I also started my UA-cam Gardening Ch in 2011, but I was quite a bit older than you... Huw 🙂 I do agree that a garden is like an artwork that's always getting touched up and improved. All the best with your new garden canvas and upcoming book 👍😉
@selfsufficientme Wow good to see you leaving a comment .I watch your videos eagerly even though my area in Worcestershire is cool wet and windy very unlike your weather conditions and I love your humour .my daughter and sister moved to Australia sister in Melbourne daughter in Adelaide
Well done Huw. I've been with you all the way and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your progress. You're very inspiring. Top man. Ps I love John Seymour's book too, also the earth care manual and Chris Evans work on permaculture, he's just been awarded an MBE on his work. Cheers J
Exactly, that's not a silly thing.... it is one highly recommend.... especially that in this case is about the land that became a garden, it is about Earth herself. Although I do not agree with this method of topping up compost and actually not growing the plants that much into the soil of the garden, I very much enjoyed watching your videos. So I thank you, your team and your garden for that and I hope to enjoy as much the secret garden.... hopefully with a bit more plants into the soil and a bit more 'disturbance' of it 😂 (because that sort of 'disturbance' is actually so good for the soil and the health of the planet herself)
I’ve just sold my home of 17 years and before I left I said farewell and thanked my garden for what it had produced for me and my family over the years 😊
@@HuwRichardsme, too! You were such a cute boy! You’re still cute but it was that boy who got me in the garden & helped me to be ok even if all my seeds died! ;) I learned the adventure of experimenting and the fun that this could be! Thank you for helping & encouraging so many of us who might have never had a chance to pick a pea otherwise! ❤
Same here. Long time viewer. Your videos & garden have always blown me away. Hoping one day I might have one or be part of one. Keep up the amazing work & best of luck in the new garden. Also feel free to do any shoutouts for volunteers 🙏🌍🌱
Growing up with you and your garden was very special. Thanks for those many years. And many years to come. Loving and living what you do is so important.💞
It must be such a relief to know the garden will be cared for. When I left my subtropical paradise garden we had made in Australia, the new owners had destroyed most of it within months - partly deliberately, partly just through neglect. The back garden was then excavated to make room for a pool. The only way to get over the devastation has been to make a new and excting temperate garden here in New Zealand. I just feel sad, not only for the lovely place it was, but also for the children who will grow up with a sterile space, no joy of growing living things, and just a pool.
@@trilliarobinson7862 hello, I totally understand you, and even if I don't know your garden I feel bad the new owners have destroyed a little paradise full of life you made 😞. Australia has lost a little paradise, New Zealand is winning one... I personaly moved to my house 4 years ago (from an appartment, in France) and I've been inspired by many youtubers since to create my little permaculture garden. It begins to look quite nice and efficient, and sometimes I think about "if I have to move (even if it's not in my plans !), will the new owners destroy all that ?" and that hypothesis breaks my heart...I wish you a nice gardening journey in your new place !
Thanks Melodie ! I think we all have to accept that new owners won't love our gardens as we do. Unfortunately, because of Covid lockdowns, I had to remain living across the road from mine for 9 months, so watched it's destruction firsthand ! All we can do is love the garden we are in, and gain so much pleasure while we can. @@melodiergb3654
I am so glad you are just handing that lovely garden back to your Dad. I'm sure for many years you filled his heart with great joy as he watched his son's passion grow. I will miss this garden but know in your new garden you will continue to amaze us.
I’m suddenly reminded of a song from 70 years ago: I will follow you, follow you wherever you may go, there isn’t an ocean so deep, a mountain so high it can keep, keep me away… from the gardeners I love 💕
I have been watching your videos for years, and I feel honoured and privileged to been able to watch you grow and mature as wonderfully as the plants you have nurtured. Bless you and your family, and I look forward to watching your new garden develop!
1. What a great Dad! You do right by honoring him and I am sure you are a blessing to him as well. 2. A project as large as this is like art. Never really done. 3. Love for what you do is rare in this world. I am glad for you.
Not only an ode to your Garden, but also to the great parenting of your mother and father. Not only have they given you the ability to sustain yourself and others through nutrition, but they have also, obviously, given you the ability to express yourself emotionally in a calm manner. Those two together are going to make your adult life so much easier. Thanks for all of your videos, they have made me a much better gardener, and I have always enjoyed your soft and humble delivery.
From a 70yo gardener in Australia who also enjoyed ' A Good Life' on tv. Have watched many of your early videos on vegie growing & followed your advice. I too am a bit emotional for you moving on. I only hope your parents can handle the garden size now or are you going to downsize it for them? Thanks for sharing all those gems of info with us & I will continue to watch you go from strength to strength.😊
What a remarkable person you are, Huw Richard's. How much better the world would be if people had even a bit of your character. Thanks to your Dad for shaping you and gifting us with such a treasure.
Hi, I was so upset when I started watching this ‘farewell to the garden’ video, as I have been watching you since you were very young, you were and still are a huge inspiration to me…..you saved me in during lockdown, I felt as though I had a very interesting friend….then you said your Dad was having it back and you were still going to continue sharing ideas and your usual cheerful self with us all! What a huge relief! I feel rather selfish, but everyone tells me that as one door closes another one opens! I have been gardening before John Seymour wrote his self sufficiency book, but I’ve learnt so much more from you than anyone else. Thankyou and Goodluck with the secret garden. We need you as much as you need us!
