Laura, you and Aaron have a hit with these "before and after" series! This is the perfect content for winter! It lifts our spirits and gives us inspiration and encouragement that we can create something beautiful from whatever we're starting with. Thank you so much for all you do to inspire and educate us, and thank you to everyone who submitted photos of their beautiful projects. 💚 🌿🌸🌿
I third this sentiment! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do more of these! I've had a "writer's block" for garden planning the last few weeks as I try to come up with a master plan for my property as we are looking into doing major improvements with hardscaping, deck building, tree work, etc, and this is exactly what I needed to move forward!
This Before and After Series touches my soul with hope! Seeing yards go from "blehh" to "Yeah" is so very inspiring! Best part is Laura's intake of breath and gushing praise for each yard! Laura, we are sighing with appreciation right along with you! Well done, gardeners!
Oh my goodness 😲 Thank you so much to everyone on the Garden Answer team for featuring my before and after of my garden shed. 🥰 These videos are very inspirational and I absolutely love watching everyone's transformations. It doesn't need to be expensive either, almost all the plants I use are either clearance finds or properagated at my house. Thank you to everyone that has submitted, I absolutely love gaining so many ideas from the beauty everyone has created. Happy gardening y'all 🌻
I love these before and afters, they’re just so motivating! It’s so relatable to see how most of us started with a horrible canvas…and through a little blood, sweat and hard work, TA-DA! A gorgeous space that’s unique to each of us 😊👩🏻🌾🌻🌳🌺
You are right, we all begin with a different canvas. Our hard work makes all the difference. But those years of work means that we are now elderly and/ or widowed. Gardens go downhill until new younger legs take over. It doesn't mean we don't care, just unable.
@@annehedlund7333 oh bless you Ms. Anne, if you lived near me I’d be more than happy to help you maintain your gardens. I already help a couple neighbors that are no longer able to, and I have the best time with those ladies and learn so much! I surely hope there is someone there to help you with yours, everyone needs a little help sometimes 💯💙
@@annehedlund7333 It is bit sad to hear... In our country one can go to local church & ask if they have somebody who can vollonteer, as making company sometimes, go shopping, or, as in your case, help You out in the garden... 🤔 Usually there are people of various ages among church community, so maybe somebody is interresting in gardening as well..? 🤔 Blessings with hope that Your situation turns out to most beautyful garden! 🙏🙌🌱🌿🌷🌺🥀🌹🌼🌻🌲🌳🐛🐝🐞
I have a bit of a handicap. When I retired my husband and I bought a house on what turned out to be a hilly property that was hard to mow, so, I channeled my inner Laura and started ripping up grass to make a more private place! My neighbors must laugh watching me as standing is hard, but boy it is totally worth it! Every year my kids give me garden $ for mother's day. I am 3 years in and love your podcast for inspiration! Thanks!!❤
You just don’t know how much happiness your channel brings everyone especially during the last 2 years. The world is a prettier place with happy plants and humans! Thank you
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE THIS A WINTER TRADITION! I love these: the before/after, side yard, the pots, the greenhouses - all of them. MORE!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Heck- all year round!!! We all love it so much and it can take some pressure off of them (to some degree- I’m sure it’s no small feet to go through these submissions and make these). So inspiring tho.. year round I say!!!! 😊♥️
Thank you for featuring my garden. I’m so happy that you got to see it, Laura, because it is mainly thanks to your videos that it looks the way it does. I was actually blushing when watching it, it felt like an aprentice showing off their work to their master.🤗 Ellie
They have really inspired so many to pick up a shovel and plant!! You did an amazing job & im pretty sure it brought tears to my eyes! Thank you for sharing!
@@MarianneRuffhaven yes, she was a keen gsrdener when she was younger, always transplanting plants 😂 she’s 11 now so now she just rekaxes in the garden 😉
@@kathycamasso6672 thank you., she is the best. It’s my first dog and I couldn’t have chosen a more suitable dog for my personality. 11 years together 😍.
The statement, "I learned that being a gross hot mess, working in the garden, is where I find joy", has me in tears. That is my joy - especially the last 2 years when the world and my personal life were falling apart. I found "Laura, my Best Friend on UA-cam" last year and have learned more than just gardening from her. Thank You!
Thank you so much Laura and Aaron for featuring my garden in Virginia! I was on the treadmill and screamed when you said my name! 😂 Seriously, I absolutely LOVE these Before and Afters! I get so much inspiration from seeing other people’s gardens, their challenges and solutions! Please continue to do these types of videos! I’ve been watching y’all since you moved in to your home and have learned so much from you Laura! Love y’all!❤️
The Las Vegas before & after was absolutely mind boggling! Also one of the first yards was a long narrow nothing of a yard. The narrow, curving, stuffed side “strips” gave amazing definition to the whole yard.
Laura: These videos would be hours long. Me: We would love that!! So inspiring seeing all of these, and the range of tiny flower beds to large back yards are just so phenomenal.
I wish we can have this monthly you could even feature it on the the recap channel. It would be a way to see when people started watching and what they learned from you and how their yards grew from watching. What you guys think?
