, or are under siege for whatever reason. It gives me a chance to compare with similar plants of my own and helps me make a more informed decision about giving them more time to recover or yanking them out. Thank you.
Thank you very much Erin, I'm here to learn and love the fact that you are teaching us about weeds! I have pulled so many in my life, but never knew their names or anything about the weeds. (lambs quarters, skunk cabbage, jewel weed) I love you calling the stream-bed/creek a "crick", a northern term I grew up with! Just wish you'd use the common names for the plants, I have no idea nor can I remember their Latin names. GORGEOUS GARDENS!!!
I love how real this garden tour is. Anyone who gardens knows about the imperfections and the evolving nature of gardens but we don’t often see that portrayed in videos. Very refreshing to see that and it in no way takes away from the beauty. Thanks for keeping it real,
Stachys, SO PRETTY. I didn't know that could look so pretty. Looks like you showed me new flowers I want. My husband thanks you, LOL.
Thanks Erin. Your gardens are all beautiful. Perfectly imperfect just like we are. I have learned so much from you. You are willing to think outside the box which makes your gardening so endearing. And I am so grateful to you for introducing Roy on your channel. What a treasure of a person he is. One of the trailblazers in a new gardening movement. He provides gardening as well as life tips. Stay as authentic as you are. It's a sweet message to put out into this crazy world of ours. Be Well!!!
Thanks, Shelley. 💕
I originate from Wisconsin, when you said crick instead of creek many childhood memories came to mind, that and the fact that some things will always stay the same, especially my terminology. I’ve lived in Michigan now much longer than I lived in Wisconsin but I will always consider Wisconsin my home. There’s just something about Wisconsin that you fall in love with even at a very young age. Wisconsin will forever be in my heart. 🌸💚🙃
We say "crick" in southwestern PA, also.
Be still my heart with such variety, just beautiful.
Erin! Your gardens are fantastic. Don’t worry about imperfections, that’s what makes them unique. Love your videos, your comments, your autocorrecting of plant names. You’re my fav!
You have really been a busy girl! It looks sooo beautiful! You would never guess that your new gardens are only a few months old. Just imagine next year! And seriously...they look very manicured. Thank you for sharing!💐❤
Thanks for showing us the "honest garden tour". We all struggle with imperfections in the garden and its nice to see that garden experts do too. Unless you have a team helping you, its tough to keep up with everything and it can be discouraging when you see these perfect garden tours. Looking forward to meeting you in person at the Proven Winners show at Mackinac Island.
Hello Mary
I drop the dry echinacea blooms on the soil in the garden and in the spring I have bunches of coneflowers. If it's a hybrid it may revert, but it's nice to have those new plants for free!
Absolutely LOVE your new gardens. The “crick” is such a dramatic presentation, so beautiful!
Thanks for showing the garden as we all have with weeds and not perfect. 🤗💗🤗
It all looks so marvelous! And it is refreshing to see lots of lesser known plants.. not all proven winners!!!
Erin, they all look wonderful and that’s why I like your channel…you keep it real! We all have weeds!❤️🌸
Thanks for showing us your garden as it is. I think it is perfection! We all see the imperfection in our gardens when we really should focus on the progress we make. I is all a work in progress.
I LOVE my Coronation Gold Yarrow!
Nice and tall with strong stems and gorgeous flat golden flower heads!
I love a not-perfect-garden-tour, especially in the summer when it’s too hot in my garden for perfection! Beautiful gardens!
Hello Ashley
Like that you kept it real. I think it helps the rest of us relate better. You’ve done a ton of work and it all looks promising. Love the mix of Betony. I think I will move some of mine to create that nice mix of pink and purple.
You’ve been very busy, everything looks lovely Erin.🌸💚🙃
You’re beautiful. Your garden is pretty too :)
It’s looking better then “pretty good”. It looks beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful…glad to see I’m not the only one with weeds and imperfect edging
Erin, everything looks amazing. I love the way you let things hang in there for awhile to give them time to bounce back. I’m sad for the loss of your gorgeous tree. It’s part of gardening, but oh, it hurts. We lost a huge maple in an ice storm a year ago in February. I cried. My boys climbed that tree. I moved hostas and put in a sun garden. I love it now!
Erin the garden looks so lush and beautiful! I can’t wait to see Roy’s garden at the end of the season!
The stachys are beautiful!
Great choice!
Just beautiful, Erin! I iove the casual, meadowy feel of your gardens. They just invite one in to enjoy and explore. You and Roy make a good team. ~ Lisa
You crack me up! A friend at the office introduced me to your channel a few months ago and I totally love your videos and garden tours. I've really been enjoying watching instead of spending so much time scrolling through social media. It's refreshing, stress relieving, and educational. I'm making a list of all the plants I would love to have in my garden someday. Thank you for doing what you do!
I read this before I noticed your name! I thought this sounds like Aubrey! lol I love Erin's videos!
