Philip is hilarious! So entertaining! The crumble looks delicious, Anna...and Marie's flower arrangement is so pretty in pink & delicate looking....Thank you all! 💕🌷
Hi from Australia! 🇦🇺 While recovering after a recent surgery I discovered your chanel and now I'm bloody addicted! Phillip reminds me of every Aussie guy when he's not bothering with instructions 🤣 You have both given me great entertainment during my recovery. Thank you.
This was precious. Please make sure you keep the part where you and your daughter are dancing away somewhere safe. She deserves to know she had a really cool dad.
“Whatever device you use to sell you identity and soul”. ha ha ha Phillip. My brother said the exact same thing when he was connecting his inside house lights to Alexa. LOLOL :-)
Phililp you have this mesmerizing quality, especially when you look directly into the camera and talk to me (us). Luv the sense of humor. You have an adorable daughter too. 🌼
I loved seeing the little girls following Anna and Marie around the garden, setting the scene for a lifetime love of flowers and gardens. The chateau grounds are looking wonderful Philipp.
Love your channel, watch every week:) It's clear Philip is a professional film maker, plus he is SO funny! Love the rap at the end, completely charming.
Oh my goodness I was laughing so hard over the crumble. What a great vlog. The ending with your daughter was such fun, and the muscles made my mouth water,. Marie makes the most beautiful bouquets and I feel your pain over the wildlife destroying your trees and beautiful lawn. A frustrating battle for sure! Years ago my dad installed motion detector radios around his property. It would turn on when a large animal was nearby and scare them away. My parents had beautiful gardens so the radio idea seemed successful. Anyway I love everything about your vlogs from the music to the children, your humor, Anna’s talent and sweetness but most of all the love you have for one another. 💕
Love the ending with your daughter and Philip. Such a sweet moment. Marie's flower arrangements never disappoint. Can't wait for Anna's interview with her. A dog would help with the wild life. So would spraying the plants with a product called Deer Fence. Really enjoyed the humor mixed in with the beauty of your chateau. 😍😘
We were watching the vlog when Phillip was talking to Alexa and our Alexa answered him….way too funny! Love your vlogs! Definitely need more father daughter “doorbell” raps!
Loved his under his breath comment about “selling your privacy and your soul” when installing the latest “smart” devices and his long list of steps required by the smart device to replace the ring of the doorbell. Phillip delivers them so quickly and quietly, you’re not sure you really heard them!
I read: At the season's end, when the rhubarb starts dying down, each piece that is falling to the ground will carry acidity in it. With time, acidity from the pieces that are composted to the soil reduces the surrounding soil's pH'. The stalks must be a healthy red to cook something fully flavorful with it. It seems your pale stalks did taste ok though, so good for you.
My grandfather used to grow alot of rhubarb, but he would put an old bucket with a hole in the bottom upside down over his, so the leaves poked out the top and the stems stayed in the dark. That way they went red and tasted sweeter.
Anna my dear... your rhubarb has gone to seed. This is good news really because it means more new plants eventually🥳🥳🥳. Maybe your new plants would appreciate a shadier situation with more moisture. In UK, it is not advisable to pull Rhubarb after the end of July. Incidentally, you pull Rhubarb...you don't 'snip' it. I always love to see your vlogs. Thanks for sharing. xxx
Anna please buy a gardening book if you want to have a vegetable garden as some parts of vegetables can be poisonous or upset your stomach. Rhubarb is know to upset your stomach and parts of them are poisonous so arm yourself with as much info as you can get. You can change the colour of the Hydrangeas yourself if you want, there’s something else you can try. Good luck with all your plans. Tell your husband to talk to the neighbours about the animal control they will know how to help without shooting something or someone especially the bore.
@@HowToRenovateAChateau don't worry about having eaten the rhubarb late in summer. the sayings that it shouldn't be eaten later in summer due to higher oxalic acid are myths. and in fact the leaves, which contain far more oxalic acid than the stems which we eat, still contain less than spinach, which we don't consider poisonous at all! i guess what i'm saying is - that crumble looked delicious and i'd have happily eaten it. :-)
I use a spray on my woodland plants to stop deer. Also peeing around plants doesn’t hurt, Phillip, just don’t film it. Young trees need a wire fence around them till they are large enough to be unattractive to deer. Love your daughter’s humour.❤️
True, humans who mark their territory, like animals do, do sometimes benefit with successes such as discouraging pesky varmints from eating the garden. Not sure about the boars though. Perhaps, next time there is a local boar hunt, send your thank you's to the hunters with a nice picnic. Without weed pie, of course. Or, perhaps, depending on the type of weed you use.