Laura, your enthusiasm and excitement when looking at all these beautiful spaces, make us all feel proud of the afters even if they are not our yards. Thank you for offering these videos and encouraging us to continue to "enjoy our journey"♡
Good morning, Laura. I love how you just jump right in; no intro to skip past. These before & afters are so helpful! I love this idea! Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
I agree. I love how Laura jumps right to the content. No need to tell us what "today's episode" is about.... (it's written in the description). I have even unsubscribed from so many you tube channels because they have intros so long and it is clear the creators think they are a popular TV personality. Intros like that are a huge turn-off.
This whole series is inspiring. It's the perfect contrasting between normal and the results of people's huge labour of love. The amazing transformation make it easier to imagine what even a small effort might be able to enrich a space.
What can I say about all of these gardens? Absolutely gorgeous. It is like bringing a piece of heaven down unto the earth. I have been gardening for about 20 years maybe. There was a space of time I didn't, due to illness, but I am back at it again. Doing the same as these wonderful people have, transforming my space into a heaven. I am not a young person, I am 63 almost, but I can hang with the best of them. I have shale and clay everywhere. But I get at it and work my butt off. I'll never stop gardening. It is my passion. I love the beauty of nature.
It is great to watch these videos when so many of us are still looking out at our own gardens full of snow. I hope Laura posts many more of these before and after videos to help us survive February and March.
Greetings Laura, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 I'm enjoying each and every renovation. Inspiration for a February day. I hope you ALL enjoy this as much as I am. 👩🌾👍🌿💚🌿
Yessss keep doing these! With all the niches too, side yards, veggie gardens, memory gardens, greenhouses, water features landscaped out, WE WANT TO SEE ALL OF IT. Lol. its really inspirational. Love love love
These transformations are absolutely beautiful! Our home was a new construction (2010) with no landscaping at all. So we started at zero. It can be so overwhelming to have a blank canvas, not knowing where to start. We went slowly due to budget constraints. We have been adding a little each year for 8 gardening seasons, going on 9 this year. While submitting photos for this video, I realized just how far we have come. I created a picture compilation vid that I posted on my channel as a journal, and visual reminder of how far we have come on our homes landscape 💚🌿
I love these videos. I'm sitting here so excited to get out in my garden again. Some of the gardens brought tears to my eyes. To see all the hard work that went into them. I'm glad we were able to see them. To all the gardeners.... I'm so proud of you all.
These videos feed my soul. We are doing a complete makeover of our back yard this spring/summer and I can't wait to get started. The yard where they planted a birch for water control was a light bulb moment because I have issues with water laying and ruining my grass as well.
All of these are so beautiful. So much variety and styles. Of course wide ranging locations and zones. But it just goes to show, there are choices to be had in just about any conditions. So much thought, creativity, and not to mention hard work have gone into these spaces. Good job people! 💚💚💚
I like how you include the zones because that way I know if plants can grow in my zone. James terraced garden is so beautiful. He should be very proud of their hard work. Ellie's garden looked like it had always been there. I love to see the before and after. We take a trip around the world with the other two gardens, fantastic. Shout out to Las Vegas because that is mind blowing. To make everything so green and lush in the dessert is a feat of excellent gardening. The next one changes the look of the house. Small beds compared to the other gardens but oh so nice. The black garden green house and yard is so awesome. Go Katie with those beautiful hydrangea's. Kelly made privacy in a very open housing backyard neighborhood. So nice and lush. Dee' has a sweet shed. Connie's garden with the raised bed is something I would like to copy but smaller scale. Chris and the swimming pool's a nice addition for a Texan home. Nick's hardscape is awesome. Mickie has a very inviting walk to her door. So cute. Margie's water feature is massive and awesome. Thanks for sharing gardener's.
❤️ love ❤️ love ❤️ love!!! I cried just so emotional for some reason! Each space is done so beautifully - I'm in the process, coming into my third season - it definitely is a journey and we are so blessed to be able to create these gorgeous sanctuaries! Thanks to Laura and Aaron, their continued inspiration is priceless!!!😁👏❤️
I am so "Inspired" too as almost everyone else that commented has been so "Inspired".... just so much inspiration and nothing to upkeep.... like so Inspiring. Totally incredibly inspirationally lnspiring. Did I say It's inspiring? I know that a common word that so many others that are really Inspired and found this so inspirational and commented about it that I just can't find a better word.
Not letting Laura see the pictures before the video is the best idea ever. I am LIVING for her reactions. I took so many screenshots this round. Gardening is definitely a lesson in patience.
Congratulations to all of these gardeners/landscape artists! What you've accomplished is truly spectacular and appreciated by your peers for all the hard work, sweat and tears. Well done!!
