I have been collecting "sticks" for years. I just position them around my house, and also use them in pots to support droopy plants. Tie 3 together to create a pyramidal trellis. Right now I have tomatoes tied up on them, and morning glories starting to grow up. One time my lawn mowing guy threw them all away!!! We had to have a talk...
Yes. I get the hired service people thinking your stuff is trash. I have to train people bf they work in my garden. “See this? It’s not a weed. Don’t hack it. “😂😂😂thankfully most things do grow back.
Oh man mine sprayed all my ivy with weed killer. I had to run outside with soapy water to pour all over. Mostly i was able to save it and it grew back just fine this year. Just why??
@@great-garden-watch good question. Why use the poison? It’s not good for you or the beneficial insects and poison does not discriminate. Use it sparingly and always ask to see the contents if you have professional sprayers. Spot treat only when necessary dont broadcast if you can help it. Try organic remedies first and Plant things that don’t need poison.
I have a lovely large stick maybe 3 feet tall and thick it’s mossy and I love it Probably an oak branch I use it to store the compost tea I keep brewing near my patio hanging baskets ( my compost tea is coffee grounds one banana peel and egg shells - no recipe following or special tool use I just crackle the shells and regularly add water and more stuff to breakdown ) zone 9.5
i thrift japanese maple seedlings that come up in my garden and pot them up. I've now got several large ones over the years that are going back out into the garden.
Hi, Linda! Just LOVE your wreathe idea for the perfect gift! Retired happily now, but when I was teaching kindergarten, I would always help my kiddos add a tag to any of their lovely art gifts that read: " Some gifts are big, and some gifts are small, but a gift from the heart is the best gift of all!" It is truly so, and I do so appreciate all the kindness that you practice and give to friends and family. Have a most wonderful Mother's Day!
Oh,do you remember when I got all nutzy creative,and wrote a story where you and Sydney shrunk down to tiny size? It’s springtime,and the 2 of you would have such amazing adventures,down in garden-land!😊
Love these tips. I've used large hosta leaves as placemats under plates for outside dining or wrapped around the cutlery and tied with twine. Even 3 or 5 in a vase look stunning. I have collections of branches stored in my basement for use year round in my cast iron urns or big inside vases to swoop towards the ceiling. My late husband was so good about not tossing what might look like yard waste to the uninitiated in thrifting the garden.
Linda it is so apparent you love EVERYTHING that grows. You find beauty in ALL OF IT. Brown, dead, gnarled branches….it’s truly your love and your gift that you share with all of us. 💕🪴 Many thanks and Happy Mother’s Day!
Thank you Linda I learned that from you a while ago. The other day I found a volunteer little tree , I was so excited !!! I named it Linda in your honor. Replanted in a pretty pot and is looking gorgeous all thanks to you I will have a little topiary 🌳🌳🪴🪴
I tie my garden wreaths with either brown or green jute Also mini bouquets on packages with jute Sometimes I wrap stems with damp paper or whatever and twist a scrap of leftover aluminum foil Then cover that with more leaves So gift bouquet lasts a few days - or possibly propagated
Thrift my yard and roadsides in my VERY rural Indiana area.. have made Christmas wreaths for decades with found greens and such..decorated family reunion event and others with yard finds. Thank you Linda ' lovely as always.
I love the term “dear “ that you use to describe something special that you have made! It’s such a perfect word for the happy feeling such creations bring! I’m going to start using it too!!🥰
The foxgloves are gorgeous. Your garden is much farther along than mine here in New York 7a. But it’s nice to see your plants coming up before mine. I never thought to make wreaths out of those noxious vines I’m always cutting back. Thank you😊 that will make me smile next time I hack away at them! 👍🏻🤗😂🥰I usually transplant the tiny trees from one spot to another. Never thought to bring them inside! Thanks for that too! See you soon. Happy Mother’s Day!
