2 years after retirement and a bit of traveling, I struggled with what to do with myself. I felt myself spiraling quickly, then I found you and your videos! I became a gardener and in love with all things beautiful! I wake up every morning looking forward to 2 things, spending time with you and standing in my garden. I can't wait each morning to wake up each and every plant in my garden and my heart is healed. Thank you, Laura for bringing me out of the dark and into a gorgeous light! I'll be forever grateful! Thank you too to all who submitted videos. It's so nice to see how similar we all are when we covet the beauty!
Stacey I too am retired and in my mid seventies. I came across Garden Answer and Laura love for all things beautiful. I have been gardening over the last fifty plus’s years. After building our retirement home twenty years ago and planting my beautiful gardens I now have arthritis in my hands and osteoarthritis in my knees. I still do what I can but it’s so painful and breaks my heart that I can’t garden like I use to. Laura and Aaron and their two beautiful children, oh and I can’t forget Laura’s Mom ( what a beautiful relationship they have) anyway I get so much pleasure from watching their channel it lifts me up everyday to see someone who works is hard and enjoys it to. The satisfaction we get and the fulfilled feeling of accomplishment makes my heart sing. I pray you keep adding to Mother Nature as long as you can. We all need a little natural beauty in our lives today.
Yes I also share the same feeling for you, even being young, but still I believe that the plants that are in heaven and filled with the glory of JESUS CHRIST, can only give what Christ Himself gives, I believe that you have to cultivate in your garden, but it is Jesus Christ who will bring you light in the darkness, happy gardeniiiiiiiing
Good Morning Stacey. I too just retired. With travel being so hard right now I jumped into gardening. Then I found this channel. Each morning I watch a new video which inspires me to start a new project. I couldn't have said it better.
I was so happy to see a mix of grand homes and normal houses like mine 😁. Also glad to see that so many gardens evolved over years. I always need to remind myself that my own garden will look better every year as long as I keep puttering along with it. Beautiful gardens, everyone!
@ Jennifer, I agree, for those of us who live in urban areas and trying to reduce municipal water usage and lawn maintenance (noise and gas pollution) for gardens, I love the gardens where there are a good balance of gardens with some lawn. I especially love the one where the entire front lawn is covered with mostly perennials. Superb job to all the gardens shown today ….tons of inspiration . 👏 👏 👏🌸🇨🇦
Everyone who's saying that your channel changed their life, sooo true for everyone off those million subscribers! You guys made us realise that gardening could be a noticeable part of our surrounding, our mental health indirectly and thus making it a priority item in our daily lives!! ❤️
Only changes your life if you are rich. Most people cannot afford what she does. All that stuff she has even the bags of soil are $30 a bag!!! Craziness
@@melissastruxness512 You do not have to be rich for this to change your life. It is all about whatever space you have made your own and how it comes with the experience to get your hands dirty and when you're done you can step back and smile. Overtime it will grow and change and become something even more beautiful then you imagined. You can start out with 1 flower pot. You don't have to be rich to go to the dollar store and get a flower pot. I am far from rich. I have a disability that keeps me from being able to work. But I can climb out of bed in the morning, make myself coffee and watch Laura while I wake up. Then after watching I have the motivation to go and do something that makes me feel good, whatever it may be. You don't have to try to do what she does. You don't need to be rich to pick up a room and make a space look good. This has changed a lot of our lives. I hope you have a wonderful day and find something that makes you smile.
Hi Melissa I started with a couple of pots and 1 flower bed 1 plant at a time. 1 bag of soil costs 8 dollars at home depo or lowes I usually buy 2 bags per trip I don't grow to her scale I work within my budget. I bought marigolds seeds for 3 dollars and had 2 flats of flowers that grew all summer I grew Salvia from seed only 4 survived but gave me blooms all summer and the bees loved it. I bought 2 supertunias for 7 dollars each at my local nursery and with cuttings from 2 plants created a border and enjoyed my flowers. I'm still building up my garden 1 plant at a time. My most expensive thing was the biotone for me buying the first bag was ouch! But after seeing the results I don't flinch about that anymore I use it sparingly and ut works. Happy planting and I hope you find your middle ground. 🌱🪴🌷🌻🌺
@@melissastruxness512 connect with nature anyway you can. It doesn't have to look like someone else's. I started with one rose in a pot on my apartment's backporch. Start asking people who have plants for cuttings. Plant people love to share 🌱
O M GOODNESS! Great job everyone 👏 Who else is excited for the pond one coming up?! I was so excited when Laura said that. Currently living in a basement apartment, but when we move to our own home, we'll have so much inspiration in our hearts from this amazing community! Have a great day everyone!
Yes my friend LANE IN LIFE, I advise you to start before you move already make your little garden pots, and when you will arrive in your new house you will only put your flower pots how in this inspiring video of Laura, start already, I wish you a happy gardeniiiiiiing.
I'm such a frustrated Gardener since we moved to zone 8B/9A! I've followed you for years and I watched all of your videos but there is rarely any info I can use for our yard. You are lovely and I really enjoy your intelligence and knowledge.
After 26 years of living in my then new home and landscaping it from the bare earth to a beautiful landscaped oasis we are selling and moving to Arkansas into another new house with bare dirt. 2 acres this time and I’m excited to start over as well as sad to leave the property I put my heart and souls into for many years. I loved looking at these ideas and they’re all gorgeous. With all that being said I can’t wait to do something totally different and will use some of your ideas to transform this place. Thank you for your videos, Laura 💕
👍👍Laura, I’m ever grateful to you, I’m addicted to all your UA-cam videos and learning a lot regarding gardens ,Thank you very very much 🙏🙏from Mysore, INDIA
I always groan when you say "That's all". This compliation videos from fellow gardeners are just so inspiring. And all so different. I'm in a 3B struggling to convince the plants that we're zone 5 (lol) but the landscaping transcends all the different zones. Looking forward to more...
Thank you for posting these front gardens. I’m 68 years young and handicapped. I put in my final front yard, it was extremely painful I hope it turns out and I’m happy with it. I’ll send pictures when it’s blooming.
