Hi - I just watched this on a flier - I generally don't watch short "DIY" garden clips because they tend to be too rambling and the gardens less than convincing - but your video here is absolutely excellent in my opinion. I am in America and I greatly appreciated your comments about "yard" versus "garden" (and was not remotely offended in any way). The word "yard" is so unfortunate for us because within it there is no sense of expectation that one should improve it somehow...in other words "yard" does not suggest potential the way "garden" does. "Garden" demands participation and improvement. I also think your 11 points are extremely good advice - you may be an 'amateur', but you clearly have talent in this area - and very good tastes. I really enjoy seeing how your garden has evolved, the way you started with not much more than space and ambition, made a few 'mistakes', and then had the determination to correct them (who hasn't experienced this?). I have been doing a very similar exercise here in north Texas USA for about 8 years. We stumbled upon an old house with a walled garden (extremely rare here) with excellent structure (think Lutyens) and some good old plants still intact - but the place was suffering from lack of TLC and help - se we got the spades out ourselves. So just wanted to say very well done on the video and the beautiful garden you have created. I suspect within another 5 to 7 years it will convincingly look like it's been there for centuries. Best of luck for the future!!!
Thank you for your very kind comments. Your garden sounds amazing and a real labour of love. I had no idea when we bought this house that the garden would completely transform our lives. It’s become so much more than a hobby but rather a passion or even an obsession, but one which the whole family shares in and it pulls us all closer together in a shared goal! I just wish everyone could experience the joy that horticulture can bring!!! Best wishes with all your plans Jenny
What a bit of luck, to find this video by accident ! My first attempt to create a garden (on my plot) was complete rubbish. I have been slowly researching and learning about all the ideas you mention - and then modifying my garden accordingly. But you have condensed all these ideas into one place and provided an incredibly useful 'guide'. I am very grateful that you have shared this knowledge. Thank you.
What a lovely message, I’m so thrilled that you found it helpful. Good luck in your endeavours, we have done a lot of rubbish things that went horribly wrong. I don’t look at it as a mistake but that we’ve learnt how not to do it!!! 🤣 It’s a steep learning curve but things eventually start to click! Best wishes Jenny
I really enjoyed this video, thanks for putting together such a thorough list. I have a large grass backyard in the USA that I am starting to slowly transform it into smaller areas to create the feelings of rooms. Sometimes it’s tough to know which direction to take certain projects and these tips are incredibly helpful. The explanation of immersive planting and secret gardens where you feel smaller/ magical and almost childlike really resonates and is a goal of mine. I am glad I found your channel to pick up some great inspiration.
You have presented the best and most concise overview of garden planning design and elements I have ever seen. I just watched again with my hubby. We too have created and deconstructed our gardens over the past 20 years together. The principles you outline are excellent and we can implement some of them to our layering and fine finishing in the borders. Thank you. I’m so glad I found your channel. Wishing fine gardening was more important to people in the US.
Wow, thank you for your lovely comments! It’s all the mistakes as much as the successes that have made me realise what it takes to make a good garden. We have loads still to do but I feel that we have more clarity on how to get there. So glad that you found it helpful Thanks for watching Jenny
I almost never comment on videos but this is truly one of the best garden design videos I have seen. You summarized the elements wonderfully and have given me so many ideas for my own garden. I am now binge watching the rest of your videos. Love them. Thank you!!!!
How lovely, you’ve just made my day! So pleased you found it helpful, just my reflections and ramblings of what I’ve learnt so far and I’ve got so much more to learn! Hope you enjoy the other videos Many thanks Jenny
Excellent video. I’m slowly learning all of these principals as I grow as a gardener. I find now I focus less on specific plants that I want and I’m far more interested in what view I want and then finding things that will help accomplish that view. I also think far more about texture and foliage color than I ever did when I started because I realized that if the foliage looks lovely and compliments or contrasts with the surroundings in the way I want, then my garden will always look lovely and I’m not waiting on specific showy blooms to make the garden shine. The frustration comes, as you alluded to, with getting it “wrong” and needing to reassess. I feel like as I continue to learn, I am always changing my mind and wanting to add or move things around. But I guess that’s part of it: there’s no “done” garden, really.
Yes, you are absolutely right. We are constantly revisiting things that we did when we were less experienced and wish we did some things differently. I guess there is something to be said for hiring a professional to come up with the initial plan that you then work towards. I guess we wouldn’t have made so many mistakes but we wouldn’t have learnt so much along the way either! Gardening is all about growing and not just plants but in knowledge and experience too!! Thanks for watching, happy gardening Jenny
@@MurphysGarden I’ve thought about hiring a professional to come up with a plan that I could implement, but I also stubbornly want to be able to say that I designed it. 😊
I L❤VE you “ realistic” idea of gardening. You do an amazing job explaining gardening. On that note: You gardens are magical. Thank you for all your videos
What a great episode, Jenny! The entire video was full of useful design tips and I just love the attention to detail included in each presentation. I learn something new each time I watch your channel! 👏👏🪴
What an incredibly useful and informative video. I've watched many such films on garden design and this one is by far the best. I really appreciate your analysis and breakdown of the various elements. One thing I thought of, that I know you already practice and will likely cover in the video you mentioned, is the seasonal aspect of gardens. My garden is in its second year, and I realise that I need to retrospectively add even more evergreens, so that the perpetual structure adds winter interest and softens the often dreary vistas, we spend months looking at. Thank you so much for this amazing video Jenny - we all really appreciate you.