Oh my goodness, I was thinking the same thing! I actually thought it was all done and I actually started *grieving* the loss of Huw's constant presence and this garden that he has caused to have such a huge impact on my life! And then he goes on to say it's not over...either the channel or this garden. Phew!! Thank you so much Huw, for all the work you have done for so many years! I didn't find you til about 5 years ago, but I think I have went back and watched every video you have made:) I don't comment a lot, but I do occasionally. I felt like this one needs a comment as it is a huge change but exciting new beginnings. I'm so glad my first perception was wrong but I thought I would take the opportunity to let you know how much of a positive impact you've made. The wisdom, beauty, freedom and so much of your personal life/joy of what you do, shared on your channel are absolutely refreshing and encouraging. You have inspired me to garden with abandon and to keep curiosity and fun at the center so my garden doesn't feel like a burden, but a great adventure....even when my growing season is 2 months long 😜 Thank you again:)
I was so sad, I had to read ahead in the comments because it seemed so heavy! Phew! I can watch and know. I don't like that kind of suspense.@@Atimatimukti
Dear Huw, your gardening channel has been a terrific influence on me. I am a "late bloomer", but and an enthusiast now, producing delicisous veg and moving around my garden recreationally. Thanks, son!
Every end is a new beginning. For that reason, I say congratulations! It's always difficult to end a chapter in a book, but it's the cost of progress. Our experiences and memories make us who we are. Even if you're not in that garden anymore, it will forever be the foundation of the person you continue to become.
It's wonderful that your dad started & you wanted to help. Once he realized you lived it he allowed you to take care of it all by yourself. That's the way it should be. I know your dad will take good care of it. A new chapter is waiting. The new garden is anxiously awaiting for your 100% attention. It will be beautiful as this 1. I'm glad you're not giving up the garden videos
You should be very proud of the beautiful garden you have created and knowledge you have shared. We thank you and wish you the very best in your new Garden. Excited for what lay ahead!🇨🇦
A garden closer to home…looking forward to your next chapter! I am a “postage stamp” gardener, at 74 yrs…2 beds, still learning, on the corner of a busy street in a mountain town…I enjoy your garden journeys so much, it’s a fantasy garden journey for me! Blessings of roots and wings to you!
Wow…you started so young. I have only known about your channel in the last few years, and it’s become a favorite. You are so good at what you do and you inspire so many.
To me, your garden and videos are the most beautiful - you grieved me until you disclosed that this garden and you are both carrying on - lovely and lovely!
Huw. I've just cried. So emotional. Incredible. You are such an inspiration to so many and have lead the way. Changed so much and encouraged so many. From the bottom of my heart Thank You.
Phew 😅 so glad to hear it is not the end of your channel Huw and no, it is not a funny idea by any means to thank the garden. As I’m sure you will already know, just like you and every single one of us the plants, wildlife & creatures that live there as well as the earth are “life” itself. All of us are living beings. If we/they were not, none of us would exist. We each have a role to play as guardians of the earth and we each are dependent on the other.. so with that in mind I’m sure your all encompassing garden appreciates you as well and the connection you have formed through the transference of the love and energy you put into it.. and that you have received in return. It has responded with an abundance of nutritious, life giving food and given much pleasure, healing and joy which you will also, receive from which ever garden you create. All the very best 🙏🏼
At first I was very sad when I heard you say goodbye to your garden, but as I continued to listen, I was very happy that you were going to continue with your channel and that your garden was going to be returned to your father. The aerial views show your beautiful art work with your garden and the love that you have for it. May God be with you and your family, and may your future be bright and successful.
You should be immensely proud - your regular videos have brought pleasure to thousands of people, put a smile on their faces and encouraged them to get out and about and enjoy their gardens. On to the next chapter!
Huw, I am a fellow gardening UA-camr from Hungary, and I would like to thank you and your amazing garden for all the inspiration you have given me during the years. Your channel has always been a place I could go back to and recharge from if necessary, a goal to - still - achieve, your quality of work a standard to follow. Thank you very very much. Looking forward to seeing where you're going from here. 👏
This channel has long been my personal "gold standard" for all YT channels. I know some of what you do here stems from the fact that you have been a content creator for so long, but you have never fallen into the trend trap. That is what always kept me coming back. And when you have a video with "Goodbye" in the title, I know it isn't a click bait scheme. It's been fun and inspiring watching you and your garden grow. This was a fine tribute to everything you've done up until now, and I am very much looking forward to what I will learn from you in your new garden!
Watched you grow from a boy into a man in this garden that has nurtured you and you've nurtured in return. Thank you all... Touched more than one can say May your garden thrive no matter where you are!
Huw I began watching you early on in your journey, I believe we are the same age. I watched this video with my toddler on my lap and I told her, "this is Huw, he's handsome and very talented. He also has a great accent and beautiful garden!" She loved it. We are in Florida, USA so very different climate but very big fans. This made me so emotional! Change can be hard but I'm so grateful for all you've taught us and look forward to your next chapter.
Huw, omgosh, you gave me a cry and a scare! 😂💖 Your garden has been a part of many of our lives, so saying goodbye in such a meaningful way was wonderful to see. And I am SO GLAD this is just the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new one, as if you were to fully end this channel... good grief. Welp, I'm just truly thankful that's not the case. Looking forward to see what you have in store for us in the future!
I know!!! I was scared too that this was it! The end! I just found this channel and subscribed. Excited to see what the next chapter has in store for us. 😊
From my whole heart: Thank you, Huw, thank you, Beautiful Garden! I don't mind telling you this video made me very emotional too... bless you for letting us know that you are going to keep with us, and moving to The Secret Garden. 💚
Those aerial views are absolutely beautiful, you and your dad have done an incredible job with that space. Congratulations on "leveling up", as it were!
Oh my gosh , I had tears in my eyes watching this video 😢. What an inspiration! And I don't blame you for how you feel. Your dad was a wonderful man to let you use this garden to a wonderful young man with passion to grow and inspire thousands of individuals like me and many more ! Neither to say , I am excited to see your new garden! Can't wait ! 😂👏🏻 A new journey, how awesome! 😊
Oh no! I will really miss you in this garden. Thank you for your efforts and sharing your knowledge with us all. You did a great thing here. Don't forget that. Can't wait to see the next chapter.
Big hug from Hungary 💚from the people of the hungarian cultural creatives, from the hungarian deepmulching community and also from the Hungarian Permaculture Association 🫂💚
It's been a pleasure Huw, watching you over the years. Although I'm a seasoned gardener at nearly 67 years old, some of your tips have helped me on my allotment. I wish you all the very best on your next venture.