@@waltercook4868: the hormones in the human urine is what wards off all sorts of animals. They view it as a predator being in the area......so, Phillip, collect it, and sprinkle it around the periphery of your garden ... you also won't have rabbits and rodents nibbling on your plants and vegetables.
Your videos are exquisite... beautifully edited / produced . Why is there no UA-cam award shows on the internet?? You would be a shoe in for top nominations
In Germany we say you shouldn’t eat/pick rhubarb after the end of June because it accumulates too much oxalic acid and that s pretty unhealthy. Might be untrue… Thank you for the great videos!
Have you guys thought about doing ambience videos? I have seen your second grant chateau tour lately with the snowy calm scenes in the beginning of the video in which Philipp (I hope that is how his name is spelled) narrated something. I absolutely adore it and I kept on replaying one particular sequence. Maybe you could film about an hour or two hours of video footage about the chateau from the outside or/and the inside, accentuating it with calm classical music as you do normally. I think it would particularly be lovely in winter! Of course that is different from what you "usually" upload but I think it is worth a try, I would watch it and replay it whilst doing homework and reading! :)
Yes Lady Anna, you are doing a fine job as a whole!!! I appreciate all the work you have done!!! My hat goes off to you!!! For sure, have a blessed week!!!
How to harvest rhubarb- you need to pull it from the base of the clump so as to keep the sweetest and most flavorful red bottom of the stalk. Never cut the red off. Some varieties have a green stem and some have a red stem. Yours appears to be the green variety. When it has gone to flower it is past its season, though you can cut the flower stalk before it bolts. I am sure it tasted fabulous. You can't go wrong with rhubarb. Gardens are a learning game. Yours looks prolific. Next year you can conquer the weeds. You two are the most perfectly balanced couple! Phillip always makes me laugh, and you have the most brilliant children! Total creative entertainment!
i love hydrangea, the bigger the better. A massive tall vase of all hydrangea is lovely. I've got a vase of them in a lovely vibrant bottle-green, 40's Vase. Flowers are so amazing; everyone can feel themselves a florist. You have a gorgeous array of all types and colors Anna. I understand your MIL loved them? Philip is marvelous. Your relationship and humor amidst the love & creativity and hard work is wonderful! The end was darling. 💕
It is very evident that Philip is a filmmaker. These logs are very professionally made. Just the right amount of humor, instruction, and real life. Thanks for sharing your Château with us.
I love watching you both with the girls. Sorry about your lawn. Last night our friendly neighborhood armadillo ate my begonias and rooted up half the flowers in my tiny garden. This morning a very large male squirrel chewed through the screen on my porch to wreak havoc. I found 3 other holes hidden behind plants.
Ana and Phillip complement each other so much. Her genuine nature and artistic capabilities make the chateau come to life. Philip’s indomitable good sprit and humor rounds out this duo. It’s no wonder they make such wonderful parents and there so is much that people especially young people can take away from this channel. What the two of them are doing is noble work and by that I’m referring to their love for each other which allows them to shower that love with their daughters by example. These two honestly give me hope for the future.
Hi Anna, Greetings from the Isle of Capri. If you bury pieces of aluminum foil in the soil around your hydrangeas it will turn them a dark blue... You can get several shades of blue depending on how much aluminum you bury. We love watching your channel. 👍😍👍
There are different types of rhubarb, just like different types of apples. Some are red-ish on the stalk, but some also just stay green. I have three different types in my own garden from different parts of the world.
Also the early stalks are the nicest, the older big ones can get woody. A bucket over them when the plant first breaks will give you sweet tender pink stalks.
That puppy! What a wonderful addition to your family. The girls are clearly smitten. Your kitchen is going to be stunning. Now, the colour choice question. Normally I am all in for green and love the shade you chose. However, the red the Phillip is voting for really pops the red in your grandma’s painting. And, it’s a surprising colour, I think, when you walk into the kitchen. Go for red. And if you really cannot live with it you can always repaint.
I haven't even finished the video and the video is 2 years old now but it got me thinking back to when I lived on a farm and had a dog. The squirrels didn't dare set foot on the ground on our property let alone deer grazing on our trees - she never caught any of the animals but she was enough of a deterrent for them to up sticks and move elsewhere.
So nice and enjoyable. Nice to see Marie and your lovely daughters. Too bad about your lawn, hope things settle down, I know skunks in Canada will rip up an entire lawn looking for grubs. My parent’s lawn looked like had hardly any sod and grass by the time they were finished or summer and all had to be planted again. Yes, a big Pyrenees Dog might help my friends live in N.Y. state on an acre of land lots of deer feeding and their dog is a Pyrenees and the deer don’t seem to be bothered.
