A tour of the amazing 3/4 acre garden of legendary gardener and quilter 84 year old Googie, my Mum x

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  • @WiscoGarden
    @WiscoGarden 8 місяців тому +46

    Can Googie please come to America and run for President? Her energy and wisdom is exactly what we need! Send her to save us, please!!!!!

  • @kirtwilliams2454
    @kirtwilliams2454 8 місяців тому +23

    Your Mum is the most beautiful treasure of the garden. She is both a blessing and encouragement. Thank you for sharing her with us.

  • @fionasaunders7646
    @fionasaunders7646 3 місяці тому +1

    Because of Granny Googie, we now have three paint scrapers the recent one has a pointed end , excellent for weeding out ‘water grass’ bulbs in our flower beds,
    Big thanks and lovely to see this episode again 👏👏👏

  • @smorrison1162
    @smorrison1162 8 місяців тому +38

    Looks like Erythronium aka Trout Lily aka Dog’s Tooth Violet. North American native. Glad your Dad is better. The quilt & garden are wonderful. Hello, Googie!!! 😁

  • @MP-js5ro
    @MP-js5ro 8 місяців тому +22

    “National collection of string” 😂😂 I can’t get enough of you two! Best duo ever

  • @MarySchlotter
    @MarySchlotter 8 місяців тому +13

    Thank you so much for taking us to your mothers beautiful garden. It’s so nice to see her. She’s an inspiration to every gardener. What a delight !

  • @sharonphelps
    @sharonphelps 8 місяців тому +10

    I love these tours of Googie's garden. Thank you so much for taking us to look around.❤

  • @evelyngriggs8356
    @evelyngriggs8356 Місяць тому +1

    Thankyou, Bunny and Claire, for that lovely garden talk….(with the very demanding cat!) I would love much, much more like this with more detailed close ups of the subject in question. Best wishes. Evie.

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  Місяць тому

      Bunny and Claire? Cat? we are Googie and Georgie and the dog is not especially demanding I think xxx

  • @pipmurray1419
    @pipmurray1419 8 місяців тому +21

    Mummy needs a mic, - gee Georgie aren’t we still blessed to have our mums that are still fit and with it in mind . Googie has a great sense of humour! Love her hedgehog 🦔 banter,and the hedgehog houses. Loved it thank you!

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому +2

      she does need a mic - I need to be more organised! x

    • @pipmurray1419
      @pipmurray1419 8 місяців тому

      @@theflowerfarmer om gosh don’t we all but hum my life sure doesn’t quite accommodate to that yet,I love my life and friends and garden, sewing, cooking, and You
      Keep going Georgie and co ( Googie) (mummy daddy Kate kids hubs and us love your work girl x)

  • @valerieoster8049
    @valerieoster8049 8 місяців тому +16

    Your mom is just precious! I want to be her when I grow up!!

  • @onceuponatimeinvt
    @onceuponatimeinvt 8 місяців тому +18

    You are so blessed to have a great mom-absolutely love her.

  • @6732Louise
    @6732Louise 8 місяців тому +19

    Ah Googie! It’s so comforting to go on a wee tour with her ❤

  • @myfanwyevans2185
    @myfanwyevans2185 8 місяців тому +6

    Love a Georgie and Googie video, so inspiring and uplifting.

  • @1944JerriMellas
    @1944JerriMellas 8 місяців тому +14

    The quilt is STUNNING Googie…you put the butterflies center stage…which is PERFECTION 🤩. Thank you Canada person! Love how Googie takes such good care of Mr Bumble❣️💗💕

  • @LaFarmhouse
    @LaFarmhouse 8 місяців тому +16

    my favourite every year your tours of your mums beautiful garden🌿🌷💗

  • @TheMardi45
    @TheMardi45 7 місяців тому +1

    I'm 79. And instead of the paint stripper, I use a plastering tool, or is it a cementers tool, for cleaning my steps and paving. It's my favourite tool. It's has a wooden comfortable handle. And you can dig a bit with it when you need to. It costs a little bit more,except I think mine came from my father's tools, or a junk sale. Tell your Mum. It's brilliant.