Thank you. You are absolutely right, good architectural form including evergreen structure is key to having a garden that looks great all year round. Our garden was all perennial borders and used to die right back and looked bare in winter but now that our hedges and trees are bigger, their form is so valuable in the bleakest, dull days of winter. Definitely need to add more though! 🌳 Thanks for watching Jenny
Thank you for this video. My garden, with very little grass, had been developed over the past thirty years and was well established. But, simultaneously, two large trees in the back had to come down, rendering shade gardens into sun, and the house next to us was sadly demolished. We bought the now empty lot and our garden will triple in size. It's both exciting and daunting to be planning again. This has been very helpful.
Oh wow, very exciting for you and a bit scary too but it will be fun! We went into it clueless and blundered our way through but you are going in armed with years of experience! Good luck and thanks for watching Jenny
Great video. "A garden is all about the feel." Lovely inspirational invitation. The word "Paradise" means "walled garden." Thanks for all the energy and love put into this presentation. A host of inspiration and ideas flow from this video
Thank you, yes, although Wollerton is bigger than the average garden, any one of the gardens could be implemented and adapted on a smaller scale. Full of inspirational ideas for us all! Thanks for watching Jenny
Great content! These pointers are exactly the magic sauce all we intermediate gardeners yearn for to get that English garden feel. Important to note that if you are in lower zones things will take longer. We have a short growing season here in 5b so what might take a decade to achieve in 7b or higher zones for example seems to take an eternity to accomplish in this zone bc there’s not much growth from year to year and there are often die backs.
Oh I hadn’t thought of that, very good point! I can’t always get my head around all the zones in the US, such varied growing conditions, it’s a bit more simple here! Thanks for watching and your support Jenny & Murph 🐾
Yes, it’s a textbook example of how to do it! Never mind, you can always do what we do, dig it up and move it!!!🤣. We are currently in the process of moving a whole run of trellis to its new location, we will keep trying until we get it right (might be 20 years!) Thanks for watching Jenny
I have watched your video several times because it is jam packed with points with accompanying photos to learn from. It reminded me of an Alexandra/ Middle Sized garden and Bunny Guinness presentation. Thank you so much!
So pleased you liked it, keep watching as I’m really excited to tell you that I have arranged an interview with Lesley (the lady who owns and designed the garden) and I hope to get lots of ideas on how to we can all improve our planting (she hasn’t just got the layout right but the planting is perfection too). I will show you the garden in summer and you will be amazed as it’s even more stunning in flower!!!🌸 Thanks for watching Jenny
I’m nearly at the point of creating the garden in my new build. I am blessed to have great views so I’m going to do a horizon thing . And doing different zones your ambition is inspiring thanks so much for sharing. Great points you have given us all. You should be very proud of yourself you’ve all done brilliantly.
I enjoyed that thank you especially for your narrative, clear and descriptive. Ive been building my own little idyll on the shores of strangfrod lough. Daunting, is a word that I understand in finding my way round this project. Youve got a very open aspect beyond your garden as do I, but that can be ‘daunting’. We get severe summer winds a few times a year and prolonged wet winds in autumn and winter. Thankfully the front of the house takes the brunt of the weather and to some extent shelters the garden but even with that it only takes one or two days for the wind to shred my plants. So it does mean that all plans and desires are continually re-designed just to work out where I can keep them alive 😂. My passion if for flowers and fragrance so roses are my main feature. its an ongoing battle between my expectations and what the weather will allow me to grow.
I can certainly relate to everything you describe. Hedges have definitely created shelter from the wind but it’s hard having the patience while they grow and then when they do, they are a lot of work maintaining them! 🤣 Good luck with all your plans and happy gardening in such a beautiful part of the world! Thanks for watching Jenny
Wollerton Old Hall garden is beautiful and so is your’s. Thank you for raising those valuable points for designing a garden because that is exactly what I’m not sure of. I love to include lots of my favourite ideas and certain features in a garden but don’t know how to bring them together. After watching your video of a comprehensive breakdown really helps me.
So pleased to hear that you found it helpful, we can all learn a lot from Wollerton and aspire to create something so wonderful (perhaps in another 20 years we will get there)!!!🤣 Thanks for watching Jenny
New Subscriber here. Enjoyed and learned so much from this video. I will be a regular watcher. We have 1 1/2 acres. Except for the house, that's a lot of grass. I like the way you applied what you learned at Wollerton Old Hall to your own property. I've got a lot of new ideas now.
