Love the view of your cottage garden from the glider. Very pretty layering, Michelle! I'd paint the barn lavender as a focal point. Every shade of purple looks beautiful with green (foreground and background) and yellow compliments purple on the color wheel so there ya go! Purple also looks lovely with salmon/peach. Couple more ideas - Paint THREE LARGE (to scale) quilt patterns on wood. Hang one in the center above the doors, and the other two on each door. You're so creative, you could craft something to decorate the barn like your "TLC" lettering with a scroll saw to hang on the barn.
Absolutely amazing tour, gorgeous garden, and the animals feel safe to eat lol love every inch of it as is. No garden is without "work in progress" or nuances ❤ yours is gorgeous 😍 😊
I live in Northern IL!! Just bought a house with land in Gurnee, and I'm glad I found your channel. I have so many things to do with our existing landscaping.
Thanks for this tour. I am getting ideas for a new area l will hopefully plant in the spring. I moved into this house almost a year ago and am changing out things I don't care for and making it mine. I agree with you on the day lillies! I never have liked them and there are some here I am replacing! Thanks for all of your information!
Cute little bunnies become devil rabbits for gardeners and their evil companions Japanese beetles. You exemplify the simple plain fun of gardening. If one has the gardening bug, it is there for a lifetime even if it is only a window sill.
That view at the last is amazing and I LOVE the shed/barn color - very rustic and all your plants, shrubs and flowers play off of it so nicely. Thanks for the enjoyed tour.
Terrific video Michelle! Your garden is beautiful!!!! Would love to have you do a video on how to amend soil and keep it healthy so that plants can thrive. I have heavy clay and would welcome your words of wisdom.
I moved into a new home in June of this year. So I’ve mostly been watching what is growing here already and now I’m Making my plans for next year. So happy to get your input. I’m Making notes on what not to plant to stop rabbit damage. Thanks for all the info. I love your videos.
I love your house & hardscape landscaping, plus of course all of your flowers & pere nails are gorgeous. I really enjoy your videos. You get motivated with your positive & happy outlook , just love it!!! Enjoy your day
Michelle, you look so good today. That brand of shirt is fantastic for you. Keep up the good work. I am learning a lot and yes, your grass is beautiful… Down here in Florida. We’ve had rain every single day in July
Ooo that wabbit! Get some deer and rabbit repellent..I think the brand is Repel. It works good in my garden and you really only need to spray the plants they love. I love your cottage garden.
Rain! Lucky you. My beautiful green lawn is more mottled green and brown😩. We usually water, but my plants received more of the hose than the lawn this year. Yours looks soooo nice! As do your flowers!
I really enjoyed this tour. I live in Bolingbrook Illinois. A little southeast of you and your commentary this month makes me feel so much better. A lot of the things that you're struggling with are the same for me. The rabbits are driving me bonkers! I never know what they're going to eat next . I'm somewhat surprised that they have started to eat things in the front that they never touch. They don't seem to mind the Hawks that nest in my tree and are so bold they don't move when I'm 3 ft from them ! rabbits and earwigs and Chipmunks oh my.
Oh those darn rabbits! Ed and I used to Havahart trap them and relocate them to the countryside. One time we caught an opossum and its rat tail totally grossed me out! lolol It had those ugly little teeth, too. (shudders) I had to spray for deer this year for the first time. A doe ate a bunch of my daylily buds. I caught it in the act twice and my yelling at it didn't even budge it. I had to throw my garden clogs at it to get it out of my yard! The expression "hopping mad" now has profound meaning for me! lol Deer Off has worked since then. The only suggestion I have is that since you want to layer that bed by the landscape fabric path you need to make it wider than four feet as a certain lady said in a recent video you can't layer a four foot wide strip! :D
Oh Michelle! It’s been an ugly summer here in NB Canada too! You’re right about the ineffective use of different products. I think I own a share in sluggo now. I gotta try the beer trap and see how that works.
I have been sprinkling my sweet potato vines with baby powder, it's not toxic, it just tastes bad to them. After a few weeks the bunnies (and/ or squirrels ) stop eating them
Garden looks amazing! I feel your pain with the weeds: I live in Ireland where we get so much rain. It feels like it's rained almost every day for the past year... The weeds seem to crop up on a daily basis!
