I love the morning stroll through your garden. The topiary are beautiful with different shades of green. Yes I love your awning. Your taste is exactly what I want in my garden. Thank you.
I love your space Linda! What I love most is that your garden has transformed over 30 years. What we are seeing is 30 years in the making. There are so many gardens that pop up over night and it’s not realistic for most of us. Time makes a garden great
Linda, this is an example of why I love what you do. You are excellent at putting us right at your house and in your gardens with you, by way of your explanation of each detail. The term “stoop” is very common in New Orleans and perfectly applies to your small landing. That plant stand is very utilitarian and we may need that! The patina on your awning to the back door is perfection in my eyes! I think old houses looking like old houses in ways such as this is beautiful! Thank you for doing this tour! ♥️🏡💚🌳
When we bought this house 2 years ago it was important that we find a home where my elderly Mother and I could have a garden since we came from a condo. We found a great house with a vegetable garden on one side of the house and a flower/patio/stone path/lawn garden on the other side of the house. I was out there every day but when my Mother passed away at 100 I sort of lost my motivation. I've been desperately trying to get up the motivation again but it had been a struggle. That's when I found you. I am now motivated and my garden is looking beautiful again. Thanks to you and your daily walk abouts.
Thanks to watching you I now have my first topiary!! Bought on an impulse, repotted using a terra cotta pot & even rocks to help keep moisture in the soil. It’s sitting in my bay window for filtered sun all day. I’ll have to send you a picture or two.
Love the back porch. The stone work is marvelous. Love ,love, love the awning! What is it made of. Your plants and gardens are so beautiful. I watch you every day. I too am a garden addict!
The plant is a two tiered Eugenia. It’s already had its first light trim since it was being repotted in a new slightly larger pot. Just some of the longer scraggly shoots.
Lisa Oswalt thanks Lisa, I was thinking of the Eugenia, now I just have to find it. I never noticed topiaries before anywhere, now that I want one I don’t know where to find! I am afraid to order by mail in this hot weather.
I love everything about this video! Stoop, flagstone, gravel, awning, the old moss look and of course the boxwoods and topiarys! Thank you for another fabulous video! ❤
Wonderful Linda. Just gorgeous. I’ll have to watch again and again and pause to look at everything in detail. Although you moved very slowly which helped. I love your adjectives used to describe everything. Thanks again. Love your content.
Happy Sunday Linda!🤗💫 Just marvelous, very interesting look when wet. The greens sets it off. Hope you're having an amazing day!🏖️ Thank you for sharing.
I love the use of flagstone on your stoop. It’s so organic. Redwood only lasts so long, especially in a hot, humid climate. Stone goes very well with your English manor style. Looks cool even when it’s not.
Thank you. Your stoop is beautiful. We had decks on almost all of our homes. I am so happy to not have a deck now on our forever home! I was the one to take care of the staining.
Happy Sunday Linda and gardener friends. It is an enchanting way in which you have evolved the character of your back porch!!! Absolutely love all of the topiary shapes, colors, pots and most of all the awning!!! Oh my gosh!!!!! So very soothing. Please tell us again which topiaries go into the greenhouse in the winter and which you keep in place!!! i may have to start one or two, in this Zone 7 Maryland garden. Thank you bunches !
I AM.A.BIG FAN OF TOPIARIES🥰 I even have some fake decor ones in my home! Your garden is amazing so enchanting with all those potted topiaries love it! You inspired me to buy some more they look beautiful altogether. Beautiful scenery of a garden!
I am just thrilled I found you via a link on IG!! I have been obsessed since! This back stoop is like all you share with us....glorious! I wanted to share an awesome moment last week, I walked into Home Depot and they had Eugenia topiaries!!! I was beside myself with excitement. So both are repotted and I did my best to shape them so with fingers crossed, I have a tad bit of Linda joy. Have a small myrtle in my kitchen that I almost killed till I realized it was getting to dry. So thank you for igniting a fire in me! Hugs from Texas.