So beautifully filmed - the footage, the music, the homage, the script, the history, the nostalgia, the journey, and of course Huw. I love the story, how it ends with the return of the garden to the original owner, the teary emotions. Thank you, love you, Huw, and your wonderful garden.
You have really grown, not only in height but especially in knowledge! ☺This is something no one takes away from you. This is a time to look back at what you have accomplished! A great inspiration for us to start our own vegetable garden and grow bigger! 👍 We are starting fresh next season in our homestead in France after leaving our small vegetable garden behind. And we are very curious about your secret garden, this one is definitely going to be another success and we will follow you again!
Touching goodbye to the garden that has brought you up and provided a space for you to grow just as well as the thousands of food plants over the years. How wonderful that although this chapter has ended, the garden will still be there with your dad to visit. Looking forward to the new chapter Huw, all the best 🌻🌻
Wonderful to see you honouring your dad like that Huw, such a rare occurrence these day with the younger generation. Just goes to show you’ve had a wonderful upbringing with a freedom to explore the earth and reap the benefits of hard work. Looking forward to watching where your next journey takes you 🤗 well done!
I started watching you when you were a little kid, I thought it was a little weird for a kid to have a gardening channel and what could I learn from him but I subscribed lol. And I would periodically watch your videos with increasing frequency. It has been nice to watch you grow up and evolve as gardener. You are leaving behind a beautiful space but I am sure you will create a new one. You are still young and a new adventure is a great new learning opportunity. Look forward to watching the new garden evolve along with you.
The first video I watched of yours was one where you showed us how to start pea seedlings in a length of gutter and then transplant them by sliding them out of the gutter and into a shallow trench. I bought your book too. You've certainly inspired me! In a world full of men whose attention is on other less valuable pursuits, it was refreshing to see a man cultivate the ground with passion and knowledge seeminly beyond your years, and do so successfully. Anyways. A new chapter sounds like quite the adventure, and I am excited to see what you do!
When you work the soil you come to love it and becomes a part of you , it is the ultimate in giving but also taking away, Thank you for you education and knowledge.
Omg, I felt really choked up hearing you say your goodbyes to this beautiful place! I have followed your career since discovering one of your videos, perhaps when you were 13 or so, showing viewers how to take rose cuttings. I thought it was the sweetest thing seeing a lad so young sharing such a ‘grown up’ topic with so much enthusiasm. I have rejoiced over the years seeing your channel grow, and you alongside with it. You deserve every success, Huw! I’m sure the next venture will be an ever more successful chapter in your life. All the best, and I’m looking forward to sharing the journey with you.
Such beautiful memories, and now a new vision. I remember watching you as a young lad learning and experimenting in your gardens, all those years ago. As my grandmother use to say, "You've done good!" You are leaving some beautiful gardens for your dad to enjoy. 😀
Such a wonderful tribute to your best “friend!” I’ve watched you for several years and you’re my favorite gardener to watch. I’m an American but I’m a 1/4 welsh and have visited the country so that’s another reason I love your videos. Love that your videos are always so calming and refreshing, and you’re always so genuine. A real talent for communicating too. Your passion shines through… started to get chocked up because I know how attached we get to our gardens!! Thanks for being you.
This video just popped up out of nowhere and oh boy I was wrong thinking the title was dramatic; I can't imagine leaving sth, even for the better, that you worked and nourished so hard for over a decade. Especially when you spent a significant amount of your childhood in it. It is indeed a beautiful garden you cared and created. I can't help but hope you the best of best, with your next chapter! Take care!
Oh my world! 😢 starting everything at such a young age! I’m totally impressed and I have to tell you you’re such an inspiration! Props to you, I’m trying to get a land soonish to be a little self sufficient !
you know that teary-eyed smiley emoji?! That's me over here! A big hug to you and also to your Dad 🤗. I remember the videos with him in it. Happy for you both and honored to have been able to watch it all evolve. Now... Secret Garden grand-opening pleeeease!!! Eagerly awaiting this next chapter in your book! 💚🌱🌷🥰
Huw...... I've just cried. This video is so emotional.😪 I am also a gardener and I enjoyed watching your videos of your beautiful garden since 2016. I'm from Slovenia and I remember your video when you came to our country in 2018. You were so excited when you saw that every house has its own garden. Now you are saying goodbye to your garden. I am sure we will see your new gardening achievements in the future . That is a very emotional farewel. Thank you Huw for all yours videos, you are an inspiration. I wish you all the best. ❤
Huw, so nice to watch this video and understand your grounded start from your Dad. You created an incredible environment and your passion pours through in all you do. It is not weird to thank your garden, it is a humbling appreciation of all that is beyond our control as gardeners. No doubt you have had a positive impact of countless aspiring gardeners including yours truly from Northern, Virginia, USA. Be safe and well and best of luck in your future endeavors.
Hey Huw, from one Commonwealth to another.....we've never met, but I've always watched your journey from afar here in Canada. Keep spreading the word and doing what you're doing. It means a lot to so many people. Can't wait to see what is in store!
I'm Australian and have watched yours and Mark's (from Selfsufficientme) channels for years. I have a tiny garden but grow as much food as I can. I had a horticulturalist ask me if I'd like him to help me plant out my garden when I was unwell for a couple of years and he mentioned the flowers he had in mind. I didn't recognise the plants he mentioned and asked "can you eat it?" He laughed and said "no" so I declined his offer. I never saw him again! I get a lot of my knowledge from my Grandad and also from you and Mark. Thank you and good luck on your future endeavours! 💜
And me. Plus Charles Dowding. I started growing at 4, thanks to my dad too. I’m now 71 and still learning and enjoying growing and eating the produce, now experimenting with using aquaponics for easier propagation of stem cuttings as well as wicking beds, raised beds, vertical growing, and wild food forest (banana circle, paw paw, sweet potato, ginger, tumeric, galangal, herbs), and quails, all in just about 35sqm of what was once a tiled waterfront. My friends think I’m mad to create so much work, but this lifelong interest, the closeness to nature, witnessing the life cycles and competing & symbiotic relationships, is what has kept me physically healthy, mentally alert and psychologically content all these years. I look forward to your next series Huw
Thanks to you and your family for lending us your garden to help us learn the art and science of gardening. Connection to nature, to the soil to the reality of the seasons is something of true value.