  • @antoniaswift3995
    @antoniaswift3995 8 місяців тому +8

    Thank you for sharing your lovely mum with us. Mine sadly died many many years ago when I was in my twenties. I am now in my mid seventies so a long time , but I still feel her gardening right alongside. I learnt about and received my love of gardens from her. She was known affectionately to one and all as Goggie!

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому +1

      how lovely xxx

    • @myfanwyevans2185
      @myfanwyevans2185 8 місяців тому +1

      How wonderful, I feel the same about my mum who died when I was in my thirties, she keeps an eye on me.

  • @melindawycoff5627
    @melindawycoff5627 8 місяців тому +5

    My 94 year old mom has just entered Hospice care so for me; a visit with Googie, her garden and hedgehogs are so great for the soul!

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому

      I hope your mum comfortable - glad you enjoyed the clip x

  • @tinaweeks438
    @tinaweeks438 8 місяців тому +15

    Thank you Googie and Georgie always such a joy to wander the gorgeous garden with you both. 🌱💚

  • @Laura-g1c1l
    @Laura-g1c1l 8 місяців тому +1

    The French girl's knickers as your mom called the bush---was that an Azalea? Not only does your mom have tremendous energy, but what a memory!! What a hardy generation she is part of! Wonderful video.

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому

      thankyou - the French girl's knickers are a rhododendron so close to an azalea x

  • @alicecabaj4658
    @alicecabaj4658 8 місяців тому +1

    I love Googie❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @LINDAWATSONGARDEN
    @LINDAWATSONGARDEN 8 місяців тому +8

    Lovely to see your wonderful mum again. I laughed when your mum corrected you. As they say mother knows best! 😂

  • @tinablair4277
    @tinablair4277 8 місяців тому +5

    Georgie, you are a gem,"this pink person" and so is your mum!!

  • @jennifertucker107
    @jennifertucker107 8 місяців тому +9

    What a beautiful property. I hope I can keep gardening as long as your Mom. Fabulous quilt. Very kind of your mom and Ms. Canada!

  • @suziecarter1403
    @suziecarter1403 8 місяців тому +5

    She is such a remarkable lady, really enjoy your visits to her garden. 👏👏👏💐💐

  • @louiseclark7261
    @louiseclark7261 8 місяців тому +5

    I could hear the bees and see them with their pollen sacks! A delightful garden tour. Thank you.

  • @BertiesGardener
    @BertiesGardener 8 місяців тому +2

    Googie is a REAL national treasure .There is a generation of strong, experienced, wise women out there and we should treasure them ❤😊. I've been a Googie fan since she showed us how to compact the green waste in the local authority bin. Googie you are my role model!
    Great tour, informative and entertaining.
    Love the hedgehog house, would build one but unfortunately my dog has an unhealthy interest in round, spikey, extra large tennis balls.😮

  • @42apprentice
    @42apprentice 8 місяців тому +5

    When we bought this house over thirty years ago we found a biscuit tin full of string, it was labelled, ‘bits of string too short to be of use’

    • @Whipporwhill
      @Whipporwhill 8 місяців тому +1

      That's hilarious!

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому +1

      Brilliant x

    • @twpsy634
      @twpsy634 8 місяців тому +2

      ❤❤ Thanks so much for sharing this. It has made me laugh so much.I am in my 70s now and this brings back clear memories of my parent's generation who rarely threw things away as , " You never know when it might come in handy" So much better than today's throw away society.

    • @42apprentice
      @42apprentice 8 місяців тому +1

      Yes, I’m a boomer too and had much the same experience. This old house was a time warp when we bought it, lots of post war hardboard employed to shutter away Victorian fireplaces & features to save dusting all the twiddly bits, but endearing things too like glass finger plates on the doors where the children of the house in the 1920s had painted flowers on the reverse. The old lady who sold it to us was the last of those children and had lived a pretty Spartan existence. We bonded over her amazing garden, which I promised to take care of, and I have. x

  • @Holly_at_gypsyhollergardens
    @Holly_at_gypsyhollergardens 8 місяців тому +8

    What a treat ! A joy every time 💙 Always makes my heart happy !!!

