A trip round my Mum’s Cumbria garden which she carved with her own fair hands out of a field

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  • Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
  • My mum is 81 years old and still gardens every day in this just less than an acre garden which she carved herself by hand out of a limestone rocky fellside field in Cumbria. Helped by her friend Carol only once a week Mum keeps herself extremely fit while exercising her quilting artist’s plantwoman’s eye here on a daily basis. There’s always so much to do, with checking for hedgehogs and moving wild orchids onto the sphagnum moss roof of the potting shed just two of the many chores she loves because look what they make! She paid me to weed by the yard when I was a child - strong influence!
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  • @Jane-3229
    @Jane-3229 5 місяців тому +3

    A truly beautiful garden 💚💚💚 your mum and you should be on tv. You are both amazing 💚

  • @Marie-yx5ie
    @Marie-yx5ie Рік тому +3

    Love this video with your amazing Mum, thank you Georgie 👍😉🇮🇪☘️Eire

  • @bryonyhellis
    @bryonyhellis 5 днів тому +1

    That was an utter delight, thank you!

  • @kathrynhobbs8874
    @kathrynhobbs8874 Рік тому +4

    Whilst I love the whole garden full of innovation and ideas to copy…..I really really love the waney fences

  • @danibryant9318
    @danibryant9318 5 місяців тому +2

    You two make a great team, Your mom ought to comedy, she is exceptionaly funny

  • @carolbulmer8253
    @carolbulmer8253 2 роки тому +1

    That was a delightful walk through your Mum’s garden… thank you, Georgie😊

  • @karenseger5455
    @karenseger5455 Рік тому +2

    I love your channel! Yout Mum is perfect! You are such a pair.

  • @arnicepernice8656
    @arnicepernice8656 Рік тому +2

    Inspirational and amusing lady gardener. I hope I can be as fit and funny in my 80s

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  Рік тому +2

      I have a new clip from her to post today - hope you enjoy that one too x

    • @arnicepernice8656
      @arnicepernice8656 Рік тому +1

      @@theflowerfarmer Excellent.
      I am also a gardener, and avid Constance spry fan…. And purchased two of your books. They were the inspiration for me to help my neighbour grow and arrange her daughters wedding flowers four years ago!
      It was a triumph.

  • @marykuhn7510
    @marykuhn7510 2 роки тому +2

    I loved meeting your mum. A beautiful tour.

  • @vickydye8173
    @vickydye8173 2 роки тому +2

    your mum is so lovely

  • @susandion4405
    @susandion4405 3 роки тому +7

    Your mother is a sheer delight!

  • @sibbi1959
    @sibbi1959 3 роки тому +17

    Thank you, Georgie - that felt such a priviledge to donder round your mum's garden. I loved the garden and I loved the banter between you and your mum. The whole thing was joyful.

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому +2

      Glad you enjoyed it x

    • @sallysham2676
      @sallysham2676 2 роки тому +1

      I miss my mum, her garden & our time together in it.
      This was the closest I am going to get!
      Thank you xo

  • @antoniahole4386
    @antoniahole4386 2 роки тому +2

    She is a darling your mum

  • @sallypapa6216
    @sallypapa6216 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for sharing Googie’s beautiful garden with us
    I really enjoyed the tour

  • @darbyfamily6218
    @darbyfamily6218 2 роки тому +2

    Absolutely magical!

  • @hollyadkins4729
    @hollyadkins4729 Рік тому +2

    I REALLY loved this one❣️

  • @miamia9179
    @miamia9179 9 місяців тому +1

    I’m a new mom i tried to fill up my garden with many flowers it's never get beautiful like your mom garden

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  9 місяців тому +1

      keep trying - slowly slowly you'll get better at it and the garden will fill with flowers - it's hard work with little children but you can do it x

  • @emilyknight6963
    @emilyknight6963 Рік тому +5

    These videos with your Mother are wonderful. Her garden is magnificent. Please put a microphone on her. I don't want to miss a word she says! Thanks for sharing your Mother and her garden.