Enjoyed watching your videos. You're nothing less than amazing! I'm a new subscriber. I love gardening, but your Garden is just beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
The very first video I saw of yours was down at the bottom of this area looking back towards the steps and setting area and I fell in love with your garden with all the topiary pots and the flagstone with small gravel. ❤️
I like the awning too. It was good to hear about the hardiness of the Fatshedera. My little ones are wintering over in my tunnelhouse at the moment before going into large pot. If I'm a bit a careful about placement I may not have to move it each winter. Thanks
Yes! I love the moldy, lichen covered old world look, too. Please don't clean it. And you've inspired me to go out and paint my utility boxes to match the siding. Lovely, lovely video tour; thank you. My southern granny called her porch the stoop...who doesn't want a stoop?!
Linda, Another AWESOME and BEAUTIFUL area! When you run out of places to make beautiful I have a real TEST you could do over!!! Beginning with WHAT TO PUT On TOP OF THE SOIL??????? That looks like a sandy desert. Have a great day. LV=Tv is coming soon!!!! I'm waiting....
Can’t help but perked my ears up when I heard you said you have a wood burning fireplace in your kitchen, we are in the process of designing our home and that is my exact dream space. Would you mind sharing a picture of it one day?
Your video's interesting and very useful. Thank you for sharing. your plans are sound and fresh,,You are good gardener. Have a great day ~. I will come again
I had no idea you could paint the utility boxes and cords and all that. What kind of paint did you use? And do you have to tell the utility companies that you're going to do that or anything? Brilliant idea.
Hi Linda. Can you please tell us how your garden and pots became “famous.” Did you have a friend from southern living or something who was aware of your garden? Or did someone recommend it? Just curious as to the history and process of its fame. Anyone else interested?
Very old world feeling on your stoop❤️ I love it . Please show your blue atlas tree at some point please. I have one in a very large container right now and I’m trying to decide where am I going to put it and how am I going to keep it trimmed back to help keep it sparse and see through
I Love it! Just showed my husband and told him I want to redo our front steps.. Ha Ha Good luck Me! I would love to know what type of vine you suggest that doesn't become invasive. We are in zone 3 Calgary Alberta Cold!
Love it, love it, love it. I'm thinking of putting in a Linda Vater inspired stone and gravel patio. I thought I would need to put flagstone under the dining chairs, but I've seen that you didn't do that. Do the chairs sink and slide around in the gravel?
Looks lovely. What is your watering schedule required for keeping your many/very small container plants/shrubs/topiary hydrated in hot OK? Looks like it would be time consuming.
Hi Laura, beautiful tour! I have a question - I have a couple green velvet and a green mountain boxwood in containers and they've developed a yellow margin around the leaves. Have you ever experienced that? I figured since you're the boxwood whisperer you might have an answer 🙂
@@LindaVater Thanks for replying! They don't look particularly sickly, but I know they're supposed to be solid green so they look off. I've googled it and other people have had it happen, but no one really had a good answer about what's causing it. I'm going to try to cut them back and fertilize and see if that helps!
Hi Linda, I'm originally from Brooklyn, NY...so stoops and I are very well acquainted. One question, does the flagstone stoop get slippery from algae growth, and how to do care for that?
So absolutely beautiful; you have an amazing talent of making things looks so curated and aged over time. Is your flagstone, gravel and brick patio set with concrete or are those loose in some kind of sand? Trying to see if I could do that myself. Thank you!
Hello Linda. I just have a question about the pots. Could you please explain why some of them or raised on pot feets and others are directly on the ground?
Hi Linda, Can't get enough of your video, learned a lot. I need something like your terrace wrought iron stand. Those available online are not big /wide enough to hold my orchids. What you have will be perfect. I sent you a message a few days ago. I will wait for your reply from this video so I will not forget where to check your reply. Thanks a lot again.