Thank you everyone for sharing your gardens! The excitement on Laura's face when she saw all the beautiful spaces and inspiration! Thanks Laura and Aaron for sharing all these gorgeous gardens! Bonnie 🇨🇦
With every picture opened Laura Gets More Amd Mor Excited 😆 Sounds like Christmas Morning Each Time ... Over And Over‼️LOVE The Ahhhhs& Ewwws- ooohhhhs WOW🌹🌷🌻🥀💃💚🕺
I've learned most of my garden knowledge from you! A few other gardening videos but I always fall back to your channel and always recommend! ❤️🪴 Also I love that both cats hung out with you for the video! 😺😺
These videos always make me so envious but I have to remind myself that a lot of Laura’s viewers are much older than I am, so it was probably easier for them to come into these beautiful homes with large amounts of land. I would love to have a big, beautiful, old fashion home one day with a large yard to create something so stunning. For now, I have to work with what I have. 🥺
The next best thing to a touch of celebrity is having your home featured on the Garden Answer! What an inspiring way to start the morning on a cold February day in Zone 5B. So many amazing ideas. Thank you Laura and Aaron. Can't wait for part 2, the ponds and spring! Oh my goodness, this really made my day.
Thank you Laura for including my garden in your video - what a surprise and delight to be included with such gorgeous other gardens! Love your videos and thank you for all you do to inspire us!
I can’t count the number of times I gasped while watching this video. Probably as each one was revealed as they all were stunning! I hope this series of viewers gardens becomes a regular winter “thing”; it feeds me, inspires me, fills my gardening soul while it’s bleak and dreary outside. Brilliant idea, Laura and Aaron!!! 💚
Hi Laura and Aaron, Im so enjoying these videos. Would you consider talking specifically about ground cover plants in a video, in shade and sun areas. I have some lamium that i learned from your videos but would live to hear more! Anything that helps minimise the weeding jobs are welcome!!!! Thank you!
There's a book called _Covering Ground: Unexpected Ideas for Landscaping with Colorful, Low-Maintenance Ground Covers_ by Barbara W. Ellis that's just fantastic. She talks about ground covers for all different types of situations (e.g. sun, shade, lawn alternatives, slopes, walkways, wet areas etc.) and even a section on propagation. The photography is beautiful. Not too expensive either because it's a soft cover.
Wonderful presentation! I was especially floored by one picture that depicted a nighttime scene with obelisks, fairy lights and what I think are solar lights. I remember one of your videos where you used embroidery hoops to make a similar planter display. I just love the addition of Lights! Now I think I'll have to add something similar to my Cottage Garden! Once you get an idea in your head your creative juices just can't help but flow! These type of presentations sure brighten up the long winter months!
Oh my goodness! I was so excited to see Lorie Whitt-Winyard's beautiful garden on this morning's video and immediately recognized it. I have followed Lorie since I joined the Garden Answer Groupie's FB page. To say that Laura has inspired so many of us inexperienced gardeners would be a serious understatement. I am loving all of these viewer submissions, and I've lost track of how many times I have re-watched them. Thank you Laura and Aaron for all you do to entertain and educate us.
So many beautiful gardens for inspiration!!! We moved into a 30 year old house in December. The seller, a wonderful senior citizen, told me what was lying dormant in the gardens and I can’t wait to see it!!! So I’ll see what I have before planning on what to add or change, can’t wait!!
This video was really fun! Would love to see some gardens in higher zones, too. Maybe we could get a video one day of gardens in "extreme zones"? Zone 9 (where I am) can vary a lot between California, Texas, and Florida!! But they can all be beautiful, even a desert garden can be 🌵. Just don't forget about us on watering restrictions 😂
Yes! I was thinking the same too. I’m in Texas and would like to see what is thriving in other zones similar to mine. But I’m thoroughly enjoying the lower zone gardens too
I was so absolutely impressed by Pat(the last garden) who does all of her own maintenance on her gorgeous garden. My Mom would be amazed by this! I almost don't want to tell her! Impressed. They were all beautiful!
These are the best! I could watch all day! Laura I think it's so funny that you say you don't want to change the terrain and it is flat but you water everyday to have green plants. 😂 We all have our "thing". Mine is I do not like gravel or rocks for mulch or colored mulch. So good that we all have different styles. It keeps gaardens interesting.
Thank you GA family for sharing your inspirational photos! Laura's passion and yours go to show that no matter your zone, budget or property size, you all inspire what can be attained. Bless you all. Come on spring!
What a delicious variety of homes and gardens. Each one is so beautiful and inspiring, yet all so different. It is inspiring to see them and take ideas from here and there. What a grand idea it was to do these types of videos in mid winter when we’re so looking forward to spring and planning what we want to experiment with for the coming year! Thanks everyone for sharing your talents and hard work!💚💚💚
Yes my friend LARAE MITCHELL, this video is truly rewarding and inspiring, but I think it makes you like us want to redo our home garden, like you I am truly blown away.
I'm conflicted. Absolutely drooling over these amazing, lush gardens. But also craving more ideas that are drought tolerant for the arid West. Either way, gave me hope for Spring. Well done everyone, hope to see more!
I thought the same thing. I live in the Texas panhandle and it's very hot and dry in the summer and very cold and dry in the winter and the wind blows, a lot! I would love to see some dusty dry land transformed with plants that can take our heat and cold. ❤️🙂🌱
208 Bonstrom, My go-to gardening "bible" has always been Sunset's Western Garden Book. Mine's from 1993 and it has sections in front about plants for different microclimates. I grew up in the L.A. suburbs and my Mom had it too. I use it endlessly even here in France. One note: I think it doesn't use USDA zones, not sure.
@@mariankay6482 Me too!! I live in Lubbock! My garden certainly isn't social-media worthy, but I love it! :) It is hard to get my heart broken every season when I try to plant all the pretties that just don't survive very long with our constant wind and high heat. Still, fun to try and enjoy!
@@alcg3981 I forgot I have that book! Mine is c2012, and I dug it out to look at the micro climates in the front. Thank you for reminding me, it's a great resource ☺️
Лора молодчинка, такая симпатичная трудолюбивая пчелка! Laura is such a charming human being, just an awesome hostess, and thank you for your sunny positive disposition and love for plants... God bless you and all yours!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗
These types of videos are becoming a third favorite only to your garden and anything with your mom.Ah…what am I talking about, I love them all!!!!!🌸☀️🏆
All the homes are beautiful! Pat is amazing gardener to keep such a large area looking so neat! I found myself drawn to homes with windowboxes. They look friendly, so welcoming.