Great Video!!! You can host easily gardeners world. Some professionals couldn’t do the garden like you. And no shame for copy - if Theresias a very good idea, why not adapt it for the own garden. I liked and subscribed 😁🌳🌷🌾
Thank you for your video. It is evident that you put a great deal of thought into each and every point. Touching on visual examples really helps us visual learners. Although my very small garden in a very hot and cold and dry climate couldn't be more different, your points are still very appropriate, and transferable to an entirely different style garden as well. Thank you so much from western Canada.
Thank you for your kind comments. It must be hard gardening in your climate and I guess your growing season is short. We moan about the British weather but I suppose it’s good for the garden!! Thanks for watching Jenny
Thank you for this I’m in the process of creating these type of spaces at my home. I am in the US and typically have referred to this space as my yard :-) but I am now interested in creating something more formal that we would consider a flower garden.
This is a really thoughtful video, well put together and full of interesting points that are all well illustrated. It’s probably one to watch again at some point. Meantime I’ll be checking out your other videos. Thank you for this 🙏. Now subscribed!
So much great information . My much younger self could have used a lot of these tips . In Canada the back yard is usually the place we’re you have the most privacy from the road, where the kids play or you bbq, have a pool . Does everyone there have beautiful gardens like you ?
Thank you, some things I wish I’d known too when I started out but at least I know now what needs to be done. Trouble is, have we got the energy to get there? Our front garden get completely ignored as I love being at the back with the most privacy, I didn’t know the back garden is called the back yard in Canada too!
I very much loved this video. Thank you for such a masterful lesson in garden design. I am obsessed with English gardens. I am in the early stages of creating my own garden, going into my second spring season of home ownership. You have so nicely outlined some key principles in creating that magical space I am after. This is the first video I have seen of yours and I have subscribed and look forward to many more! Thank you ☺
Thank you for your lovely comments and I wish you every success in creating your own special place, it’s so exciting that you are just starting out on this journey of discovery. Great to have you join us Thanks for watching Jenny
Thank you so much! Newly subcsribed here as there are already quite a few points learned although mine is a tropical one since I am living in the tropics. Will apply them definitely!
Very well thought out content and video editing of pictures. English gardens are so inspiring for me and I’ve tried to incorporate these principles over the 7 years I’ve cultivated my gardens. You guys are amazing at gardening and your love of them I believe I’ve inherited genetically! It’s an obsession really. Keep up the great work.
It definitely has got us hooked and is an obsession, but I guess there are worse things to be addicted to! Glad you liked the video and thanks for watching Jenny
Very observant and well explained. Though one has to point out that Gardening and Landscaping is a ‘very’ expensive and labour intensive hobby. Many people don’t see return on investment on these things, so its only ever useful if you just do it as a hobby.
Yes, you definitely have to love it. I’m not even sure it adds value to the property as so many people now don’t want a garden and the work that it brings. Thanks for watching Jenny
Thank you , for all the elements in this video . I’ll be applying this to my garden , we’re working in our property trying to put Plants and flowers , we have a lot to cover and this video has alot of information. I’ll be subscribing for sure , I don’t know how I never came across with your channel before 🤔😊
@@MurphysGarden you’re welcome, I’m in my second video now 😊. Early spring tour , I love English Gardens and that’s what I’ll apply to our property, thankful we do have similar weather as Uk , or atleast that’s what I think, never been there but hopefully someday , and see all those beautiful gardens.
@@MurphysGarden yes , I’m in the US , zone 6b . We get lots of snow in This area , it is amazing how social media works now days, we all can stay connected and learn a lot from other peoples and country’s . Gardening is my passion , so UA-cam has helped me alot for my garden , specially all the English Gardens and gardeners from UK .
Great video! Just subscribed! Plz do a video on hardscape, did you do all of it yourself? Looks amazing! Any tips on how to achieve such beautiful Belgian paver look? Is that wet or dry mortar? Also would love a video on edging. What brand is that metal edging and is it hard to install and bend?
Thank you, yes, I plan to do a video soon on different pavers and hard landscaping with a local stone company, it may be later in the year when there is less going on in the garden! Check out my video called ‘Ideas and tips for edging lawns’. I explain what we did but I got a blacksmith to make the edging for me, it was cheaper that way and is so strong and robust, I’m delighted with the result a year on. Thanks for subscribing Jenny
Depending on your lawn situation, I can highly recommend a robot lawn mower. Cost effective, almost no effort Once set up, and just mulches the grass as it goes. 😊
Most in the States have gardens along the edges of their property and mostly lawn. The vast majority are not natives and require synthetic fertilizers and herbicides. In fact most yards are very similar since the plants come from big box stores and they pay someone to do their yard work. Most yards are devoid of bee varieties and butterflies. Uniformity and conformity rule the day.
You talked around it, but never came out and used the key word. A Garden must create MYSTERY. That is why you have divisions and walls and fences. That is what draws you in, because you are curious about what is around the corner. You can even have a section of overgrown brush, but if you see a clean path that leads around it to something you can't see, you are drawn in because of the mystery. And I'm also curious what is it about grass that takes so long to maintain? I have 1.5 acres of grass and only spend two hours a week on it. I'm the guy who is afraid to turn it into a garden because I don't have time to maintain it. Grass is easy to mow. Truthfully, I am here because I have a large unused pasture, but I love the English garden look. Right now it has a very relaxed farmish look. I'm try to figure out how to have a happy marriage between the two and not ruin the relaxed, slightly unkept farm feel, but add the things I like about the English garden. Can't figure that out.