Man, you got me with that thumbnail. 😱 While I live in a _radically_ different climate and can't really take away too terribly much in terms of certain crops, I've enjoyed your channel for quite a while now. I'm glad you touched on this being your career, because that's where I've stumbled a bit personally - I wanted a garden like this and honestly felt like I wasn't doing enough, and my wife has to remind me that I already have a full time job and about 1000 other obligations, and there just isn't the time. She's echoed what you said here, and I need the reminder sometimes. You've done more for making me want to visit Wales than any Welsh Tourism Board ever could. 😂 I'm looking forward to seeing the new garden progress.
Beautiful tribute to a hugely formative part of your life, and ours. As much as your Dad gets his garden back, I think he will miss having you there. Roots and wings, right? You built roots in this garden, and now you're spreading your wings. In some way, that's why your parents chose the John Seymour/Tom and Barbara lifestyle - so that just this would happen.
Looking forward to watching you grow and evolve with the new garden. Change is always hard, but I see that the new adventure will be exciting for you. I’m looking forward to this next chapter. ❤
Beautiful farewell, and so wonderful to have shared it with your Dad and he will continue to enjoy it. Secret Garden 💚🌱 Thank you Huw, you are an inspiration 🙏🏼
You are one of the few that has those memories stored in video, and able to re-visit at any time! Oh how I wish I could see videos of my gardens of the past!
I have just started following you. You have the the wisdom of gardening. Your creation is wonder for many. Thanks for sharing your growth. I cant wait to see you again❤
Your gardens are works of art. The attention to detail and harmony show in everything, trellises, fences, raised beds etc. I look forward to see what’s next in your story.
I can't believe I have been following you since you were a kid! I always loved that garden! Seeing it transform over the yrs has been delightful! I know your dad will do great keeping it up as you move on. Blessings from Oklahoma!
Change. Always difficult, filled with uncertainty. Yet a whole new adventure. The pass years have been wonderful. The gardens beautiful. Looking forward to a whole new series to come. Best wishes ❤
Love this video and I'm sure many of us can relate to grieving the loss of a garden. Reading these comments really does show the lovely corner of the internet you have managed to nurture too!
It’s been so beautiful to watch your channel grow and evolve into what it is today, from humble beginnings :) Your channel has been an invaluable guide and inspiration to building our garden in our first home over the last year. Thank you Huw!
Hello from Georgia in the US. Huw, I must admit I have mixed feelings, as I'm sure you do. Having watched you in this beautiful garden giving wonderful inspiration and instruction, it will surely be missed. But you're going forward with your new garden and I look forward to your new adventures with renewed anticipation. I wish you all the best; stay well - until next time.
At long last you can see my new garden here: ua-cam.com/video/8Mu4wtpPluo/v-deo.html
I was panicking because I had not seen any videos from you, they just never came up for me. Very glad to hear there will be more!
I also started my UA-cam Gardening Ch in 2011, but I was quite a bit older than you... Huw 🙂 I do agree that a garden is like an artwork that's always getting touched up and improved. All the best with your new garden canvas and upcoming book 👍😉
You are one of my Top 10 favorite UA-camr sir !! 😊😊😊 love all of your Videos 😊😊
In 12 years you both grew the 2 best gardening channels on UA-cam
Thank you so much Mark! What a journey you've been on too! Over 2mill subscribers, absolutely bonkers and well deserved!
Mark and Huw!! Two of our favourites! You must get together sometime. Preferably in my garden! 🇦🇺 🌱
@selfsufficientme
Wow good to see you leaving a comment .I watch your videos eagerly even though my area in Worcestershire is cool wet and windy very unlike your weather conditions and I love your humour .my daughter and sister moved to Australia sister in Melbourne daughter in Adelaide
Well done Huw. I've been with you all the way and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your progress. You're very inspiring. Top man. Ps I love John Seymour's book too, also the earth care manual and Chris Evans work on permaculture, he's just been awarded an MBE on his work. Cheers J
It's never silly to thank anything that ever made an impact on us. Specially something so wonderful and so positive as your garden. ❤
Thank you.
Yes! In all things give thanks. God is gracious and good!
I second that. That garden is a sacred space. It has clearly given and received much love.
Exactly, that's not a silly thing.... it is one highly recommend.... especially that in this case is about the land that became a garden, it is about Earth herself.
Although I do not agree with this method of topping up compost and actually not growing the plants that much into the soil of the garden, I very much enjoyed watching your videos. So I thank you, your team and your garden for that and I hope to enjoy as much the secret garden.... hopefully with a bit more plants into the soil and a bit more 'disturbance' of it 😂
(because that sort of 'disturbance' is actually so good for the soil and the health of the planet herself)
I’ve just sold my home of 17 years and before I left I said farewell and thanked my garden for what it had produced for me and my family over the years 😊
Looking forward to new beginnings
Well this was a lovely, moving send off to your garden. I'm chocked up. I've followed your channel since you were 14. How time flies.
Wow - a vetran viewer! Thank you so much for being a part of this
@@HuwRichardsme, too! You were such a cute boy! You’re still cute but it was that boy who got me in the garden & helped me to be ok even if all my seeds died! ;) I learned the adventure of experimenting and the fun that this could be! Thank you for helping & encouraging so many of us who might have never had a chance to pick a pea otherwise! ❤
Same here. Long time viewer. Your videos & garden have always blown me away. Hoping one day I might have one or be part of one. Keep up the amazing work & best of luck in the new garden. Also feel free to do any shoutouts for volunteers 🙏🌍🌱
And I'm another with weepy eyes and a joyful heart, watching your journey. Glorious beyond words. Thank you.