I am so impressed and inspired by all my fellow GA fans and their creations. There is nothing like human creativity and ingenuity! Thank you for bringing us all together, and for everything you do. I think it's really awesome that you are shouting out their gardening channels too, we have an endless supply of inspiration now! 🤩
Does anyone want to go redo their yard right now or just me ....aww so much beauty!!!! Aww, so beautiful! Such a great job everyone! Love the before and after! Stunning! Thank you for doing this Laura....what a great inspiration! Bravo everyone!!!!😍😍❤
2017 I found your channel and my life changed forever . After been in a depression for years gardenning bring me happiness thanks to You Laura. May God bless you and bless your family . This video is the proof how you inspired us to make our own beautiful garden in our yards Blessings. Beautiful gardens
These series are so inspirational. Thank you to all who shared and to Laura who spoke so encouragingly about each garden. 💚💚💚. It truly was a 💝 gift to each of us !!😘
I love these videos! It's so neat to see how someone can start with practically nothing and then turn it into something so beautiful that you want to be there sitting with them. Thanks for all you've taught us Laura. You are a big inspiration.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these before and after! What an excellent idea for the “dead” of winter went there is little going on outside for most of us. Please continue the trend! 💚💚💚
LoVE this series & Stephanie Dobbs hit the nail on the head with the title of: "LETS IMPRESS THE TEACHER" Stephanie that is BRILLIANT!!!! I screenshot a lot of the entries - my favorite is the White House/White Designer deck with that charming back yard.............the Birch trees got me at once!!!
This is so wonderful to see what others have been able to accomplish! And to see these at this time of year especially when we are all thinking about what we want to focus on in the next growing season. Laura and Aaron, thank you for always finding ways of teaching and inspiring this community. Many, many people (myself included) have taken up gardening after finding your channel and we all feel like we can make beautiful spaces for ourselves.
isn't this just the most fun and inspirational? holy moly! there are some talented designers/landscapers (professionally degree'd or not!) and gardeners out there! so many gorgeous transformations, big and small! thank you to all who sent in pics - wow... gardeners, making the world beautiful one space at a time, fabulous!!! 🙂 ❤ thanks for the video!! 🙂 ❤
I love love love the before and after episodes!💞 It shows us all that even people that didn't want anything to do with gardening, can produce a worthy mention on Garden Answer!🤗🥰 I still want more inside your home redecorating! I love seeing the beautiful architecture of your old home. They sure don't build beautiful coved ceilings, unique fireplace fronts, butler pantries, etc like they did in the 1800 to early 1900's. Now we have cookie cutter houses.🥺
Oh my gosh! I'm so excited you chose my front landscape to include in this video. I can't wipe the smile off my face. It feels like I just graduated from gardening school. Now it's time to go earn my gardening masters this season, as I continue to rework my backyard. Everyone's work in all of these videos is amazing and so inspiring.
Congrats. I felt the same when Laura chose mine. I said to my family: “today I won my olympic medal” 😁 becasuse there’s just nothing more satisfying, this is the top 👍🏻
This had been a great series! Especially during the winter time when we're all dreaming of spring and next summer and all the things we want to do. Such great inspiration. Please keep this going and do it every year. It will be so fun next year to see some submissions from people who are inspired this year and really get out there and do something spectacular in their yards and their gardens. We have been working for 2 years on hardscape in our backyard and this year I'm finally going to get to start planting. I'm so excited. Maybe I'll have a submission for you in the future. Thanks for all the inspiration and encouragement.
This was fantastic!!! It has soooo fed my soul this morning!!! I’m so proud to be a part of this community and look forward to each and every day with y’all!! Thank you Laura and Aaron for feeding us all!!! 🙌🏼🌱☀️😊♥️
Love love love the entirety of the “viewers submission” series. THANK YOU for all of the hard work that goes into them! This is exactly the kind of content I’ve been missing since Pinterest turned into an ad ridden promo app.
That was absolutely amazing! Makes you want to run outside and think about what you could do with your own space. So motivating! You guys have cultivated such a wonderful community of gardeners. Thanks so much for sharing all these beautiful gardens.
WOW! This video in particular had amazing gardens. I'm so impressed with what everyone was able to do! Especially looking at what they started with... And as an animal advocate, I have to say, that I loved that almost every gardener had a dog following them around... :-)
The transformation of the Garden in Czech Republic is just awesome. The curves of the flower beds makes the garden look bigger than it actually is. We can't relate to the various zones here in Kenya, but viewing your channel has enriched my knowledge in gardening. Hope to get a nice and mature garden as the ones showcased one day. Thank you for the inspiration and reminding us that it is a process and we need to be patient to realize such beautiful gardens.
So inspiring to see what someone in the same zone as me created...I took screen shots and hopefully will be able to find some of those plants 🪴. Beautiful job everyone!! Thank you 😊
That video of Laura doing her parents garden was the first one for me too. In fact, I thought Aaron was an “Erin” when she was talking to him. 😂♥️ love your channel
Love these before and after videos. 😍 So inspiring to see how much a yard can be changed if you're willing to put in the investment of time, effort, and in some cases, lots of money.