Laura, I absolutely love these type of videos. It gives me so much inspiration. It's a lot better than me driving around neighborhoods and slowly creeping/driving by a house to try and see what they have planted and to take notes. LOL! So thank you for providing this safe and less creepy method of seeing how everyone else landscapes. I also love the before and after. And the one lady who provided spring, summer, fall, and a winter shot of her home. Magnifique!!!
Laura, you’re so brilliant and have such a passion for making spaces better using plant life … you could do an entire series where you allow photo submissions to give advice and ideas on how to make our spaces better!! Let’s start with mine.! 😂 I love to vegetable garden but I’m very intimidated to landscape plant in front of my house!!
I think a great video idea would be, people submit photos of their landscape they want to redo and you say some ideas of what you would do in that space! I hope that makes sense!
Love this! Would also appreciate seeing more gardens in zone 8-10. As someone in zone 9, it makes me envious to see all these beautiful plants that would utterly wilt in our heat.
Love these pics.!!! This is such a glorious way to lift our spirits by sharing these videos until your busy time fills us with your wonderful garden. Laura your followers are so excited to see how your new space will be like with those thousands of tulips and spring flowers. We can't wait for Spring.!!!
👏🏻Wow, thank you Laura, for bringing us these homes/gardens from our GA families! So much talent, but mostly, compassion and passion for making our smaller pieces of the world so very beautiful. Even one petunia in a pot can bring many smiles and cheers, and any space can be made a peaceful respite for all to enjoy. The pride home owners take in their space is wonderful to see. Thank you all sooooo much - your GA friend in Michigan. 🍃
Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 I appreciate your doing this video, Laura. I really need to get my front yard replanted. Thank you Everyone who submitted your gorgeous creations 👩🌾👍
Love these before and afters! I want to change my flowerbeds in the front and around our fire pit this year. I need to remember to take before and after pictures! Thanks for all the tips and information you give with each video you do. It makes everyone feel like they can grow and plant a beautiful garden.
Ok, Laura, you've lit a fire in me, and now I may tackle my front yard first and back yard second. I don't have a green thumb, but I'm going to reach out for help with our garden centers in the area. I want low maintenance, but color and structure. These are beautiful photos and the last one, in her 70's, wow how inspiring!!! If there's anyone in Eastern NC reading this, you may reach out any time :)
Love the longer format videos Laura. You make many viewers' morning routines much more interesting, colorful, and inspiring. Don't ever think that your vids are too long.
One of the things I loved about your mail time videos was watching your genuine appreciation - these videos have that genuine excitement too. It’s like you’re unwrapping a gardening present! 🥰
Hostas love the shade and as a matter of fact I was watching Jenny &Jerry (Garden with Creekside ) and she showed a hosta I’d never heard of called “The Godzilla “ I have just about every hosta beside him! Thought you’d interested in hearing of that one. 💃🤍🕺
Just Google flowers for shade, and you are on your way to a beautiful garden, Jack Frost is also a very beautiful shade plants with blooms also good luck
Don't know your specifics, but if your shade is from deciduous trees, you can look into having them limbed up and their branches thinned. It can make a big difference in the amount of sun that gets through.
@@angelwolfe6728 LoL- Me TOOO! Your Welcomes! I thought The Godzilla Hosta Sounded so Cool a d since my (21yrs.old) youngest boy was and still is obsessed w/Godzilla! I’m planning on planting it out side his bedroom window....💚
Goodevening from the philippines i was hoping to send you a pot arrangement of cactus and succulents. Learned it from you since 2017,remember your first cat back then.
Such beautiful gardens and great inspiration, great to see a garden from the UK. Hoping you do this next year so I can join in with my photos, this will be my gardens first full season after starting at it in April last year after being untouched for 10+ years. I planted loads of spring bulbs last year and I'm buzzing to see them start to sprout up and my daffys are getting close to opening their blooms. Thank you for doing this video lots of ideas, especially the liner in the obelisk with the fairy lights 👍 mental note taken ✔
I love seeing the afters. As a new gardener with a big yard, I sometimes get discouraged. This shows that as the years pass, my garden will grow and become a glorious beauty. Patience is a virtue, they say. And in the meantime, I get to see these videos.
What a wonderful treat it was to watch these beautiful front yards from around the country (and UK!) It is only 20⁰ outside today , here in Central Indiana, and this was a perfect reminder that Spring is coming soon! And also happy to see both happy kitties sunning themselves in the background! Thanks for sharing!
Laura and Aaron, you do a wonderful job! Perhaps at some point you can produce a video or two on affordable yet fabulous gardens. Many of your projects involve the purchase of large quantities of nursery perennials and shrubs. In this video, for example, the investment some property owners have made in boxwood shrubs alone is quite large (not to mention the person who planted 700 daffodil bulbs). And some homeowners likely relied on paid labor. In reality, many people who are new or single gardeners could never afforded such luxuries, except perhaps investing in additional plants over many years. (That was certainly true for me with my last house.) Most of all, thank you both ever so much for all your terrific efforts! You educate, entertain and delight us with your videos.
Not that I’m doing anything near there level of expertise, but my gramma gave me some advice when I bought my first house that was super useful and is how Ive acquired almost everything I have as far as landscaping. It’s challenging to be reserved through the season, but if you can wait to make any big investment until it is when things are starting to go dormant box stores and some local nurseries do crazy clearance deals because they no longer look nice to entice sales, but are perfectly viable. I’ve only ever paid full price for trees, because it was really important to me that they started off well and didn’t stunt. . I will buy almost anything perennial from the clearance racks , and if you are willing to buy it ugly and love on it a bit you can find almost any plant for 3-5 bucks. You have to be careful, and look for promising signs like new growth and green wood. Find the houses where the gardeners live, and offer to help split plants. I’ve gotten thousands of dollars worth of really nice bulbs and perennial plants just offering to help for anything they want to clear or give more space too. In my experience they want to share, and older gardeners are so excited for the help. They will also teach about what grows well, and will generally offer stuff that has naturalized and acclimated to your area. Winter sowing perennial flowers or self sowing varieties from seed packs is a big savings if you need to fill space. Takes a couple years to see blooms for some varieties. You can spend money, or you can spend time but you can arrive at a similar result eventually either way. Save receipts, and keep track as best you can so if you aren’t able to save the plant you can use that same money to try again. They won’t replace the plant but most will refund the clearance price if you bring a photo of the dead plant.