Thanks for your comments. Grass is easy to maintain if it’s a large field or pasture, which we once had and cut with a sit on mower but it wasn’t really a garden and certainly had no interest or mystery about it. By dividing it up into rooms perhaps typically of an ’English Garden Style’ helped create the intrigue and a more intimate feel. More planting and less grass is then easier because lots of smaller patches of grass and edges make maintaining grass a lot more time consuming. Also although herbaceous perennials do undoubtedly require lots of work you don’t necessarily have to do it every week as with grass to keep it looking good. What you do very much depends on the look you want, large swaths of grass, perhaps with large drifts of perennials and ornamental grasses and open vistas or a more intimate cottage garden feel. Whatever you decide, I wish you well Jenny
The tall yew trees you show in your garden that are tied round, are you going to turn them into pyramids? This is what I want to try next to add some height in my garden but am not sure how to go about it. I also have the perfect spot for an umbrella shaped Portuguese laurel so need to see how to shape/ grow these too. I’m inspired by your channel and will be watching closely, thank you for sharing 🪴
Hi Wendy, You raise an interesting point, the yew trees are Taxus Baccata Fastigiata (Irish Yew) which have the upright habit but they can splay open, especially when older which ruins the look. We have tied them loosely with twine since we’ve had them just to keep them looking good. The Prunus Lusitanica (Portuguese Laurel) are fairly easy to look after and just need an annual cut once a year once established. I think there may be some footage of hubby cutting them in a video ‘cutting and caring for hedges’ (although not a hedge!) Hope this helps but I’ve been meaning to do a video on Yew so maybe I’ll do one soon Thanks so much for watching Jenny
The English use the English language more appropriately than we do in America. A "yard" indeed. It may have come into usage because so many immigrants to America (yes, Magas, your ancestors were immigrants!) from the UK were of the lower classes and had the "yard" reference in their lexicon, rather than the later, more accurate, "garden". Word usage was easily passed from emigrating generations on down to us, later. A "back yard" or "front yard" in America really describes a back or front garden rather than yard.
weeds are flowers too, they increase pollination and pest control, healthy plants in the right soil and location are resistant to invasion of weeds, the odd seeded dandelion is natural and expected in any garden, experienced gardeners use patience and tolerance and rarely turn the task into a promotion blog
In my opimion, too much talk with the speakers image snd jer DOG. Add commentary to the garden images and let the visual beauty speak to the viewer. Gardens,not dogs. They only pollute the surroundings
Hi - I just watched this on a flier - I generally don't watch short "DIY" garden clips because they tend to be too rambling and the gardens less than convincing - but your video here is absolutely excellent in my opinion. I am in America and I greatly appreciated your comments about "yard" versus "garden" (and was not remotely offended in any way). The word "yard" is so unfortunate for us because within it there is no sense of expectation that one should improve it somehow...in other words "yard" does not suggest potential the way "garden" does. "Garden" demands participation and improvement. I also think your 11 points are extremely good advice - you may be an 'amateur', but you clearly have talent in this area - and very good tastes. I really enjoy seeing how your garden has evolved, the way you started with not much more than space and ambition, made a few 'mistakes', and then had the determination to correct them (who hasn't experienced this?). I have been doing a very similar exercise here in north Texas USA for about 8 years. We stumbled upon an old house with a walled garden (extremely rare here) with excellent structure (think Lutyens) and some good old plants still intact - but the place was suffering from lack of TLC and help - se we got the spades out ourselves. So just wanted to say very well done on the video and the beautiful garden you have created. I suspect within another 5 to 7 years it will convincingly look like it's been there for centuries. Best of luck for the future!!!
Thank you for your very kind comments. Your garden sounds amazing and a real labour of love.
I had no idea when we bought this house that the garden would completely transform our lives. It’s become so much more than a hobby but rather a passion or even an obsession, but one which the whole family shares in and it pulls us all closer together in a shared goal! I just wish everyone could experience the joy that horticulture can bring!!!
Best wishes with all your plans
Jenny
What a bit of luck, to find this video by accident ! My first attempt to create a garden (on my plot) was complete rubbish. I have been slowly researching and learning about all the ideas you mention - and then modifying my garden accordingly. But you have condensed all these ideas into one place and provided an incredibly useful 'guide'. I am very grateful that you have shared this knowledge. Thank you.
What a lovely message, I’m so thrilled that you found it helpful. Good luck in your endeavours, we have done a lot of rubbish things that went horribly wrong. I don’t look at it as a mistake but that we’ve learnt how not to do it!!! 🤣
It’s a steep learning curve but things eventually start to click!