What a great vlog. My wife tells me the same thing at time…don’t let them know we’re married!!! Phillip, I hope some day your kids look back and realize how much you make them a part of these vlogs. Anna, ditto with your flower hunting. The word bucolic comes to mind!
Yes, there are different varieties of hydrangeas . Also some of the varieties colour is decided by the soil they are growing in. Not every year is the same either . Some years mine are pink. This year they are mostly blue , but certain varieties are always white .
Anna and Phillip Greetings from Minnesota where Rhubarb grow wild! My husband and I enjoy the glimpse into your relationship during remodeling. You remind us of us in our early years of marriage! We are currently on our 4th home remodel. My favorite way of cooking Rhubarb is to add 1/2 cup water & 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon in a saucepan. Add suger or honey to taste. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring frequently. I end up canning and freezing the sauce. We love the sauce over vanilla or cocoanut ice cream or in a custard pie. I hope you enjoy. Someday we hope to travel to France and stop for a visit. Beth Davis
As always, loved this vlog post! And, so sorry about the animal destruction but I agree that when you get a dog a lot (but not all) of that will be a thing of the past. Marie's bouquet is beautiful and I look forward to watching her interview with you, Anna, on her channel. Glad to see the smart doorbell installation but especially the jam session!
Philip I just have to look at your face and as soon as you open your Le Bouche I just have to laugh. Loved the flowers with Marie . The boar was escapade was funny. Loved the rap with your daughter. Just love watching you two for the entertainment. xx
Great video as usual! It is hard to be patient with the destruction that wild animals can cause. I live next to a forest and major river near Toronto and have to deal with a variety of wild animals. The deer and coyotes are kept away by the fences but rabbits and raccoons can be destructive pests in the garden. Have you thought about getting a large family friendly dog to help keep the wild boars away? Perhaps one of those Great Pyrenees that guard sheep in France.
@@Motherhubbard170: Great Pyrenees are very protective and loyal. They may not be the best choice if the chateau plans to be a public venue and host regular events. Can't keep locking them away.......
I live in the country outside of Brantford Ontario 🇨🇦. We have all the previously mentioned animals but squirrels are literally driving us nuts. They store nuts in our garage for the winter. Not a few nuts, but large garbage cans full of nuts. My bike had nuts in between the spokes, the lawn tractor was covered in nuts and like a comedy movie the nuts poured out of a cupboard when opened. What a mess! At least they don’t smell like the skunk that lived under our old shed. Skunk smell is something that is truly horrible and lingers on whatever it touches. 🦨
OMG guys.......you had me laughing from start to finish today: Hunters License, Rhubarb, animal neighbors, etc. lol It n must be an English persons thing with that high pitch "Hello", "GOODBYE", "Dan The Gardener, where are you? You Who" lol I hear that last in my sleep as Stephanie says that all the time in her high pitched Voice. lol I am not much into seeing kids in Vlog much but I must admit the last "clip" in the Vlog with Phillip and his daughter chocked me up a bit it was such a precious moment between the two of them. :-) MY VERY FAVORITE: "Boots and Shorts match...as long as no one knows we are married". ha ha ha ha
Beautiful rhubarb! Don’t cut them, just twist them, it’s the best method for the plants. And don’t harvest more than 2/3, that gives the plant energy to survive until next year. Best luck! Thanks for sharing this with us! Blessings.
Philipp, I also have a deer problem, the best way to keep them off your garden I've ever found is to buy a livestock salt lick for sheep, and place it somewhere out of the way along the edge of your property. The deer are eating the bark off your trees because they're looking for minerals. If you give them the salt lick they'll prioritize the salt over everything else in your garden, especially as we move towards the fall. The second best option is, unfortunately and in all seriousness, the hunting rifle, If your town allows such things. My town hires bow hunters every year to quietly control the population. This is something we have to do because we've pushed out the wolves and mountain lions that would normally keep the deer population in check, so if we don't kill the deer then they destroy everything, gardens and natural ecosystem alike.
My father taught me if you want to change the colour of the hydrangea flowers put rusty nails by the roots of the plant, same principle as acid soil I suppose.
Hi Philipp& Anna, wonderful vlog! Philipp you don't need a hunting license for a water gun 😂 ...just make it a super soaker one! Your little girl, when she was looking at the hydrangea's & saw Mickey Mouse...the opening outline looked like Mickey Mouse...great eye she has! Marie's flower arrangement was just so pretty, she always delivers! Papa and daughter installing the 'smart door bell' so cute...she has such a great personality...love it! You guys are such fun parents, they are going to have wonderful fun childhood memories! Thank you for sharing, take really good care of yourselves, stay safe! Much love Kathy x (Ontario, Canada)
Lady Marie: you need to paint the center piece on the mantel!!! Girl you are amazing!!! Phillip you and daughter are so cute, well maybe you can start a band!!! Keep going, never know !!! Awesome video with Lady Marie. Have a great week!!!