@@jeffreed2659 Very good points overall, although I prefer to give my plant business to good quality local nurseries rather than the big-box stores whenever possible. I'm increasingly growing from seed, too, and sharing the inevitable extra seeds. Jeff, I'm impressed that you offer to help split plants for others. A win-win activity! Happy gardening!
Wow!!! Beautiful homes and gardens! Thank you Aaron & Laura for sharing these videos! So inspiring!!!! I hope you will be hosting a PART II series "Beautiful Front Yard Gardens" God Bless you & your family!
I loved this! I hope there will be more to come. I would be especially interested in front yards that have plants that hide the "uglies." In my case, that would be a whole house generator and a propane tank. Thank you to all who shared and to you, Laura!
These videos are so awesome. My favorite videos are Laura planting and teaching during their on seasons. My second favorite is Laura and her mom, anything with the two of them together. My third favorite are these videos of others gardens. I love Laura's explanation of the plants and what we are seeing. Thank you Aaron for pulling it all together for us.
I'm really loving these different versions of seeing other people's gardens. It's bringing tons of joy while it's still incredibly cold and Grey here in mn!
I don't know which one I am more of a fan of now - Garden Answer or the Garden Answer Crew! My god, I could live off this type of content from October to March!! (Garden Answer is pretty awesome, NGL) 👍😁❤️
Isn’t it amazing how many peoples gardens you have influenced all over the world. I found your channel in 2020 when I was poorly with covid I was immediately hooked. We all owe so much to you Laura, thank you for all your knowledge and for sharing your beautiful garden and family. Lots of love from Emma in the uk xxx
It’s so wonderful to see everyone’s gardens, all shapes and sizes, so inspiring and so different ,Laura and Aaron, Thank you 🙏 for providing us with inspiration, I can’t wait for Spring !!!
So many beautiful transformations! I love these before and after pics. Thanks Laura and Aaron for sharing them. I really like how you show gardens in different garden zones. Great job everyone!! Laura, can you do a mailbox before and after? I’d love to see and get ideas from our fellow gardeners.
House #2 (time at 3:02) looks to be a flamethrower redbud! I want to plant one in my back yard this year. Congratulations to all gardeners on being selected for this video, and most importantly bravo on a job well done to make your spaces more beautiful and colorful. Thank you all for your openness to share with all of us. Truly inspiring. Now I wish it would stop snowing and warm up so I could start digging!
I always enjoy all the videos of your beautiful yard/yards and all y'all do to create, add, and improve on areas of your land. Thank you so much for all the information & tips you give. I am also thoroughly enjoying all these different videos you are sharing of other people's beautiful yards/landscaping. God bless
Dear Laura and Aaron, I love these instant gratification before and after videos; no watering, no waiting; can you do a statuary/ hardscape video soon? Thank you for adding such beauty into the world both from your gardens and your hearts….
This is now my goal. I'm currently remodeling my grandparent's house in No. California wine country. I will give myself 5 years to create a yard that I can send to you as a before and after. Thanks for the inspiration! These before/after videos are so fantastic!
Laura, I have learned so much from you, I started watching your channel a few years ago. These type videos are some of my favorites because I can feel your excitement when you look at other peoples gardens. I hope you know how much you inspire us! Thank you for sharing your gardens and your family with us 🌸🌻🏡
Beautiful gardens & fantastic transformations in the before & after gardens!! I love all of them, the ideas are flooding in for me! Thank you to all who sent pictures!! 😃❤💚🌸🌿
2 years after retirement and a bit of traveling, I struggled with what to do with myself. I felt myself spiraling quickly, then I found you and your videos! I became a gardener and in love with all things beautiful! I wake up every morning looking forward to 2 things, spending time with you and standing in my garden. I can't wait each morning to wake up each and every plant in my garden and my heart is healed. Thank you, Laura for bringing me out of the dark and into a gorgeous light! I'll be forever grateful! Thank you too to all who submitted videos. It's so nice to see how similar we all are when we covet the beauty!
I was the same way. I definitely got better after watching her videos too 💕
Beautiful!
Stacey I too am retired and in my mid seventies. I came across Garden Answer and Laura love for all things beautiful. I have been gardening over the last fifty plus’s years. After building our retirement home twenty years ago and planting my beautiful gardens I now have arthritis in my hands and osteoarthritis in my knees. I still do what I can but it’s so painful and breaks my heart that I can’t garden like I use to. Laura and Aaron and their two beautiful children, oh and I can’t forget Laura’s Mom ( what a beautiful relationship they have) anyway I get so much pleasure from watching their channel it lifts me up everyday to see someone who works is hard and enjoys it to. The satisfaction we get and the fulfilled feeling of accomplishment makes my heart sing.
I pray you keep adding to Mother Nature as long as you can. We all need a little natural beauty in our lives today.
Yes I also share the same feeling for you, even being young, but still I believe that the plants that are in heaven and filled with the glory of JESUS CHRIST, can only give what Christ Himself gives, I believe that you have to cultivate in your garden, but it is Jesus Christ who will bring you light in the darkness, happy gardeniiiiiiiing
Good Morning Stacey. I too just retired. With travel being so hard right now I jumped into gardening. Then I found this channel. Each morning I watch a new video which inspires me to start a new project. I couldn't have said it better.
I was so happy to see a mix of grand homes and normal houses like mine 😁. Also glad to see that so many gardens evolved over years. I always need to remind myself that my own garden will look better every year as long as I keep puttering along with it. Beautiful gardens, everyone!