One suggestion on the chipmunk/ rabbit issue, spray your plants with perfume. I get used bottles at garage sales. It smells so much better the stinky stuff for gardens.
Every area has beautiful interest and flowers. Toward the end of your tour where you had the black-eyed-susans spilling over, just make your bed wider to accommodate them instead of cutting them back. Your cottage garden looks great and that knock-out rose will look good there. We had weeks of drought, now we're water-logged. Last night we got 3 inches. So my gardens aren't picture worthy this year. I need to move my lantans, it's not getting enough sun. I need to get 2 climbing roses. My husband built 2 arbors for our garden so I can drive the cubbie thru. The roses would look great on the white arbors. If you take out the day lillies, where will you put them? I think brunnera dies with too much water, mine did.
Great tour thank you. I had a small suggestion, you were talking about the Day Lilly's by the driveway , perhaps you could swap them out with a couple or just one big boulders? Tall and skinny as opposed to wide. Idk no flowers but nice interest.?? Just a thought lol Much love.
That would be cool! Except for all the snow that is pushed on that spot by the plow. I would end up moving the boulder or pushing it over...but I love that idea
Those dang rabbits lol, they had a feast! Everything still looks beautiful ❤❤❤ I agree with you on ajuga, mine is doing wonderful this year. I have the chocolate chop and the burgundy glow ( I think that's what it's called)very much like a variegated plant. Can you trim off scorched areas on a gold mop cypress?
Hi Michelle, The garden looks great. Unlike you I have been in drought In northern Massachusetts. I noticed that your lemony lace elderberry has a dead branch. My entire elderberry looks the same and did the same thing last year. Any thoughts?
I hear you about the rain, my tomatoes didn’t like any of it all summer-it never stopped. Also totally understand about animal damage. Love impatiens and coleus for shade. The colors and texture on coleus looks like expensive fabric. I keep trying to get coral geraniums but they keep sending scarlet seeds. Going to salmon or orange next. I can’t handle the high humidity and heat and then to dress to protect from mosquitoes. Been miserable to be out in the garden. I have to take pictures to enjoy the flowers from inside. I think large groupings have a huge impact like the geraniums you spoke of. They do quite well, but warning that deer seemed to like the white one I have-didn’t eat but all the white. The roses are loving the rain as long as they have air. We haven’t had a lot of j beetles but they have only been on my Theresa Bugnet rose only-it’s odd. We usually have a lot, but the mosquitoes are making up for it and I’m really tempted to fog. Ooo, I just got a beauty berry shrub, nice! Zinnias are funny, if they have a lot of room they can really shrub out. I planted an area by the field and had so many collected seed to use up that they are thick, but I won’t expect too many to be huge. The hollyhocks look great! Are they rust resistant? We’ve had the worst case I’ve ever seen this year. I suppose if I want to see the new ones next year I will need to spray copper or something.
I’m starting to get rid of some day lilies too. I don’t know if was a bad year for them or I’m just tired of fighting the yellowing leaves all summer. I have a beautiful one that was shared with me. No yellowing leaves and still blooming strong.
I started planting my parkway, white grasses and daylilies. I am slowly relocating my daylilies from my garden beds to the parkway beds for the same reason.
Hi Michelle your garden is fabulous, I have to ask you what plants or shrubs to plant in a garden that get afternoon sun that is low maintenance, I am redoing my son's garden which is covered with weeds right now, he's birthday is coming up and that's what I want to give him for his birthday, we are in Zone 4 in Canada, thanks in advance
I put in my cottage garden. Most of it over the last two years. But I’m finding I put things I close together. I trying to make a postage stamp look like my old yard. And I just don’t have enough room. I planted in onesie twosies. Because I wanted that plant and wanted to see how it looks in my garden. Some are great and some died. So I’m still a work in progress. So are you ever happy with it? Or are you always working it?
