Butterfly Garden: Cleanup, Bulb Planting & Christmas Lights! 🎄🦋❤️ // Garden Answer
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- Butterfly Garden: Cleanup, Bulb Planting & Christmas Lights! 🎄🦋❤️
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Am i the only one who’d love to see photographs of Laura and Aaron’s wedding and the 50 trees that got wrapped in lights? That sounds amazing!!
Yes! Wedding pictures!!!!
I'd love to see Laura as a little girl in her mother's garden!
Right! I’d love to see those myself!
She finally posted wedding photos this year on Facebook.
It's adorable Laura and Benjamen and Aaron! Can't wait for Samantha Grace to see it! Happy Thanksgiving !
Who needs the Today Show or Good Morning America when there is GA to start your day?
“I possibly over planted a tad”. Noooo, not our Laura, lol.
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Just checking in for my daily dose of sweetness. I started watching you last year to learn more gardening tips. But now I come here for a pick-me-up after reading the news. Your cheerful presentation, Aaron's calm, kind demeanor, Benjamin's cuteness, and your beautiful home and gardens are healing. Thank you :)
I agree! With everything going on in the world that can be quite depressing, coming here to watch this channel is such a nice escape. I really look forward to it. :)
My children are grown and gone with children of their own. Aaron told Benjamin that he thought the roly-poly liked him. That is exactly what I used to to say to my own children. I may have shed a little tear hearing this come from Aaron. You are such adoring parents. Benjamin is a doll. You take me back to a time long gone. Thank you. 💞
Watching Benjamin is an absolute joy. My Mother used to make me stay by her side when she was gardening. All I wanted to do was go to the schoolyard and create crafts. I never expected that my two greatest passions in life would eventually be gardening and creating. As a senior, my garden is what I live for during the warm months and I'm lucky to have been born with creativity which allows me to have two Etsy shops filled to the brim with lovelies. My home and garden have been featured in about 20 magazines over the years. One of my greatest lifes accomplishments and one of my goals. My Three Wishes in life were: own a home, have it featured in a magazine and own my own shop. Although my health doesn't allow me a brick and mortar my online shops do and that's just fine with me! lol ~ Have the best Thanksgiving ever and thank you for bringing joy into my life each and every video. You guys are like family. xo
You have IG or name of your Etsy shop?
Oh, how awesome!!
I would love to know the name of your Etsy shop if you’re comfortable sharing it!
I want to see your garden featured in the different magazines!!! they must be beautiful!!
What a very generous gift from the lady in Texas. All those tulips 🌷
My 5 year old daughter woke up early this morning and watched GA with me. She LOVED this video and now wants to do the same at our house including planting BULBS!
Lol GA always has such great inspo even to the little ones👍👏👌
🥰 my daughter is 6 and she combines 4 plants in one pot because she saw Laura many tine with me 😂🥰
Such a sweet comment. Laura is a wonderful inspiration, all ages included!
My favorite style of Christmas lights! Each tree or bush wrapped in a different solid color. All in jewel tones. I know by this time of posting, you’ve already finished, but I vote for pools of blue lights on the ground, it will look like water. Especially if there was a lighted deer sculpture by it getting a “drink”
That spot just begs to be filled with a snow family! Benjamin and his roly-poly friend were adorable. What a bonus! Hey Laura, in your spare time you should write a children’s book introducing kids to gardening through Benjamin’s eyes. 😉 We need another generation to understand and enjoy the advantages of gardening. You’re such a wonderful teacher that I really think you could author a fun and educational children’s book. Realistically though, I know you have your hands full. ♥️
I was counting down to 7am, then I can sleep afterwards, life of a 3rd shifter
You are so right! I don't sleep until I watch 😄😄
Am I the only one who thought Laura meant someone had sent her light bulbs? My mind was picturing tulip shaped Christmas lights until she tipped the box…and I was so relieved!!
It looks lovely. I love the wrapped branches. Such a sweet spot
Me too!!!! 😂😂😂
I thought she meant Christmas ornaments! LOL!
Yes, I had visions of tulip shaped lights on stalks. How wrong can you be??
But spring will be wonderful, clever girl, to mix them up. A stroke of genius - as usual. Happy holiday to you and yours.