@ Jennifer, I agree, for those of us who live in urban areas and trying to reduce municipal water usage and lawn maintenance (noise and gas pollution) for gardens, I love the gardens where there are a good balance of gardens with some lawn. I especially love the one where the entire front lawn is covered with mostly perennials. Superb job to all the gardens shown today ….tons of inspiration . 👏 👏 👏🌸🇨🇦
Everyone who's saying that your channel changed their life, sooo true for everyone off those million subscribers! You guys made us realise that gardening could be a noticeable part of our surrounding, our mental health indirectly and thus making it a priority item in our daily lives!! ❤️
Only changes your life if you are rich. Most people cannot afford what she does. All that stuff she has even the bags of soil are $30 a bag!!! Craziness
@@melissastruxness512 You do not have to be rich for this to change your life. It is all about whatever space you have made your own and how it comes with the experience to get your hands dirty and when you're done you can step back and smile. Overtime it will grow and change and become something even more beautiful then you imagined. You can start out with 1 flower pot. You don't have to be rich to go to the dollar store and get a flower pot. I am far from rich. I have a disability that keeps me from being able to work. But I can climb out of bed in the morning, make myself coffee and watch Laura while I wake up. Then after watching I have the motivation to go and do something that makes me feel good, whatever it may be. You don't have to try to do what she does. You don't need to be rich to pick up a room and make a space look good. This has changed a lot of our lives. I hope you have a wonderful day and find something that makes you smile.
@@melissastruxness512 Sigh....you really don't get it, do you?
Hi Melissa I started with a couple of pots and 1 flower bed 1 plant at a time. 1 bag of soil costs 8 dollars at home depo or lowes I usually buy 2 bags per trip I don't grow to her scale I work within my budget. I bought marigolds seeds for 3 dollars and had 2 flats of flowers that grew all summer I grew Salvia from seed only 4 survived but gave me blooms all summer and the bees loved it. I bought 2 supertunias for 7 dollars each at my local nursery and with cuttings from 2 plants created a border and enjoyed my flowers. I'm still building up my garden 1 plant at a time. My most expensive thing was the biotone for me buying the first bag was ouch! But after seeing the results I don't flinch about that anymore I use it sparingly and ut works. Happy planting and I hope you find your middle ground. 🌱🪴🌷🌻🌺
@@melissastruxness512 connect with nature anyway you can. It doesn't have to look like someone else's. I started with one rose in a pot on my apartment's backporch. Start asking people who have plants for cuttings. Plant people love to share 🌱
O M GOODNESS! Great job everyone 👏 Who else is excited for the pond one coming up?! I was so excited when Laura said that. Currently living in a basement apartment, but when we move to our own home, we'll have so much inspiration in our hearts from this amazing community! Have a great day everyone!
Yes my friend LANE IN LIFE, I advise you to start before you move already make your little garden pots, and when you will arrive in your new house you will only put your flower pots how in this inspiring video of Laura, start already, I wish you a happy gardeniiiiiiing.
I'm such a frustrated Gardener since we moved to zone 8B/9A! I've followed you for years and I watched all of your videos but there is rarely any info I can use for our yard. You are lovely and I really enjoy your intelligence and knowledge.
After 26 years of living in my then new home and landscaping it from the bare earth to a beautiful landscaped oasis we are selling and moving to Arkansas into another new house with bare dirt. 2 acres this time and I’m excited to start over as well as sad to leave the property I put my heart and souls into for many years. I loved looking at these ideas and they’re all gorgeous. With all that being said I can’t wait to do something totally different and will use some of your ideas to transform this place. Thank you for your videos, Laura 💕
👍👍Laura, I’m ever grateful to you, I’m addicted to all your UA-cam videos and learning a lot regarding gardens ,Thank you very very much 🙏🙏from Mysore, INDIA
Just WOW! Love Laura’s sincere delight in every single garden.
Yes, you're right there is no comment JUST WOOOOOOOOW!!!
I always groan when you say "That's all". This compliation videos from fellow gardeners are just so inspiring. And all so different. I'm in a 3B struggling to convince the plants that we're zone 5 (lol) but the landscaping transcends all the different zones. Looking forward to more...
I'm in the same Zone in Northern Ontario. Now I'm just itching for spring!
Calgary here - supposedly we've got up to 4a.
Thank you for posting these front gardens. I’m 68 years young and handicapped. I put in my final front yard, it was extremely painful I hope it turns out and I’m happy with it. I’ll send pictures when it’s blooming.
Thank you everyone for sharing your gardens! The excitement on Laura's face when she saw all the beautiful spaces and inspiration! Thanks Laura and Aaron for sharing all these gorgeous gardens! Bonnie 🇨🇦
With every picture opened Laura Gets More Amd Mor Excited 😆 Sounds like Christmas Morning Each Time ... Over And Over‼️LOVE The Ahhhhs& Ewwws- ooohhhhs WOW🌹🌷🌻🥀💃💚🕺
I am so envious of all of the trees!
I've learned most of my garden knowledge from you! A few other gardening videos but I always fall back to your channel and always recommend! ❤️🪴 Also I love that both cats hung out with you for the video! 😺😺
These videos always make me so envious but I have to remind myself that a lot of Laura’s viewers are much older than I am, so it was probably easier for them to come into these beautiful homes with large amounts of land. I would love to have a big, beautiful, old fashion home one day with a large yard to create something so stunning. For now, I have to work with what I have. 🥺
A garden can be beautiful at any size. I think the most charming ones are small.
Thanks to all the gardeners who submitted pictures of their gardens. Great inspiration.
The next best thing to a touch of celebrity is having your home featured on the Garden Answer! What an inspiring way to start the morning on a cold February day in Zone 5B. So many amazing ideas. Thank you Laura and Aaron. Can't wait for part 2, the ponds and spring! Oh my goodness, this really made my day.
Thank you Laura for including my garden in your video - what a surprise and delight to be included with such gorgeous other gardens! Love your videos and thank you for all you do to inspire us!
Hi Maggie how are you doing?
Your vlog really inspire me to do even just simple landscaping in our frontyard.
I can’t count the number of times I gasped while watching this video. Probably as each one was revealed as they all were stunning! I hope this series of viewers gardens becomes a regular winter “thing”; it feeds me, inspires me, fills my gardening soul while it’s bleak and dreary outside. Brilliant idea, Laura and Aaron!!! 💚
Thank you for this tour of your viewers' gardens. Your viewers are so talented and their spaces are so inspiring. Your influence has a wide reach.
Hi Laura and Aaron, Im so enjoying these videos. Would you consider talking specifically about ground cover plants in a video, in shade and sun areas. I have some lamium that i learned from your videos but would live to hear more! Anything that helps minimise the weeding jobs are welcome!!!! Thank you!