Hi Laura, I absolutely love the before and after, so appreciate you showing these...all the hard work on editing doesn't go unnoticed! I don't always comment, but I have to say, your channel is just so wonderful, positive and very inspirational...really good for the soul! Thank you so much for sharing! Take really good care of yourself, stay well! Much love Kathy x 💖🌿🌺🌼🌷🌺🌻😊Ontario, Canada)
@@chelseaross1737 Hi! There are many groups on FB that one can join, depending on country of Your resisdence. Many beautyful greenhouses & growing ideas. 👍Blessings! 🙏🌱🐛🐜🌿☘️🍀🥀🌺🌻🌼
Oh my goodness, these gardens are AMAZING! That first garden BLEW my mind! Just wow! Thanks to everyone that share their gorgeous spaces with us. So beautiful!😍❤️
I am loving these before and after videos. They can never get old. I purchased my home in 2017 and the first yard is pure inspiration for me because my yard has a huge hillside and I have been trying to figure out what to do that would fit in my budget. I know having different levels would be the way to go and that yard confirmed this is the approach I will take. I found Garden Answer back is 2017 and I have been watching ever since and I have been sharing with anyone and everyone. Thanks for all the inspiration ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@fiore2151 we’ve gotten our hands on a small allotment garden so there is already some structures there. But i think we will mainly go with directly into the ground (soil is quite good if adding some compost). We live a bit away from the spot and no way to do drip irrigation so maybe not many beds since they dry out faster. Since we have limited of time i’m thinking about some ”no dig” beds using lots of organic materials. In this space function and productivity will be the main focus, in the future it would be nice to do something more structured with beds. What are your plans? 😍🤩
@@fridaandren5097 Sounds like a good plan! I am located in the capital city of Bulgaria (Eastern Europe) but I live near the city in a house. Unfortunately the previous owners didn’t look after the soil and garden in general and in order to cut expenses I plan to start with raised beds so I can adjust and enrich the soil to my needs. Also digging will be veery hard since the soil was never maintained and processed before. Hope it works 🤞🏻
@@fridaandren5097 is there any shed on property? You can do drip irrigation if you collect rainwater in barrels.. Have some high plants, flowers or vegetables, around barrell if it is made of plastic. 👍
Shout out to James in my home province! Looks fantastic!!! I moved to west coast zone 8b in 2007. Miss home, not weather! We have a similar slope in our yard, definitely can utilize more space terracing.
Wow! All these before and afters are amazing! I really have loved this series and have been so inspired. I cannot wait until spring to get out and start transforming my yard!
I submitted photos but everyone's gardens are so much more! I guess I have some work to do. I don't have the money so I gather plants from the for sale racks and this spring we are going to have a plant/seed exchange with family, friends and neighbors. I know that my garden is just a different kind of garden. But WOW to all. And thanks Laura. I just started watching and you are inspiring and your mom is just so sweet. Thanks for all you do.
This before and after series is incredible. It's the perfect winter content for me--I've screenshotted so many parts to use as inspo since I'm currently planning out my garden projects for the year. I can't wait for spring to get started!
I love this series! I would love to see a winter landscaping/winter interest episode for us poor souls who only see snow for 5-6 months out of the year.
Laura I could watch this for hours! I am starting my journey as a new gardener because of you and tomorrow I am going to get lots of before shots. Thanks for everything you and your family do to help us realize our dreams. God bless.
Seeing these wonderful before and after shots gives us hope for the future of our skinny little gardens. Now with my wife hearing she has incurable cancer makes me want to bring in whole already grown plants. Thank you all for sharing your beautiful gardens❤️💙
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your "Inspiration Series". You can just feel the love reflected back from you Laura. You are truly a gardeners best friend. Keep up all the hardwork. Thanks for being there for us.
I absolutely adore seeing all of the before and after pictures! People are so creative and amazing with their ideas! Please show something like this once a week. I watched it twice it was so awesome.
All the hard work these folks put in. They are all beautiful. I would say that you are very successful in the challenge given to you by Proven Winners to inspire more people to garden. You sure have inspired me. Thank you and Aaron for creating this wonderful channel.
I really thought that watching Laura in her own garden or her moms was enough to feed my garden loving passions but these inspiring photos take me to a whole new level of love! I normally get bummed about gardening from November until late March but now I am sooo ready!!! Thank you for making this type of content on top of your already amazing “routine” content!! I’ve watched you since around the day you moved to your new home and I never get tired of your show.
All of these were so inspirational. My husband and I just bought our first home in Dec and once we finish renovating it, I can't wait to really go ham on the landscape!!
I love the side yards pictures! We in zone 9b (New Orleans) area can’t plant right up to the house; it’s recommended to leave 3 ft before planting, this is because of termites. I was wondering if the other viewers hav3 had termite problems because of planting so close to the house that you can’t see the termite tunnels. Thank you Laura & Arron!
So enjoyed this, thank you everyone for sending them in and thank you Laura for talking us through them! Well done everyone for creating these beautiful spaces!
I love seeing these lush green gardens at this time of year. I cannot wait to get back out in my own garden and these videos help. Thank you Laura and Aaron.
I love these before and after videos. I do hope they will become an annual event. Those of us just beginning would love to submit our efforts in the future. You are such an inspiration and your channel has become an oasis for me.
