I bought some Aquilegia about twenty years ago and it's thrown its seeds all around my garden every year which I love. The plants look better where they've decided to grow rather than where I put them. Had a range of colours from them over the years. Your garden is looking way ahead of mine. Not garden related, but I still have an ornament of the little mermaid sitting on a rock which my dad bought me when he was in Copenhagen. He said Denmark was very nice and he enjoyed his time there when he went with The Royal Navy way back in 1968. He is 91 now and still manages his own garden, cutting the grass and weeding the borders.
We agree about Aquilegia - they always look better (and happier!) growing where they want. And how great that you still have that little mermaid souvenir! It’s an icon of Denmark - one of the great stories by HC Andersen. I’m sure Copenhagen changed a lot since then, but hopefully it’s just as nice as he remembers 🥰
It gives peace to have volunteer flowers and reduce the cost of buying every year ❤❤your gadern is in good hands and well taken care of ✋️. Always learning'you always leaves a mark
Thank you for such kind words, Kate :) I hope you can use some of these in your garden, too -- plant one and you'll get plenty more in the seasons to come :)
My friend gave me a book entitled Gardening with Chaos. And that’s what I love about self seeding. There’s always surprises in the garden when the plants choose their own location.
I cant believe it, 3 weeks ago your garden was at the same stage as mine, with many of the same plants. Now, 3 weeks later, yours is a paradise of full flower, and mine has barely woken up.
We've had so much rain since then. We started the season with unusually warm temperatures and weeks of sunshine -- it really gave everything a boost. Then, the rain came... and that gave a boost. We have things now that are about 2 weeks earlier than last year! It'll be interesting to see how it continues.
I love having extra “volunteers” in my garden!!! I welcome them all, I have lots of penstemons. So many coneflowers over the years too. Love all your colours in your garden
Man, do I wish I had more room to plant some of those varieties. As always, the garden is beautiful. Gotta love self seeding plants. Foxglove is one of my all time favorites and, to me, a must in any cottage garden. Great job as always. :) 🌱
We love those foxgloves, too -- Since they're only 2-year plants, we never know exactly what colors we're going to get in the garden this year 😅 Luckily, they're all nice tho.
It always such a pleasure to watch your videos! Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden and your knowledge. You give me plenty of ideas for my garden in southern Maryland :)
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment 💚. Hope you’re having great gardening weather in Maryland. Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰
@@bethgarrett7109 We're good on those this year again, too :) We will collect Aquilegia vulgaris 'Black Barlow' tho... they are just too pretty to not make sure they come again next year.
@@bethgarrett7109 That's so nice of you! Thank you! I winter sowed a bunch of seeds this year, including Columbine seeds. It was my first time trying this technique. It worked so well that I was actually quite overwhelmed with all the seedlings I got. I gave away a bunch to my neighbors and it felt great :) I am in Lusby in Calvert County. Were are you located?
Your gardens are what dreams are made of. I’m working on a perennial pollinator garden, with hopes of it spreading out and self-sowing like yours. I love the organic look of it so much.
What a great comment to read this morning! Thank you 🥰. That's the best part about these plants, in particular... they will spread and look really organic over time. Just keep at it!
I love the diverse variety you have acquired. You can tell all the hard work and time it has taken to accomplish what you have. So in love your garden.
I will watch later. Lunch is over and back I go into the garden to spread more love in the form of rose campion. Very à propos 😉😊 All thanks to your encouraging videos!
@perennial-garden your garden is truly lovely. Ot is such a busy time of the year, I have 12 dahlias that are desperate to be planted, so proud of myself to have grown them from tubers. I looked at the price of the potted ones today: $25 for one plant the size of mine! 😱 the tubers cost me $36 plus the potting soil. A big digitalis is $24! The same sold for $9 four years ago. Crazy crazy. I did buy a "few" plants at greatly reduced prices 😁
@@Lea-zf7lm Crazy prices! We should go and look and see what these plants cost here, too -- I think it would make us both feel way better about all the seeds we start 😅. AND, with dahlias, those tubers will multiply... so when you dig them up and divide them later on, you can sell those tubers!