Day lilies are still beautiful, please don't get rid of them. Even when not blooming they give beautiful foliage. The crayon yellow echinatia though... is not so pretty, maybe get a different echinatia ❤
Is your weeping blue spruce in clay or did you amend the soil? What do you amend with? Also, does that spruce need full sun or can it take shade? Forgive me if you have given these details before. I am considering using one in a new bed (clay, zone 6b/7a) that gets partial sun. Also, I love your classic red barn/shed. I was thinking as I watched you show the cottage garden that the hibiscus against that red was gorgeous!
It is in clay. I did not amend the soil where I planted that one in the front garden. It gets 8 -10 hours of sun. Usually blue conifers need at least 6-8 hours. If you are going to amend I recommend 1/2 native soil, and 1/2 compost. I usually will do that with things like perennials and maybe smaller shrubs. I don't like to amend the soil on the trees, as they have to grow in that native soil eventually and they might as well get used to it right from the get-go. Remember though not everything will grow in clay soil.
I love all of your garden. I need advise though. I can not keep my coneflowers alive. Can you help? I have no clue what I'm doing wrong. I plant them in sun in different spots in my yard. Then they croke.. one more thing Salvia - I trimmed them back n I don't know if I'm watering too much or not enough sun. They aren't reblooming. They look bad. I just planted this year. I'm in Oklahoma zone 7b.
They need good drainage and you have to water them at least once a week to get them going. It can take a few weeks for salvia to.recover after cutting back depending on how far you cut it back...and then water also
Michelle can we hard prune a weigela I have a wine and roses one, and it looks horrible all around the base. It has long branches with SOME flowers and leaves. I'm just so scared if I cut it to far back it will ruin it. I'd like it to be fuller. If I can hard prune it when is the best time of year?
Weigela bloom on 1 year old stems. You can prune down until 1/3of the shrub is left. Then take out old canes from the bottom leaving maybe 5-7 canes depending on the age. Pruning is done after it is done blooming in June.
That is what I love about gardening, it never ends, not like a vacation after two weeks you have to leave, I never have to leave my garden.
LOVE IT ALL!! Michelle, I think your gardens are looking fabulous this year! You’ve done a great job! Thank you for the inspiration! 😊♥️
You are so welcome!
Love, Love, Love your gardens Michelle, so glad I found you!!
as a quilter, I would paint a quilt block on your barn, bring in your blue that way!
Love the view of your cottage garden from the glider. Very pretty layering, Michelle! I'd paint the barn lavender as a focal point. Every shade of purple looks beautiful with green (foreground and background) and yellow compliments purple on the color wheel so there ya go! Purple also looks lovely with salmon/peach. Couple more ideas - Paint THREE LARGE (to scale) quilt patterns on wood. Hang one in the center above the doors, and the other two on each door. You're so creative, you could craft something to decorate the barn like your "TLC" lettering with a scroll saw to hang on the barn.
Very nice. Sounds very ambitious..
@@gardeningTLC Yeah it does, doesn't it! lol I know you're a crafter so I thought you might be into something artsy for the barn.
Paint it blue. You need more blue . I enjoy your channel. Have a wonderful day
Absolutely amazing tour, gorgeous garden, and the animals feel safe to eat lol love every inch of it as is. No garden is without "work in progress" or nuances ❤ yours is gorgeous 😍 😊
Thanks so much
It’s all still beautiful 🏡💚
Love the orbs hanging in the trees, and the heads planter..I really like garden accessories, I like a touch of whimsy. Nice garden
Thanks so much!
I live in Northern IL!! Just bought a house with land in Gurnee, and I'm glad I found your channel. I have so many things to do with our existing
landscaping.
Welcome aboard!
@@gardeningTLC is there a place other than the big box stores where you would recommend I get plants?
So, so beautiful!❤
Thank you! 😊
Thanks for this tour. I am getting ideas for a new area l will hopefully plant in the spring. I moved into this house almost a year ago and am changing out things I don't care for and making it mine. I agree with you on the day lillies! I never have liked them and there are some here I am replacing! Thanks for all of your information!
Good luck!
It’s so Awesome!!!
Your garden looks beautiful despite the rabbit damage!