I want to hang out in all of these gardens! They are all so beautiful! I love, love, love what Nick did in Athens, Wisconsin! The board and batten siding on the house is absolutely gorgeous and the garden is stunning too! I love Jennifer's cape cod house in Albany, NY too. It proves that you don't have to do a massive remodel to make such a huge improvement to your property. Laura, you and Aaron have truly given us so much inspiration and encouragement! Love this series of videos!!!❤❤❤
I really loved seeing these before and after photos and hearing each garden's story and where in the world they are located. It is so interesting and inspiring. Perhaps this could be a regular segment called "Show-N-Tell"
Laura, you and Aaron have a hit with these "before and after" series! This is the perfect content for winter! It lifts our spirits and gives us inspiration and encouragement that we can create something beautiful from whatever we're starting with. Thank you so much for all you do to inspire and educate us, and thank you to everyone who submitted photos of their beautiful projects. 💚 🌿🌸🌿
Couldn’t agree more, it’s necessary especially as we are about to spring into SPRING
I third this sentiment! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do more of these! I've had a "writer's block" for garden planning the last few weeks as I try to come up with a master plan for my property as we are looking into doing major improvements with hardscaping, deck building, tree work, etc, and this is exactly what I needed to move forward!
Great suggestions!👏🍀🤩
Perhaps an annual January event? Agree, such a joy in wintertime to see gardens before and after!
Please keep sharing followers before and afters. So much fun to see. What an inspiration to see. Just subscribed today.
This is fun. It’s like a world wide LETS IMPRESS THE TEACHER show!! We all appreciate you, and all you’ve taught us Laura!
Ha ha love that comment!😆🇨🇦
Right! I’m emulating Laura My backyard is looking so beautiful Thanks to my teacher Laura 😊😘
This Before and After Series touches my soul with hope! Seeing yards go from "blehh" to "Yeah" is so very inspiring!
Best part is Laura's intake of breath and gushing praise for each yard! Laura, we are sighing with appreciation right along with you! Well done, gardeners!
So much fun to see and your response is wonderful love seeing how everyone does the garden 😀 ❤
Oh my goodness 😲 Thank you so much to everyone on the Garden Answer team for featuring my before and after of my garden shed. 🥰 These videos are very inspirational and I absolutely love watching everyone's transformations. It doesn't need to be expensive either, almost all the plants I use are either clearance finds or properagated at my house. Thank you to everyone that has submitted, I absolutely love gaining so many ideas from the beauty everyone has created. Happy gardening y'all 🌻
Yours was my wife’s favorite. Great job.
@@mvalovalo thank you kindly 😊
You did a great job, Dee. Thanks for sharing your work and good luck 🤞
Always wondered where in East TN you garden - now I know!
@@folee_edge Thank you 😊
I love these before and afters, they’re just so motivating! It’s so relatable to see how most of us started with a horrible canvas…and through a little blood, sweat and hard work, TA-DA! A gorgeous space that’s unique to each of us 😊👩🏻🌾🌻🌳🌺
You are right, we all begin with a different canvas. Our hard work makes all the difference. But those years of work means that we are now elderly and/ or widowed. Gardens go downhill until new younger legs take over. It doesn't mean we don't care, just unable.
@@annehedlund7333 oh bless you Ms. Anne, if you lived near me I’d be more than happy to help you maintain your gardens. I already help a couple neighbors that are no longer able to, and I have the best time with those ladies and learn so much! I surely hope there is someone there to help you with yours, everyone needs a little help sometimes 💯💙
@@annehedlund7333 It is bit sad to hear... In our country one can go to local church & ask if they have somebody who can vollonteer, as making company sometimes, go shopping, or, as in your case, help You out in the garden... 🤔 Usually there are people of various ages among church community, so maybe somebody is interresting in gardening as well..? 🤔
Blessings with hope that Your situation turns out to most beautyful garden! 🙏🙌🌱🌿🌷🌺🥀🌹🌼🌻🌲🌳🐛🐝🐞
I have a bit of a handicap. When I retired my husband and I bought a house on what turned out to be a hilly property that was hard to mow, so, I channeled my inner Laura and started ripping up grass to make a more private place! My neighbors must laugh watching me as standing is hard, but boy it is totally worth it! Every year my kids give me garden $ for mother's day. I am 3 years in and love your podcast for inspiration! Thanks!!❤
You just don’t know how much happiness your channel brings everyone especially during the last 2 years. The world is a prettier place with happy plants and humans! Thank you
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE THIS A WINTER TRADITION! I love these: the before/after, side yard, the pots, the greenhouses - all of them. MORE!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Heck- all year round!!! We all love it so much and it can take some pressure off of them (to some degree- I’m sure it’s no small feet to go through these submissions and make these). So inspiring tho.. year round I say!!!! 😊♥️
Thank you for featuring my garden. I’m so happy that you got to see it, Laura, because it is mainly thanks to your videos that it looks the way it does. I was actually blushing when watching it, it felt like an aprentice showing off their work to their master.🤗 Ellie
They have really inspired so many to pick up a shovel and plant!! You did an amazing job & im pretty sure it brought tears to my eyes! Thank you for sharing!