Thanks Linda. I'm so addicted to watching your video. I was able to go to Gardener's Supply website and found a similar stand but not like yours. Your terrace stand is like a heavy-duty kind. I will be putting orchid pots and will start doing the topiary (thanks to you). I always dreamt of having a big yard. I love plants, almost all kinds, except those thorny cacti. Thanks for your videos. Tess
Are some of your faux terra cotta pots kind of foam-like? I just found one that I have probably had for 20 years, but got put away and I haven't seen it for years. It may be fiberglass, but it is very lightweight. It is quite ornate like yours, so it made me wonder. I think I might use your technique to paint it before I put it up.
I got lots of tips....Our Lowe's 🇨🇦only has grey gravel. 😞I am going to hunt down landscape soil etc suppliers for some better ones for terracotta. Thanks again.
Linda, well I love the way it looks...love the simple and relaxed touches you put into your garden.. I have a fairly good sized section in our yard that is square that I am going to do in 2 triangle shapes. Waiting for our utilities to come and make sure we are good, then we are diving in. Half will be Boxwoods (love yours) and other green shrubs, other half 1 Eden rose climber, and the rest will be a white and splash of pink flowers. Sun all day long. Thanks for inspiring me....will be doing topiaries tooooooo. First time for cutting a large one up..
So beautiful and comforting. A great spot to have a morning or afternoon coffee.
Here I am infatuated with your garden 😍
Awesome and cozy. Love
So soothing to “walk” in your garden first thing in the morning. Thanks 😊
My pleasure :-)
Wow. Just love it. Thanks for taking the time! The inspiration you give to others is immense - you should be content and proud knowing that. 🤍🌳🌿
What a lovely thing to say. Thank you!
I love the morning stroll through your garden. The topiary are beautiful with different shades of green. Yes I love your awning. Your taste is exactly what I want in my garden. Thank you.
Love ❤love ❤ this !
This is one of those tours that I must watch a second time to get the full effect!
I love your space Linda! What I love most is that your garden has transformed over 30 years. What we are seeing is 30 years in the making. There are so many gardens that pop up over night and it’s not realistic for most of us. Time makes a garden great
Look at all those perennials looking lovely just a beautiful back garden 🤩🤩🤩.
Thanks dear!
Linda, this is an example of why I love what you do. You are excellent at putting us right at your house and in your gardens with you, by way of your explanation of each detail. The term “stoop” is very common in New Orleans and perfectly applies to your small landing. That plant stand is very utilitarian and we may need that! The patina on your awning to the back door is perfection in my eyes! I think old houses looking like old houses in ways such as this is beautiful! Thank you for doing this tour! ♥️🏡💚🌳
You are obviously a girl after my own heart with very much the same aesthetic!
I just posted a video yesterday of potting and shaping up my first topiary. I have been so inspired by your yard! 💛💛💛
That place is me no end!
When we bought this house 2 years ago it was important that we find a home where my elderly Mother and I could have a garden since we came from a condo. We found a great house with a vegetable garden on one side of the house and a flower/patio/stone path/lawn garden on the other side of the house. I was out there every day but when my Mother passed away at 100 I sort of lost my motivation. I've been desperately trying to get up the motivation again but it had been a struggle. That's when I found you. I am now motivated and my garden is looking beautiful again. Thanks to you and your daily walk abouts.
Just STUNNING. You did an amazing job, but I wouldn’t expect any less from you😊😊🇨🇦
Thanks Guy!
Touring your back yard with you is so peaceful and soothing.
Thank you so much Linda for sharing your transition from deck to stone stoop! This was so helpful and beautiful as always!
So soft and relaxing! Thank you for sharing Linda.
So Purdy! I love when you put all the topiary together.😊
I love all of your videos and style. Thanks for sharing all your beauty, from you to your yard, which is an extension of you💖
I love that plant stand plus the stands for individual pots
Thanks to watching you I now have my first topiary!! Bought on an impulse, repotted using a terra cotta pot & even rocks to help keep moisture in the soil. It’s sitting in my bay window for filtered sun all day. I’ll have to send you a picture or two.