@@phylliszimmerman7068 Lol! Thank you for introducing me to her!
This will be gorgeous in 3 years. Pagoda dogwood is my favorite shrub/small tree. Nicely done!
Your gardens sure look perfect to me, it gives me great ideas for my own garden areas.
I love the new beds
Looking really good, so pretty!! We all have weeds but what most of us see is the beauty you have created!!❤️
I love this style. Enjoy seeing the stachys/betony like I have in the pot
Imperfect garden tours are the best!
Hello Janet
Hello, Erin 👋🏻 It all looks well to me! Not perfect IS perfect! Have a Blessed Day 😊
Never heard of Stachys. I am checking them out now. I always appreciate learning about new stuff that works in zone 5.
Finally!! If I waited until my garden was perfect, nobody would ever see it. I thought it was so cool when I found a jewelweed plant in my garden...until it seeded itself all over the yard. Now all I do is pull it out. Same with rose of sharon. I will only plant a sterile variety. Thanks for the tour. 😁
The remade beds are just gorgeous!!!
Erin your garden is outstanding 👏
Nice garden tour, Erin. Not so perfect works very well. Everything is filling in nicely in the new beds. Sorry you lost that beautiful old Beech. It’s sad when an aged tree succumbs to disease. 🥰
Great tour. Love Roy’s garden.
Amazing job, such a great recovery from a tough situation!🤩🌾🌼🌻
Love love love not perfect garden tours! Thank you for always keeping it real, Erin.
You are sooooo lucky. Lake Geneva hasn't had rain in two or more weeks.
Love you lush woodland gardens it’s so peaceful ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hello Cathy
Omgosh. You did so much this year. It's a gorgeous garden. It was a lovely peaceful feeling looking at everything. I relate to looking out the window... When ever I get a chance. Truly enjoyed this video
Looks beautiful! We appreciate you sharing with us.
I really love your videos! Someone said "I love your informative, casual videos". I 100% agree! I was just watching your video on planting dahlias from about 3 years ago and in some of the comments they were talking about dirt on the hands and feet. So I wanted to tell people to google "is dirt the new prozac". I don't want to share the link here because if I am paranoid about clicking on random links, I have to assume others are as well. There is actually a chemical reaction that happens in the brain when we get the microbes from dirt into our skin. This reaction mimics what our brain does when we take antidepressants.IT'S SCIENCE!! It would be great if you wanted to share this in one of your videos. I love sharing this info because, it is a natural antidepressant to work in the garden! What an amazingly wonderful thing....on top of the joy from watching the garden grow!!! Thank you for all you give us!!!
I am really looking forward to watching that Garden filling and develop. 🌞
It IS good that it's not perfect!
Thank You for NOT being a stale,
perfect,
HGTV
look-a-like!!
Perfect is boring,
and also unattainable in my own garden.
I look forward to the not-so-perfect-tours coming up!!
Good morning Erin, happy Friday! Thanks for this tour! While watching the videos you made with Jim I was hoping for a more in depth look at this new area. Love your channel! Thanks for sharing 🤗
Thank you for the tour. Beautiful!!💛🧡💛🧡
Love the blending...so lovely 💫💔💞💖💙
This was a great tour! Everything looked so lush and it seems to be a very peaceful place to be. Thanks for being so honest in how you corrected the names, it made me smile. I'm glad it wasn't perfect. That's how most of our gardens look, so you are just keeping it real. I appreciate that alot. Thanks so much!
So beautiful and I appreciate seeing gardens that look like they need to be weeded because that is how mine look! It’s so much better than always seeing perfection and feeling like I am falling short. Life happens and the garden is a place to enjoy not to feel stress. These new areas will be so spectacular and natural looking. I just love them!
Thanks for sharing your garden,they are looking great.Can’t wait to see more.
I love the "not perfect" garden because I have one of those, lol! I think everything looks great and I really love your plant and color choices. Looking forward to updates as it all matures.😊
so pleasant to watch
I’m LOVING all of this!!! That carex alata I want now! Can’t wait to see how this all fills in, in the next year.
Loved the video. You cracked me up when the camera flipped to talk about eating plants…hahaha the tour was great please do another soon I miss seeing you on UA-cam. Gardens are looking beautiful, I am so impressed with the amount of growth in Roy’s garden…it will be full in no time. Thank again love the content. 😁✌🏻🌱
It was fun to watch you and Jim Putnam on your garden. Then to see his July tour then yours. Wow what a huge change this year for both of you. Great job guys
Thank you for the imperfect garden tour (although it all looked looked pretty terrific to me). Its nice to see some of the earlier stages of your gardens. It gives me hope that my imperfect garden will someday look even a teeny bit like parts of your lovely one..
It's been so humid here in south eastern Tn. My garden is definitely in need of work but humid. Glad to see and imperfect garden also. We alway that others are perfect 🥰
Beautiful Erin! Thanks for the update. Very interesting!