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  Рік тому +1

      I'm getting better with microphones - not v tech savvy here but getting better x

  • @charlotterose5571
    @charlotterose5571 2 роки тому +1

    Love ❤️ 💕 💗

  • @CasaLaMesa
    @CasaLaMesa 3 роки тому +5

    OH Gosh! This might be my favorite collection of things in a day from a life all placed in one video! How inspiring, you and your sweet mum are! Yes you two ARE! I love these videos.

  • @debraflowers5905
    @debraflowers5905 2 роки тому +3

    I thoroughly enjoyed you and your mother touring her garden. Both of your personalities are the best! It is nice meandering and seeing plants tucked here and there and her patchwork hedge. And the hedgehog house!!!

  • @samirajerkovic2105
    @samirajerkovic2105 2 роки тому +1

    Love this!!!!

  • @helenemontpetit4494
    @helenemontpetit4494 Рік тому +1

    I love it! I live in Canada, but if i was Closer i would buy you some good coffee!

  • @mitzi605
    @mitzi605 Рік тому +1

    Very fun

  • @hannahdecoster7489
    @hannahdecoster7489 3 роки тому +9

    aah so cute 🥺 this is how i see myself in the future as an old lady. i’m sure she’s never bored taking care of a magnificent garden like that every day, it’s beautiful

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому +2

      I don’t think she’s ever been bored in her life xxx

  • @MSCuteGarden1
    @MSCuteGarden1 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks for sharing your mom beautiful treasure.

  • @jeanrae2171
    @jeanrae2171 3 роки тому +1

    Wonderful.

  • @kobedeister5234
    @kobedeister5234 2 роки тому +1

    Amazing looking garden ✨

  • @suepattison9797
    @suepattison9797 2 роки тому +1

    Lovely .she is inspirational. My mam was a keen gardener ..but at 84 dementia has got her and that knowledge has gone ....she is like a wilting flower no comfrey will bring her back ...So im a gardener too ..i dont like formal garden,love a rambeling hedge ,very thing fighting to survive and not a weed in sight .thank u for shareing

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  2 роки тому

      My pleasure - and I'm glad you inherited the gardening gene from your mum x

  • @janhenson293
    @janhenson293 2 роки тому +1

    Who needs a book to read when we can watch your wonderful videos, there's just 1 problem once you've watched 1 it's like eating a box of chocolates (only better) you can't stop!!
    Love your Mum and her beautiful garden.

  • @celiafraser1555
    @celiafraser1555 3 роки тому +2

    You two need your own series 🌞

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому

      if only we didn't live over two hundred miles from each other x

  • @melindawycoff5627
    @melindawycoff5627 3 роки тому +1

    We all should copy your mother!

  • @MusingsFromTheDen
    @MusingsFromTheDen 3 роки тому +8

    'Can you spell that without a sherry?` 🤣🤣
    What a beautiful garden! I love the potting shed with a view. 😍
    It's a good job Viper's bugloss is good for pollinators because it has evil stingers - I had to put my gardening gloves in the washing machine 3 times to get rid of the ruddy things! 😜
    Your mum's hilarious, I love her. 😊

  • @jennychase7584
    @jennychase7584 3 роки тому +5

    Lovely to see your Mam. This lady is where you get your humour and enthusiasm from, I giggled a lot through this video. Thank you both for the walk around a smashing garden x

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed - she is quite the garden powerhouse x

  • @aliceheidecker1853
    @aliceheidecker1853 3 роки тому +5

    This is just delightful! What an amazing person! Your mother is so interesting and entertaining with her intelligence and humor!
    I just love her!

  • @RuubinSelena
    @RuubinSelena 2 роки тому +1

    I could spend the whole day just walking around that lovely garden, what a dream!