Your garden is stunningly beautiful, how lucky are you to have that much space, you're growing all the kind of beauties I love. Thank you for sharing. ❤❤
Thank you for saying so, Louise! You know, it's easy for us to see bigger gardens and forget how blessed we are with the space we do have. Thank you for reminding us to appreciate it! Hope you're having a great day 🥰
I love Denmark (I lived there for a year!) and I love gardening! I am so happy that the algorithm finally paid off and led me to your videos! You are both very sweet, funny, and clever. Thanks for sharing your videos with us!
Hej! og Tak for being here with us 🥰 We're glad the UA-cam brought us together, too. Did you get a chance to visit Fredericia while you were here? It's a pretty small town, but lots of history ...and way quieter than Copenhagen or Aarhus.
@@perennial-garden Hi! When we lived there we primarily explored Sjælland and Fyn. We came back each year for a month until the pandemic. On those visit we visited a friend's home in Klejtrup, so our train passed by Fredericia. It was beautiful even from the train! Most of our quiet time was spent with other friends in Sorø; they have an amazing vegetable and fruit garden. We hope to come back to Denmark soon!
@@ShenanK Everyone passes thru our little place. hahaha. It is good to be a hub. The next time you're here, hop off the train and come visit our garden! The coffee (and danishes) are on us 🥰
Thanks to you I now know the name of the plant that has almost taken over the front of my house- milly rock yarrow! 😊 I thought it was like a weed bc it grows so well, but it’s also quite pretty!
Lovely garden. Keep the mandstro! The blue color is amazing. I am a little overwhelmed at how my rosenskovmærke has grown so large and spread nicely. It's huge. I will just divide it and move it about. It's my favorite new native flower of the year. They are so pretty in all stages of flowering. They don't look weedy either. Bees and butterflies love it.
It was there 🥰 The first one Lars mentioned (altho we both pronounce it in Danish... so it's ''AKELEJE'' to us). That's also why I make sure to put the scientific name on the video, so you won't have to learn Danish ☺
It is a very pretty plant tho... but, if the climate is right for it, it'll self-seed and you'll get more and more. Nothing crazy tho... and it's easy to dig up and move out if you do get too many.
That's a great question! These weeks, we don't water at all because it rains every single day... for weeks now. When it doesn't rain (like back in the start of May) we water by hand with rain water that we collect. When that's empty, we use a watering hose.
Truly stunning garden. I garden in North London & I love you combination of plants. I have had Yarrow, Digitalis & Astra ia but none have self seeded what am I doing wrong. Help!!!
Thanks for watching! Secondly... oh no! Usually those, especially the yarrow and digitalis, are super great at self-seeding. Astrantia, too.. .but the other ones are really really good at it. I assume your soil is great and not too compact since they already grow there. Wish we could pop by and have a look and figure it out with you :)
We're on the east coast of Denmark - something like zone 8a for the US. But our summers are very very mild and because we're on the coast, our winters aren't as cold as they are in other parts of Denmark.
That purple plant at the beginning - Aquilegia pronounced a kwuh lee jee uh in the UK. Are you guys saying it in the Dutch tongue version? Love the Astratia, I have tried to grow those but my plug plants died twice. They are on my top 3 plants to try again for a win.
We do love those astrantia - hope yours grows this next time 🥰 And yes, we use the Danish names for everything - then include the scientific name in the video and description.
Thank you for such kind words. I (lars) work at one of the cemetery gardens here in our area. It’s a very special place that is also a public park with perennial flower beds and places for the public to enjoy. We also just finished a project on our street, sponsored by the city government, where we planted native flowers in front of every house on our street. It’s a wonderful way to bring more color and pollinators to our city - one street at a time. 🥰
@@perennial-garden I am a volunteer gardening as some memorial gardens near me. They are old and breathtaking to walk around they are called Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens if you are interested. I wish our council would take better care of the verges. Some people do look after the verge (which doesn’t belong to them) while others don’t and the grass grows really tall. I do plant sunflowers at the bottom of my road as my neighbour. There is a piece of land in the village that no one (county, parish council and property developer) claimed so some like minded gardening friends and I now tend the spot. At the moment the ox-eyed daisies want to take over but we’ve planted things which will provide colour or structure most of the year. Tracey
@@traceyclark2125 Thanks for sharing that garden with us - we're looking it up right now. AND what a great gift that you and your friends can give the community by planting in that vacant spot. Even if no one else says it... I'm SURE everyone is glad you're doing it! 🥰
We don't actually. I'm sure Garden Answer does... Laura has so many incredible videos on her channel :) And the Middle Size Garden... she also has a lot of great information on her channel.