Well done you!
Love the back porch. The stone work is marvelous. Love ,love, love the awning! What is it made of. Your plants and gardens are so beautiful. I watch you every day. I too am a garden addict!
Lisa Oswalt Hi Lisa, what kind of topiary did you get? I want to buy one but don’t know what to get...a Myrtle, a Eugenia, or what.
The plant is a two tiered Eugenia. It’s already had its first light trim since it was being repotted in a new slightly larger pot. Just some of the longer scraggly shoots.
Lisa Oswalt thanks Lisa, I was thinking of the Eugenia, now I just have to find it. I never noticed topiaries before anywhere, now that I want one I don’t know where to find! I am afraid to order by mail in this hot weather.
I love everything about this video! Stoop, flagstone, gravel, awning, the old moss look and of course the boxwoods and topiarys! Thank you for another fabulous video! ❤
Hi Linda , this is very pretty ❤️❤️ love all those topiary 😍
Wonderful Linda. Just gorgeous. I’ll have to watch again and again and pause to look at everything in detail. Although you moved very slowly which helped. I love your adjectives used to describe everything. Thanks again. Love your content.
Happy Sunday Linda!🤗💫
Just marvelous, very interesting look when wet. The greens sets it off. Hope you're having an amazing day!🏖️ Thank you for sharing.
Stunning back porch. So calming and serene. Love the flagstone and the way you designed the steps ( yes, perfect as we get older). 🤣😂🤣
Wow. Love love your garden.
I love your garden, so relaxing!
Linda, very well done my friend. I love the back area all the lovely plants look so happy & Green .💚 Thankyou for shareing.
I love the use of flagstone on your stoop. It’s so organic. Redwood only lasts so long, especially in a hot, humid climate. Stone goes very well with your English manor style. Looks cool even when it’s not.
Love that u keep the natural look of the pots etc.. and don’t pressure wash everything to remove natural algae etc.. makes the charm!!! Thanks
Thank you. Your stoop is beautiful. We had decks on almost all of our homes. I am so happy to not have a deck now on our forever home! I was the one to take care of the staining.
I understand completely!
Happy Sunday Linda and gardener friends. It is an enchanting way in which you have evolved the character of your back porch!!! Absolutely love all of the topiary shapes, colors, pots and most of all the awning!!! Oh my gosh!!!!! So very soothing.
Please tell us again which topiaries go into the greenhouse in the winter and which you keep in place!!! i may have to start one or two, in this Zone 7 Maryland garden.
Thank you bunches !
The myrtles come in but all the boxwood and others stay out:)
@@LindaVater Thank you!!!!!
I AM.A.BIG FAN OF TOPIARIES🥰 I even have some fake decor ones in my home! Your garden is amazing so enchanting with all those potted topiaries love it! You inspired me to buy some more they look beautiful altogether. Beautiful scenery of a garden!
I too love the aged look... stunning! Thank you for sharing... my AM meditation 🧘♂️
I am just thrilled I found you via a link on IG!! I have been obsessed since! This back stoop is like all you share with us....glorious! I wanted to share an awesome moment last week, I walked into Home Depot and they had Eugenia topiaries!!! I was beside myself with excitement. So both are repotted and I did my best to shape them so with fingers crossed, I have a tad bit of Linda joy. Have a small myrtle in my kitchen that I almost killed till I realized it was getting to dry. So thank you for igniting a fire in me! Hugs from Texas.
Enjoyed watching your videos. You're nothing less than amazing! I'm a new subscriber. I love gardening, but your Garden is just beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
I really love your back porch area. All the pots look so great Linda❤️
Thank you dear
Some of your Pottery LQQK like the ruins of Rome! Love it!!
Such a beautiful area. You have done a wonderful job.