  • @roseinthegardenusa
    @roseinthegardenusa Рік тому +2

    Your mum’s property is so spacious, I can’t believe how many garden spaces she’s created and maintains. It’s absolutely beautiful in every way. I love following along with you and your mum through the garden as she explains details and your chitchat through it all. So interesting and truly wonderful. I so enjoy all the views throughout that you’re so good to point out and share. It’s really such a magical property.🌸

  • @eveburdettequinn9562
    @eveburdettequinn9562 3 роки тому

    Just Love this.

  • @HarmonyHillsHomeandGarden
    @HarmonyHillsHomeandGarden 2 роки тому +5

    So glad I found your channel! I'm enjoying every single video you post, as I go back through your library to catch up. I love your sense of humor and your "no nonsense unless it's fun nonsense" approach to your channel. And I absolutely ADORED this video, you and your mum together a real hoot! Thanks so much for putting yourself out there for us to learn from, but mostly, to just enjoy!

  • @colette8694
    @colette8694 2 роки тому +1

    Oh your mother is such a charming Character. I love her sense of humor, both of you make me laugh 💕.

  • @aileenstewart3083
    @aileenstewart3083 3 роки тому +3

    What a wonderful woman and a wonderful garden! I enjoyed this tour of the garden with you and your mum so much.
    My own mum and grandmother were my gardening inspirations too. Mum passed away earlier this year at the age of 83. Even after 11 heart attacks, 3 strokes and numerous other health problems, she continued working in her own small garden with absolutely no help. Her garden was her pride and joy and very much her “Happy Place”. It was only a badly broken ankle, that refused to heal, that finally prevented her from gardening or even getting out into her garden during the last 7 months of her life. Miss her so much! Savour every moment you have with your amazing mum in this fabulous “Happy Place”.

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому +1

      Thankyou - there is nothing like a gardening Mum xxx

  • @bettygray2365
    @bettygray2365 Рік тому +1

    Your mother has the most amazing garden thank you for showing it to us

  • @rachelandy2207
    @rachelandy2207 3 роки тому +4

    What an amazing woman. Your mum is a star and knowledgeable 💜💜

  • @deborahjohnston267
    @deborahjohnston267 3 роки тому +4

    Entertaining as always - what a double act! What an achievement at 81 years young - fabulous garden.

  • @rdm98607
    @rdm98607 3 роки тому +2

    Usa here. Mum is fantastic, fabulous garden, both of u are wonderfully creative

  • @christinesennett6025
    @christinesennett6025 3 роки тому +3

    Thank you for giving us a tour of your mother's garden. It was a delight to watch. Your mother is amazing for her age, and a great advertisement for gardening as a means to stay fit and healthy, and young at heart. May she long continue with her creative journey.

  • @leeprazeres7304
    @leeprazeres7304 3 роки тому +4

    I love your mom’s sense of humor 😂 you need to film her more often kind regards Lee South Africa

  • @bernadette1510
    @bernadette1510 Рік тому +1

    Where did Googie came from? I am sure this question has been asked before but I haven’t found the answer. I love how spunky she is, great sense of humor!
    The garden is amazing!

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  Рік тому

      she's my Mum x

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  Рік тому +1

      or maybe you mean the name? it was her nickname when she was a little girl and now she's a granny she's Googie instead of Granny x

    • @bernadette1510
      @bernadette1510 Рік тому

      Love it! She she is so full of life and happiness!

  • @brookehoffman7939
    @brookehoffman7939 2 роки тому +2

    I absolutely loved the tour of your mothers garden. I’m new to your channel, but am having so much fun. You are both absolutely lovely people! I am a quilter/gardener.

  • @KathrynBladesLearning
    @KathrynBladesLearning 3 роки тому +2

    Lovely…your mother is delightful. Please do this often.