I am in Edmonton Alberta and want to start doing this for my flower beds Wondering how many flowers and plants you started off with Or if you can give me some idea of what’s a good number?
We started off with one one flower bed and grow the whole garden from there. We wanted to grow our garden from cuttings, division and seed collecting... so it takes time. What you see now (all the flower beds, deck, etc) we started 'planning' for when we moved in in 2018. I think it's safe to say that 90% of our garden is from cuttings, divided plants and seeds that we've collected. For your question :) -- we plant very closely together -- about a hand's width apart. Way closer than the guide books suggest you plant. But we do this because we don't want a bunch of weeds and want a more natural looking garden. So for you, I would suggest the same. Start with a few plants that you love, plant them closely together and let them self-seed, you can also collect the seeds to better 'guarantee' that you get new plants every year. And then, if something gets too crowded, dig it up and move it out. That's the beauty of perennials... they are very happily divided (most of them anyway) and moved. I hope that helps a little bit 🥰 If not... let us know 😊
Beautiful garden! And how wonderful to have a partner who shares in the love of gardening.
Thank you, Jennifer. And we do enjoy spending time out here together as a family -- good thing it's a small garden 😂
I bought some Aquilegia about twenty years ago and it's thrown its seeds all around my garden every year which I love. The plants look better where they've decided to grow rather than where I put them. Had a range of colours from them over the years. Your garden is looking way ahead of mine. Not garden related, but I still have an ornament of the little mermaid sitting on a rock which my dad bought me when he was in Copenhagen. He said Denmark was very nice and he enjoyed his time there when he went with The Royal Navy way back in 1968. He is 91 now and still manages his own garden, cutting the grass and weeding the borders.
We agree about Aquilegia - they always look better (and happier!) growing where they want.
And how great that you still have that little mermaid souvenir! It’s an icon of Denmark - one of the great stories by HC Andersen. I’m sure Copenhagen changed a lot since then, but hopefully it’s just as nice as he remembers 🥰
It gives peace to have volunteer flowers and reduce the cost of buying every year ❤❤your gadern is in good hands and well taken care of ✋️. Always learning'you always leaves a mark
So true! Anything that can reduce the cost of gardening is a huge help. Plus, the bees love these plants, too.
What a beautiful garden and such engaging gardeners. Thank you I will be including all of these into my garden.
Thank you for such kind words, Kate :) I hope you can use some of these in your garden, too -- plant one and you'll get plenty more in the seasons to come :)
The garden is looking lush!!! Beautiful!!!
Thanks! 🥰
My friend gave me a book entitled Gardening with Chaos. And that’s what I love about self seeding. There’s always surprises in the garden when the plants choose their own location.
That's a beautiful title! And so very true :)
What have the bees done 😂!!! I laughed so hard I struggled with continence! Your videos bring me joy. Love from Vlad xxxxxxx
😂 It's true. hahaha. They will mix up everything and we'll get brand new colors every year :)
I cant believe it, 3 weeks ago your garden was at the same stage as mine, with many of the same plants. Now, 3 weeks later, yours is a paradise of full flower, and mine has barely woken up.
We've had so much rain since then. We started the season with unusually warm temperatures and weeks of sunshine -- it really gave everything a boost. Then, the rain came... and that gave a boost. We have things now that are about 2 weeks earlier than last year! It'll be interesting to see how it continues.
Me too! It’s finally warming up for us here. I’m having garden envy 😂
@@mercury_rising So glad it's warming up there! It went and got really chilly here. argh. BUT... the garden does love the rain :)
I love having extra “volunteers” in my garden!!! I welcome them all, I have lots of penstemons. So many coneflowers over the years too. Love all your colours in your garden
We agree! We love it when a plant does more than just look pretty ;)
Absolutely stunning garden ❤
Thank you for the encouragement, Wayne!
Beautiful, generous garden, and so inspiring.