I’m not sure if you will read this due to the time that has past. You can try solar motion detecter lights out in the yard to scare off the boar and deer. As for the garden saving your hair from your brushes and putting them around outer edges of the garden will help keep rabbits away.
Rhubarb should be almost red to harvest. Green rhubarb is too tart to eat. Even red rhubarb is tart but if you mix with strawberries and sugar it will make a lovely pie or tart.
A bit late to comment. But if you put glycerine in with the water for hydrangea then they last longer and keep their colour. Also, put food colouring in the water and the flower sucks it up and changes to colour of the hydrangea flower! Great for white ones.
Great video with the kids , love the Smart door bell ; my hubby put one in our New home last week, so if you are away from home you can see and speak to the people at your door, Cheers from Canada
Phillip......idea from your drone footage from above..... might be time to give us a tour of the village - the church the neighboring houses/building - "come visit the chateau neighbors"
Enjoyed your 'jam' session with your daughter on the door camera.
So fun!
Girl got the talent!
It's fine as long as nobody knows that we are married, lmao, I'm dying.
I was, too! And I particularly love his under-the-breath delivery. You have to listen for every word.
My wife 😂
I loved the end with Philip and your little girl be-bopping to the doorbell echo on thephone. 💞.
You were on a roll! So good🤣
Philip is hilarious! So entertaining! The crumble looks delicious, Anna...and Marie's flower arrangement is so pretty in pink & delicate looking....Thank you all! 💕🌷
Oh my goodness...Philip your daughter has you're personality! She's adorable!
Rhubarb leaves are toxic, so as long as none of those made their way into the crumble, you’re golden! :)
Hi from Australia! 🇦🇺 While recovering after a recent surgery I discovered your chanel and now I'm bloody addicted! Phillip reminds me of every Aussie guy when he's not bothering with instructions 🤣 You have both given me great entertainment during my recovery. Thank you.
Glas you enjoyed it and good final recovery!
This was precious. Please make sure you keep the part where you and your daughter are dancing away somewhere safe. She deserves to know she had a really cool dad.
“Whatever device you use to sell you identity and soul”. ha ha ha Phillip. My brother said the exact same thing when he was connecting his inside house lights to Alexa. LOLOL :-)
Thanks for playing the painting music. Your daughter is a perfect combination of her two parents. Adorable.
Phililp you have this mesmerizing quality, especially when you look directly into the camera and talk to me (us). Luv the sense of humor. You have an adorable daughter too. 🌼
I loved seeing the little girls following Anna and Marie around the garden, setting the scene for a lifetime love of flowers and gardens. The chateau grounds are looking wonderful Philipp.
Loved the impromptu jam session with the smart doorbell, what a clever girl!
Love your channel, watch every week:) It's clear Philip is a professional film maker, plus he is SO funny! Love the rap at the end, completely charming.
yes I think we forget Phillip actually is a professional, he's such a joker
Oh my goodness I was laughing so hard over the crumble. What a great vlog. The ending with your daughter was such fun, and the muscles made my mouth water,. Marie makes the most beautiful bouquets and I feel your pain over the wildlife destroying your trees and beautiful lawn. A frustrating battle for sure! Years ago my dad installed motion detector radios around his property. It would turn on when a large animal was nearby and scare them away. My parents had beautiful gardens so the radio idea seemed successful. Anyway I love everything about your vlogs from the music to the children, your humor, Anna’s talent and sweetness but most of all the love you have for one another. 💕
That sequence with your daughter was priceless. She's got the creative gene. Joyful.
Front porch freestyle with Dad - epic! Garden wander creativity with Mom and Marie - also epic!
Lovely vlog! I especially loved the music your sweet daughter made with the smart doorbell sounds, and her papa grooving to the beat with her!
I laughed so hard when Philip was insisting it wasn't rhubarb that I woke up the baby 🤦🏾♀️😂 Not a single regret!
What a great episode, and so well made. Thank you for having me over for a visit Anna & Philipp. Oh, and btw, the rhubarb crumble was delish!! xx
Love the ending with your daughter and Philip. Such a sweet moment. Marie's flower arrangements never disappoint. Can't wait for Anna's interview with her. A dog would help with the wild life. So would spraying the plants with a product called Deer Fence. Really enjoyed the humor mixed in with the beauty of your chateau. 😍😘
Phillip your daughter looks like you. You two are quite a card. Enjoyed this episode as always. Take care everyone, and God bless all.