Best wishes
Jenny
I really enjoyed this video, thanks for putting together such a thorough list. I have a large grass backyard in the USA that I am starting to slowly transform it into smaller areas to create the feelings of rooms. Sometimes it’s tough to know which direction to take certain projects and these tips are incredibly helpful. The explanation of immersive planting and secret gardens where you feel smaller/ magical and almost childlike really resonates and is a goal of mine. I am glad I found your channel to pick up some great inspiration.
I’m so glad you found the video helpful, it can sometimes be daunting. Hope your garden dreams come true !
Thanks for watching
Jenny
You have presented the best and most concise overview of garden planning design and elements I have ever seen. I just watched again with my hubby. We too have created and deconstructed our gardens over the past 20 years together. The principles you outline are excellent and we can implement some of them to our layering and fine finishing in the borders. Thank you. I’m so glad I found your channel. Wishing fine gardening was more important to people in the US.
Wow, thank you for your lovely comments! It’s all the mistakes as much as the successes that have made me realise what it takes to make a good garden. We have loads still to do but I feel that we have more clarity on how to get there. So glad that you found it helpful
Thanks for watching
Jenny
Excellent observations and suggestions - especially for novice gardeners!
Thank you
I almost never comment on videos but this is truly one of the best garden design videos I have seen. You summarized the elements wonderfully and have given me so many ideas for my own garden. I am now binge watching the rest of your videos. Love them. Thank you!!!!
How lovely, you’ve just made my day! So pleased you found it helpful, just my reflections and ramblings of what I’ve learnt so far and I’ve got so much more to learn! Hope you enjoy the other videos
Many thanks
Jenny
Excellent video. I’m slowly learning all of these principals as I grow as a gardener. I find now I focus less on specific plants that I want and I’m far more interested in what view I want and then finding things that will help accomplish that view. I also think far more about texture and foliage color than I ever did when I started because I realized that if the foliage looks lovely and compliments or contrasts with the surroundings in the way I want, then my garden will always look lovely and I’m not waiting on specific showy blooms to make the garden shine.
The frustration comes, as you alluded to, with getting it “wrong” and needing to reassess. I feel like as I continue to learn, I am always changing my mind and wanting to add or move things around. But I guess that’s part of it: there’s no “done” garden, really.
Yes, you are absolutely right. We are constantly revisiting things that we did when we were less experienced and wish we did some things differently. I guess there is something to be said for hiring a professional to come up with the initial plan that you then work towards. I guess we wouldn’t have made so many mistakes but we wouldn’t have learnt so much along the way either! Gardening is all about growing and not just plants but in knowledge and experience too!! Thanks for watching, happy gardening
Jenny
@@MurphysGarden I’ve thought about hiring a professional to come up with a plan that I could implement, but I also stubbornly want to be able to say that I designed it. 😊
I L❤VE you “ realistic” idea of gardening. You do an amazing job explaining gardening. On that note: You gardens are magical. Thank you for all your videos
That’s so sweet, thank you for your lovely comments and for watching
Jenny
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What a great episode, Jenny! The entire video was full of useful design tips and I just love the attention to detail included in each presentation. I learn something new each time I watch your channel! 👏👏🪴
What lovely comments, thank you so much
Jenny
What an incredibly useful and informative video. I've watched many such films on garden design and this one is by far the best. I really appreciate your analysis and breakdown of the various elements. One thing I thought of, that I know you already practice and will likely cover in the video you mentioned, is the seasonal aspect of gardens. My garden is in its second year, and I realise that I need to retrospectively add even more evergreens, so that the perpetual structure adds winter interest and softens the often dreary vistas, we spend months looking at. Thank you so much for this amazing video Jenny - we all really appreciate you.
Thank you. You are absolutely right, good architectural form including evergreen structure is key to having a garden that looks great all year round. Our garden was all perennial borders and used to die right back and looked bare in winter but now that our hedges and trees are bigger, their form is so valuable in the bleakest, dull days of winter. Definitely need to add more though! 🌳
Thanks for watching
Jenny
Thank you for this video. My garden, with very little grass, had been developed over the past thirty years and was well established. But, simultaneously, two large trees in the back had to come down, rendering shade gardens into sun, and the house next to us was sadly demolished. We bought the now empty lot and our garden will triple in size. It's both exciting and daunting to be planning again. This has been very helpful.
Oh wow, very exciting for you and a bit scary too but it will be fun! We went into it clueless and blundered our way through but you are going in armed with years of experience! Good luck and thanks for watching
Jenny
This was amazingly helpful. Thank you so much. It helped me refine my plan for my gardens. It looks so much better thanks to you.
Oh wow, I’m so delighted to hear that. Good luck with all your exciting plans!
Jenny
This is THE best garden design video that have seen. Excellent!
Thank you, I’m so pleased you found it helpful
Jenny
Really nice list! Different from most others and Im so glad for that. Really great points that will make all the difference in my garden, thank you.
@@VeronicaMist Glad you found it helpful, thank you for watching
Jenny
Great video. "A garden is all about the feel." Lovely inspirational invitation. The word "Paradise" means "walled garden." Thanks for all the energy and love put into this presentation. A host of inspiration and ideas flow from this video
I didn’t know that that’s what a paradise garden means, I learn something new everyday! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching
Jenny
Just discovered this video. Love all the wonderful ideas that can be implemented in anyone’s garden, no matter what the size. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, yes, although Wollerton is bigger than the average garden, any one of the gardens could be implemented and adapted on a smaller scale. Full of inspirational ideas for us all!