There's a book called _Covering Ground: Unexpected Ideas for Landscaping with Colorful, Low-Maintenance Ground Covers_ by Barbara W. Ellis that's just fantastic. She talks about ground covers for all different types of situations (e.g. sun, shade, lawn alternatives, slopes, walkways, wet areas etc.) and even a section on propagation. The photography is beautiful. Not too expensive either because it's a soft cover.
Wonderful presentation! I was especially floored by one picture that depicted a nighttime scene with obelisks, fairy lights and what I think are solar lights. I remember one of your videos where you used embroidery hoops to make a similar planter display. I just love the addition of Lights! Now I think I'll have to add something similar to my Cottage Garden! Once you get an idea in your head your creative juices just can't help but flow!
These type of presentations sure brighten up the long winter months!
Oh my goodness! I was so excited to see Lorie Whitt-Winyard's beautiful garden on this morning's video and immediately recognized it. I have followed Lorie since I joined the Garden Answer Groupie's FB page. To say that Laura has inspired so many of us inexperienced gardeners would be a serious understatement. I am loving all of these viewer submissions, and I've lost track of how many times I have re-watched them. Thank you Laura and Aaron for all you do to entertain and educate us.
So many beautiful gardens for inspiration!!! We moved into a 30 year old house in December. The seller, a wonderful senior citizen, told me what was lying dormant in the gardens and I can’t wait to see it!!! So I’ll see what I have before planning on what to add or change, can’t wait!!
Hello 👋 dear , how are you doing?
How exciting!!!
This video was really fun! Would love to see some gardens in higher zones, too. Maybe we could get a video one day of gardens in "extreme zones"?
Zone 9 (where I am) can vary a lot between California, Texas, and Florida!! But they can all be beautiful, even a desert garden can be 🌵.
Just don't forget about us on watering restrictions 😂
Yes, California zone 9. Please.
Even us in zone 9 Louisiana grow differently from zone 9 Texas and Florida! We can get 60+ inches of rain a year.
Yes! I was thinking the same too. I’m in Texas and would like to see what is thriving in other zones similar to mine. But I’m thoroughly enjoying the lower zone gardens too
I absolutely Love these before and after pics! Thank you so much. And there is Russell right next to his favorite person. He has good taste!
I was so absolutely impressed by Pat(the last garden) who does all of her own maintenance on her gorgeous garden. My Mom would be amazed by this! I almost don't want to tell her! Impressed. They were all beautiful!
These are the best! I could watch all day!
Laura I think it's so funny that you say you don't want to change the terrain and it is flat but you water everyday to have green plants. 😂 We all have our "thing". Mine is I do not like gravel or rocks for mulch or colored mulch. So good that we all have different styles. It keeps gaardens interesting.
Thank you GA family for sharing your inspirational photos! Laura's passion and yours go to show that no matter your zone, budget or property size, you all inspire what can be attained. Bless you all. Come on spring!
Good Morning Gardening Friends. Enjoy your day💝🇨🇦
What a delicious variety of homes and gardens. Each one is so beautiful and inspiring, yet all so different. It is inspiring to see them and take ideas from here and there. What a grand idea it was to do these types of videos in mid winter when we’re so looking forward to spring and planning what we want to experiment with for the coming year! Thanks everyone for sharing your talents and hard work!💚💚💚
Yes my friend LARAE MITCHELL, this video is truly rewarding and inspiring, but I think it makes you like us want to redo our home garden, like you I am truly blown away.
I'm conflicted. Absolutely drooling over these amazing, lush gardens. But also craving more ideas that are drought tolerant for the arid West. Either way, gave me hope for Spring. Well done everyone, hope to see more!
I thought the same thing. I live in the Texas panhandle and it's very hot and dry in the summer and very cold and dry in the winter and the wind blows, a lot! I would love to see some dusty dry land transformed with plants that can take our heat and cold. ❤️🙂🌱
Dusty dry land!! that brings a smile to my face, reminds me of my growing up days
208 Bonstrom, My go-to gardening "bible" has always been Sunset's Western Garden Book. Mine's from 1993 and it has sections in front about plants for different microclimates. I grew up in the L.A. suburbs and my Mom had it too. I use it endlessly even here in France. One note: I think it doesn't use USDA zones, not sure.
@@mariankay6482 Me too!! I live in Lubbock! My garden certainly isn't social-media worthy, but I love it! :) It is hard to get my heart broken every season when I try to plant all the pretties that just don't survive very long with our constant wind and high heat. Still, fun to try and enjoy!
@@alcg3981 I forgot I have that book! Mine is c2012, and I dug it out to look at the micro climates in the front. Thank you for reminding me, it's a great resource ☺️
Лора молодчинка, такая симпатичная трудолюбивая пчелка! Laura is such a charming human being, just an awesome hostess, and thank you for your sunny positive disposition and love for plants... God bless you and all yours!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗
These videos are like looking through a gorgeous magazines but with voice - LOL love these so much. Ahhh, the inspirations!
Hi Laura it’s like taking a garden tour around the world without having to get off the couch Ha.... Thank you to everyone for all the inspiration.
These types of videos are becoming a third favorite only to your garden and anything with your mom.Ah…what am I talking about, I love them all!!!!!🌸☀️🏆
All the homes are beautiful! Pat is amazing gardener to keep such a large area looking so neat! I found myself drawn to homes with windowboxes. They look friendly, so welcoming.
Laura, I absolutely love these type of videos. It gives me so much inspiration. It's a lot better than me driving around neighborhoods and slowly creeping/driving by a house to try and see what they have planted and to take notes. LOL! So thank you for providing this safe and less creepy method of seeing how everyone else landscapes. I also love the before and after. And the one lady who provided spring, summer, fall, and a winter shot of her home. Magnifique!!!
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Laura, you’re so brilliant and have such a passion for making spaces better using plant life … you could do an entire series where you allow photo submissions to give advice and ideas on how to make our spaces better!! Let’s start with mine.! 😂 I love to vegetable garden but I’m very intimidated to landscape plant in front of my house!!
I think a great video idea would be, people submit photos of their landscape they want to redo and you say some ideas of what you would do in that space! I hope that makes sense!