You could try a deer spray with smelly egg too from online.
We were watching the vlog when Phillip was talking to Alexa and our Alexa answered him….way too funny! Love your vlogs! Definitely need more father daughter “doorbell” raps!
Right....and we must say please, lol.
When you have an expert mover man, who needs Nathan?🤣
Loved his under his breath comment about “selling your privacy and your soul” when installing the latest “smart” devices and his long list of steps required by the smart device to replace the ring of the doorbell. Phillip delivers them so quickly and quietly, you’re not sure you really heard them!
Great to see the precious father and daughter time.
The rhubarb, don’t let it flower 🌸 and you pull it up don’t cut😊 and lastly there is a rule in Sweden don’t harvest after midsummer 💃🏼
I read: At the season's end, when the rhubarb starts dying down, each piece that is falling to the ground will carry acidity in it. With time, acidity from the pieces that are composted to the soil reduces the surrounding soil's pH'. The stalks must be a healthy red to cook something fully flavorful with it. It seems your pale stalks did taste ok though, so good for you.
My grandfather used to grow alot of rhubarb, but he would put an old bucket with a hole in the bottom upside down over his, so the leaves poked out the top and the stems stayed in the dark. That way they went red and tasted sweeter.
Anna my dear... your rhubarb has gone to seed. This is good news really because it means more new plants eventually🥳🥳🥳. Maybe your new plants would appreciate a shadier situation with more moisture. In UK, it is not advisable to pull Rhubarb after the end of July. Incidentally, you pull Rhubarb...you don't 'snip' it. I always love to see your vlogs. Thanks for sharing. xxx
Thank you so much for the tips!
Anna please buy a gardening book if you want to have a vegetable garden as some parts of vegetables can be poisonous or upset your stomach. Rhubarb is know to upset your stomach and parts of them are poisonous so arm yourself with as much info as you can get. You can change the colour of the Hydrangeas yourself if you want, there’s something else you can try. Good luck with all your plans. Tell your husband to talk to the neighbours about the animal control they will know how to help without shooting something or someone especially the bore.
@@HowToRenovateAChateau don't worry about having eaten the rhubarb late in summer. the sayings that it shouldn't be eaten later in summer due to higher oxalic acid are myths. and in fact the leaves, which contain far more oxalic acid than the stems which we eat, still contain less than spinach, which we don't consider poisonous at all! i guess what i'm saying is - that crumble looked delicious and i'd have happily eaten it. :-)
Philip makes me laugh out loud!! Sweet to see Marie!! Sweet papa daughter moment!!
Precious rap with Dad. She’s wonderful. 👏🏻
I use a spray on my woodland plants to stop deer. Also peeing around plants doesn’t hurt, Phillip, just don’t film it. Young trees need a wire fence around them till they are large enough to be unattractive to deer. Love your daughter’s humour.❤️
True, humans who mark their territory, like animals do, do sometimes benefit with successes such as discouraging pesky varmints from eating the garden. Not sure about the boars though. Perhaps, next time there is a local boar hunt, send your thank you's to the hunters with a nice picnic. Without weed pie, of course. Or, perhaps, depending on the type of weed you use.
😄😂.... "seed "of something Philip should Not do and likely will do in some form just planted.😉
@@waltercook4868 I don’t have a boar issue. Only ground hogs. They do frustrate.
@@waltercook4868: the hormones in the human urine is what wards off all sorts of animals. They view it as a predator being in the area......so, Phillip, collect it, and sprinkle it around the periphery of your garden ...
you also won't have rabbits and rodents nibbling on your plants and vegetables.
@@waltercook4868 brillant idea :)
Your videos are exquisite... beautifully edited / produced . Why is there no UA-cam award shows on the internet?? You would be a shoe in for top nominations
Oh my goodness, you all are amazing. Love you channel! Thank you for sharing your life and talents with us. Such a pleasure watching.
In Germany we say you shouldn’t eat/pick rhubarb after the end of June because it accumulates too much oxalic acid and that s pretty unhealthy. Might be untrue… Thank you for the great videos!