Your dog is so beautiful. I had an Akita/Samoyed mix named Ginger. She loved my gardens. She loved to dig.
I was wondering what kind of dog that was! Beautiful, and your garden too!
@@MarianneRuffhaven yes, she was a keen gsrdener when she was younger, always transplanting plants 😂 she’s 11 now so now she just rekaxes in the garden 😉
@@kathycamasso6672 thank you., she is the best. It’s my first dog and I couldn’t have chosen a more suitable dog for my personality. 11 years together 😍.
The statement, "I learned that being a gross hot mess, working in the garden, is where I find joy", has me in tears. That is my joy - especially the last 2 years when the world and my personal life were falling apart. I found "Laura, my Best Friend on UA-cam" last year and have learned more than just gardening from her. Thank You!
OMG!!! I still cannot believe that my tiny garden got noticed :-) What a joy! Thank you so much Garden Answer team. Warmest greetings from Poland!
It's a lovely garden and nice to see one from so far away!
@@holly_kay5570 thank you!
Śliczny ogródek 💕Gratulacje ☺️
@@kasiakrol707 ❤
So pretty! You did a wonderful job!!
I'm Slovak, 100%, born in Scottsdale AZ. My o my isn't that Czech Republic backyard & garden incredible. Absolutely love it! ❤️
You should call this series “Garden Answered” 😁 Getting a lot of inspiration for my plain state new garden!
Love that title adaptation!
Thank you so much Laura and Aaron for featuring my garden in Virginia! I was on the treadmill and screamed when you said my name! 😂 Seriously, I absolutely LOVE these Before and Afters! I get so much inspiration from seeing other people’s gardens, their challenges and solutions! Please continue to do these types of videos! I’ve been watching y’all since you moved in to your home and have learned so much from you Laura! Love y’all!❤️
The Las Vegas before & after was absolutely mind boggling! Also one of the first yards was a long narrow nothing of a yard. The narrow, curving, stuffed side “strips” gave amazing definition to the whole yard.
Laura: These videos would be hours long. Me: We would love that!! So inspiring seeing all of these, and the range of tiny flower beds to large back yards are just so phenomenal.
I wish we can have this monthly you could even feature it on the the recap channel. It would be a way to see when people started watching and what they learned from you and how their yards grew from watching. What you guys think?
Yes!! 🙌🏼😊♥️
Wow Laura look how your passion has inspired all of these people's lives!
So true
Laura, your enthusiasm and excitement when looking at all these beautiful spaces, make us all feel proud of the afters even if they are not our yards. Thank you for offering these videos and encouraging us to continue to "enjoy our journey"♡
Hello 👋 dear, how are you doing?
Good morning, Laura. I love how you just jump right in; no intro to skip past. These before & afters are so helpful! I love this idea! Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈
Who skips past the intro?
@@conniesanrn2730 on some channels, their intro can be minutes long. Hence why Laura doesn’t have one any longer.
I agree. I love how Laura jumps right to the content. No need to tell us what "today's episode" is about.... (it's written in the description). I have even unsubscribed from so many you tube channels because they have intros so long and it is clear the creators think they are a popular TV personality. Intros like that are a huge turn-off.
This whole series is inspiring. It's the perfect contrasting between normal and the results of people's huge labour of love. The amazing transformation make it easier to imagine what even a small effort might be able to enrich a space.
What can I say about all of these gardens? Absolutely gorgeous. It is like bringing a piece of heaven down unto the earth. I have been gardening for about 20 years maybe. There was a space of time I didn't, due to illness, but I am back at it again. Doing the same as these wonderful people have, transforming my space into a heaven. I am not a young person, I am 63 almost, but I can hang with the best of them. I have shale and clay everywhere. But I get at it and work my butt off. I'll never stop gardening. It is my passion. I love the beauty of nature.
It is great to watch these videos when so many of us are still looking out at our own gardens full of snow. I hope Laura posts many more of these before and after videos to help us survive February and March.
Greetings Laura, from Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸
I'm enjoying each and every renovation. Inspiration for a February day. I hope you ALL enjoy this as much as I am. 👩🌾👍🌿💚🌿
Honestly, I'm teary eyed just looking at these gorgeous gardens. The before & after's are incredible.
Omg I love love love this kind of videos! Let me grab a coffee and a warm blanket and enjoy my break working from home! Hello to everyone! 👋🏻☺
Pausing and taking screenshots!
Yessss keep doing these! With all the niches too, side yards, veggie gardens, memory gardens, greenhouses, water features landscaped out, WE WANT TO SEE ALL OF IT. Lol. its really inspirational. Love love love
These transformations are absolutely beautiful! Our home was a new construction (2010) with no landscaping at all. So we started at zero. It can be so overwhelming to have a blank canvas, not knowing where to start. We went slowly due to budget constraints. We have been adding a little each year for 8 gardening seasons, going on 9 this year. While submitting photos for this video, I realized just how far we have come. I created a picture compilation vid that I posted on my channel as a journal, and visual reminder of how far we have come on our homes landscape 💚🌿
Hi 👋 dear, how are you doing?