Cute little bunnies become devil rabbits for gardeners and their evil companions Japanese beetles. You exemplify the simple plain fun of gardening. If one has the gardening bug, it is there for a lifetime even if it is only a window sill.
Your gardens look fabulous
Lovely, lovely, lovely. Everything looks so good, Michelle. We’re getting relentless rain and storms in Kentucky, real gully washers, lol.
Oh no! Bummer
Your gardens are beautiful, and I love all of it!
Very beautiful! It gave me ideas. Thanks so much!!
Most welcome 😊
W0W Michelle 😮 Everything looks so BEAUTIFUL!! And I love your new ideas as well. You are AWESOME!!!
Thank you so much!
That view at the last is amazing and I LOVE the shed/barn color - very rustic and all your plants, shrubs and flowers play off of it so nicely. Thanks for the enjoyed tour.
Terrific video Michelle! Your garden is beautiful!!!! Would love to have you do a video on how to amend soil and keep it healthy so that plants can thrive. I have heavy clay and would welcome your words of wisdom.
I will include that into the video I do when I replant the back deck garden area below the wall, great suggestion!
I think the red shed looks awesome! It brings the red element to the blues and greens of the shrubs, trees, and plants. Gorgeous!
Great tour 👍👍👍
Good morning! Wow that is a lot to take care of! Lovely! Love the hydrangeas
Beautiful!!
Thank you! 😊
I moved into a new home in June of this year. So I’ve mostly been watching what is growing here already and now I’m
Making my plans for next year. So happy to get your input. I’m
Making notes on what not to plant to stop rabbit damage. Thanks for all the info. I love your videos.
Thank you for watching!
I love your house & hardscape landscaping, plus of course all of your flowers & pere nails are gorgeous. I really enjoy your videos. You get motivated with your positive & happy outlook , just love it!!! Enjoy your day
Thank you so much!
Michelle, you look so good today. That brand of shirt is fantastic for you. Keep up the good work. I am learning a lot and yes, your grass is beautiful… Down here in Florida. We’ve had rain every single day in July
Thank you so much!
I love her in this brand of shirt as well.
I so love your videos, I learn so much from you this year, East Texas Zone 8b.
Loved the long tour and how you like your garden view again.
Thank you 🌻
Ooo that wabbit! Get some deer and rabbit repellent..I think the brand is Repel. It works good in my garden and you really only need to spray the plants they love. I love your cottage garden.
Rain! Lucky you. My beautiful green lawn is more mottled green and brown😩. We usually water, but my plants received more of the hose than the lawn this year. Yours looks soooo nice! As do your flowers!
This is the 1st time I can remember having green grass like this in late July, mine is usually dormant and brown by now.
I really enjoyed this tour. I live in Bolingbrook Illinois. A little southeast of you and your commentary this month makes me feel so much better. A lot of the things that you're struggling with are the same for me. The rabbits are driving me bonkers! I never know what they're going to eat next . I'm somewhat surprised that they have started to eat things in the front that they never touch. They don't seem to mind the Hawks that nest in my tree and are so bold they don't move when I'm 3 ft from them ! rabbits and earwigs and Chipmunks oh my.
I feel ya sister!
Oh those darn rabbits! Ed and I used to Havahart trap them and relocate them to the countryside. One time we caught an opossum and its rat tail totally grossed me out! lolol It had those ugly little teeth, too. (shudders) I had to spray for deer this year for the first time. A doe ate a bunch of my daylily buds. I caught it in the act twice and my yelling at it didn't even budge it. I had to throw my garden clogs at it to get it out of my yard! The expression "hopping mad" now has profound meaning for me! lol Deer Off has worked since then.
The only suggestion I have is that since you want to layer that bed by the landscape fabric path you need to make it wider than four feet as a certain lady said in a recent video you can't layer a four foot wide strip! :D
hahaha...love you too :)
Oh Michelle! It’s been an ugly summer here in NB Canada too! You’re right about the ineffective use of different products. I think I own a share in sluggo now. I gotta try the beer trap and see how that works.
I love the Maverick Apple blossom geranium.