Thanks for watching
Jenny
Really inspiring and easy to follow video.
Thank you
What an inspiring video, thank you for sharing what you have learned!
Thank you for your kind comments and for watching
Jenny
Thank you. Loved this. Very informative
Glad you found it helpful, thanks for watching
Jenny
Lovely video, I very much enjoyed it. Will definitely implement the tips you shared.
Thank you
Great content! These pointers are exactly the magic sauce all we intermediate gardeners yearn for to get that English garden feel. Important to note that if you are in lower zones things will take longer. We have a short growing season here in 5b so what might take a decade to achieve in 7b or higher zones for example seems to take an eternity to accomplish in this zone bc there’s not much growth from year to year and there are often die backs.
Oh I hadn’t thought of that, very good point! I can’t always get my head around all the zones in the US, such varied growing conditions, it’s a bit more simple here! Thanks for watching and your support
Jenny & Murph 🐾
Old Wollerton is one of my favorites. We began a new garden 3 years ago and everything you said is spot on. Wish I would have heard this 4 years ago😊
Yes, it’s a textbook example of how to do it! Never mind, you can always do what we do, dig it up and move it!!!🤣. We are currently in the process of moving a whole run of trellis to its new location, we will keep trying until we get it right (might be 20 years!)
Thanks for watching
Jenny
I have watched your video several times because it is jam packed with points with accompanying photos to learn from. It reminded me of an Alexandra/ Middle Sized garden and Bunny Guinness presentation. Thank you so much!
So pleased you liked it, keep watching as I’m really excited to tell you that I have arranged an interview with Lesley (the lady who owns and designed the garden) and I hope to get lots of ideas on how to we can all improve our planting (she hasn’t just got the layout right but the planting is perfection too). I will show you the garden in summer and you will be amazed as it’s even more stunning in flower!!!🌸
Thanks for watching
Jenny
Good video - I have taken notes. Thank you
Thanks for watching
Jenny
I’m nearly at the point of creating the garden in my new build.
I am blessed to have great views so I’m going to do a horizon thing .
And doing different zones your ambition is inspiring thanks so much for sharing.
Great points you have given us all.
You should be very proud of yourself you’ve all done brilliantly.
Thank you, hope your new garden plans all go well and you get the garden of your dreams!
Thanks for watching
Jenny
I enjoyed that thank you especially for your narrative, clear and descriptive. Ive been building my own little idyll on the shores of strangfrod lough. Daunting, is a word that I understand in finding my way round this project. Youve got a very open aspect beyond your garden as do I, but that can be ‘daunting’. We get severe summer winds a few times a year and prolonged wet winds in autumn and winter. Thankfully the front of the house takes the brunt of the weather and to some extent shelters the garden but even with that it only takes one or two days for the wind to shred my plants. So it does mean that all plans and desires are continually re-designed just to work out where I can keep them alive 😂. My passion if for flowers and fragrance so roses are my main feature. its an ongoing battle between my expectations and what the weather will allow me to grow.
I can certainly relate to everything you describe. Hedges have definitely created shelter from the wind but it’s hard having the patience while they grow and then when they do, they are a lot of work maintaining them! 🤣 Good luck with all your plans and happy gardening in such a beautiful part of the world!
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Jenny
Thank you for sharing your experiences and what you have learned with us. I sincerely appreciate your videos.
Thank you for your kind comments
Jenny
Great points… amazing progress! You have made your dreams come true!
Thanks, lots still to do but we think we know how to get there! Thanks for watching
Jenny
Lots of good information and pictures given thank you for sharing.
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Jenny
Absolutely love your videos. Thank you very much indeed.
Im very happy to have found your channel. Good points on landscaping to make our gardens interesting. 🌳🌸
Thank you, glad to have you join us
very good advice and beautiful photos
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Jenny
What a great video. Thank you for putting together the list.
This video was so enjoyable and beautiful!
Wollerton Old Hall garden is beautiful and so is your’s. Thank you for raising those valuable points for designing a garden because that is exactly what I’m not sure of. I love to include lots of my favourite ideas and certain features in a garden but don’t know how to bring them together. After watching your video of a comprehensive breakdown really helps me.
So pleased to hear that you found it helpful, we can all learn a lot from Wollerton and aspire to create something so wonderful (perhaps in another 20 years we will get there)!!!🤣
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Jenny
Thank you for the tips and hacks .
New Subscriber here. Enjoyed and learned so much from this video. I will be a regular watcher. We have 1 1/2 acres. Except for the house, that's a lot of grass. I like the way you applied what you learned at Wollerton Old Hall to your own property. I've got a lot of new ideas now.
Great Video!!! You can host easily gardeners world. Some professionals couldn’t do the garden like you. And no shame for copy - if Theresias a very good idea, why not adapt it for the own garden. I liked and subscribed 😁🌳🌷🌾
Thank you and glad to have you join us
Jenny
Wonderful. This was very well thought out and a pleasure to watch.