We also say this for end of July in the UK. And it looked like Anna's rhubarb was going to seed..... good news, more plants next year. ;)
Love this episode, as I do all of yours. I look forward to seeing them every Sunday. Wonderful family! xox
Have you guys thought about doing ambience videos? I have seen your second grant chateau tour lately with the snowy calm scenes in the beginning of the video in which Philipp (I hope that is how his name is spelled) narrated something. I absolutely adore it and I kept on replaying one particular sequence. Maybe you could film about an hour or two hours of video footage about the chateau from the outside or/and the inside, accentuating it with calm classical music as you do normally. I think it would particularly be lovely in winter! Of course that is different from what you "usually" upload but I think it is worth a try, I would watch it and replay it whilst doing homework and reading! :)
Thanks for the great idea!
Philip is hilarous. Do not tell him. I am not sure, that he can take it. :-)))
Yes Lady Anna, you are doing a fine job as a whole!!! I appreciate all the work you have done!!! My hat goes off to you!!! For sure, have a blessed week!!!
Philip you keep wearing the wellies and shorts ….it’s doing wonders for me 🤣🤣🤣🤣
How to harvest rhubarb- you need to pull it from the base of the clump so as to keep the sweetest and most flavorful red bottom of the stalk. Never cut the red off. Some varieties have a green stem and some have a red stem. Yours appears to be the green variety. When it has gone to flower it is past its season, though you can cut the flower stalk before it bolts. I am sure it tasted fabulous. You can't go wrong with rhubarb. Gardens are a learning game. Yours looks prolific. Next year you can conquer the weeds. You two are the most perfectly balanced couple! Phillip always makes me laugh, and you have the most brilliant children! Total creative entertainment!
i love hydrangea, the bigger the better. A massive tall vase of all hydrangea is lovely.
I've got a vase of them in a lovely vibrant bottle-green, 40's Vase.
Flowers are so amazing; everyone can feel themselves a florist.
You have a gorgeous array of all types and colors Anna. I understand your MIL loved them?
Philip is marvelous. Your relationship and humor amidst the love & creativity and hard work is wonderful!
The end was darling. 💕
It is very evident that Philip is a filmmaker. These logs are very professionally made. Just the right amount of humor, instruction, and real life. Thanks for sharing your Château with us.
I just love watching you guys. You are so entertaining! You bring me so much laughter. Thanks!
I love watching you both with the girls. Sorry about your lawn. Last night our friendly neighborhood armadillo ate my begonias and rooted up half the flowers in my tiny garden. This morning a very large male squirrel chewed through the screen on my porch to wreak havoc. I found 3 other holes hidden behind plants.
I love your family and that you each have a daughter like yourselves.........so sweet.
Ana and Phillip complement each other so much. Her genuine nature and artistic capabilities make the chateau come to life. Philip’s indomitable good sprit and humor rounds out this duo. It’s no wonder they make such wonderful parents and there so is much that people especially young people can take away from this channel. What the two of them are doing is noble work and by that I’m referring to their love for each other which allows them to shower that love with their daughters by example. These two honestly give me hope for the future.
I need more of Ella and Phillip’s music collaborations please! I see potential!
Hi Anna,
Greetings from the Isle of Capri. If you bury pieces of aluminum foil in the soil around your hydrangeas it will turn them a dark blue... You can get several shades of blue depending on how much aluminum you bury. We love watching your channel.
👍😍👍
Capri! Lucky you!!
There are different types of rhubarb, just like different types of apples. Some are red-ish on the stalk, but some also just stay green. I have three different types in my own garden from different parts of the world.
Also the early stalks are the nicest, the older big ones can get woody. A bucket over them when the plant first breaks will give you sweet tender pink stalks.
That puppy! What a wonderful addition to your family. The girls are clearly smitten. Your kitchen is going to be stunning. Now, the colour choice question. Normally I am all in for green and love the shade you chose. However, the red the Phillip is voting for really pops the red in your grandma’s painting. And, it’s a surprising colour, I think, when you walk into the kitchen. Go for red. And if you really cannot live with it you can always repaint.
Omg. That was so cute with your little daughter. Thank you guys
The improvements you have made to the Chateau is amazing. Love the aerial pictures are wonderful. ❤
Philip’s sub plots are a hoot!
Phillip !!!! You made my day !!!! Loved your duet with your beautiful daughter!!!!
Brilliant! Thank you so much. I can't wait for Success Stories interview.
Just too cute!
Thank you.
Rikki Biermann, Pretoria, South Africa 🇿🇦
I haven't even finished the video and the video is 2 years old now but it got me thinking back to when I lived on a farm and had a dog. The squirrels didn't dare set foot on the ground on our property let alone deer grazing on our trees - she never caught any of the animals but she was enough of a deterrent for them to up sticks and move elsewhere.