  • @deborahclatworthy3885
    @deborahclatworthy3885 8 місяців тому +4

    Always a joy to visit Googie’s garden….marvellous to see you both looking so well. X

  • @donnasmalley3713
    @donnasmalley3713 8 місяців тому +2

    The quilt is fantastical! You have certainly left a legacy of joy

  • @NJGardengirl1961
    @NJGardengirl1961 8 місяців тому +3

    It was a pleasure to see Googie again! Would you please tell her that she inspired me to take up quilting? I am enjoying it very so much. I can hardly wait to be good enough to donate to the Linus project. Thank you very much!

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому

      brilliant - I'll tell her and I'm glad you're enjoying it x

  • @StephanieL-cr6wd
    @StephanieL-cr6wd 8 місяців тому +8

    Erythronium I think. You are an inspiration, Google.

  • @bevjensen2278
    @bevjensen2278 8 місяців тому +2

    Your mom's wavy fenced in garden plots are delightful! What a great idea to make them look original and magical! At 20:57 of the video what is the plant with the long striped leaves that are sort of triangular?

  • @caroladams55
    @caroladams55 8 місяців тому +2

    It is erythronium, aka trout lily. We named our vineyard after it, trout Lily ranch. It blooms around Easter and is happy under dappled light of the oak trees.

  • @CathyAlfini
    @CathyAlfini 8 місяців тому +3

    Love every moment with you Googie and Georgie. Grazie mille from Abruzzo, Italy.

  • @alicecabaj4658
    @alicecabaj4658 8 місяців тому +1

    What a treasure your mum is🥰 Greetings from southwest France

  • @juliehaig1216
    @juliehaig1216 8 місяців тому +2

    How talented is your mum. That quilt is amazing 🙂

  • @tinahart1712
    @tinahart1712 8 місяців тому +6

    We are sending Googie so much love, and are thinking of your beloved Dad whilst he is poorly and wishing him well. Googie you are such a huge inspiration to so many people including myself and I can see where Georgie gets her incredible creativity, love of colour, and determination from. For the mysterious plant my money is on a pink fairy slipper orchid, other names are Calypso, or Venus’s slipper. The conifer tree with its brown tips could be Dothistroma needle blight. It is found in the UK and effects black pine, Scott’s Pine and Bishops Pine. Thank you Mrs Kind from Canada, if you read this, what a generous lady you are, the quilt Googie made looks stunning. ❤

  • @helenyoung8012
    @helenyoung8012 8 місяців тому +7

    They are dog’s tooth violets, erythroniums. I think the yellow ones are Pagoda. Lovely , thank you.

  • @zozomathebula1101
    @zozomathebula1101 8 місяців тому +6

    Thank you Georgie for the tour at Googie's. It is always refreshing to watch Googie and her beautiful garden. I like her youthful spirit. She is also very strong. I like Googie's new favorite tool. I think she has shown this tool to us before 😂. It will always remain new. You are blessed to have your parents. God bless Googie for the work she does with quilting. The hedge-hogs enjoy VIP treatment at Googie's.

  • @fionasaunders7646
    @fionasaunders7646 8 місяців тому +2

    The Great Googie and that enchanting garden ! Just love it.
    Many thanks to Mrs Canada , a delightful gesture to make.
    God Bless
    Best wishes from Zimbabwe 🌷🌷

  • @CountryloverCountrylover
    @CountryloverCountrylover 8 місяців тому +1

    I think the yellow plant is an Erythronium and the shrub/tree with pretty white flowers looks to be an Exochorda probably Macrantha the bride - love your mother’s garden