I loved this video & all your wonderful ideas! I recently did a program for my garden club where we all made teacup gardens. The teacups & saucers were purchased at a thrift store for $3 a set. The tiny little Gnomes where purchased at Dollar Tree. When I was brainstorming what affordable plant I could purchase for this project I realized that I had tons of succulent Ice Plant to thrift for free from my garden. Everyone had a great time & were so excited about their mini gardens!
Hello Linda, I'm in zone 7b. And, yes I started thrifting my yard last year. You have inspired me to look around and pot up the free plants I find. I've started making topiaries from my findings. The one from last year was severely trimmed back, but now it's bushing out quite nicely. Thanks! 🥰🔆
I love this Linda. A great idea to help guide those of us who tend to become overzealous at a thrift store. There are also a lot of people who really can’t afford to spend money, and or time, even at the thrift💕 👍
Ty ty for coming back talking, I so look forward to chatting and giving tips and information and seeing you both, far better than music, it feels like your with us xx
Love the new intro Stewart. Thank you for continuing the art of gathering wild greenery, seed pods, etc. for wreaths & wall hangings. We nature lovers tend to make them at any age. Nature's lovelies. ' Free 99' is good Stewart. You guys make my days. I have baskets of pine cones & collect sticks after windy days. I'm surrounded with giant oaks. Gardens are beautiful & full of treasures. 🌹❤️🙏 Tipper from Celebrating Appalachia says hostas taste like asparagus & grows them for that purpose. I'm going to try. I don't have the problem with the critters. Filled pots with hostas & keeps them away.
I was nodding my head the entire length of this video. I constantly shop my own garden. I have many little topiaries I found growing rogue and planted up. I use found sticks as supports, decoration, and have even built mini cages for tomato plants. I have trellis’ formed from 3 put together. I also use found mosses and bark for mulching pots. It is so rewarding and makes it feel more “okay” to occasionally spend on “wants” not “needs” for the garden.
Love it! Cornus kousa, yews, potato and tomato plants in my compost pile, volunteer flower seedlings, foxglove, verbena bonariensis ... and others I can't remember right now. Free plants!
This year's project is collecting moss and Japanese maple saplings from the woods to make small bonsai in tea cups, or maple forests in larger arrangements... it's a less formal and more like flower arranging. I'm also going to propagate some azela cuttings and do the same in a tea cup.
Absolutely love the idea of using tree branches and suckers to make spring wreaths! I have grapevine all over my farm and last Fall I made wreaths and a Christmas tree out of it using a tomato cage as a form! Love your style and videos!
OMGoodness so that’s what I found growing at my front foundation amongst my bushes...a cherry laurel? I did the same thing and it’s really thriving. And I also gather the fallen tree stems with acorns still attached & I use them as support in my house plants, plus the plethora of acorn caps are made into Christmas ball ornaments. Fun stuff
I have been thrifting from my yard for years. Recently joined a garden group and started trading for plants and trees I don’t have. I’ve also gifted to new gardeners to save them money. Helps me thin out my established trees, shrubs, and plants.
Zone 9b here, I have 25+ year old dwarf and regular agapanthus in my front yard. I love the 4th of July show every year and they are green year round here. They’re perfect to separate and I have many pieces transplanted in my back yard now. I spotted a volunteer fan palm under my giant birch trees in amongst other plantings in my front yard and I’m going to try to transplant that as well. I also am fortunate enough to get invited to my friends cabin in the Tahoe area and collect tiny pine cones whenever I’m there. I display them every year at the holidays.
I have thrifted pothos, Christmas cactus, autumn sedum joy from my garden and gifted them to my friends. Because of you, I started going to my Goodwill store and found quite few cute things. Thanks for your inspiration.
My Dad made my Mom a wreath out of scuppernine vine from our back yard in 1979. I now have it & it’s a special treasure to me. I decorate it every season. 🥰
great ideas! I collect pine cones from my yard and spray paint them silver for winter decor. Didn’t think of making a spring/summer wreath from my garden. I have saved branches from pruning my crape myrtles to make an arch to support peas & pole beans.