I like the "red" shed
24:09 I love that Daliha color.
I have been sprinkling my sweet potato vines with baby powder, it's not toxic, it just tastes bad to them. After a few weeks the bunnies (and/ or squirrels ) stop eating them
Hmmm. I will have to try that
Garden looks amazing! I feel your pain with the weeds: I live in Ireland where we get so much rain. It feels like it's rained almost every day for the past year... The weeds seem to crop up on a daily basis!
I bet you can. And I have only had to deal with it for 1 season.
One suggestion on the chipmunk/ rabbit issue, spray your plants with perfume. I get used bottles at garage sales. It smells so much better the stinky stuff for gardens.
really? wow...I will have to try that. I will actually have to go buy some perfume though...lol
Michelle, it looks like your strawberries are sending out lots of runners. That is probably why you’re not getting berries.
Every area has beautiful interest and flowers. Toward the end of your tour where you had the black-eyed-susans spilling over, just make your bed wider to accommodate them instead of cutting them back. Your cottage garden looks great and that knock-out rose will look good there. We had weeks of drought, now we're water-logged. Last night we got 3 inches. So my gardens aren't picture worthy this year. I need to move my lantans, it's not getting enough sun. I need to get 2 climbing roses. My husband built 2 arbors for our garden so I can drive the cubbie thru. The roses would look great on the white arbors. If you take out the day lillies, where will you put them? I think brunnera dies with too much water, mine did.
I will give the day lilies to my daughter
Great tour thank you.
I had a small suggestion, you were talking about the Day Lilly's by the driveway , perhaps you could swap them out with a couple or just one big boulders? Tall and skinny as opposed to wide. Idk no flowers but nice interest.?? Just a thought lol Much love.
That would be cool! Except for all the snow that is pushed on that spot by the plow. I would end up moving the boulder or pushing it over...but I love that idea
Those dang rabbits lol, they had a feast! Everything still looks beautiful ❤❤❤ I agree with you on ajuga, mine is doing wonderful this year. I have the chocolate chop and the burgundy glow ( I think that's what it's called)very much like a variegated plant. Can you trim off scorched areas on a gold mop cypress?
yes
Hi Michelle, The garden looks great. Unlike you I have been in drought In northern Massachusetts. I noticed that your lemony lace elderberry has a dead branch. My entire elderberry looks the same and did the same thing last year. Any thoughts?
That branch was split near the bottom, not sure if it was an animal or a wind storm, as we have had both this year. I just clipped it off.
I hear you about the rain, my tomatoes didn’t like any of it all summer-it never stopped. Also totally understand about animal damage.
Love impatiens and coleus for shade. The colors and texture on coleus looks like expensive fabric.
I keep trying to get coral geraniums but they keep sending scarlet seeds. Going to salmon or orange next.
I can’t handle the high humidity and heat and then to dress to protect from mosquitoes. Been miserable to be out in the garden. I have to take pictures to enjoy the flowers from inside.
I think large groupings have a huge impact like the geraniums you spoke of. They do quite well, but warning that deer seemed to like the white one I have-didn’t eat but all the white.
The roses are loving the rain as long as they have air. We haven’t had a lot of j beetles but they have only been on my Theresa Bugnet rose only-it’s odd. We usually have a lot, but the mosquitoes are making up for it and I’m really tempted to fog.
Ooo, I just got a beauty berry shrub, nice!
Zinnias are funny, if they have a lot of room they can really shrub out. I planted an area by the field and had so many collected seed to use up that they are thick, but I won’t expect too many to be huge.
The hollyhocks look great! Are they rust resistant? We’ve had the worst case I’ve ever seen this year. I suppose if I want to see the new ones next year I will need to spray copper or something.
No I got rust..I plucked off the leaves and disposed as I saw it. All the rain I think.
Painting the fire pit? Why paint black? I painted my gray one bright carribean corral colour after some damage to it and so many compliments!
I’m starting to get rid of some day lilies too. I don’t know if was a bad year for them or I’m just tired of fighting the yellowing leaves all summer. I have a beautiful one that was shared with me. No yellowing leaves and still blooming strong.