  • @magdasztukowska1971
    @magdasztukowska1971 8 місяців тому +1

    Stunning garden and lovely video 🥰

  • @5apph1b1u3
    @5apph1b1u3 8 місяців тому +2

    Beautiful stone walls in your lovely mother’s garden

  • @cerridwencottagediary9194
    @cerridwencottagediary9194 8 місяців тому +3

    They are erythroniums. Always wonderful to see Googie and her glorious garden! I hope your Dad is ok x

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому +1

      thank you and yes, Dad brighter too so all good x

  • @francesfree
    @francesfree 8 місяців тому +2

    What an amazing, fabulous mother & garden. Is that a Bedlington terrier - Purdy? Yes, wonderful analogies 'like an old woman's chin' and 'like elephants bottoms' - brilliant. Thank you for sharing Googie with us, she's a total joy!

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому +1

      Yes a fifteen year old bedlington as frisky as a puppy x

  • @vivianweissmann217
    @vivianweissmann217 7 місяців тому

    Hello from Georgia in the US. Always a special treat to see Googie; she is so lovely. Thank you, take care.

  • @jomassey4207
    @jomassey4207 8 місяців тому +2

    It's the immense rainfall that you've had.....its like overwatering my indoor plants, the tips of the leaves go brown.
    Unfortunately, the changes in our weather are going to affect our gardens and how we garden.
    Very sad to see such a beautiful tree, ail.
    Jo😊 But other exciting happenings will balance out the bad.
    Googie will be pleased to know I look after the hedgehogs around my garden....they're great for eating the slugs and snails.
    Lovely treat to see your garden Googie.

  • @flowerfairy1950
    @flowerfairy1950 8 місяців тому +3

    A Wonderful Lady in a Magical Garden 🧡

  • @lavinapoppleton1396
    @lavinapoppleton1396 8 місяців тому +5

    Gosh, so good to see you and your garden Googie! Thank you for the tour❣️

  • @cyhomer
    @cyhomer 8 місяців тому +1

    My fenceline has the Akebia (Chocolate Vine) all along the top. So beautiful!

  • @hannahbest2274
    @hannahbest2274 8 місяців тому +3

    Wonderful video, thanks both. Think the little flowers are erythroniums.

  • @allonesame6467
    @allonesame6467 8 місяців тому +1

    I wonder if you have any idea how therapeutic your garden walks and talks are. Thank you for sharing your love of all things nature!💖

  • @pamfrank3962
    @pamfrank3962 8 місяців тому +3

    🐝🐝🐝🌸💮🪷🏵🌹🥀🌲🌻🌴🌷🪻🌿🌱🪴🍀🪺🍃 The blanket is fabulous. Garden is gorgeous ❤

  • @doloresheinl2567
    @doloresheinl2567 8 місяців тому +1

    The yellow flowers in her garden are erythroniums. They are common in the woods of the Pacific Northwest where I live in Oregon.

  • @Hhaahland4
    @Hhaahland4 8 місяців тому +3

    Your Mum’s comparisons are hilarious

  • @mimlauj6869
    @mimlauj6869 8 місяців тому +1

    At 10:18, your mom's white friend looks like a Pearl Bush. And the pink flower looks like a Pink Fawn Lily

  • @thecurlewsareback
    @thecurlewsareback 8 місяців тому +2

    Delightful Mum and garden. A joy to watch. I think erythronium too. I have it in my woodland garden.

  • @Karl-p6h
    @Karl-p6h 8 місяців тому +1

    I’d put the growth dying on the tips of the fir tree down to wet weather and possibly nutrients being washed away in the soil due to the excess water.

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому +1

      I think you're right - we'll see how it does through the summer x

  • @gailsargerson328
    @gailsargerson328 8 місяців тому +2

    G&G are joyous!❤ You both brighten my day.❤

  • @patsyreid8913
    @patsyreid8913 8 місяців тому +1

    Love your gardens!! ❤
    Hi from South Alabama.
    The unknown plant could be a Fawnlilly.