Brilliant! Here in 8b, I’m always re-using plants that overwinter outside like Artemisia, creeping Jenny, wire vine and Ivy. In Spring, I take chunks and add them to flowering plants I’ve started from seeds or bulbs to make multi-plant arrangements. I love your little tree topiary/bonsai idea! 💗
I save my birch bark, birch twigs & logs, pinecones, sedums, neat rocks...my granddaughters love making natural fairy gardens....they may occasionally take a flower or two...we press wild violets, ferns, & pansies also.
Question of the day. I have not yet dug up anything in my garden so far, but I have a young yellow bell plant that grew from a mother plant, that I will now dig up and pot up as a small topiary. That will make 3 topiaries I will have.
I like to use interesting branches in pots and plant ivy to climb on them. Before I plant the ivy, I spritz the branches with a clear glitter spray to add a little sparkle in my shady yard.
We have manzanita on our mountain home property and can never throw or burn any interesting branches. We took a large limb spray painted it and hung it over our mountain house bed. At Christmas I hang vintage ornaments on it.
I also find such beauty in the natural architecture of branches. They are truly natures art. Also I love little gifts the trees drop. Here in zone 10B whenever I grocery shop, I always have a big basket with a handle in the trunk. There are huge trees that drop tons of pine cones every year right where I park. I always bring a basket home. Some I leave natural... some I take to the tree lot at Christmas and for a few dollars or a box of donuts, the guy flocks the whole basket for me. Gorgeous in a basket with spruce stems on my front porch during the holidays .
From my garden this spring, I have thrifted hostas, canna, sedum, lillies, and mondo grass to fill in bare spots. I am waiting for some volunteer holly bushes to get a little larger to thrift those as well. Thanks for the tips about thrifting little trees. I have my eye on what I think is a Oklahoma red bud.
Yes! I have dug up some volunteers and started some little potted, plants. Also some little babies from my agave and salgo palm, which are very expensive. It's so fun to see them grow. I also did a Japanese maple volunteer and made a little bonsai. Unfortunately that one died after about 3 yrs. So sad . I'm watching for another one.
Oh, Linda, you are such a joy. I too pick up and dig up and collect all sorts of little precious bits from my yard and wherever I go…….a pebble, a sea shell, a branch, cones, pods, seed heads. Smiled at your comment “stupid delight”. I am a member of that club as well. Perhaps it is not stupid delight, but rather enlightened delight…..seeing beauty where others see debris or trash. I feel compelled to share something from a poem I once wrote… “Nature’s gifts…such simple pleasures Who stops to notice these priceless treasures”
The galvanized cans and rack are amazing. I took a very old galvanized but clean garbage can and a large wooden round and created an end tbl for my office. Love love your channel.
I look for cotoneaster sprouts and forget me nots to put in pots Since my garden maintainer husband is a cleaner I have to get them before he eyes them
Good morning Linda! Zone 6a. I love columbine, a neighbor gifted me some from her beds years ago; purple and pinks. I have a pea gravel path and have started to transfer the columbine that has self seeded there back into the beds. Your front yard is drool worthy! Love the foxglove. Last year a Japanese maple volunteered along my driveway. I’ve potted it up and miracle of miracles it survived in my garage this winter. I was so excited!
Great ideas Linda - I use tree branches and small tree stumps and bleach them in the sun ( it might take a few months) and use them as garden accents .
I love all your ideas and inspiration!! Every year I save branches that have fallen off bushes from bunnies chewing on them during the winter. I use those dead branches to make a teepee trellis for my large planter with a black eyed Susan vine. It is such a great feeling of accomplishment for such a simple project. (North of Chicago zone 5) Happy Mother's Day to you and Stewart's Mom!!!
I "thrift" from my garden as well - everything has value! I save prunings from trees for decor, or from rosebushes (especially climbing roses) to use as stakes to prop up other plants. I may even build a trellis. I much prefer this natural look instead of store bought. I just need to figure out where to store all of it, LOL!
I'm in East Texas, zone 8, and I am always picking up "pretty" branches under my trees and from the woods behind my house. I love collecting them, but usually end up discarding them after a year or so....to make room for new ones. I love your idea of painting them black for Halloween. And all your other wonderful ideas!