Yes I thought the same thing... LOL
See what kids do to you!!! Lights bring out the child in all of us. Let's let our light shine in this blessed season.⛄
Jesus Said ... " I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. "
JOHN 8:12
Was anyone else completely delighted with how clearly Benjamin sounds when he speaks now?! What a sweet sweet boy. Love the holiday version of the butterfly garden, the bulbs so generously sent to you will look gorgeous!
The little garden you made this year with that adorable fence is so charming and how Benjamin will recall that with such joy to his own children one day.
As a child (and really still an adult) who has always loved and been infatuated with insects and 'creepy crawlies' I'm so happy you encourage it in Benjamin. I once went with a friend who had a 3 year old to the Natural History museum and she would say, "Ick, gross" (the mother) at everything, but as I talked more about how fascinating the insects were and how much fun they can be her little son started to be less afraid and more interested. As a child that was allowed all sorts of animalia to collect and play with and study encouraged by my mum, I'm so happy you do so as well.
My mother said she'd never know what she'd find in my pocket from worms to jars of tadpoles :)
I'm terrified of spiders but my youngest loves them, he wants to be a spider scientist right now and I let him keep jumping spiders as pets. I'm still scared of them but they aren't so bad now because of seeing the love and happiness when my kid holds a little jumping spider and gently moves them somewhere safe.
Just because it's not what the parent loves doesn't mean we should discourage our kids from loving things.
I don’t think any one looked so happy to “dig out all the stuff” in close to freezing temperatures 😍😍 Way to go Benjamin!
You can't mention the 50 wrapped trees in lights and not show us all, that's a huge tease. 😅
The butterfly garden is delightful. 🎄🥰
I know right! I was like, oh do pull out those wedding pictures and share!!
Yup, I was waiting for a flashback as well!
I don't know why, but this one brought tears to my eyes. Just heartfelt niceness in this one from celebrating a successful garden while cleaning it out and Benjamin being so lively and happy and helpful. Then a generous viewer gets her gift planted in such a lovely spot and finally all decked out with winter lights. Happy Gardening! 💜💜💜💜💜
Yep I've cried from the genuine love they have especially the mom ❤💕
I loved seeing Benjamin’s beautiful blue eyes looking at the lights when you plugged them in. Christmas is such a special time and you are definitely creating wonderful memories that your children will look back in a warm and wonderful way! Love the wrapped branches! Once again….an amazing job!
There is something about seeing you button up projects like this, that spark motivation in me! It's always SO satisfying to watch this kind of videos! 🤩 Hope you are all doing fine! Greetings from Germany GA family! 😄🧡
Are you going to have the Christmas Markets this year in Deutschland? I hope so! Christmas in Deutschland is an amazing presentation of the joy of the season! I have several decorations from there that are gifts from dear friends who live in Chemnitz. We have been friends and they have visited us many times here in the Texas Panhandle. They love it here! One of them is planning to move here in the next year or so. I'm very excited for him to be able to live out this dream of being a real Texas cowboy. He has a horse and loves it but he says it's not finished until he can live here and work on a ranch.❤️
Frohe Weinacht. (I hope I spelled that correctly.) 🎄
Hi, where do live in Germany? I'm from Munich. Miss the Christmas markets too.
Can't wait to watch Benjamin choose his plants for their butterfly garden next year!!
I recall my daughter, found Mrs Snail, n she was adamant that the snails gonna come into our home and live with us forever!!!
It's such a joy when your babies want to spent time with you, all too soon do be they become to grown 😔
Embrace these moments
Benjamin seems so advanced for his age. I always enjoy seeing this sweet child.
It’s a magical time of year at Christmas! And to love our children so much that we go out of our way to make their world a happier place - even if only for a brief moment in time - will leave lasting memories to cherish! When he’s older, Benjamin will remember & even possibly do this same type of activity for his children! Just like his Momma & Daddy did for him (and his baby sister)! 🌲❤️🎅🏼
One of my favorite things….your can do approach! Strong, joyful, creative. And of course the end result. Love seeing women who are able to do “hard” things. Beautiful
The things a momma will do for her baby 💚 Totally precious Laura! Benjamin & Samantha Grace are very blessed to have you & Aaron as their parents..💚👍
It's sweet to see you gardening with Benjamin. Spending time with my dad in the garden when I was a little girl is where I got my love for gardening. I'm hoping my teenager will appreciate the hours he's spent in our garden with me and my husband.