Oh I think there are some that are worth it, just not the ones I chose
I started planting my parkway, white grasses and daylilies. I am slowly relocating my daylilies from my garden beds to the parkway beds for the same reason.
@@victoriajackson5159 sad.. I have a lot of Stella doro that are being moved or tossed. Sometimes I wonder if they just needed division🤷🏻♀️
Hi Michelle your garden is fabulous, I have to ask you what plants or shrubs to plant in a garden that get afternoon sun that is low maintenance, I am redoing my son's garden which is covered with weeds right now, he's birthday is coming up and that's what I want to give him for his birthday, we are in Zone 4 in Canada, thanks in advance
you should check out the video I did on heat loving perennials. ua-cam.com/video/6QkAhklzFe4/v-deo.html
🙂
I put in my cottage garden. Most of it over the last two years. But I’m finding I put things I close together. I trying to make a postage stamp look like my old yard. And I just don’t have enough room.
I planted in onesie twosies. Because I wanted that plant and wanted to see how it looks in my garden. Some are great and some died. So I’m still a work in progress. So are you ever happy with it? Or are you always working it?
Both, I love them all. Some are more butoned up than other and my graden is still young.
Day lilies are still beautiful, please don't get rid of them. Even when not blooming they give beautiful foliage. The crayon yellow echinatia though... is not so pretty, maybe get a different echinatia ❤
So again when do we get to see the shade garden you installed in the spring in the back of your yard
I have not installed it , so far I have just designed it. Might or might not go in this year.
Is your weeping blue spruce in clay or did you amend the soil? What do you amend with? Also, does that spruce need full sun or can it take shade? Forgive me if you have given these details before. I am considering using one in a new bed (clay, zone 6b/7a) that gets partial sun.
Also, I love your classic red barn/shed. I was thinking as I watched you show the cottage garden that the hibiscus against that red was gorgeous!
It is in clay. I did not amend the soil where I planted that one in the front garden. It gets 8 -10 hours of sun. Usually blue conifers need at least 6-8 hours. If you are going to amend I recommend 1/2 native soil, and 1/2 compost. I usually will do that with things like perennials and maybe smaller shrubs. I don't like to amend the soil on the trees, as they have to grow in that native soil eventually and they might as well get used to it right from the get-go. Remember though not everything will grow in clay soil.
I love all of your garden. I need advise though. I can not keep my coneflowers alive. Can you help? I have no clue what I'm doing wrong. I plant them in sun in different spots in my yard. Then they croke.. one more thing Salvia - I trimmed them back n I don't know if I'm watering too much or not enough sun. They aren't reblooming. They look bad. I just planted this year. I'm in Oklahoma zone 7b.
They need good drainage and you have to water them at least once a week to get them going. It can take a few weeks for salvia to.recover after cutting back depending on how far you cut it back...and then water also
What material are your low bowls ? Cement or plastic? Really pretty btw
THE 3 NEW ONES ARE LIKE A RESIN CLAY AND THE REST ARE PLASTIC
Thank you
Where are you getting all of this rain? I have hardly had any rain. Online says my area is in dry conditions but I swear it’s a drought.
I do not know.
Is that pot an aqua pot. Doesn’t it have an overflow plug?
No, it was my pot with the aquapot insert ..it was flooded though...I have to take it apart..I am sure it was me doing something wrong
Michelle can we hard prune a weigela I have a wine and roses one, and it looks horrible all around the base. It has long branches with SOME flowers and leaves. I'm just so scared if I cut it to far back it will ruin it. I'd like it to be fuller. If I can hard prune it when is the best time of year?
Weigela bloom on 1 year old stems. You can prune down until 1/3of the shrub is left. Then take out old canes from the bottom leaving maybe 5-7 canes depending on the age. Pruning is done after it is done blooming in June.
I have alsopruned almost to the ground before in spring and still taken out old fat woody stems but I got no flowers that year
@@gardeningTLC I can live without flowers for a year if the bush will look better as a whole. Thank you.
Your garden is so beautiful. I'm with you about the day lilies. Never been a fan.
Me either. 😊