Loving all your garden treasures for a gift or for our homes. I have found cedar branches in our yard and have successfully potted them then planted two recently. Plus I have two suckers from my Annabelle hydrangea that I will pull out and plant. 🌺. Happy Mother’s Day to you Linda ! 🌺🌳🌸. Thank you for the play by play!
I swear that little squirrel was just testing you 😆 the ornery lil thing !!! Your just so clever , you give me so much inspiration ! I have kerjillions of maple seedlings that come up and sometimes I over look them , which then offers various sizes . Then last year (after one of your clever projects) I started potting them up to add extra interest in various spots ! Loved that find from Stewart's garage , so perfect for your potting area💙
I do exactly the same with branches from our massive 100year old live oak I can gather beautiful liken Covered branches I have a bunch in a bucket in our shed great for fall winter design!!! I love this hunt!!
When I find little tree/ shrub seedlings I try to plant them in big pots for my roof top garden. It breaks the harsh wind, gives me privacy and gives birds a place to have their niche. I have a tree for about 25 years in a big pot. I try to keep it in proportion that its not that breakable at the rooftop gatden, but I don t make topiaries. Kind regards, Marcus
I like looking for falling branches with interesting shapes, collect pine cones, love that hydrangea, I’ll try to bonsai a little tree, thanks for sharing!!!
The hydrangea in the video is beautiful. I noticed how the under side of the leaves were a silvery green and really drew my attention! Your garden is so peaceful and calming! I couldn’t help but giggle with the squirrel playing behind you and in the tree above you, think he might have thought, “you’ve been photo bombed!”
Awwww, my two favorite things… gardening and thrifting 😊
Me too!
I have been collecting "sticks" for years. I just position them around my house, and also use them in pots to support droopy plants. Tie 3 together to create a pyramidal trellis. Right now I have tomatoes tied up on them, and morning glories starting to grow up. One time my lawn mowing guy threw them all away!!! We had to have a talk...
I do exactly the same thing. I also collect roots when something has to be removed. There are many beautiful roots just waiting to be collected!
Yes. I get the hired service people thinking your stuff is trash. I have to train people bf they work in my garden. “See this? It’s not a weed. Don’t hack it. “😂😂😂thankfully most things do grow back.
Oh man mine sprayed all my ivy with weed killer. I had to run outside with soapy water to pour all over.
Mostly i was able to save it and it grew back just fine this year. Just why??
@@great-garden-watch good question. Why use the poison? It’s not good for you or the beneficial insects and poison does not discriminate. Use it sparingly and always ask to see the contents if you have professional sprayers. Spot treat only when necessary dont broadcast if you can help it. Try organic remedies first and Plant things that don’t need poison.
I love Linda’s taste…never tacky, never cutesy and never over done.
I have a lovely large stick maybe 3 feet tall and thick it’s mossy and I love it Probably an oak branch
I use it to store the compost tea I keep brewing near my patio hanging baskets
( my compost tea is coffee grounds one banana peel and egg shells - no recipe following or special tool use I just crackle the shells and regularly add water and more stuff to breakdown ) zone 9.5
i thrift japanese maple seedlings that come up in my garden and pot them up. I've now got several large ones over the years that are going back out into the garden.
Now you’re talking my language. Love the thrifting blogs.
Hi, Linda! Just LOVE your wreathe idea for the perfect gift! Retired happily now, but when I was teaching kindergarten, I would always help my kiddos add a tag to any of their lovely art gifts that read: " Some gifts are big, and some gifts are small, but a gift from the heart is the best gift of all!" It is truly so, and I do so appreciate all the kindness that you practice and give to friends and family. Have a most wonderful Mother's Day!
How dear!
I Love plants for free ❤
Oh,do you remember when I got all nutzy creative,and wrote a story where you and Sydney shrunk down to tiny size?
It’s springtime,and the 2 of you would have such amazing adventures,down in garden-land!😊
Just know,a little fantasy is in order,and the two of you had a fun adventure!