Thank you, glad you found it helpful
Jenny
This was so helpful!!!❤. Thank you so much.
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Jenny
What a wonderful and informative video ! Thank you for all the great info !
So much inspiration 😊 thanks for sharing
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Jenny
Perfect vídeo !
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Jenny
Wonderful, thank you!❤
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Jenny
Thank you for your video. It is evident that you put a great deal of thought into each and every point. Touching on visual examples really helps us visual learners. Although my very small garden in a very hot and cold and dry climate couldn't be more different, your points are still very appropriate, and transferable to an entirely different style garden as well. Thank you so much from western Canada.
Thank you for your kind comments. It must be hard gardening in your climate and I guess your growing season is short. We moan about the British weather but I suppose it’s good for the garden!!
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Jenny
Thank you for this I’m in the process of creating these type of spaces at my home. I am in the US and typically have referred to this space as my yard :-) but I am now interested in creating something more formal that we would consider a flower garden.
Thanks for watching, I wish you well with all your plans
Jenny
This is a really thoughtful video, well put together and full of interesting points that are all well illustrated. It’s probably one to watch again at some point. Meantime I’ll be checking out your other videos. Thank you for this 🙏. Now subscribed!
Fantastic, glad you found it useful. Thanks for watching and subscribing, see you in the next one! Jenny
Thank you for this really interesting and helpfully insightful video.
Thank you for your kind comments and for watching
Jenny
Been mooching about for ages for some help... nothing useful. Then found this, great work!
Thank you, so delighted you found my ramblings in some way helpful!
So much great information . My much younger self could have used a lot of these tips . In Canada the back yard is usually the place we’re you have the most privacy from the road, where the kids play or you bbq, have a pool . Does everyone there have beautiful gardens like you ?
Thank you, some things I wish I’d known too when I started out but at least I know now what needs to be done. Trouble is, have we got the energy to get there? Our front garden get completely ignored as I love being at the back with the most privacy, I didn’t know the back garden is called the back yard in Canada too!
Love your videos! Inspirational as we are redoing our front yard!
So pleased you found it helpful
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Jenny
This is brilliant
Thank you, glad you liked it
I very much loved this video. Thank you for such a masterful lesson in garden design. I am obsessed with English gardens. I am in the early stages of creating my own garden, going into my second spring season of home ownership. You have so nicely outlined some key principles in creating that magical space I am after. This is the first video I have seen of yours and I have subscribed and look forward to many more! Thank you ☺
Thank you for your lovely comments and I wish you every success in creating your own special place, it’s so exciting that you are just starting out on this journey of discovery.
Great to have you join us
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Jenny
Thank you so much! Newly subcsribed here as there are already quite a few points learned although mine is a tropical one since I am living in the tropics. Will apply them definitely!
Oh wow, lovely that we all have such different gardens but many of the principles still apply. Thanks for watching and subscribing
Jenny
Very well thought out content and video editing of pictures. English gardens are so inspiring for me and I’ve tried to incorporate these principles over the 7 years I’ve cultivated my gardens. You guys are amazing at gardening and your love of them I believe I’ve inherited genetically! It’s an obsession really. Keep up the great work.
It definitely has got us hooked and is an obsession, but I guess there are worse things to be addicted to! Glad you liked the video and thanks for watching
Jenny
Very observant and well explained. Though one has to point out that Gardening and Landscaping is a ‘very’ expensive and labour intensive hobby. Many people don’t see return on investment on these things, so its only ever useful if you just do it as a hobby.
Yes, you definitely have to love it. I’m not even sure it adds value to the property as so many people now don’t want a garden and the work that it brings.
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Jenny
Beautiful ❤
It certainly is a very beautiful garden
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Jenny
Yes a woman who can explain and be understood
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nice work
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Thank you , for all the elements in this video . I’ll be applying this to my garden , we’re working in our property trying to put Plants and flowers , we have a lot to cover and this video has alot of information. I’ll be subscribing for sure , I don’t know how I never came across with your channel before 🤔😊
So wonderful to hear you found it helpful. Thanks for watching and subscribing
Jenny
@@MurphysGarden you’re welcome, I’m in my second video now 😊. Early spring tour , I love English Gardens and that’s what I’ll apply to our property, thankful we do have similar weather as Uk , or atleast that’s what I think, never been there but hopefully someday , and see all those beautiful gardens.
Are you in the US, where abouts? Amazing and lovely that we can all share ideas!
@@MurphysGarden yes , I’m in the US , zone 6b . We get lots of snow in This area , it is amazing how social media works now days, we all can stay connected and learn a lot from other peoples and country’s . Gardening is my passion , so UA-cam has helped me alot for my garden , specially all the English Gardens and gardeners from UK .
Madame your garden is rather small but lovely none the less.
Sir, size isn’t everything, it’s what you do with it that counts!🤣
When I’m gardening, it feels quite big enough!