@@thezenfarmerOde to Huw, his inherited garden, a boy becoming a man, lineage and life unending, amen. All the best plowing forward, Huwman
Growing up with you and your garden was very special. Thanks for those many years. And many years to come. Loving and living what you do is so important.💞
A new beginning is always a positive and the fact that you can go back to your past whenever you want is a blessing❤
That is beautifully put, thank you
It must be such a relief to know the garden will be cared for. When I left my subtropical paradise garden we had made in Australia, the new owners had destroyed most of it within months - partly deliberately, partly just through neglect. The back garden was then excavated to make room for a pool. The only way to get over the devastation has been to make a new and excting temperate garden here in New Zealand. I just feel sad, not only for the lovely place it was, but also for the children who will grow up with a sterile space, no joy of growing living things, and just a pool.
@@trilliarobinson7862 hello, I totally understand you, and even if I don't know your garden I feel bad the new owners have destroyed a little paradise full of life you made 😞. Australia has lost a little paradise, New Zealand is winning one... I personaly moved to my house 4 years ago (from an appartment, in France) and I've been inspired by many youtubers since to create my little permaculture garden. It begins to look quite nice and efficient, and sometimes I think about "if I have to move (even if it's not in my plans !), will the new owners destroy all that ?" and that hypothesis breaks my heart...I wish you a nice gardening journey in your new place !
Thanks Melodie ! I think we all have to accept that new owners won't love our gardens as we do. Unfortunately, because of Covid lockdowns, I had to remain living across the road from mine for 9 months, so watched it's destruction firsthand ! All we can do is love the garden we are in, and gain so much pleasure while we can. @@melodiergb3654
Looking forward!
I am so glad you are just handing that lovely garden back to your Dad. I'm sure for many years you filled his heart with great joy as he watched his son's passion grow. I will miss this garden but know in your new garden you will continue to amaze us.
I’m suddenly reminded of a song from 70 years ago: I will follow you, follow you wherever you may go, there isn’t an ocean so deep, a mountain so high it can keep, keep me away… from the gardeners I love 💕
That gave me goosebumps
I Will Follow Him by Little Peggy March
@@pensgirl10I enjoyed listening to the song, on UA-cam, thanks for mentioning it😊
@@pensgirl10 love it
It's THAT OLD 😂🫣❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 🎼🎵🎤
I have been watching your videos for years, and I feel honoured and privileged to been able to watch you grow and mature as wonderfully as the plants you have nurtured. Bless you and your family, and I look forward to watching your new garden develop!
1. What a great Dad! You do right by honoring him and I am sure you are a blessing to him as well. 2. A project as large as this is like art. Never really done. 3. Love for what you do is rare in this world. I am glad for you.
What a lovely comment! thank you!
You can feel the love; looking at your garden! Thank-you and look forward to the future!
Not only an ode to your Garden, but also to the great parenting of your mother and father. Not only have they given you the ability to sustain yourself and others through nutrition, but they have also, obviously, given you the ability to express yourself emotionally in a calm manner. Those two together are going to make your adult life so much easier. Thanks for all of your videos, they have made me a much better gardener, and I have always enjoyed your soft and humble delivery.
From a 70yo gardener in Australia who also enjoyed ' A Good Life' on tv. Have watched many of your early videos on vegie growing & followed your advice. I too am a bit emotional for you moving on. I only hope your parents can handle the garden size now or are you going to downsize it for them? Thanks for sharing all those gems of info with us & I will continue to watch you go from strength to strength.😊
Wow Huw, you literally grew up in front of our eyes! Good luck with your new project. I'm sure it will be wonderful, enjoy it. 🎉🎉
What a remarkable person you are, Huw Richard's. How much better the world would be if people had even a bit of your character. Thanks to your Dad for shaping you and gifting us with such a treasure.
Hi, I was so upset when I started watching this ‘farewell to the garden’ video, as I have been watching you since you were very young, you were and still are a huge inspiration to me…..you saved me in during lockdown, I felt as though I had a very interesting friend….then you said your Dad was having it back and you were still going to continue sharing ideas and your usual cheerful self with us all! What a huge relief!
I feel rather selfish, but everyone tells me that as one door closes another one opens!
I have been gardening before John Seymour wrote his self sufficiency book, but I’ve learnt so much more from you than anyone else. Thankyou and Goodluck with the secret garden.
We need you as much as you need us!
Started out so sad, but happy your dad will re-inherit it. This garden was my inspiration 🙏
I'm so happy too about that
I almost had tears in my eyes until that part...what a good idea to give it back to its creator ❤
Oh my goodness, I was thinking the same thing! I actually thought it was all done and I actually started *grieving* the loss of Huw's constant presence and this garden that he has caused to have such a huge impact on my life! And then he goes on to say it's not over...either the channel or this garden. Phew!! Thank you so much Huw, for all the work you have done for so many years! I didn't find you til about 5 years ago, but I think I have went back and watched every video you have made:) I don't comment a lot, but I do occasionally. I felt like this one needs a comment as it is a huge change but exciting new beginnings. I'm so glad my first perception was wrong but I thought I would take the opportunity to let you know how much of a positive impact you've made. The wisdom, beauty, freedom and so much of your personal life/joy of what you do, shared on your channel are absolutely refreshing and encouraging. You have inspired me to garden with abandon and to keep curiosity and fun at the center so my garden doesn't feel like a burden, but a great adventure....even when my growing season is 2 months long 😜 Thank you again:)
I was so sad, I had to read ahead in the comments because it seemed so heavy! Phew! I can watch and know. I don't like that kind of suspense.@@Atimatimukti
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Dear Huw, your gardening channel has been a terrific influence on me. I am a "late bloomer", but and an enthusiast now, producing delicisous veg and moving around my garden recreationally. Thanks, son!
Every end is a new beginning. For that reason, I say congratulations! It's always difficult to end a chapter in a book, but it's the cost of progress. Our experiences and memories make us who we are. Even if you're not in that garden anymore, it will forever be the foundation of the person you continue to become.