So nice and enjoyable. Nice to see Marie and your lovely daughters. Too bad about your lawn, hope things settle down, I know skunks in Canada will rip up an entire lawn looking for grubs. My parent’s lawn looked like had hardly any sod and grass by the time they were finished or summer and all had to be planted again. Yes, a big Pyrenees Dog might help my friends live in N.Y. state on an acre of land lots of deer feeding and their dog is a Pyrenees and the deer don’t seem to be bothered.
What a great vlog. My wife tells me the same thing at time…don’t let them know we’re married!!! Phillip, I hope some day your kids look back and realize how much you make them a part of these vlogs. Anna, ditto with your flower hunting. The word bucolic comes to mind!
Yes, there are different varieties of hydrangeas . Also some of the varieties colour is decided by the soil they are growing in. Not every year is the same either . Some years mine are pink. This year they are mostly blue , but certain varieties are always white .
How fun as always! Philip is a riot! So nice to see Marie visiting you! Your girls are adorable! And that looked like rhubarb to me! 🤣
Phillip you hit the nail on the head. What was a simple activity now needs several instruments and instructions to complete.
Phillip has a real ability for entertaining. Loved seeing Marie. Thank you for the video.
Anna and Phillip
Greetings from Minnesota where Rhubarb grow wild! My husband and I enjoy the glimpse into your relationship during remodeling. You remind us of us in our early years of marriage! We are currently on our 4th home remodel.
My favorite way of cooking Rhubarb is to add 1/2 cup water & 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon in a saucepan. Add suger or honey to taste. Bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring frequently. I end up canning and freezing the sauce. We love the sauce over vanilla or cocoanut ice cream or in a custard pie. I hope you enjoy. Someday we hope to travel to France and stop for a visit. Beth Davis
Reminder to myself: do not watch this on the train. Trying not to burst out laughing was so hard! 😂
I know😂😂😂😂
I love just hydrangeas in a vase. So elegant. I’d have tons cut tall in a large vase all the time if I could. You have gorgeous hydrangeas!
Another excellent video! Loved the entertainment at the end!
Love this-thank you so very much for a delightful program.
21:07 the jam with your daughter make my day, my week and probably my year! New ringtone! 🤓
Best couple on UA-cam. Dude is funny AF (sorry for the crassness). Couldn’t stop watching these beautiful videos. Time well spent. Keep ‘Em coming.
Glad you like them!
As always, loved this vlog post! And, so sorry about the animal destruction but I agree that when you get a dog a lot (but not all) of that will be a thing of the past. Marie's bouquet is beautiful and I look forward to watching her interview with you, Anna, on her channel. Glad to see the smart doorbell installation but especially the jam session!
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Brilliant door help footage so funny. Love the flowers with Anna & Marie.Just love the whole video
Love Sue ❤❤❤🇬🇧💐💐
Lilly is as talented as you both are, she has a great sense for rhythm! Love your family and vlogs
I agree, thanks :)
Philip I just have to look at your face and as soon as you open your Le Bouche I just have to laugh. Loved the flowers with Marie . The boar was escapade was funny. Loved the rap with your daughter. Just love watching you two for the entertainment. xx
Great video as usual! It is hard to be patient with the destruction that wild animals can cause. I live next to a forest and major river near Toronto and have to deal with a variety of wild animals. The deer and coyotes are kept away by the fences but rabbits and raccoons can be destructive pests in the garden. Have you thought about getting a large family friendly dog to help keep the wild boars away? Perhaps one of those Great Pyrenees that guard sheep in France.
I’m an hour away from Toronto. 😊 I live in a forest and deal with wild animal kingdom on a regular basis! 😊🇨🇦
That's the plan!
@@HowToRenovateAChateau mountain Pyrenene is the perfect dog for this as they don't like being indoors but are bred as sheep/guard dogs
@@Motherhubbard170: Great Pyrenees are very protective and loyal. They may not be the best choice if the chateau plans to be a public venue and host regular events. Can't keep locking them away.......
I live in the country outside of Brantford Ontario 🇨🇦. We have all the previously mentioned animals but squirrels are literally driving us nuts. They store nuts in our garage for the winter. Not a few nuts, but large garbage cans full of nuts. My bike had nuts in between the spokes, the lawn tractor was covered in nuts and like a comedy movie the nuts poured out of a cupboard when opened. What a mess! At least they don’t smell like the skunk that lived under our old shed. Skunk smell is something that is truly horrible and lingers on whatever it touches. 🦨
love the drone footage.." influencer style"... ha ha assessing mowing style.. genius kevel🤣🤣
So glad I’ve found your vlog!!! You will brighten my week. Thank you
You are so welcome!
I just love your vlogs! Thanks for sharing your life with all of us.