I love these videos. I'm sitting here so excited to get out in my garden again. Some of the gardens brought tears to my eyes. To see all the hard work that went into them. I'm glad we were able to see them. To all the gardeners.... I'm so proud of you all.
Me too 😭😆😊♥️. I couldn’t help it!! My heart is full this morning!
These videos feed my soul. We are doing a complete makeover of our back yard this spring/summer and I can't wait to get started. The yard where they planted a birch for water control was a light bulb moment because I have issues with water laying and ruining my grass as well.
There must be many more plants help control the water problem. Thank goodness for Google.
Yes pink willow is gorgeous too
All of these are so beautiful. So much variety and styles. Of course wide ranging locations and zones. But it just goes to show, there are choices to be had in just about any conditions. So much thought, creativity, and not to mention hard work have gone into these spaces. Good job people! 💚💚💚
I like how you include the zones because that way I know if plants can grow in my zone. James terraced garden is so beautiful. He should be very proud of their hard work. Ellie's garden looked like it had always been there. I love to see the before and after. We take a trip around the world with the other two gardens, fantastic. Shout out to Las Vegas because that is mind blowing. To make everything so green and lush in the dessert is a feat of excellent gardening. The next one changes the look of the house. Small beds compared to the other gardens but oh so nice. The black garden green house and yard is so awesome. Go Katie with those beautiful hydrangea's. Kelly made privacy in a very open housing backyard neighborhood. So nice and lush. Dee' has a sweet shed. Connie's garden with the raised bed is something I would like to copy but smaller scale. Chris and the swimming pool's a nice addition for a Texan home. Nick's hardscape is awesome. Mickie has a very inviting walk to her door. So cute. Margie's water feature is massive and awesome. Thanks for sharing gardener's.
❤️ love ❤️ love ❤️ love!!! I cried just so emotional for some reason! Each space is done so beautifully - I'm in the process, coming into my third season - it definitely is a journey and we are so blessed to be able to create these gorgeous sanctuaries! Thanks to Laura and Aaron, their continued inspiration is priceless!!!😁👏❤️
Girl… I cried too!! I couldn’t help myself!! 😊♥️
I am so "Inspired" too as almost everyone else that commented has been so "Inspired".... just so much inspiration and nothing to upkeep.... like so Inspiring. Totally incredibly inspirationally lnspiring. Did I say It's inspiring? I know that a common word that so many others that are really Inspired and found this so inspirational and commented about it that I just can't find a better word.
I wouldn’t mind hours of these before&after videos! They are so much fun!
right all their videos are such an easy watch! when its the end im like "what?!" haha
Not letting Laura see the pictures before the video is the best idea ever. I am LIVING for her reactions. I took so many screenshots this round. Gardening is definitely a lesson in patience.
Congratulations to all of these gardeners/landscape artists! What you've accomplished is truly spectacular and appreciated by your peers for all the hard work, sweat and tears. Well done!!
I am so impressed and inspired by all my fellow GA fans and their creations. There is nothing like human creativity and ingenuity! Thank you for bringing us all together, and for everything you do. I think it's really awesome that you are shouting out their gardening channels too, we have an endless supply of inspiration now! 🤩
Absolutely agree
Does anyone want to go redo their yard right now or just me ....aww so much beauty!!!!
Aww, so beautiful! Such a great job everyone! Love the before and after! Stunning! Thank you for doing this Laura....what a great inspiration! Bravo everyone!!!!😍😍❤
These photos are SO INSPIRING!!!! Well done, fellow gardeners!!!
2017 I found your channel and my life changed forever . After been in a depression for years gardenning bring me happiness thanks to You Laura.
May God bless you and bless your family . This video is the proof how you inspired us to make our own beautiful garden in our yards
Blessings. Beautiful gardens
So many gardening journeys start with you laura! Myself included!
i didnt realize how fun gardening could be until i stumbled across garden answer
These series are so inspirational. Thank you to all who shared and to Laura who spoke so encouragingly about each garden. 💚💚💚. It truly was a 💝 gift to each of us !!😘
I love these videos! It's so neat to see how someone can start with practically nothing and then turn it into something so beautiful that you want to be there sitting with them. Thanks for all you've taught us Laura. You are a big inspiration.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these before and after! What an excellent idea for the “dead” of winter went there is little going on outside for most of us. Please continue the trend! 💚💚💚
LoVE this series & Stephanie Dobbs hit the nail on the head with the title of: "LETS IMPRESS THE TEACHER" Stephanie that is BRILLIANT!!!! I screenshot a lot of the entries - my favorite is the White House/White Designer deck with that charming back yard.............the Birch trees got me at once!!!