Great video! Just subscribed! Plz do a video on hardscape, did you do all of it yourself? Looks amazing! Any tips on how to achieve such beautiful Belgian paver look? Is that wet or dry mortar? Also would love a video on edging. What brand is that metal edging and is it hard to install and bend?
Thank you, yes, I plan to do a video soon on different pavers and hard landscaping with a local stone company, it may be later in the year when there is less going on in the garden! Check out my video called ‘Ideas and tips for edging lawns’. I explain what we did but I got a blacksmith to make the edging for me, it was cheaper that way and is so strong and robust, I’m delighted with the result a year on. Thanks for subscribing
Jenny
Love this video! What are the low round bushes? Boxwoods?
Yes, Boxwood. Thanks for watching
Jenny
Depending on your lawn situation, I can highly recommend a robot lawn mower. Cost effective, almost no effort Once set up, and just mulches the grass as it goes. 😊
I would love one, maybe something for the future. Thanks for watching
Jenny
Most in the States have gardens along the edges of their property and mostly lawn.
The vast majority are not natives and require synthetic fertilizers and herbicides.
In fact most yards are very similar since the plants come from big box stores and they pay someone to do their yard work.
Most yards are devoid of bee varieties and butterflies.
Uniformity and conformity rule the day.
Thanks for your feedback, you will have to do your bit to change that!
You talked around it, but never came out and used the key word. A Garden must create MYSTERY. That is why you have divisions and walls and fences. That is what draws you in, because you are curious about what is around the corner. You can even have a section of overgrown brush, but if you see a clean path that leads around it to something you can't see, you are drawn in because of the mystery.
And I'm also curious what is it about grass that takes so long to maintain? I have 1.5 acres of grass and only spend two hours a week on it. I'm the guy who is afraid to turn it into a garden because I don't have time to maintain it. Grass is easy to mow.
Truthfully, I am here because I have a large unused pasture, but I love the English garden look. Right now it has a very relaxed farmish look. I'm try to figure out how to have a happy marriage between the two and not ruin the relaxed, slightly unkept farm feel, but add the things I like about the English garden. Can't figure that out.
Thanks for your comments. Grass is easy to maintain if it’s a large field or pasture, which we once had and cut with a sit on mower but it wasn’t really a garden and certainly had no interest or mystery about it. By dividing it up into rooms perhaps typically of an ’English Garden Style’ helped create the intrigue and a more intimate feel. More planting and less grass is then easier because lots of smaller patches of grass and edges make maintaining grass a lot more time consuming. Also although herbaceous perennials do undoubtedly require lots of work you don’t necessarily have to do it every week as with grass to keep it looking good.
What you do very much depends on the look you want, large swaths of grass, perhaps with large drifts of perennials and ornamental grasses and open vistas or a more intimate cottage garden feel. Whatever you decide, I wish you well
Jenny
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3:53 what are those tall fluffy green trees called?
They are yew trees (Taxus baccata) pruned hard to give it that tight shape
Hope that helps
Jenny
@@MurphysGarden thank you!!! Beautiful tree ✨🌲
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The tall yew trees you show in your garden that are tied round, are you going to turn them into pyramids? This is what I want to try next to add some height in my garden but am not sure how to go about it. I also have the perfect spot for an umbrella shaped Portuguese laurel so need to see how to shape/ grow these too. I’m inspired by your channel and will be watching closely, thank you for sharing 🪴
Hi Wendy,
You raise an interesting point, the yew trees are Taxus Baccata Fastigiata (Irish Yew) which have the upright habit but they can splay open, especially when older which ruins the look. We have tied them loosely with twine since we’ve had them just to keep them looking good. The Prunus Lusitanica (Portuguese Laurel) are fairly easy to look after and just need an annual cut once a year once established. I think there may be some footage of hubby cutting them in a video ‘cutting and caring for hedges’ (although not a hedge!)
Hope this helps but I’ve been meaning to do a video on Yew so maybe I’ll do one soon
Thanks so much for watching
Jenny
Actually, not worth watching hedging video as we don’t really show much of what we are doing but will do so this year!
The English use the English language more appropriately than we do in America. A "yard" indeed.
It may have come into usage because so many immigrants to America (yes, Magas, your ancestors were immigrants!) from the UK were of the lower classes and had the "yard" reference in their lexicon, rather than the later, more accurate, "garden".
Word usage was easily passed from emigrating generations on down to us, later.
A "back yard" or "front yard" in America really describes a back or front garden rather than yard.
Really interesting point, I see now where the use of the word ‘yard’ came from, I think ‘garden’ is a lot nicer!
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Jenny
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weeds are flowers too, they increase pollination and pest control,
healthy plants in the right soil and location are resistant to invasion of weeds,
the odd seeded dandelion is natural and expected in any garden,
experienced gardeners use patience and tolerance and rarely turn the task into a promotion blog
So true, and I have plenty of weeds!
Thanks for your comments
You take one design at a time.Then move on.Then need someone to weeds as you work
In my opimion, too much talk with the speakers image snd jer DOG.
Add commentary to the garden images and let the visual beauty speak to the viewer.
Gardens,not dogs. They only pollute the surroundings
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