Many thanks! Big hello from Denmark :)
Man, do I wish I had more room to plant some of those varieties. As always, the garden is beautiful. Gotta love self seeding plants. Foxglove is one of my all time favorites and, to me, a must in any cottage garden. Great job as always. :) 🌱
We love those foxgloves, too -- Since they're only 2-year plants, we never know exactly what colors we're going to get in the garden this year 😅 Luckily, they're all nice tho.
You perennial cottage garden is ABSOLUTELY STUNNING! A very helpful video Thank you!
You are so welcome!! Coming from you... that means a lot to us :)
Sooo... happy I found your channel! Your garden is AMAZING!
WE are the happy ones that you're here, Rowan! So glad you found us, too 🥰
i absolutely love yur garedn!! such an inspiration
Thank you so much! Big hello from Denmark 🥰
Lovely garden, thank you for sharing!
Thank you for watching, Patricia! 💚
It always such a pleasure to watch your videos! Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden and your knowledge. You give me plenty of ideas for my garden in southern Maryland :)
You are so welcome! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment 💚. Hope you’re having great gardening weather in Maryland. Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰
Let me know if you need any Columbine seeds! They took over this year!!! I am in northern Maryland.
@@bethgarrett7109 We're good on those this year again, too :) We will collect Aquilegia vulgaris 'Black Barlow' tho... they are just too pretty to not make sure they come again next year.
@@bethgarrett7109 That's so nice of you! Thank you! I winter sowed a bunch of seeds this year, including Columbine seeds. It was my first time trying this technique. It worked so well that I was actually quite overwhelmed with all the seedlings I got. I gave away a bunch to my neighbors and it felt great :) I am in Lusby in Calvert County. Were are you located?
@@chunkymonkey7745 I am in White Hall, extremely northern part of Baltimore County. About 5 miles from PA line.
Your gardens are what dreams are made of. I’m working on a perennial pollinator garden, with hopes of it spreading out and self-sowing like yours. I love the organic look of it so much.
What a great comment to read this morning! Thank you 🥰. That's the best part about these plants, in particular... they will spread and look really organic over time. Just keep at it!
Such a pretty garden. I have alot of the same plants in my cottage garden here in the UK
WOW... your garden is gorgeous! We're new subscribers now :)
@@perennial-garden Thank you so much! x
I planted Black Eyed Susans some years ago and they self seed around. I like the way you say the name of this one better myself. Makes me smile.
This is the one that Lars called 'Susan with a black eye' on one of our tours ua-cam.com/video/DOUT7Oocb2s/v-deo.htmlsi=XOsqkHV1zDZMa1LA&t=391 🤣
@@perennial-garden Yes I remembered it made me laugh but could not remember exactly how he said it.
I love the diverse variety you have acquired. You can tell all the hard work and time it has taken to accomplish what you have. So in love your garden.
@@CA-rx9ze 😆 We still laugh at it, too. And thank you so much for your kind words!
I will watch later. Lunch is over and back I go into the garden to spread more love in the form of rose campion. Very à propos 😉😊
All thanks to your encouraging videos!
Oooo enjoy!
We love that one too! We have it in pink and white .. but moved it to the back of the border this season. Should’ve been on our list!
@perennial-garden your garden is truly lovely. Ot is such a busy time of the year, I have 12 dahlias that are desperate to be planted, so proud of myself to have grown them from tubers. I looked at the price of the potted ones today: $25 for one plant the size of mine! 😱 the tubers cost me $36 plus the potting soil. A big digitalis is $24! The same sold for $9 four years ago. Crazy crazy.
I did buy a "few" plants at greatly reduced prices 😁
@@Lea-zf7lm Crazy prices! We should go and look and see what these plants cost here, too -- I think it would make us both feel way better about all the seeds we start 😅. AND, with dahlias, those tubers will multiply... so when you dig them up and divide them later on, you can sell those tubers!
Your garden is stunningly beautiful, how lucky are you to have that much space, you're growing all the kind of beauties I love. Thank you for sharing. ❤❤
Thank you for saying so, Louise! You know, it's easy for us to see bigger gardens and forget how blessed we are with the space we do have. Thank you for reminding us to appreciate it! Hope you're having a great day 🥰
Beautiful looking natural pollinator garden, Its the bees knees.