The very first video I saw of yours was down at the bottom of this area looking back towards the steps and setting area and I fell in love with your garden with all the topiary pots and the flagstone with small gravel. ❤️
Thank you for letting me know!
I am in love 💚🌿🌱with the back stoop!!
Thank you for a great video🍃
Beautiful. Love the awning.
I ♥️ the flagstone. Throw rugs! That is so perfect!
I like the awning too. It was good to hear about the hardiness of the Fatshedera. My little ones are wintering over in my tunnelhouse at the moment before going into large pot. If I'm a bit a careful about placement I may not have to move it each winter. Thanks
WOW, Love back porch, beautiful!
Beautiful tour
Thanks Paula:)
Yes! I love the moldy, lichen covered old world look, too. Please don't clean it. And you've inspired me to go out and paint my utility boxes to match the siding. Lovely, lovely video tour; thank you. My southern granny called her porch the stoop...who doesn't want a stoop?!
Linda, Another AWESOME and BEAUTIFUL area! When you run out of places to make beautiful I have a real TEST you could do over!!! Beginning with WHAT TO PUT On TOP OF THE SOIL??????? That looks like a sandy desert. Have a great day. LV=Tv is coming soon!!!! I'm waiting....
Awesome!!!
Such a Paradise
I am amazed how beautiful "green" can be.
Greetings from Germany, Meggi
Beautiful!!!
Love it Linda
Likes the flagstone paved porch stoop!
Can’t help but perked my ears up when I heard you said you have a wood burning fireplace in your kitchen, we are in the process of designing our home and that is my exact dream space. Would you mind sharing a picture of it one day?
Be happy to. Also If you follow me on Instagram and go back through the Square if she will find some pictures of it as well :-)
Very lovely and charming!
I shaped my first topiary yesterday. Thank you Linda!
Congratulations!
I love the age and moldy look too in my garden! Thank You for saying that :)
Lovely-my kind of look.
I’m still hooked on the Fairy House
That's a very lovely plant stand:)
Your video's interesting and very useful. Thank you for sharing. your plans are sound and fresh,,You are good gardener. Have a great day ~. I will come again
Lovely stoop.
I love the aged look too
I had no idea you could paint the utility boxes and cords and all that. What kind of paint did you use? And do you have to tell the utility companies that you're going to do that or anything? Brilliant idea.
Hi Linda. Can you please tell us how your garden and pots became “famous.” Did you have a friend from southern living or something who was aware of your garden? Or did someone recommend it? Just curious as to the history and process of its fame. Anyone else interested?
Enjoyed thanks
Goals!! 💚🌳🌱
Very old world feeling on your stoop❤️ I love it . Please show your blue atlas tree at some point please. I have one in a very large container right now and I’m trying to decide where am I going to put it and how am I going to keep it trimmed back to help keep it sparse and see through
What would you do if you ever had to move???? I would refuse!!!!! Your garden is AMAZING!!!!!!
I Love it! Just showed my husband and told him I want to redo our front steps.. Ha Ha Good luck Me!
I would love to know what type of vine you suggest that doesn't become invasive. We are in zone 3 Calgary Alberta
Cold!
You might have to ask your local nursery. I’m sorry, I’m not that familiar with your zone LOL!
Love it, love it, love it. I'm thinking of putting in a Linda Vater inspired stone and gravel patio. I thought I would need to put flagstone under the dining chairs, but I've seen that you didn't do that. Do the chairs sink and slide around in the gravel?
Good afternoon 🌞😃 😃😃😃
This is so nice. How would the stone do with ice and snow? I live in the north.
Looks lovely. What is your watering schedule required for keeping your many/very small container plants/shrubs/topiary hydrated in hot OK? Looks like it would be time consuming.
Absolutely beautiful! How did you get across your ideas to the person who built this for you?
I had worked with him for a few years. Showed him pics and a little sketch:)
Linda Vater thanks! Could you remind me where I can send you pics of what you inspired me to do?