  • @sheelaghomalley3292
    @sheelaghomalley3292 3 роки тому +2

    I can see where you get your humour and enthusiasm 😉 Lovely Lovely Lovely 😍

  • @serometate1031
    @serometate1031 2 роки тому +2

    Such a lovely garden…love your mom she is upbeat hilarious and so inspiring ❤️

  • @alisonburgess345
    @alisonburgess345 3 роки тому +4

    great tour of the garden - those stone walls are to die for! Well done everyone..

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому

      Tis a beautiful place and the stone is lovely x

  • @yvonnewebster1774
    @yvonnewebster1774 2 роки тому +2

    What a fantastic garden - thank you for the tour. Your Mum is amazing and has such an array of plants. It must be a lot of hard work but it obviously keeps your Mum fit and looking so young

  • @pallascecile7034
    @pallascecile7034 3 роки тому +2

    Quel Merveilleux Jardin !!!.... une vraie source d'inspiration...
    Bravo à la jardinière... et à tous ses amis qui viennent aider...
    A Bientôt,

  • @creativedaisycrafts5318
    @creativedaisycrafts5318 3 роки тому +3

    The little pink plant looks like Francoa songifolia or bridal wreath. Your mum’s garden is wonderful, loved the tour 🥰

  • @lindafischer877
    @lindafischer877 2 роки тому +1

    Your mum is a delight❤

  • @helenyoung8012
    @helenyoung8012 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you for the walk round your Mother’s garden. It was inspirational as was she!!

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому

      She’s quite something - I love the patchwork hedge and the bayou blue gate x

    • @helenyoung8012
      @helenyoung8012 3 роки тому

      @@theflowerfarmer . So did I, along with the chestnut pale gate to Mr McGregors vegetable patch and the sedum/orchid top to the shed. The whole place was just delightful. Hope I continue to get as much enjoyment from my garden as she does 😊

  • @danie1hi116
    @danie1hi116 2 роки тому +1

    Not the cat story 😂😭

  • @classvideosbydrstarrs6433
    @classvideosbydrstarrs6433 2 роки тому +1

    oh that was absolutely delightful. Thank-you so much for sharing. Such as amazing garden and inspirational gardener.

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  2 роки тому

      Thankyou - am up visiting her now and we are making another clip x

  • @patriciawalshconcannon7887
    @patriciawalshconcannon7887 3 роки тому +2

    Awww this video was just so enjoyable! Thanks to your Mum for her tour of a happy garden x

  • @brankenflowery8416
    @brankenflowery8416 3 роки тому +2

    Wow. Fabulous!

  • @jeanbonus902
    @jeanbonus902 3 роки тому +1

    Love your mother's garden,watching from palawan,philippines.stay safe😃

  • @amandadoyle2676
    @amandadoyle2676 3 роки тому +2

    your mum is a legend iso hope and wish am still gardening and running my florist business at that age what a inspirational hero she is now i know where you get your inspiration from you both areamazing loved her garden its stunning so are you both

  • @luizap.5344
    @luizap.5344 2 роки тому +1

    Such a lovely mum !

  • @vilmataduyo8347
    @vilmataduyo8347 3 роки тому +1

    You’re mum is such an amazing woman.

  • @gardenroom65
    @gardenroom65 2 роки тому +1

    You need to put your eccentric English mother on regularly. The Americans will love her! 🥒🌿💛

  • @veronicablancoperez9665
    @veronicablancoperez9665 2 роки тому +1

    Such a beautifull one. Thanks to you and to your mum .

  • @suziecarter1403
    @suziecarter1403 3 роки тому +1

    That was brilliant, so glad you got the sound fixed. Thank you.

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому

      Thankyou for pointing it out - I am technically v basic! X

  • @leonienolan511
    @leonienolan511 2 роки тому +1

    Such a wonderful video , love you and your mum's personality so much , found you channel yesterday and now I am totally hooked, ,

  • @tammywinter9268
    @tammywinter9268 3 роки тому +1

    Your mother’s garden is fabulous

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому +1

      Isn’t it x she v clever lady x

    • @tammywinter9268
      @tammywinter9268 3 роки тому

      @@theflowerfarmer she’s amazing, she inspires me! So do you. New to your channel. I’m 62 gardening in zone 5 in the US.