The bees agree 🐝💚
Beautifull plants to have❤❤❤
And they keep giving us more plants every year :)
I love Denmark (I lived there for a year!) and I love gardening! I am so happy that the algorithm finally paid off and led me to your videos! You are both very sweet, funny, and clever. Thanks for sharing your videos with us!
Hej! og Tak for being here with us 🥰 We're glad the UA-cam brought us together, too. Did you get a chance to visit Fredericia while you were here? It's a pretty small town, but lots of history ...and way quieter than Copenhagen or Aarhus.
@@perennial-garden Hi! When we lived there we primarily explored Sjælland and Fyn. We came back each year for a month until the pandemic. On those visit we visited a friend's home in Klejtrup, so our train passed by Fredericia. It was beautiful even from the train! Most of our quiet time was spent with other friends in Sorø; they have an amazing vegetable and fruit garden. We hope to come back to Denmark soon!
@@ShenanK Everyone passes thru our little place. hahaha. It is good to be a hub. The next time you're here, hop off the train and come visit our garden! The coffee (and danishes) are on us 🥰
@@perennial-garden That is so sweet! I will bring the Kærgården and anything that either of you miss from the US♥
@@ShenanK deal! 😍
Thanks to you I now know the name of the plant that has almost taken over the front of my house- milly rock yarrow! 😊 I thought it was like a weed bc it grows so well, but it’s also quite pretty!
Weeds are just misplaced flowers 🥰. We love it growing in our border - it is a really pretty color, too. And the bees love it here.
Lovely garden. Keep the mandstro! The blue color is amazing. I am a little overwhelmed at how my rosenskovmærke has grown so large and spread nicely. It's huge. I will just divide it and move it about. It's my favorite new native flower of the year. They are so pretty in all stages of flowering. They don't look weedy either. Bees and butterflies love it.
You and me both! And yes to the mandstro... it looks really nice dried and cut all winter, too.
love your garden!!
Thank you so much for watching! 💚
Beautiful ❤
You skipped over Columbine.
They have self sown so much in one year in my beds that we are overwhelmed with them! They have literally taken over.
It was there 🥰 The first one Lars mentioned (altho we both pronounce it in Danish... so it's ''AKELEJE'' to us). That's also why I make sure to put the scientific name on the video, so you won't have to learn Danish ☺
Oh dear, I planted yarrow last year! I will keep an eye on! I can’t believe Dansk is zone 8. You must be in heaven
It is a very pretty plant tho... but, if the climate is right for it, it'll self-seed and you'll get more and more. Nothing crazy tho... and it's easy to dig up and move out if you do get too many.
I'm from Germany and in our region it's a zone 8 as well. It doesn't get that hot in summer but it just means that the winters are very mild.
@@neonice Same here. Very mild summers, very wet (usually) and winters here on the east coast are milder than the middle of Denmark or the north.
Gorgeous garden, thanks for sharing this update and the care tips! Do you hand water your garden at all, or it's all rain water?
That's a great question! These weeks, we don't water at all because it rains every single day... for weeks now. When it doesn't rain (like back in the start of May) we water by hand with rain water that we collect. When that's empty, we use a watering hose.
Truly stunning garden. I garden in North London & I love you combination of plants. I have had Yarrow, Digitalis & Astra ia but none have self seeded what am I doing wrong. Help!!!
Thanks for watching! Secondly... oh no! Usually those, especially the yarrow and digitalis, are super great at self-seeding. Astrantia, too.. .but the other ones are really really good at it. I assume your soil is great and not too compact since they already grow there. Wish we could pop by and have a look and figure it out with you :)
What was the beautiful vibrant red flower ?
Do you mean the LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA in the background right at the beginning? It's super pretty this time of the year.
You have a wonderful garden. Can you tell us about your climate. We have very cold winters and hot summers.
We're on the east coast of Denmark - something like zone 8a for the US. But our summers are very very mild and because we're on the coast, our winters aren't as cold as they are in other parts of Denmark.
Мне очень нравится ваш сад!