Oh wow you and Benjamin did an awesome job the lights in the trees are so beautiful it made the butterfly garden look mystical and that moon in the background wow
Oh look, an opening in the fence! Gateway to a "new" property for you!!! GO FOR IT!!! Love the purple lights!!
It would be great to leave the purple lights up for Easter and do an Easter Garden with the bulbs and even a rabbit. You make it so much fun for the children.
Laura has a wonderful garden rabbit that would look adorable in the middle of all those tulips next Spring! I have always been fond of the rabbit!
I learn a lot from you but most important thing I appreciate is how you keep everything so tidy. For people like me who are new, it reminds me about cleanup right away.
With all the wonderful freedom Laura gives Benjamin, I had to laugh when her radar went off when he got near the Hartley with a shovel. 😬
Looks so good. The tulips are going to be stunning in Benjamin’s garden. He needs a Benjamin size shovel.
Lol. Nothing like doing projects that will bring joy to kid's hearts 💕 or the kid in ourselves.
Nice bright spot.
I always thought Benjamin looked exactly like Laura, then I watched him today and I thought, "no, he is exactly like Aaron!" I have a feeling that Benjamin will always remember that time with his parents.
“He’s gonna dig out all the stuff!” Too cute 🥰
I love the way trees look wrapped in lights. It such a simple (though, tedious) process that delivers such an impact. 🎄
Wow! Amazed when you constructed the butterfly garden, appreciate the clean up factor reality and then you even plant more tulip bulbs!!! But wait…you create a new structure for lights! You and your wonderful husband, family and enthusiasm for “what’s next” amaze me every video. I look forward to each new post and thank you for inspiring me to create a fraction of what you all have done in my own little space.
I love it when you do whimsical touches in the garden! Benjamin’s butterfly garden just speaks to my soul…and these lights are the perfect pairing for celebrating the end of the growing season and the joy of the birth of Christ! I know the kids love it and so do I! 💜❤️💚💙
Each year I like to change up my Christmas decor and have a theme. I have thought of a “ gingerbread house” theme before but was never totally inspired UNTIL “Laura”! Next year I plan to make a huge gingerbread house (s) for our front porch and then regular sized ones as our table decor as well as around the house! AND IF I can get some tree branches on which to wrap lights, I will put a few in our front yard‼️ Christmas isn’t even here yet this year and I’m already excited & looking forward to next year‼️‼️THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, for sharing your life with us! I LOVE EVERYTHING you do! I LOVE your entire family! You are one very talented woman & God is definitely using the gifts he gave you (& Aaron) to bless others of which I am one. I can’t tell you how grateful I am‼️May God continue to use you & bless others ❤️
I love the progression of Benjamin’s interest in the project. From placing bulbs to lookin over the fence to playing with his trucks in the flowerbed. 😄 Too cute.
What a transformation! Those light-wrapped trees are stunning, thanks for showing us your process. Hope Benjamin is enjoying it as much as we do 😊💚
What an enchanting little space for not only the children, but for us adults! A touch of snow would be the icing on the cake. But if not, it's still very, very special. Enjoy! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!! I count my blessings, naming them one by one, seeing all what God has done.
I miss those days when I had the energy to do it all .Just gorgeous!!
I can live vicariously through you because you are so giving. Thanks!
You both are such good parents. Your influence on the kids will certainly pay off. No matter what goes wrong, you seem to find inner resources to make it ok - always a smile, always a good idea coming from the bad, such joy in living real life. Your parents had to have raised you in a similar way to have it come out so naturally and not just for the camera. You always make me happier by watching.
Aaron is one lucky guy...there isn't anything Laura can't accomplish !!!
Awesome project !! Aaron I know you are an equal blessing to the family unit. God Bless you guys !!
Love this project! I did colored lights at my kids request while they were younger and swapped to clear lights. I overheard the youngest ask his Daddy "now, tell me again why Momma likes a "pretty" tree"? LOL, sweet memories.
Wow Laura, you are such a "go getter"!! You make things happen. Wish I had your energy!!
Soooo cute! Now I can hardly wait for the light tour! I’m as bad as one of the children. 😂❤️🎄
Everyone else's neighbours: I have a brush pile, it won't be there long.