Tip. Rolly Polly's do not usually attack a plant that is not dying. They usually eat decaying plants and are the cleaners of the garden.
Love these tips. I've used large hosta leaves as placemats under plates for outside dining or wrapped around the cutlery and tied with twine. Even 3 or 5 in a vase look stunning. I have collections of branches stored in my basement for use year round in my cast iron urns or big inside vases to swoop towards the ceiling. My late husband was so good about not tossing what might look like yard waste to the uninitiated in thrifting the garden.
Linda it is so apparent you love EVERYTHING that grows. You find beauty in ALL OF IT. Brown, dead, gnarled branches….it’s truly your love and your gift that you share with all of us. 💕🪴
Many thanks and Happy Mother’s Day!
Yes I’ve dug up tree seedlings,,, I get about a 50% success rate. I , too, am so tickled to have them! 💕
Thank you Linda I learned that from you a while ago. The other day I found a volunteer little tree , I was so excited !!! I named it Linda in your honor. Replanted in a pretty pot and is looking gorgeous all thanks to you I will have a little topiary 🌳🌳🪴🪴
Excellent!
I thrift redbud trees and Rose of Sharon shrubs that make surprise appearances in my flowerbeds! I enjoy all of your thrifting ideas! ❤️
I tie my garden wreaths with either brown or green jute
Also mini bouquets on packages with jute
Sometimes I wrap stems with damp paper or whatever and twist a scrap of leftover aluminum foil Then cover that with more leaves So gift bouquet lasts a few days - or possibly propagated
Thrift my yard and roadsides in my VERY rural Indiana area.. have made Christmas wreaths for decades with found greens and such..decorated family reunion event and others with yard finds.
Thank you Linda ' lovely as always.
I love the term “dear “ that you use to describe something special that you have made! It’s such a perfect word for the happy feeling such creations bring! I’m going to start using it too!!🥰
Be my guest!
We have many Cherry Laural trees so now m going to try that.
Hilarious when the squirrel snuck up and jumped into the tree behind Linda. 😆😂 🌱🌳🐿️
The foxgloves are gorgeous. Your garden is much farther along than mine here in New York 7a. But it’s nice to see your plants coming up before mine. I never thought to make wreaths out of those noxious vines I’m always cutting back. Thank you😊 that will make me smile next time I hack away at them! 👍🏻🤗😂🥰I usually transplant the tiny trees from one spot to another. Never thought to bring them inside! Thanks for that too! See you soon. Happy Mother’s Day!
Squirrel!! 😅Great video, really fun ideas.
I loved this video & all your wonderful ideas! I recently did a program for my garden club where we all made teacup gardens. The teacups & saucers were purchased at a thrift store for $3 a set. The tiny little Gnomes where purchased at Dollar Tree. When I was brainstorming what affordable plant I could purchase for this project I realized that I had tons of succulent Ice Plant to thrift for free from my garden. Everyone had a great time & were so excited about their mini gardens!
Hello Linda, I'm in zone 7b. And, yes I started thrifting my yard last year. You have inspired me to look around and pot up the free plants I find. I've started making topiaries from my findings. The one from last year was severely trimmed back, but now it's bushing out quite nicely. Thanks! 🥰🔆
I love this Linda. A great idea to help guide those of us who tend to become overzealous at a thrift store. There are also a lot of people who really can’t afford to spend money, and or time, even at the thrift💕 👍
Ty ty for coming back talking, I so look forward to chatting and giving tips and information and seeing you both, far better than music, it feels like your with us xx
Love the new intro Stewart. Thank you for continuing the art of gathering wild greenery, seed pods, etc. for wreaths & wall hangings. We nature lovers tend to make them at any age. Nature's lovelies. ' Free 99' is good Stewart. You guys make my days. I have baskets of pine cones & collect sticks after windy days. I'm surrounded with giant oaks. Gardens are beautiful & full of treasures. 🌹❤️🙏 Tipper from Celebrating Appalachia says hostas taste like asparagus & grows them for that purpose. I'm going to try. I don't have the problem with the critters. Filled pots with hostas & keeps them away.