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OMG guys.......you had me laughing from start to finish today: Hunters License, Rhubarb, animal neighbors, etc. lol It n must be an English persons thing with that high pitch "Hello", "GOODBYE", "Dan The Gardener, where are you? You Who" lol I hear that last in my sleep as Stephanie says that all the time in her high pitched Voice. lol I am not much into seeing kids in Vlog much but I must admit the last "clip" in the Vlog with Phillip and his daughter chocked me up a bit it was such a precious moment between the two of them. :-) MY VERY FAVORITE: "Boots and Shorts match...as long as no one knows we are married". ha ha ha ha
I didn't know it was "an English" thing! 'Course, why would I, I'm not English.....
Beautiful rhubarb! Don’t cut them, just twist them, it’s the best method for the plants. And don’t harvest more than 2/3, that gives the plant energy to survive until next year. Best luck! Thanks for sharing this with us! Blessings.
Great as usual Philip makes me laugh so much thank you both 👏👏👏
Philipp, I also have a deer problem, the best way to keep them off your garden I've ever found is to buy a livestock salt lick for sheep, and place it somewhere out of the way along the edge of your property. The deer are eating the bark off your trees because they're looking for minerals. If you give them the salt lick they'll prioritize the salt over everything else in your garden, especially as we move towards the fall. The second best option is, unfortunately and in all seriousness, the hunting rifle, If your town allows such things. My town hires bow hunters every year to quietly control the population. This is something we have to do because we've pushed out the wolves and mountain lions that would normally keep the deer population in check, so if we don't kill the deer then they destroy everything, gardens and natural ecosystem alike.
thanks for the tips! we do have too much of them around now...
A tiny amount of bicarbonate of soda before cooking in the rhubarb neutralises the oxalic acid.
Your daughter is so sweet. I like the father daughter duo it put a big smile 😃 on my face🙋♀️🌈
The pH of the soil is what determines the color of a hydrangea.
My father taught me if you want to change the colour of the hydrangea flowers put rusty nails by the roots of the plant, same principle as acid soil I suppose.
Hi Philipp& Anna, wonderful vlog! Philipp you don't need a hunting license for a water gun 😂 ...just make it a super soaker one! Your little girl, when she was looking at the hydrangea's & saw Mickey Mouse...the opening outline looked like Mickey Mouse...great eye she has! Marie's flower arrangement was just so pretty, she always delivers! Papa and daughter installing the 'smart door bell' so cute...she has such a great personality...love it! You guys are such fun parents, they are going to have wonderful fun childhood memories! Thank you for sharing, take really good care of yourselves, stay safe! Much love Kathy x (Ontario, Canada)
Lady Marie: you need to paint the center piece on the mantel!!! Girl you are amazing!!!
Phillip you and daughter are so cute, well maybe you can start a band!!! Keep going, never know !!!
Awesome video with Lady Marie.
Have a great week!!!
Her laughter makes me smile 😂😂😂
Phillip, the way you filled in the holes reminded me so much of Anna making wallpaper. Best of luck with your animal problems!
I’m not sure if you will read this due to the time that has past. You can try solar motion detecter lights out in the yard to scare off the boar and deer. As for the garden saving your hair from your brushes and putting them around outer edges of the garden will help keep rabbits away.
Rhubarb should be almost red to harvest. Green rhubarb is too tart to eat. Even red rhubarb is tart but if you mix with strawberries and sugar it will make a lovely pie or tart.
A bit late to comment. But if you put glycerine in with the water for hydrangea then they last longer and keep their colour. Also, put food colouring in the water and the flower sucks it up and changes to colour of the hydrangea flower! Great for white ones.
Thanks for the tip!
Omg I love that Marie is here!!!!!
Sitting over here in Oz I can only sit back and laugh , you are definitely a great pair ,
. Good luck and keep it up Anna and Phillipe
Great video with the kids , love the Smart door bell ; my hubby put one in our New home last week, so if you are away from home you can see and speak to the people at your door, Cheers from Canada
Oh you are so lucky with your hydrangeas. They are so beautiful and love them and buy them every week!
Phillip......idea from your drone footage from above.....
might be time to give us a tour of the village - the church the neighboring houses/building - "come visit the chateau neighbors"
Love the door bell. Great idea. Aww lovely Marie bless her. Enjoyed watching thank you x ❤️
I LOVE the drone footage! I love all the music and surveillance stuff lol😂.
You guys are an inspiration. I’m encouraged to get put there and get on with it. Thank you for sharing.
LOVE THE HUMOR , LOVE THE MUSIC AS WELL !
You are endlessly entertaining!
Loved this vlog ! Loved the grooving beat at the end ! Well done ! A huge fan of you all 😘