Thank you for putting videos out. I’m in medical school and your videos are one of the best ways to relax!
Love this! Would also appreciate seeing more gardens in zone 8-10. As someone in zone 9, it makes me envious to see all these beautiful plants that would utterly wilt in our heat.
Love these pics.!!! This is such a glorious way to lift our spirits by sharing these videos until your busy time fills us with your wonderful garden. Laura your followers are so excited to see how your new space will be like with those thousands of tulips and spring flowers. We can't wait for Spring.!!!
👏🏻Wow, thank you Laura, for bringing us these homes/gardens from our GA families! So much talent, but mostly, compassion and passion for making our smaller pieces of the world so very beautiful. Even one petunia in a pot can bring many smiles and cheers, and any space can be made a peaceful respite for all to enjoy. The pride home owners take in their space is wonderful to see. Thank you all sooooo much - your GA friend in Michigan. 🍃
All so beautiful not sure why but I feel like crying-definitely because of the flowers and plant beauty seen in these pictures…….love it!💕
That was so fun to watch! Felt like a garden tour of several gardens from my couch! Thanks everyone!
Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
I appreciate your doing this video, Laura.
I really need to get my front yard replanted.
Thank you Everyone who submitted your gorgeous creations 👩🌾👍
Love these before and afters! I want to change my flowerbeds in the front and around our fire pit this year. I need to remember to take before and after pictures! Thanks for all the tips and information you give with each video you do. It makes everyone feel like they can grow and plant a beautiful garden.
With coffee in hand, I am ready for the tour. I need inspiration for a full sun, south facing front in zone 5b Nebraska. Thank you.
Ok, Laura, you've lit a fire in me, and now I may tackle my front yard first and back yard second. I don't have a green thumb, but I'm going to reach out for help with our garden centers in the area. I want low maintenance, but color and structure. These are beautiful photos and the last one, in her 70's, wow how inspiring!!! If there's anyone in Eastern NC reading this, you may reach out any time :)
Thank you to all the talented gardeners who shared. I’ll tour a garden space with Laura any day!!
Hello dear, how are you doing?
Hi, 2 years after this video aired, it's wonderful to see beautiful transformations.
Thanks for sharing everyone.
Oh My Word such wonderful submissions of gorgeous gardens! Great to see on a cold Winter morning.
Hello dear, how are you doing?
Love the longer format videos Laura. You make many viewers' morning routines much more interesting, colorful, and inspiring. Don't ever think that your vids are too long.
One of the things I loved about your mail time videos was watching your genuine appreciation - these videos have that genuine excitement too. It’s like you’re unwrapping a gardening present! 🥰
Absolutely gorgeous! This video was very interesting and motivational! Thanks
So excited! Only being in my new home for a month and noticing all the shady space and very little full sun. These gardens are absolutely gorgeous!
Hostas love the shade and as a matter of fact I was watching Jenny &Jerry (Garden with Creekside ) and she showed a hosta I’d never heard of called “The Godzilla “ I have just about every hosta beside him! Thought you’d interested in hearing of that one. 💃🤍🕺
Just Google flowers for shade, and you are on your way to a beautiful garden, Jack Frost is also a very beautiful shade plants with blooms also good luck
@@alw5101 thanks! I love hostas..heading over to their channel now to check that out! 😊
Don't know your specifics, but if your shade is from deciduous trees, you can look into having them limbed up and their branches thinned. It can make a big difference in the amount of sun that gets through.
@@angelwolfe6728 LoL- Me TOOO! Your Welcomes! I thought The Godzilla Hosta Sounded so Cool a d since my (21yrs.old) youngest boy was and still is obsessed w/Godzilla! I’m planning on planting it out side his bedroom window....💚
Goodevening from the philippines i was hoping to send you a pot arrangement of cactus and succulents. Learned it from you since 2017,remember your first cat back then.
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Stunning. Love the use of benches. I love to sit on my benches. I saw so many ideas. Thank you to those that sent in their photos of their yards.
Congrats to all who were featured for their beautiful gardens!
Loving this whole before and after series! It surely is inspiring.
The homes in PA are magnificent and historical! Many are older than our nation! That indeed is my favorite home and landscape!
Wower, mega wowzer!!! What gorgeous front yards people created. They all compliment the house, and surround it with love.
Ok, No. California Zone 9! Let's send in some pics! I know there are gorgeous yards out there and all these videos are from the rockies east!
Much love from North Carolina!
Such beautiful gardens and great inspiration, great to see a garden from the UK. Hoping you do this next year so I can join in with my photos, this will be my gardens first full season after starting at it in April last year after being untouched for 10+ years. I planted loads of spring bulbs last year and I'm buzzing to see them start to sprout up and my daffys are getting close to opening their blooms. Thank you for doing this video lots of ideas, especially the liner in the obelisk with the fairy lights 👍 mental note taken ✔
I love seeing the afters. As a new gardener with a big yard, I sometimes get discouraged. This shows that as the years pass, my garden will grow and become a glorious beauty. Patience is a virtue, they say. And in the meantime, I get to see these videos.
The redone boxwood pathway was spectacular. Those pictures make a great study of scale in landscaping for average gardener.
What a wonderful treat it was to watch these beautiful front yards from around the country (and UK!) It is only 20⁰ outside today , here in Central Indiana, and this was a perfect reminder that Spring is coming soon! And also happy to see both happy kitties sunning themselves in the background! Thanks for sharing!
Laura and Aaron, you do a wonderful job! Perhaps at some point you can produce a video or two on affordable yet fabulous gardens. Many of your projects involve the purchase of large quantities of nursery perennials and shrubs. In this video, for example, the investment some property owners have made in boxwood shrubs alone is quite large (not to mention the person who planted 700 daffodil bulbs). And some homeowners likely relied on paid labor. In reality, many people who are new or single gardeners could never afforded such luxuries, except perhaps investing in additional plants over many years. (That was certainly true for me with my last house.) Most of all, thank you both ever so much for all your terrific efforts! You educate, entertain and delight us with your videos.