I was nodding my head the entire length of this video. I constantly shop my own garden. I have many little topiaries I found growing rogue and planted up. I use found sticks as supports, decoration, and have even built mini cages for tomato plants. I have trellis’ formed from 3 put together. I also use found mosses and bark for mulching pots. It is so rewarding and makes it feel more “okay” to occasionally spend on “wants” not “needs” for the garden.
Hey Stewart
That wonderful montage of greenery would make a great still photo🌿🌱🍀
this was really good, motivating to be more mindful of the "gifts that surround us". thanks Linda and Stewart!! Happy Mother's Day all
Linda, I love the fact that you see beauty in fallen limbs, cones, leaves and things most people consider rubbish.
Love it! Cornus kousa, yews, potato and tomato plants in my compost pile, volunteer flower seedlings, foxglove, verbena bonariensis ... and others I can't remember right now. Free plants!
My husband surprised me with a copy of your book !! 💜💜💜💜
This year's project is collecting moss and Japanese maple saplings from the woods to make small bonsai in tea cups, or maple forests in larger arrangements... it's a less formal and more like flower arranging. I'm also going to propagate some azela cuttings and do the same in a tea cup.
Oh my gosh! One of my favorites today! Love love love the natural nature gift ideas!! So sweet ,, the sweetest💕🙏🏼☀️
I think your outfit combo is one of my favourites! 👌😊💚🧡🇬🇧
Thank you!
I love how creative you are ang you are very inspiring.
Absolutely love the idea of using tree branches and suckers to make spring wreaths! I have grapevine all over my farm and last Fall I made wreaths and a Christmas tree out of it using a tomato cage as a form! Love your style and videos!
Thank you for sharing your personal stories. I’m from Indianapolis.
🙏🙏🙏
Since I started watching your videos, I catch my self frequently in conversation with you and Stewart while I’m working in my garden!!😊
I had dug out a fig tree baby that now has gotten so big that I may plant it in the yard in the coming weeks. 🙂
OMGoodness so that’s what I found growing at my front foundation amongst my bushes...a cherry laurel? I did the same thing and it’s really thriving. And I also gather the fallen tree stems with acorns still attached & I use them as support in my house plants, plus the plethora of acorn caps are made into Christmas ball ornaments. Fun stuff
Thank you for a very interesting video today great inspiration. I saw some baby cycads growing in my garden today will collect and pot them.
I have been thrifting from my yard for years. Recently joined a garden group and started trading for plants and trees I don’t have. I’ve also gifted to new gardeners to save them money. Helps me thin out my established trees, shrubs, and plants.
Zone 9b here, I have 25+ year old dwarf and regular agapanthus in my front yard. I love the 4th of July show every year and they are green year round here. They’re perfect to separate and I have many pieces transplanted in my back yard now. I spotted a volunteer fan palm under my giant birch trees in amongst other plantings in my front yard and I’m going to try to transplant that as well. I also am fortunate enough to get invited to my friends cabin in the Tahoe area and collect tiny pine cones whenever I’m there. I display them every year at the holidays.
Love the wreaths from pruned bushes!
I have thrifted pothos, Christmas cactus, autumn sedum joy from my garden and gifted them to my friends. Because of you, I started going to my Goodwill store and found quite few cute things. Thanks for your inspiration.
My Dad made my Mom a wreath out of scuppernine vine from our back yard in 1979. I now have it & it’s a special treasure to me. I decorate it every season. 🥰
What a sweet keepsake.
That was fun. ☺ I'll be looking around closer now. 😀
Hi. That Virginia Creeper none of us like much, is great for wreaths. Since it's a vine, it makes a great material to secure the wreath.
great ideas! I collect pine cones from my yard and spray paint them silver for winter decor. Didn’t think of making a spring/summer wreath from my garden. I have saved branches from pruning my crape myrtles to make an arch to support peas & pole beans.