What a great father you haveman you are blessed!
Good Luck Huw, can't wait to see the secret garden!
I can't wait to show you!
Looking forwards to seeing it.
It looks perfect there. Im glad to hear its staying in the family and captured in a new book!
It's wonderful that your dad started & you wanted to help. Once he realized you lived it he allowed you to take care of it all by yourself. That's the way it should be. I know your dad will take good care of it. A new chapter is waiting. The new garden is anxiously awaiting for your 100% attention. It will be beautiful as this 1. I'm glad you're not giving up the garden videos
You should be very proud of the beautiful garden you have created and knowledge you have shared. We thank you and wish you the very best in your new Garden. Excited for what lay ahead!🇨🇦
A garden closer to home…looking forward to your next chapter! I am a “postage stamp” gardener, at 74 yrs…2 beds, still learning, on the corner of a busy street in a mountain town…I enjoy your garden journeys so much, it’s a fantasy garden journey for me! Blessings of roots and wings to you!
Thank you very much!
You have created a masterpiece in your garden and taught us so much. Thank you for sharing the journey with us. 💚
Wow…you started so young. I have only known about your channel in the last few years, and it’s become a favorite. You are so good at what you do and you inspire so many.
Yay! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this garden with us!!! It will live on and inspire for many many years 🌻
I have found comfort in your videos. Even your voice is calming. I look forward to seeing your new home and garden.
Thank you so much
You are a success, Huw. And lucky to have your Dad.
Great memories made and new ones to come in the new secret garden.
Exactly 💯
To me, your garden and videos are the most beautiful - you grieved me until you disclosed that this garden and you are both carrying on - lovely and lovely!
Huw. I've just cried. So emotional. Incredible. You are such an inspiration to so many and have lead the way. Changed so much and encouraged so many. From the bottom of my heart Thank You.
Keith I really appreciate your words, thank you so much! I am very grateful
Phew 😅 so glad to hear it is not the end of your channel Huw and no, it is not a funny idea by any means to thank the garden. As I’m sure you will already know, just like you and every single one of us the plants, wildlife & creatures that live there as well as the earth are “life” itself. All of us are living beings. If we/they were not, none of us would exist. We each have a role to play as guardians of the earth and we each are dependent on the other.. so with that in mind I’m sure your all encompassing garden appreciates you as well and the connection you have formed through the transference of the love and energy you put into it.. and that you have received in return. It has responded with an abundance of nutritious, life giving food and given much pleasure, healing and joy which you will also, receive from which ever garden you create. All the very best 🙏🏼
Thank you Huw. For sharing all the wisdow that you have gained from the garden and for sharing your goodbye to it.
I really appreciate that, thank you
The fact you thanked the garden is appreciated ✨🌿🌾✨
Looking forward to seeing your next adventure, and to continuing to learn from you.
thank you so so much!
At first I was very sad when I heard you say goodbye to your garden, but as I continued to listen, I was very happy that you were going to continue with your channel and that your garden was going to be returned to your father. The aerial views show your beautiful art work with your garden and the love that you have for it. May God be with you and your family, and may your future be bright and successful.
Amen 🙏
Amen. ❤
That is a very lovely farewell! The nostalgia based in basically growing up in that space must be really big. You did well :)
Lots of nostalgia for sure! Funny though going through my old vidoes, completely forgetting most of them ever existed!
He did indeed.
You should be immensely proud - your regular videos have brought pleasure to thousands of people, put a smile on their faces and encouraged them to get out and about and enjoy their gardens. On to the next chapter!
I really appreciate that - thank you Steve!!!
Huw, I am a fellow gardening UA-camr from Hungary, and I would like to thank you and your amazing garden for all the inspiration you have given me during the years. Your channel has always been a place I could go back to and recharge from if necessary, a goal to - still - achieve, your quality of work a standard to follow. Thank you very very much. Looking forward to seeing where you're going from here. 👏
This channel has long been my personal "gold standard" for all YT channels. I know some of what you do here stems from the fact that you have been a content creator for so long, but you have never fallen into the trend trap. That is what always kept me coming back. And when you have a video with "Goodbye" in the title, I know it isn't a click bait scheme.
It's been fun and inspiring watching you and your garden grow. This was a fine tribute to everything you've done up until now, and I am very much looking forward to what I will learn from you in your new garden!
Whoa! So glad to know you're not ending your channel. Good luck with the new garden and I will miss this one. I've always thought it was so lovely.
I will NEVER end this channel!
Love this, thanks for taking us on the journey with you 👌
Watched you grow from a boy into a man in this garden that has nurtured you and you've nurtured in return. Thank you all... Touched more than one can say
May your garden thrive no matter where you are!
Your love and affection for the garden is, and has been in the past, clearly to be seen. Very best of luck with your new venture.
Huw I began watching you early on in your journey, I believe we are the same age. I watched this video with my toddler on my lap and I told her, "this is Huw, he's handsome and very talented. He also has a great accent and beautiful garden!" She loved it. We are in Florida, USA so very different climate but very big fans. This made me so emotional! Change can be hard but I'm so grateful for all you've taught us and look forward to your next chapter.
Florida is a great place to grow a garden
How wonderful your dad will be back at the helm of this garden. You can visit any time. 😊
Huw, omgosh, you gave me a cry and a scare! 😂💖 Your garden has been a part of many of our lives, so saying goodbye in such a meaningful way was wonderful to see. And I am SO GLAD this is just the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new one, as if you were to fully end this channel... good grief. Welp, I'm just truly thankful that's not the case. Looking forward to see what you have in store for us in the future!
I know!!! I was scared too that this was it! The end! I just found this channel and subscribed. Excited to see what the next chapter has in store for us. 😊
From my whole heart: Thank you, Huw, thank you, Beautiful Garden! I don't mind telling you this video made me very emotional too... bless you for letting us know that you are going to keep with us, and moving to The Secret Garden. 💚
Those aerial views are absolutely beautiful, you and your dad have done an incredible job with that space. Congratulations on "leveling up", as it were!