Not that I’m doing anything near there level of expertise, but my gramma gave me some advice when I bought my first house that was super useful and is how Ive acquired almost everything I have as far as landscaping. It’s challenging to be reserved through the season, but if you can wait to make any big investment until it is when things are starting to go dormant box stores and some local nurseries do crazy clearance deals because they no longer look nice to entice sales, but are perfectly viable. I’ve only ever paid full price for trees, because it was really important to me that they started off well and didn’t stunt. . I will buy almost anything perennial from the clearance racks , and if you are willing to buy it ugly and love on it a bit you can find almost any plant for 3-5 bucks. You have to be careful, and look for promising signs like new growth and green wood. Find the houses where the gardeners live, and offer to help split plants. I’ve gotten thousands of dollars worth of really nice bulbs and perennial plants just offering to help for anything they want to clear or give more space too. In my experience they want to share, and older gardeners are so excited for the help. They will also teach about what grows well, and will generally offer stuff that has naturalized and acclimated to your area. Winter sowing perennial flowers or self sowing varieties from seed packs is a big savings if you need to fill space. Takes a couple years to see blooms for some varieties. You can spend money, or you can spend time but you can arrive at a similar result eventually either way. Save receipts, and keep track as best you can so if you aren’t able to save the plant you can use that same money to try again. They won’t replace the plant but most will refund the clearance price if you bring a photo of the dead plant.
@@jeffreed2659 What great advice! I'm going to follow some of that myself with my new-found love for gardening (thanks to Laura)!
@@jeffreed2659 Very good points overall, although I prefer to give my plant business to good quality local nurseries rather than the big-box stores whenever possible. I'm increasingly growing from seed, too, and sharing the inevitable extra seeds. Jeff, I'm impressed that you offer to help split plants for others. A win-win activity! Happy gardening!
Everyone did a GREAT job! Wish to All of you healthy days ahead to enjoy your plants! 🏡🪴🍃☘️
Wow!!! Beautiful homes and gardens! Thank you Aaron & Laura for sharing these videos! So inspiring!!!! I hope you will be hosting a PART II series "Beautiful Front Yard Gardens" God Bless you & your family!
I loved this! I hope there will be more to come. I would be especially interested in front yards that have plants that hide the "uglies." In my case, that would be a whole house generator and a propane tank. Thank you to all who shared and to you, Laura!
These videos are so awesome. My favorite videos are Laura planting and teaching during their on seasons. My second favorite is Laura and her mom, anything with the two of them together. My third favorite are these videos of others gardens. I love Laura's explanation of the plants and what we are seeing. Thank you Aaron for pulling it all together for us.
So excited that you have also been following Lorie Whitt-Winyard’s garden. It’s sooo beautiful as it’s been developing. Love you guys
I'm really loving these different versions of seeing other people's gardens. It's bringing tons of joy while it's still incredibly cold and Grey here in mn!
I don't know which one I am more of a fan of now - Garden Answer or the Garden Answer Crew! My god, I could live off this type of content from October to March!! (Garden Answer is pretty awesome, NGL) 👍😁❤️
Isn’t it amazing how many peoples gardens you have influenced all over the world. I found your channel in 2020 when I was poorly with covid I was immediately hooked. We all owe so much to you Laura, thank you for all your knowledge and for sharing your beautiful garden and family. Lots of love from Emma in the uk xxx
Great variety, love this type of video.
Yes, part two, three, four, five etc... please!! I really enjoy these videos.
It’s so wonderful to see everyone’s gardens, all shapes and sizes, so inspiring and so different ,Laura and Aaron, Thank you 🙏 for providing us with inspiration, I can’t wait for Spring !!!
Hello 👋 kat how are you doing?
So many beautiful transformations! I love these before and after pics. Thanks Laura and Aaron for sharing them. I really like how you show gardens in different garden zones. Great job everyone!! Laura, can you do a mailbox before and after? I’d love to see and get ideas from our fellow gardeners.
House #2 (time at 3:02) looks to be a flamethrower redbud! I want to plant one in my back yard this year. Congratulations to all gardeners on being selected for this video, and most importantly bravo on a job well done to make your spaces more beautiful and colorful. Thank you all for your openness to share with all of us. Truly inspiring. Now I wish it would stop snowing and warm up so I could start digging!
Garden answer inspire and encourages’s SO many people to go out there and Connect with nature, that is healthy for us.
Good morning, Laura☕️ A lot of great inspiration there! Thanks for sharing. Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
You are such a blessing to so many. Thank you for walking in your calling and sharing it with us. SOOO inspired.
They are all beautiful x
What a talented group of people! Thanks for sharing everyone!
These just get better and better. I am so impressed with everyone. So much fun and inspiration!
I always enjoy all the videos of your beautiful yard/yards and all y'all do to create, add, and improve on areas of your land. Thank you so much for all the information & tips you give. I am also thoroughly enjoying all these different videos you are sharing of other people's beautiful yards/landscaping. God bless
Hello 👋 Shelia how are you doing?
So inspiring! We are downsizing and have to leave all my flowers. Now I am starting from scratch.
I will be digging up and taking every last thing I've planted if I ever move!
Dear Laura and Aaron, I love these instant gratification before and after videos; no watering, no waiting; can you do a statuary/ hardscape video soon? Thank you for adding such beauty into the world both from your gardens and your hearts….
So many ideas! Thank you Laura and everyone that submitted ideas!
This is now my goal. I'm currently remodeling my grandparent's house in No. California wine country. I will give myself 5 years to create a yard that I can send to you as a before and after. Thanks for the inspiration! These before/after videos are so fantastic!
Laura, I have learned so much from you, I started watching your channel a few years ago. These type videos are some of my favorites because I can feel your excitement when you look at other peoples gardens. I hope you know how much you inspire us! Thank you for sharing your gardens and your family with us 🌸🌻🏡
Hello dear, how are you doing?
These gardens are absolutely stunning! Thank you for sharing these. Congratulations to all who submitted your garden photos. So beautiful!!
Beautiful gardens & fantastic transformations in the before & after gardens!! I love all of them, the ideas are flooding in for me! Thank you to all who sent pictures!! 😃❤💚🌸🌿
Laura, just a wonderful vid….you are the most down-to-earth person…so encouraging, inspiring, interested in others, joyful…..🌸💚
Love looking at the different homes and all the beautiful flowers and scrubs that is planted all around their homes looks so beautiful.