Yes I do all the time
Brilliant! Here in 8b, I’m always re-using plants that overwinter outside like Artemisia, creeping Jenny, wire vine and Ivy. In Spring, I take chunks and add them to flowering plants I’ve started from seeds or bulbs to make multi-plant arrangements. I love your little tree topiary/bonsai idea! 💗
Hi Linda just wanted to wish a beautiful Mother’s Day on Sunday 🌷. Enjoy your day💕 Sandy😊
I save my birch bark, birch twigs & logs, pinecones, sedums, neat rocks...my granddaughters love making natural fairy gardens....they may occasionally take a flower or two...we press wild violets, ferns, & pansies also.
Question of the day. I have not yet dug up anything in my garden so far, but I have a young yellow bell plant that grew from a mother plant, that I will now dig up and pot up as a small topiary. That will make 3 topiaries I will have.
I like to use interesting branches in pots and plant ivy to climb on them. Before I plant the ivy, I spritz the branches with a clear glitter spray to add a little sparkle in my shady yard.
We have manzanita on our mountain home property and can never throw or burn any interesting branches. We took a large limb spray painted it and hung it over our mountain house bed. At Christmas I hang vintage ornaments on it.
I also find such beauty in the natural architecture of branches. They are truly natures art. Also I love little gifts the trees drop. Here in zone 10B whenever I grocery shop, I always have a big basket with a handle in the trunk. There are huge trees that drop tons of pine cones every year right where I park. I always bring a basket home. Some I leave natural... some I take to the tree lot at Christmas and for a few dollars or a box of donuts, the guy flocks the whole basket for me. Gorgeous in a basket with spruce stems on my front porch during the holidays .
You have such an enthusiastic spirit, it really can brighten a day. Thank you Linda and Stuart. Please make a fairy garden tea party.
The squirrel behind you was so funny! In our old house I had a squirrel problem too so I can relate🐿
From my garden this spring, I have thrifted hostas, canna, sedum, lillies, and mondo grass to fill in bare spots. I am waiting for some volunteer holly bushes to get a little larger to thrift those as well. Thanks for the tips about thrifting little trees. I have my eye on what I think is a Oklahoma red bud.
Yes! I have dug up some volunteers and started some little potted, plants. Also some little babies from my agave and salgo palm, which are very expensive. It's so fun to see them grow. I also did a Japanese maple volunteer and made a little bonsai. Unfortunately that one died after about 3 yrs. So sad . I'm watching for another one.
Love your thrifting and repurposing videos! Precious garden projects! Thanks for sharing your creativity with us.
Blessings!
Oh, Linda, you are such a joy. I too pick up and dig up and collect all sorts of little precious bits from my yard and wherever I go…….a pebble, a sea shell, a branch, cones, pods, seed heads. Smiled at your comment “stupid delight”. I am a member of that club as well. Perhaps it is not stupid delight, but rather enlightened delight…..seeing beauty where others see debris or trash. I feel compelled to share something from a poem I once wrote…
“Nature’s gifts…such simple pleasures
Who stops to notice these priceless treasures”
I love that…~~~
Yeah……she’s back….another great video🌹🌹🌹
The galvanized cans and rack are amazing. I took a very old galvanized but clean garbage can and a large wooden round and created an end tbl for my office. Love love your channel.
Love all the outdoor ideas. I enjoy doing that. Thanks for the fun
What a gorgeous property you have
I so want Stewart’s cans & holder super cool & Handy!!!
I look for cotoneaster sprouts and forget me nots to put in pots
Since my garden maintainer husband is a cleaner I have to get them before he eyes them
Good morning Linda! Zone 6a. I love columbine, a neighbor gifted me some from her beds years ago; purple and pinks. I have a pea gravel path and have started to transfer the columbine that has self seeded there back into the beds. Your front yard is drool worthy! Love the foxglove.
Last year a Japanese maple volunteered along my driveway. I’ve potted it up and miracle of miracles it survived in my garage this winter. I was so excited!
Happy Mother’s Day!