Imperfect garden tours are my kind of tours. My gardens are never perfect.
This has been a fantastic learning experience for us. Thank you!!
I so enjoy your garden tours. thanks for sharing.
Everything is coming along beautifully! I personally do not mind the 'not to perfect ' tours. It let's me know that I am not alone.
Love the not perfect garden tours! I've come to the conclusion that's just the way it is! Especially if you want to have friends over....can't wait for that perfect moment. Mine was just hitting peak, then huge dead tree limb fell in middle of garden....that's when you have to just step back and accept we are not living in a perfect world! Go with the flo! As for those weeds, such an opportunity for a good bottle of wine :)
Looks fabulous! Two of my faves: clematis recta and limonium. Better to make gardens than to revert back to lawn! 💝
Thanks for allowing us to see what you perceive as imperfections. I realize it's not finished, but it gives us hope and inspiration. Again, thank you!
Love it and yes, definitely into garden tours perfect or not. Very pretty.
Thanks for the tour. Beautiful!
Lovely mulch garden, in the American style.
Hey Erin 👋🏾, love the honest garden tour it's life and it helps to see that it's not just me 🤦🏾♀️☺😉😇 BTW the garden looks great😊to me.
I loved this tour. Especially the comment about the not perfect! I love in zone 4, Minnesota. Your tour gives me permission to have some areas that need more time. Thank you
This tour was especially interesting in that it displayed a "work in progress". Looking forward to seeing
"Roys garden" in late summer. My three dahlias are not looking great - I am blaming cool nights at
4,300 ft. I was so hoping to send you pictures. Well, I have 2 1/2 months left to produce some flowers.
Stunning! You have added a lot of plants. Love it!
Hello Kimberly
That 'Spot On' pulmonaria is a great shade perennial! I have one that I got from a bargain rack somewhere and I am on the hunt to add more to the garden. It is such a smooth transition plant in a woodland garden! Great upload Erin....your garden is so versatile and plenty visual interest! Very inspiring!
I just created a bed that is sun on one half and shade on the other. I planted the Spot On about two weeks ago and it has already shot up several leaves with many more forming. I'm very pleased with it and I can't wait to see it in bloom next year.
Oh what a beautiful property you have! I love Midwest gardens and yours is particularly pleasing to look at. I’ve got a few ideas for my young Chicago garden. Thank you for sharing.
I am loving the new areas. Your gardens around the creek give me a fairy garden vibe. Can't wait to see it put on growth next season!
Beautiful! Gardens are in a stage of continual flux.
Beautiful Erin 🌸💕🌸
The garden looks so free flowing and whimsical Erin! I love the combination of plants and it’s filled in so beautifully in one season. Wow! Just an FYI, I’ve been so inspired by your gardens and especially your Dahlias that I planted 9 for the first time as tubers and 3 more from seed that are all ready to bloom. Actually, Garden Desire has bloomed first and is loaded! It’s a shorter version for the front of the border. Thank for your inspiration! I always anticipate your new vlogs because they are peaceful and bring me so much joy! 🌼🌸🪴👩🏼🌾
The gardens look gorgeous, even with an occasional weed 🙂. I really love that stachys --I like how tall the flower spikes are.
Hello cassi
This was great. It is very helpful seeing a new garden before it gets lush and established.
So pretty 🤩
I appreciate the less than perfect state 💚 It's somehow comforting! Everything is coming along beautifully!!
Thank you for the tour, would love to take a stroll…next year will be fabulous!
It looks amazing!!
Love the not perfect garden tour! Please do more!
It is great when a garden plan comes together. Your new gardens look awesome!
Erin it looks really fabulous! Amazing to see all the new areas you've been planting up!
Hello there
Erin, This is gorgeous! I am speechless at how this area has turned out! I have taken to watching your videos with pen and Garden Journal in hand as I learn so much
Looks fabulous
The gardens are rarely how we would like to have others see it. Most people don't see what we do.
It all looks so great Erin! What a lot of work you have been doing this year. Cheers!
Just beautiful, Erin. Love the unique plants you’ve found and the thought you’ve put into the whole design.
So beautiful right now and at maturity, it'll be amazing.
Your successes are wonderful but I also enjoy seeing plants that are struggling, have been repositioned, or are under siege for whatever reason. It gives me a chance to compare with similar plants of my own and helps me make a more informed decision about giving them more time to recover or yanking them out. Thank you.
Thank you very much Erin, I'm here to learn and love the fact that you are teaching us about weeds! I have pulled so many in my life, but never knew their names or anything about the weeds. (lambs quarters, skunk cabbage, jewel weed) I love you calling the stream-bed/creek a "crick", a northern term I grew up with!
Just wish you'd use the common names for the plants, I have no idea nor can I remember their Latin names. GORGEOUS GARDENS!!!
Beautiful!