I’ve been following u for ages and im crying and feel overwhelmed to watch this. Thank you for all the lesson i got from your channel 😊
Oh my gosh , I had tears in my eyes watching this video 😢.
What an inspiration! And I don't blame you for how you feel. Your dad was a wonderful man to let you use this garden to a wonderful young man with passion to grow and inspire thousands of individuals like me and many more !
Neither to say , I am excited to see your new garden! Can't wait ! 😂👏🏻
A new journey, how awesome! 😊
Thank you so much!! What a lovey comment! He is such a fantastic man, and I will forever be grateful to him
Thanking the beings of the garden is something we should all do...I appreciate you.
Oh no! I will really miss you in this garden. Thank you for your efforts and sharing your knowledge with us all. You did a great thing here. Don't forget that. Can't wait to see the next chapter.
That is so nice of you - thank you!
I understand exactly how you feel about leaving the land you have put so much time and energy into to build it up to what it is. 💯👍👍😎
Tough for sure!
Big hug from Hungary 💚from the people of the hungarian cultural creatives, from the hungarian deepmulching community and also from the Hungarian Permaculture Association 🫂💚
It's been a pleasure Huw, watching you over the years. Although I'm a seasoned gardener at nearly 67 years old, some of your tips have helped me on my allotment. I wish you all the very best on your next venture.
So beautifully filmed - the footage, the music, the homage, the script, the history, the nostalgia, the journey, and of course Huw. I love the story, how it ends with the return of the garden to the original owner, the teary emotions. Thank you, love you, Huw, and your wonderful garden.
You have really grown, not only in height but especially in knowledge! ☺This is something no one takes away from you. This is a time to look back at what you have accomplished! A great inspiration for us to start our own vegetable garden and grow bigger! 👍
We are starting fresh next season in our homestead in France after leaving our small vegetable garden behind. And we are very curious about your secret garden, this one is definitely going to be another success and we will follow you again!
I felt a little teary-eyed listening to you. Ive only been watching you since 2021, but have been blessed watching you.
Touching goodbye to the garden that has brought you up and provided a space for you to grow just as well as the thousands of food plants over the years. How wonderful that although this chapter has ended, the garden will still be there with your dad to visit. Looking forward to the new chapter Huw, all the best 🌻🌻
Wonderful to see you honouring your dad like that Huw, such a rare occurrence these day with the younger generation. Just goes to show you’ve had a wonderful upbringing with a freedom to explore the earth and reap the benefits of hard work. Looking forward to watching where your next journey takes you 🤗 well done!
Never easy to say goodbye but lots of new adventures in the future to say hello too. All the best with the new garden.
Thank you so much Sean, hope you're well:)
I started watching you when you were a little kid, I thought it was a little weird for a kid to have a gardening channel and what could I learn from him but I subscribed lol. And I would periodically watch your videos with increasing frequency. It has been nice to watch you grow up and evolve as gardener. You are leaving behind a beautiful space but I am sure you will create a new one. You are still young and a new adventure is a great new learning opportunity. Look forward to watching the new garden evolve along with you.
The first video I watched of yours was one where you showed us how to start pea seedlings in a length of gutter and then transplant them by sliding them out of the gutter and into a shallow trench. I bought your book too. You've certainly inspired me! In a world full of men whose attention is on other less valuable pursuits, it was refreshing to see a man cultivate the ground with passion and knowledge seeminly beyond your years, and do so successfully. Anyways. A new chapter sounds like quite the adventure, and I am excited to see what you do!
When you work the soil you come to love it and becomes a part of you , it is the ultimate in giving but also taking away, Thank you for you education and knowledge.
Thanks Huw, it's good time for new horizons while you're still young, enjoy!
A fresh start, inspired by so much
Omg, I felt really choked up hearing you say your goodbyes to this beautiful place! I have followed your career since discovering one of your videos, perhaps when you were 13 or so, showing viewers how to take rose cuttings. I thought it was the sweetest thing seeing a lad so young sharing such a ‘grown up’ topic with so much enthusiasm. I have rejoiced over the years seeing your channel grow, and you alongside with it. You deserve every success, Huw!
I’m sure the next venture will be an ever more successful chapter in your life. All the best, and I’m looking forward to sharing the journey with you.
Such beautiful memories, and now a new vision. I remember watching you as a young lad learning and experimenting in your gardens, all those years ago. As my grandmother use to say, "You've done good!" You are leaving some beautiful gardens for your dad to enjoy. 😀
Thank you for your continued support over all of these years!
Such a wonderful tribute to your best “friend!” I’ve watched you for several years and you’re my favorite gardener to watch. I’m an American but I’m a 1/4 welsh and have visited the country so that’s another reason I love your videos. Love that your videos are always so calming and refreshing, and you’re always so genuine. A real talent for communicating too. Your passion shines through… started to get chocked up because I know how attached we get to our gardens!! Thanks for being you.
A lovely ode to the garden! She will be missed.
This video just popped up out of nowhere and oh boy I was wrong thinking the title was dramatic; I can't imagine leaving sth, even for the better, that you worked and nourished so hard for over a decade. Especially when you spent a significant amount of your childhood in it. It is indeed a beautiful garden you cared and created. I can't help but hope you the best of best, with your next chapter! Take care!
Oh my world! 😢 starting everything at such a young age! I’m totally impressed and I have to tell you you’re such an inspiration! Props to you, I’m trying to get a land soonish to be a little self sufficient !
Yeah baby Huw haha! Best of luck with your journey!
Oh my! How sweet is that, that you started this so young!! So wonderful to see a young person investing in something so important!