I have done some small seedlings which r now growing in a bonsai pot. Happy Mothers Day to u and others in yr family. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I have saved all sorts of branches and twigs through the years and have then arranged through out my house and in containers!
Great tips! I love reusing the free gifts given by nature is just wonderful!
You have inspired me to make topiaries or bonsai with my Japanese maple and oak seedlings that my squirrel plants.
Great ideas Linda - I use tree branches and small tree stumps and bleach them in the sun ( it might take a few months) and use them as garden accents .
I enjoyed it. Thanks for the ideas, dear Linda!
I have noticed the older I get the more thrifty I am getting so watch out!! I love your channel!!
Yes! I just dug up a tiny evergreen tree volunteer and am using it in my fairy garden!
The squirrel. It was big too!
Great video!! One of my favorites!!
I'm a new subscriber & I have been so inspired-thank you!!!
Welcome!
I always look for small cedars and any other small tree. Thanks for all your wonderful ideas!
Great ideas, I especially enjoyed the spring wreaths, TY for sharing Linda 🌟
I loved the video, Thankyou for showing the squirrel 🐿 never seen one for real that’s not on a nature show.
Awesome content, great ideas!
Aren't you lucky, to have never seen a real squirrel in the garden, wish I never had! Constantly fighting them digging up plants and around roots.
I love all your ideas and inspiration!! Every year I save branches that have fallen off bushes from bunnies chewing on them during the winter. I use those dead branches to make a teepee trellis for my large planter with a black eyed Susan vine. It is such a great feeling of accomplishment for such a simple project. (North of Chicago zone 5) Happy Mother's Day to you and Stewart's Mom!!!
I "thrift" from my garden as well - everything has value! I save prunings from trees for decor, or from rosebushes (especially climbing roses) to use as stakes to prop up other plants. I may even build a trellis. I much prefer this natural look instead of store bought. I just need to figure out where to store all of it, LOL!
Just made my day when I saw this😻
I'm in East Texas, zone 8, and I am always picking up "pretty" branches under my trees and from the woods behind my house. I love collecting them, but usually end up discarding them after a year or so....to make room for new ones. I love your idea of painting them black for Halloween. And all your other wonderful ideas!
Loving all your garden treasures for a gift or for our homes. I have found cedar branches in our yard and have successfully potted them then planted two recently. Plus I have two suckers from my Annabelle hydrangea that I will pull out and plant. 🌺. Happy Mother’s Day to you Linda ! 🌺🌳🌸. Thank you for the play by play!
I swear that little squirrel was just testing you 😆 the ornery lil thing !!! Your just so clever , you give me so much inspiration ! I have kerjillions of maple seedlings that come up and sometimes I over look them , which then offers various sizes . Then last year (after one of your clever projects) I started potting them up to add extra interest in various spots ! Loved that find from Stewart's garage , so perfect for your potting area💙
Great video. Nice to see you looking so well and healthy, and funny! As always great ideas for one and all. Happy Mother's Day Linda.
I like to thin out my Irises and gift them. I also root gardenias. I have camellias that pop up everywhere.
I do exactly the same with branches from our massive 100year old live oak I can gather beautiful liken
Covered branches I have a bunch in a bucket in our shed great for fall winter design!!! I love this hunt!!
When I find little tree/ shrub seedlings I try to plant them in big pots for my roof top garden. It breaks the harsh wind, gives me privacy and gives birds a place to have their niche.
I have a tree for about 25 years in a big pot.
I try to keep it in proportion that its not that breakable at the rooftop gatden, but I don t make topiaries.
Kind regards,
Marcus
Great video, great idea!! Happy Mother’s Day Linda💚!!
I like looking for falling branches with interesting shapes, collect pine cones, love that hydrangea, I’ll try to bonsai a little tree, thanks for sharing!!!
The hydrangea in the video is beautiful. I noticed how the under side of the leaves were a silvery green and really drew my attention! Your garden is so peaceful and calming! I couldn’t help but giggle with the squirrel playing behind you and in the tree above you, think he might have thought, “you’ve been photo bombed!”
Yup🤣😂🤣