  • @myvintageswag6893
    @myvintageswag6893 3 роки тому +1

    I love your mom!

  • @Tracymw99
    @Tracymw99 Рік тому +1

    Oh my she makes me laugh

  • @jacintabyline
    @jacintabyline 3 роки тому +3

    Wonderful tour. Your mum is inspirational! I can't believe she keeps such a large garden looking so amazing! I grumble about my aches and pains tending my 3/4 acre garden here in NZ - and I'm almost 20 years younger lol.

  • @heatherpedersen7865
    @heatherpedersen7865 3 роки тому +1

    The garden is spectacular, your mother wonderful! Just purchased your new book. Thank You!

  • @kathypope3010
    @kathypope3010 3 роки тому +1

    That was so so much fun!! Thank you

  • @petercresswell5402
    @petercresswell5402 Рік тому +1

    I'm a little behind, obviously, as this video is 12 months old. Really enjoy your mother's garden it's delightful. I was curious where abouts it was in the county, and then you mention "popping" to Tom and Abby's so I suspect you're not too far from there. That gives me a reasonable idea, as I'm in Cumbria too it's nice to see a mature garden which can go e meca clue as to what will do well in my own, especially as I'm very much a novice. However, if you are close to Tom and Abby you're in southern climes compared to us stop the M6 lol

  • @kimfox5186
    @kimfox5186 2 роки тому +1

    What an amazing garden and lovely gardeners 😍. Thanks for sharing it with us and I was wondering why we haven't seen your mum and her garden on Gardeners World. Have a great weekend 😀

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  2 роки тому +1

      Lol - she’d be a gardener’s world superstar!

  • @joannfraser22
    @joannfraser22 3 роки тому +1

    Breathtaking. 🤍

  • @jeanrae2171
    @jeanrae2171 3 роки тому +1

    'Loddon Anna'

  • @chrisdooney5374
    @chrisdooney5374 2 роки тому

    Hi Your moms garden is beautiful.. do you have a garden tour of your garden, I'm a new subscriber

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  2 роки тому

      Yes I do - scroll through and occasionally I post a tour of the garden at different times of the year - I just posted one this weekend in fact xxx

    • @chrisdooney5374
      @chrisdooney5374 2 роки тому

      @@theflowerfarmer Thank you is it available to watch?

  • @tiny7895
    @tiny7895 3 роки тому +1

    brilliant! thank you - love your mums wavy fencing please may i ask where her wavy fencing is from?

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому +1

      She’s had it a while - I think she saw it at an rhs show years ago x

    • @tiny7895
      @tiny7895 3 роки тому

      @@theflowerfarmer ah thank you

  • @CottageGardensonForest
    @CottageGardensonForest 3 роки тому +1

    Your mother’s greenhouse is gorgeous! Her garden is fabulous! What was the large stand of flowers you first spoke about outside the greenhouse? I’m growing comfrey for the fertilizer also. Her compost bins are huge and amazing. Everything is so green and beautiful. I would have never guessed her age. Gardening has definitely kept her young and fit. What is the pink that’s not meadowsweet? Loved your visit. Thanks

    • @theflowerfarmer
      @theflowerfarmer  3 роки тому +1

      The first plant you ask about is a campanula though which I’m not sure and the pink froth not meadowsweet is Filipendula bravenusta x

  • @shannonholmberg8835
    @shannonholmberg8835 3 роки тому +1

    What was the flower that as the tall stalk, pink, and your mum said she would remember later?

  • @allisong6
    @allisong6 Рік тому +1

    But seriously how do u spell that tra??? I know I just need it, where is irrelevant I just need it 🤣