Laura's neighbours: I have a brush pile, feel free to come and take some branches for a project
So lovely that your neighbours know you well enough to see that and think you'd want some! 😍
Love the lights! It reminded me of opening a new box of Crayola's! 💙💜😊❤💚
Wow, that's was a big transformation. Only Laura and Benjamin could make it look so fun and easy! I will have to make my tulip wish list for next year. The lights are so pretty. Have a great day!
Benjamin is so sweet to notice that the RollyPolly does not want to open up, so sweet to care for creatures.
Beautiful Butterfly Garden. It will liok so beautiful in the Spring. Lovely video even halfway through. Thank you, Laura and Aaron for the uplifting inspiration!!!
I would totally do a manger scene for the winter and that area
You are feeding my love for Christmas lights! That looks SO GOOD!!!!!
A good clean up video today and just love the lights so beautiful.
Awesome lights, Laura! I love it!
My word, that is so super cute! What a great idea to use old branches like that!
I love the butterfly garden! Such a magical spot. The lights make it look magical at night. I’m sure the kids love it.
Learning that clean up is so important and he appears to be enjoying himself.
Oh my goodness!!! Could this channel be any more PERFECT!!! I love my Garden Answer channel and Garden Answer family of friends!
I think it was in your last recap that you and Aaron talked about getting the Christmas deer that people put in their yards.. I thought they would look so cute in the butterfly garden, like it was their stable for the winter! Wonderful video as always!
How festive! There's just something magical about the holiday lights.
That turned out really cute. Now Benjamin has something to look at in his Butterfly Garden this winter. Great idea.
So cute! I love the colored lights. I used to be a strictly white lights gal until we had kids. Now we line the roof and windows with multi colored strands and candy cane wrap the trunks of our trees with alternating solid colored strands and then the leaf canopies and bushes are wrapped in one solid color (all different from the one next to it). Kids bring so much joy and life to the Holidays...they grow up so fast and it's wonderful to see you and Aaron cherish your little ones and making wonderful memories with them! Great job mom and dad!
Good morning, GA friends! Love Benjamin's gentle, curious nature. He was so patient with his roly poly. He's no doubt in love with his decorations. Good job, mama. ~ Lisa
So creative! And to have Benjamin so eager to help, by the time he starts school, would love to be there for show and tell when he brings in a plant and starts naming it off by its botanical name. Yep I started this by seed. The future will definitely need young people with knowledge in horticulture. And he will be ahead of the class, if he chooses that route. Warms my heart to see all of you working together. Happy Thanksgiving!
Love the lights in the butterfly garden project! We're you able to capture Benjamin's reaction to seeing the completed lights on at night?
Your energy is so contagious but alas I’ll have to live through your videos, couldn’t keep up with you even on my best day😂😂😂 Sweet Benjamin is so much fun to watch and listen to, he’s just precious ❤️
Greetings from Windermere, Florida zone 9b 🇺🇸
I love Roly-Polys, too. They are beneficial!
As a retired florist I love watching you create your Masterpiece 🎄
Absolutely beautiful! You do such a great job of entertaining us the whole year round. I’m so looking forward to spring to see the tulips, more spring projects, and especially what you do with the Hartley.
Good morning, Laura ☕️ What a huge difference when it got cleaned up. So fun! Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
What an awesome idea. I never would have thought of using dead branches. You amaze me all the time 👏👍
The lil' garden looks incredible! Very generous of your fan to send the bulbs, can't wait till spring to see the beautiful varieties of tulips! Thank goodness Aaron is knowledgeable about the lights. Benjamin is just adorable! Thanks for blessing my morning!❤❄🎄
Love Love Love it!!! How fun and exciting for the kids !! Your bringing great joy for the kids!! One of my favorite winter memory is my dad freezing our back yard so we could ice skate, so much fun!!
Tumbleweed snowmen would be an adorable addition! Love that Benjamin is hanging around longer for projects!
Watching the excitement on Benjamin face is priceless..your got a great worker on your side mom thats for sure .. and I love that you include Benjamin in your thought process ..
Cant believe you still had flowers and a strawberry growing ..
So pretty. Benjamin is just a delight to watch. Makes me excited to get my lights done.