Thank you for watching! Big hello from Denmark 🇩🇰
@@perennial-garden 🤝
That purple plant at the beginning - Aquilegia pronounced a kwuh lee jee uh in the UK. Are you guys saying it in the Dutch tongue version? Love the Astratia, I have tried to grow those but my plug plants died twice. They are on my top 3 plants to try again for a win.
We do love those astrantia - hope yours grows this next time 🥰
And yes, we use the Danish names for everything - then include the scientific name in the video and description.
I also wrote that we use Danish names in the description as several people recently have left very unkind comments on the pronunciation.
@@perennial-garden Ignore the trolls love.
You have such a pretty garden and a passion for gardening. Do you do any gardening in the community?
Thank you for such kind words. I (lars) work at one of the cemetery gardens here in our area. It’s a very special place that is also a public park with perennial flower beds and places for the public to enjoy. We also just finished a project on our street, sponsored by the city government, where we planted native flowers in front of every house on our street. It’s a wonderful way to bring more color and pollinators to our city - one street at a time. 🥰
@@perennial-garden I am a volunteer gardening as some memorial gardens near me. They are old and breathtaking to walk around they are called Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens if you are interested.
I wish our council would take better care of the verges. Some people do look after the verge (which doesn’t belong to them) while others don’t and the grass grows really tall. I do plant sunflowers at the bottom of my road as my neighbour.
There is a piece of land in the village that no one (county, parish council and property developer) claimed so some like minded gardening friends and I now tend the spot. At the moment the ox-eyed daisies want to take over but we’ve planted things which will provide colour or structure most of the year.
Tracey
@@traceyclark2125 Thanks for sharing that garden with us - we're looking it up right now. AND what a great gift that you and your friends can give the community by planting in that vacant spot. Even if no one else says it... I'm SURE everyone is glad you're doing it! 🥰
What was the tall red flower right at the end by the Sea Holly? I appreciate self sowers!! Thanks for the info.
That's a LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA... we call it Burning Love in Danish. Not sure what it's commonly called in English. It is super pretty!
Do you have a video talking about longest blooming perennials ?
We don't actually. I'm sure Garden Answer does... Laura has so many incredible videos on her channel :) And the Middle Size Garden... she also has a lot of great information on her channel.
@@perennial-garden oh yes I love their videos ❤️. But your videos often go a bit deeper into the individual plants. I love this about your content.
@@Mindy-s-channel Thank you for that! it's nice to know what resonates with other gardeners. That's super helpful for us to know :)
Plus you both have such pleasing voices. Very easy to watch and listen.
@@Mindy-s-channel 🥰 Lars will love that! He's always so worried about his English (but I think he does a great job :) )
I am in Edmonton Alberta and want to start doing this for my flower beds
Wondering how many flowers and plants you started off with
Or if you can give me some idea of what’s a good number?
We started off with one one flower bed and grow the whole garden from there. We wanted to grow our garden from cuttings, division and seed collecting... so it takes time. What you see now (all the flower beds, deck, etc) we started 'planning' for when we moved in in 2018. I think it's safe to say that 90% of our garden is from cuttings, divided plants and seeds that we've collected.
For your question :) -- we plant very closely together -- about a hand's width apart. Way closer than the guide books suggest you plant. But we do this because we don't want a bunch of weeds and want a more natural looking garden. So for you, I would suggest the same. Start with a few plants that you love, plant them closely together and let them self-seed, you can also collect the seeds to better 'guarantee' that you get new plants every year. And then, if something gets too crowded, dig it up and move it out. That's the beauty of perennials... they are very happily divided (most of them anyway) and moved.
I hope that helps a little bit 🥰 If not... let us know 😊
I’m a sucker for volunteers. If they can grow I let them go. Unless I want them back in the garden
We're pretty much the same way. And we know we can always move them in the autumn if we really don't want them in a certain spot.
Expensive looking color… It is. Haha
Right? That rich burgundy looks very posh. Only for the fanciest of bees 🐝😂
@@perennial-garden Heck yes, the queen bee’s throne. 👑🐝
@@Annoflacrosse EXACTLY! 🥰
I love your knowledge and the way you guys plant your gardens so pretty thank you for sharing from the girl in the Land Down under 💐🐝😻🇦🇺🦘🐨🥰👒
Thanks so much! Hope you're having a great weekend :)