Hi Laura, beautiful tour! I have a question - I have a couple green velvet and a green mountain boxwood in containers and they've developed a yellow margin around the leaves. Have you ever experienced that? I figured since you're the boxwood whisperer you might have an answer 🙂
Does the yellow look sickly or rather just a characteristic of the leaves?
@@LindaVater Thanks for replying! They don't look particularly sickly, but I know they're supposed to be solid green so they look off. I've googled it and other people have had it happen, but no one really had a good answer about what's causing it. I'm going to try to cut them back and fertilize and see if that helps!
Hi Linda, I'm originally from Brooklyn, NY...so stoops and I are very well acquainted. One question, does the flagstone stoop get slippery from algae growth, and how to do care for that?
Not here in Oklahoma! Way too dry. I just cherish every little bit of mold and algae that grows along the edges :-)
So absolutely beautiful; you have an amazing talent of making things looks so curated and aged over time. Is your flagstone, gravel and brick patio set with concrete or are those loose in some kind of sand? Trying to see if I could do that myself. Thank you!
OMG...LOVE IT😍😍😍🇵🇭
Hello Linda. I just have a question about the pots. Could you please explain why some of them or raised on pot feets and others are directly on the ground?
Fatshedra. Cross of fatsia and ivy (hedera).
Beautiful stoop. Do you use a clothesline? (As your laundry basket is outdoors)
Hi Linda, Can't get enough of your video, learned a lot. I need something like your terrace wrought iron stand. Those available online are not big /wide enough to hold my orchids. What you have will be perfect. I sent you a message a few days ago. I will wait for your reply from this video so I will not forget where to check your reply. Thanks a lot again.
Sure! This is the terrace plant stand from gardeners.com!
Thanks Linda. I'm so addicted to watching your video. I was able to go to Gardener's Supply website and found a similar stand but not like yours. Your terrace stand is like a heavy-duty kind. I will be putting orchid pots and will start doing the topiary (thanks to you). I always dreamt of having a big yard. I love plants, almost all kinds, except those thorny cacti. Thanks for your videos. Tess
I love your style. What is the variegated plant in the pot with the foxtail fern?
Angyo Star Fatshedera:) link at bottom
Do you have before pictures? Love the videos.
Hi Linda. This corner it's amazingly beautiful. What is the plant's name topiary in the triple sphere?
It’s a green mountain boxwood :-)
Thanks for the tour. What is the owning made of?
Are some of your faux terra cotta pots kind of foam-like? I just found one that I have probably had for 20 years, but got put away and I haven't seen it for years. It may be fiberglass, but it is very lightweight. It is quite ornate like yours, so it made me wonder. I think I might use your technique to paint it before I put it up.
I definitely think it’s worth a try. You can make almost anything look real with that painting technique
I got lots of tips....Our Lowe's 🇨🇦only has grey gravel. 😞I am going to hunt down landscape soil etc suppliers for some better ones for terracotta. Thanks again.
Linda, what is it that is growing at the bottom of the last step, is it a plant or a little clump of grass?
Mondo grass:)
Linda, well I love the way it looks...love the simple and relaxed touches you put into your garden.. I have a fairly good sized section in our yard that is square that I am going to do in 2 triangle shapes. Waiting for our utilities to come and make sure we are good, then we are diving in. Half will be Boxwoods (love yours) and other green shrubs, other half 1 Eden rose climber, and the rest will be a white and splash of pink flowers. Sun all day long. Thanks for inspiring me....will be doing topiaries tooooooo. First time for cutting a large one up..
Is the foxtail fern in the container by the door in full shade or does it get sun?
It’s just a bit of sun
Was that a roach at 2:19 on the edge of the planter of the right?
Whats the nane of the plant? The round one in your stairs
Wooow
Isn’t that a slippery, somewhat dangerous walking situation with mold on stone?
There is so little of it, it’s not a problem. And OK is not naturally rainy:)
Wa ida bunga nyah
You have a tendency to put your plant’s off centre in pots