Dang it Laura, you've worked your magic on me yet again! I was going to do just my usual light display this weekend, for ease and simplicity at the end of this busy, complicated year. Then you up and inspire me with this floral wrapped "tree" project!! Light bulb moment! May even be able to do it here with what I have on hand. I'll thank you after I see how hard it is and long it takes to do my version, lol! Well done Lady!
Benjamin is so stinkin' cute!! I love that he's helpful, esp at his age.
Can't wait to see what y'all put in their next Spring/Summer.
I wish I had just a smidge of your energy! Age might be trying to slow me down but I’m still going . I just love how much you are teaching your son! He’s just adorable. I’m trying that with my great grandkids. I have a new spot to plant next spring...excited for that! My lavender is still new so it needs no pruning. Hoping to see a huge growth next spring. Love your videos!
Beautiful and christmassy! Would love to see the veg garden all lit up too, seeing the arbors on each end, fence and your homemade branch trees in the raised beds lined the walk way through...ooolala that would be so pretty!
I never would have thought of wrapping dead branches, but I will now! I also thought it would be an unfortunate color combination but - I was completely wrong. I’ll be picking up some color strands during the after Christmas sales. I will leisurely wrap and store them next summer and Christmas 2022 will be - dramatic. Thank you.
When you said floral wrap the branches, I was picturing what you did with the ones on the porch with the floral tape and I felt overwhelmed for you. 🤣
Beautiful project. We don’t have small trees in our front yard for lights, SO, I put my Oblisks in the yard and wrap them with net lights and it is fabulous.
Good morning! I love this, really love this! This is the way to string lights on trees one branch at a time. I know I’ve said this before but is there anything this woman can’t do?? It looks so pretty with the different colors. Thank you for sharing everything you do.
How precious your family is! Brings back memories of when my children were small.
One man's trash is another man's treasure. Love that your neighbors were willing to let you take from they brush pile.
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🎄 What a magical space and wonderful memory you have created for sweet Benjamin! 🎄
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That is a very cleaver Laura!!!! . I pulled my lilac tree last summer because it is half dead one side is dead and the other seems to grow leaves. I used my lilac tree for Christmas lights for years, now I don’t have one. But watching this video gave me an idea what to do. Thank you Laura for all the ideas you are sharing to use.
What a fun video. I love seeing Benjamin out playing and helping. I also really enjoy the before and after cleanup view of the butterfly garden. Watching the light process is encouraging me to go wrap a tree! Thanks so much for your wonderful channel.
So very cute!! It's so special to have little ones around to decorate for/with.
Thanks for sharing.🎄
So clever. I just might have to give this a try! Thanks for the inspiration.
I always wanted to have this look at Christmas, however my trees have become too large for this old girl to be up on a tall ladder. What a clever idea lashing the limbs to fence posts. I will go scavenging today. I have the perfect place in my yard. Your setting is reminiscent of Longwood Gardens with the light wrapped trees and a beautiful green house in the background. Thank you for a beautiful tasteful winter display that is very economical.
It was nice to watch the family working together and putting the festive lights on Benjamin's butterfly garden. It looks real sweet with the lights!
What a fun way to involve Benjamin in gardening! I love to watch your interactions with him, and as a speech language pathologist, I heartily approve! You are modeling a wonderful way to teach conversation and language building in a natural and interesting way. Keep up the good work, mom and dad! 🤗💓
Thanks for sharing this beautiful memory with us! Benjamin is just the cutest little guy and he looks so much like your Mother!! 💙 🎅🏼 🎄
Honestly, you never cease to amaze me! Your imagination and eye for beauty in everything you do is just so wonderful.
Oh my goodness! What a pretty garden light show right there! And the tulips will be a special show in the spring! Rolly Pollies! Were my favorite as a child in Washington state too. Benjamin is so fun! He sure loves to play trucks in the dirt. Looking forward to decorating next week myself outside. More lights outside this year! Thank you for bringing so much joy and inspiration with the coffee this morning.
Wonderful idea! I decorate my gardens seasonally also, but never to this extent- this looks absolutely magical, love it❣️And love love love little Benjamin’s joyful enthusiasm, helping his mommy, thank you for sharing him with us.🥰
What a difference made to the small garden! The mixed tulips in the garden will be so colorful and beautiful.
The Christmas lights are very nice in the small garden. What a nice Winter treat!
Thank you for sharing.