  • @grudtt2428
    @grudtt2428 8 місяців тому +1

    Much love from Vienna, Austria ❤❤❤

  • @jaqmackie
    @jaqmackie 8 місяців тому +3

    Loved your garden Googie 💚

  • @lauraluzi9920
    @lauraluzi9920 8 місяців тому +2

    My favorite! A Georgie and Googie video! Thank you for sharing your beautiful quilt and gardens. And I always love a good hack; using a paint scraper in the garden 👍🏻. Enjoy the spring 🌸🌼🪻🌷💐

  • @kateadamson9024
    @kateadamson9024 8 місяців тому +1

    Always a joy seeing Googie and her fabulous garden.

  • @joannefletcher7085
    @joannefletcher7085 8 місяців тому +1

    I love googies garden, I call it the Beatrix potter garden. 🙂

  • @brianmccabe3026
    @brianmccabe3026 8 місяців тому +1

    The small yellow plant is an epimedium, which likes shade.

  • @debrah5206
    @debrah5206 8 місяців тому +1

    The pink and yellow lily like plants are I think Erythronium. Love Googie. My Mum used to use a my horse's hoof pick to weed between flag stones! Works like a charm.

  • @BumblebeeAdventure
    @BumblebeeAdventure 8 місяців тому +4

    🐝Thanks for the great video🌻 OW my THAT is so beautifull!!! NEED

  • @mhubertcfi
    @mhubertcfi 8 місяців тому +1

    What a joy! I learned recently that the beat thing you can do for bees is actually plant a tree. Tulip trees are number 1, then willows and maple but can't remember the order there. I would totally swoon if i had a hedgehog family living in my garden 😍

  • @twisteddyekitchenmyfiberjo4577
    @twisteddyekitchenmyfiberjo4577 8 місяців тому +1

    This visit to your mothers garden reminds me of when I would go to my mothers garden and just ohh and ahhh!

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому

      yes it's very much an ooh and ah garden x

  • @randybailey4765
    @randybailey4765 8 місяців тому +1

    I absolutely love Googie and would love to see more of her

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому +1

      I can't film every time I go - sometimes we have doctor's appointments or my Dad needs a bit of time - but I do when I can x

  • @sheilafarren5359
    @sheilafarren5359 8 місяців тому +2

    I so enjoy the videos of you mums garden I am in kendal so not far away she really is a inspiration and so talented

  • @bevjensen2278
    @bevjensen2278 8 місяців тому +1

    At 11:28 it looks like a dogtooth violet that we have in Ontario, Canada. Is that possible? And then you show a beautiful purple one, that we don't have here!

  • @TheRaeraeraerae
    @TheRaeraeraerae 8 місяців тому +1

    I love these tours, thank you! According to my “Picture This” plant identification app, the white flowered plant that grows into the gate is a Common Pearl Bush. I paused the video and scanned the screen 😀

  • @colette8694
    @colette8694 8 місяців тому +2

    National collection of string 😉

  • @debbierice2618
    @debbierice2618 8 місяців тому +2

    There she is !!! Your Mum Google. Thanks for sharing her with us.

  • @rosemarybushea3447
    @rosemarybushea3447 8 місяців тому +2

    Love seeing Googie and her lovely garden!

  • @carollloydjones1313
    @carollloydjones1313 8 місяців тому +3

    Always a pleasure taking a walk with you and Googie around her beautiful garden 💚

  • @curlew-3592
    @curlew-3592 8 місяців тому +1

    I’m in North Yorkshire and my garden is nowhere near as ahead as this!

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому

      Nothing like a little Gulf Stream warmth on the west coast x

  • @kimfox5186
    @kimfox5186 8 місяців тому +2

    Lovely visit, always a pleasure, thank you 😊 so happy to see that I'm not the only one to use a paint scraper on the paving 😅.

  • @gerriwalsh9846
    @gerriwalsh9846 8 місяців тому +4

    So good to see your mum again!

  • @suedarragh4817
    @suedarragh4817 8 місяців тому +1

    I wonder if the pink flowers are Dog Tooth Violets.😊

  • @zyaayz
    @zyaayz 8 місяців тому +2

    Beautiful day, thank you!