Thank you so much!
you know that teary-eyed smiley emoji?! That's me over here! A big hug to you and also to your Dad 🤗. I remember the videos with him in it. Happy for you both and honored to have been able to watch it all evolve. Now... Secret Garden grand-opening pleeeease!!! Eagerly awaiting this next chapter in your book! 💚🌱🌷🥰
Huw...... I've just cried. This video is so emotional.😪 I am also a gardener and I enjoyed watching your videos of your beautiful garden since 2016. I'm from Slovenia and I remember your video when you came to our country in 2018. You were so excited when you saw that every house has its own garden. Now you are saying goodbye to your garden. I am sure we will see your new gardening achievements in the future . That is a very emotional farewel. Thank you Huw for all yours videos, you are an inspiration. I wish you all the best. ❤
Huw, so nice to watch this video and understand your grounded start from your Dad. You created an incredible environment and your passion pours through in all you do. It is not weird to thank your garden, it is a humbling appreciation of all that is beyond our control as gardeners. No doubt you have had a positive impact of countless aspiring gardeners including yours truly from Northern, Virginia, USA. Be safe and well and best of luck in your future endeavors.
Awh thank you! I felt it was the perfect opportunity to share a bit of my history in this video too, and the beginnings. Thank you
Hey Huw, from one Commonwealth to another.....we've never met, but I've always watched your journey from afar here in Canada. Keep spreading the word and doing what you're doing. It means a lot to so many people. Can't wait to see what is in store!
It’s great to see how you’ve evolved!
Thank you! Quite the journey
I'm Australian and have watched yours and Mark's (from Selfsufficientme) channels for years. I have a tiny garden but grow as much food as I can. I had a horticulturalist ask me if I'd like him to help me plant out my garden when I was unwell for a couple of years and he mentioned the flowers he had in mind. I didn't recognise the plants he mentioned and asked "can you eat it?" He laughed and said "no" so I declined his offer. I never saw him again! I get a lot of my knowledge from my Grandad and also from you and Mark. Thank you and good luck on your future endeavours! 💜
yes!! I also followed both of them❤
Ditto, I get great info from Mark and Huw's videos too.
And me. Plus Charles Dowding. I started growing at 4, thanks to my dad too. I’m now 71 and still learning and enjoying growing and eating the produce, now experimenting with using aquaponics for easier propagation of stem cuttings as well as wicking beds, raised beds, vertical growing, and wild food forest (banana circle, paw paw, sweet potato, ginger, tumeric, galangal, herbs), and quails, all in just about 35sqm of what was once a tiled waterfront. My friends think I’m mad to create so much work, but this lifelong interest, the closeness to nature, witnessing the life cycles and competing & symbiotic relationships, is what has kept me physically healthy, mentally alert and psychologically content all these years. I look forward to your next series Huw
@johnaldersley3328 wow, what a wealth of experience! Bet your gardens amazing ❤️
Thanks to you and your family for lending us your garden to help us learn the art and science of gardening. Connection to nature, to the soil to the reality of the seasons is something of true value.
That is so special to thank the garden! Delighted it is going back to your Dad and really looking forward to The Secret Garden 🪴
Man, you got me with that thumbnail. 😱
While I live in a _radically_ different climate and can't really take away too terribly much in terms of certain crops, I've enjoyed your channel for quite a while now. I'm glad you touched on this being your career, because that's where I've stumbled a bit personally - I wanted a garden like this and honestly felt like I wasn't doing enough, and my wife has to remind me that I already have a full time job and about 1000 other obligations, and there just isn't the time. She's echoed what you said here, and I need the reminder sometimes.
You've done more for making me want to visit Wales than any Welsh Tourism Board ever could. 😂
I'm looking forward to seeing the new garden progress.
Thank you for enjoying my channel! And hahaha I may even send them a screenshot of that! Have a great day
Beautiful tribute to a hugely formative part of your life, and ours. As much as your Dad gets his garden back, I think he will miss having you there. Roots and wings, right? You built roots in this garden, and now you're spreading your wings. In some way, that's why your parents chose the John Seymour/Tom and Barbara lifestyle - so that just this would happen.
Looking forward to watching you grow and evolve with the new garden. Change is always hard, but I see that the new adventure will be exciting for you. I’m looking forward to this next chapter. ❤
Thank you Karen, I am also looking forward
Beautiful farewell, and so wonderful to have shared it with your Dad and he will continue to enjoy it. Secret Garden 💚🌱 Thank you Huw, you are an inspiration 🙏🏼
You are one of the few that has those memories stored in video, and able to re-visit at any time! Oh how I wish I could see videos of my gardens of the past!
I feel super lucky to have those memories!
I have just started following you. You have the the wisdom of gardening. Your creation is wonder for many. Thanks for sharing your growth. I cant wait to see you again❤
Your gardens are works of art. The attention to detail and harmony show in everything, trellises, fences, raised beds etc. I look forward to see what’s next in your story.
Thank you, for your inspiration and sharing your everlasting love and respectful apreciation for nature,
This garden is just so amazing and extraordinary. Thank you for sharing it with us, your viewers ! I'm sure the next chapter will be wonderful too.
Thank you so much!!
I can't believe I have been following you since you were a kid! I always loved that garden! Seeing it transform over the yrs has been delightful! I know your dad will do great keeping it up as you move on.
Blessings from Oklahoma!
Perfect music 🎶 That patch of land is magic...amazing, Huw. Cheers to your parents, the garden, and to you 🍾
Thank you Huw.
♻️Happy gardening, Terry King.
Cheers Terry!
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Change.
Always difficult, filled with uncertainty.
Yet a whole new adventure.
The pass years have been wonderful.
The gardens beautiful.
Looking forward to a whole new series to come.
Best wishes ❤
Thank you very much!
Love this video and I'm sure many of us can relate to grieving the loss of a garden.
Reading these comments really does show the lovely corner of the internet you have managed to nurture too!
It’s been so beautiful to watch your channel grow and evolve into what it is today, from humble beginnings :) Your channel has been an invaluable guide and inspiration to building our garden in our first home over the last year. Thank you Huw!
Hello from Georgia in the US. Huw, I must admit I have mixed feelings, as I'm sure you do. Having watched you in this beautiful garden giving wonderful inspiration and instruction, it will surely be missed. But you're going forward with your new garden and I look forward to your new adventures with renewed anticipation. I wish you all the best; stay well - until next time.