  • @gillyjaynes8558
    @gillyjaynes8558 8 місяців тому +2

    The plant is erithronium dens canis - dogs tooth violet. Such a pretty spring flower.

  • @ricardasukevics6115
    @ricardasukevics6115 8 місяців тому +1

    Watched the first time and enjoyed it thoroughly what an amazing garden and what an amazing mother you have , she made me laugh a couple of times , very funny 🥰😂

  • @eileenmc8808
    @eileenmc8808 8 місяців тому +2

    I have grown phacelia this year after seeing your spring tour last year. Great to see the two of you having a lovely wander and beautiful quilts as always. Such a delightful gift from your Canadian friend ❤

  • @jennyjohnson9012
    @jennyjohnson9012 8 місяців тому +1

    Just the loveliest vlog Georgie, always very happy to see your marvellous Mum! That quilt is stunning as is her beautiful garden. Can't wait for your next visit. xx

  • @michellestevens6913
    @michellestevens6913 8 місяців тому +1

    Thankyou...enjoyable...Michelle from Horse Creek Queensland Australia 🌻🌻🌻🙋‍♀️🥰

  • @janewiseman8990
    @janewiseman8990 8 місяців тому +2

    Loving the garden and the both of you. Keeping fingers crossed against further frosts

  • @ERWINROODT
    @ERWINROODT 8 місяців тому +3

    Always very funny when the two of you are together. Love the banter and the garden. Hope all is well with your dad now.

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому

      thank you - and Dad much brighter too so all good x

  • @janeferguson8678
    @janeferguson8678 5 місяців тому +1

    I am loving your mother and her garden. I'm sure you've been asked a million times but why is she called googie?
    I'm pretty sure you two should have a tv show of your own. Really.

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  5 місяців тому +1

      Googie was a name her cousin Robin gave her when they were little x

    • @janeferguson8678
      @janeferguson8678 5 місяців тому

      @@theflowerfarmer thank you!!

  • @ourfloridagarden4191
    @ourfloridagarden4191 8 місяців тому +3

    I am in love with Spring.

  • @rosemacdougall2967
    @rosemacdougall2967 8 місяців тому +2

    What a beautiful quilt!

  • @pamelacarroll
    @pamelacarroll 8 місяців тому +1

    Georgie! I love Googie and her garden! I learned to quilt and garden from my grandmother and Googie reminds me of her. Thank you for sharing her with us! Regarding bees - film them in slow motion and you will find it so entertaining. I watch my little bee films back quite often!!🤣🐝

  • @Liz-og9gc
    @Liz-og9gc 8 місяців тому +2

    Hello Googie from Texas! 🤠
    Beautiful quilts. Love the update to your garden. Thank you Georgie. We do love the updates and tours.

  • @goldfishlover.6734
    @goldfishlover.6734 8 місяців тому +1

    Not sure if anyone has offered an answer to the Atlas Cedar with the dieback issue but from the look of the diseased sections it could be Sirococcus blight … the RHS website has info on the issue. Also you were looking for a plant identification for small yellow flowers growing in the undergrowth … from the brief footage it looked to me like DogToothed Violets aka Erythronium. Another plant you need identification for was a pink flowering plant growing in the grass … it looks like a species tulip … not sure which one. The other species tulip Goggle had with the pink and white petals is Tulipa clusiana

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  8 місяців тому

      you might be right re the cedar - it's a shame as it's been happily growing at its own slow pace for years - we'll see if it recovers but if not... Mum is RUTHLESS! x

  • @evelynwashington2840
    @evelynwashington2840 8 місяців тому +2

    I love your mother!! What a treat

  • @twpsy634
    @twpsy634 8 місяців тому +1

    Many years ago I was out in my garden very late at night on slug patrol with a torch. I heard a quite loud snorting, snuffling, grunting noise coming from under a bush. On further investigation I discovered hedgehogs mating and apologised profusely for disturbing them. They sounded very much like pigs , so am I correct in assuming that is why they are called hedge HOGS.