This is so wonderful to see what others have been able to accomplish! And to see these at this time of year especially when we are all thinking about what we want to focus on in the next growing season. Laura and Aaron, thank you for always finding ways of teaching and inspiring this community. Many, many people (myself included) have taken up gardening after finding your channel and we all feel like we can make beautiful spaces for ourselves.
isn't this just the most fun and inspirational? holy moly! there are some talented designers/landscapers (professionally degree'd or not!) and gardeners out there! so many gorgeous transformations, big and small! thank you to all who sent in pics - wow... gardeners, making the world beautiful one space at a time, fabulous!!! 🙂 ❤ thanks for the video!! 🙂 ❤
I love love love the before and after episodes!💞
It shows us all that even people that didn't want anything to do with gardening, can produce a worthy mention on Garden Answer!🤗🥰
I still want more inside your home redecorating! I love seeing the beautiful architecture of your old home. They sure don't build beautiful coved ceilings, unique fireplace fronts, butler pantries, etc like they did in the 1800 to early 1900's. Now we have cookie cutter houses.🥺
Oh my gosh! I'm so excited you chose my front landscape to include in this video. I can't wipe the smile off my face. It feels like I just graduated from gardening school. Now it's time to go earn my gardening masters this season, as I continue to rework my backyard. Everyone's work in all of these videos is amazing and so inspiring.
Congratulations!!!!
Congrats. 👍
Congrats. I felt the same when Laura chose mine. I said to my family: “today I won my olympic medal” 😁 becasuse there’s just nothing more satisfying, this is the top 👍🏻
@@aksileb Congrats to you too! I love what you did with your space, it is gorgeous, and your dog is beautiful.
It is wonderful to see the gardening talent and imagination people have for their personal space. Every garden was beautiful!
This had been a great series! Especially during the winter time when we're all dreaming of spring and next summer and all the things we want to do. Such great inspiration. Please keep this going and do it every year. It will be so fun next year to see some submissions from people who are inspired this year and really get out there and do something spectacular in their yards and their gardens. We have been working for 2 years on hardscape in our backyard and this year I'm finally going to get to start planting. I'm so excited. Maybe I'll have a submission for you in the future. Thanks for all the inspiration and encouragement.
This was fantastic!!! It has soooo fed my soul this morning!!! I’m so proud to be a part of this community and look forward to each and every day with y’all!! Thank you Laura and Aaron for feeding us all!!! 🙌🏼🌱☀️😊♥️
Love love love the entirety of the “viewers submission” series. THANK YOU for all of the hard work that goes into them! This is exactly the kind of content I’ve been missing since Pinterest turned into an ad ridden promo app.
That was absolutely amazing! Makes you want to run outside and think about what you could do with your own space. So motivating! You guys have cultivated such a wonderful community of gardeners. Thanks so much for sharing all these beautiful gardens.
This whole series has me motivated to take more photos of my garden this year!
I am loving this new series on seeing how others upgrade their space even more inspiring
WOW! This video in particular had amazing gardens. I'm so impressed with what everyone was able to do! Especially looking at what they started with... And as an animal advocate, I have to say, that I loved that almost every gardener had a dog following them around... :-)
The transformation of the Garden in Czech Republic is just awesome. The curves of the flower beds makes the garden look bigger than it actually is. We can't relate to the various zones here in Kenya, but viewing your channel has enriched my knowledge in gardening. Hope to get a nice and mature garden as the ones showcased one day.
Thank you for the inspiration and reminding us that it is a process and we need to be patient to realize such beautiful gardens.
Thank you - that was my aim, no straight lines 😉
So inspiring to see what someone in the same zone as me created...I took screen shots and hopefully will be able to find some of those plants 🪴. Beautiful job everyone!! Thank you 😊
That video of Laura doing her parents garden was the first one for me too. In fact, I thought Aaron was an “Erin” when she was talking to him. 😂♥️ love your channel
Love these before and after videos. 😍
So inspiring to see how much a yard can be changed if you're willing to put in the investment of time, effort, and in some cases, lots of money.
Hi Laura, I absolutely love the before and after, so appreciate you showing these...all the hard work on editing doesn't go unnoticed! I don't always comment, but I have to say, your channel is just so wonderful, positive and very inspirational...really good for the soul! Thank you so much for sharing! Take really good care of yourself, stay well! Much love Kathy x 💖🌿🌺🌼🌷🌺🌻😊Ontario, Canada)
What beautiful gardens! A lot of love and hours of hard work went into each one. How proud they must be!
All of the yards are absolutely beautiful.
Hi Laura, will you and Aaron do another part of the “looking at your greenhouse” videos? I would love to see more greenhouses and even share mine :)
Laura did mention in a previous video that all of these reaction type videos will become series. They just don’t want to make it too repetitive
Yes another greenhouse video would be great!! Need more inspiration for building mine this spring!!
Laura mentions doing another greenhouse video at the end of this video.
@@chelseaross1737 Hi! There are many groups on FB that one can join, depending on country of Your resisdence. Many beautyful greenhouses & growing ideas. 👍Blessings! 🙏🌱🐛🐜🌿☘️🍀🥀🌺🌻🌼
Oh my goodness, these gardens are AMAZING! That first garden BLEW my mind! Just wow! Thanks to everyone that share their gorgeous spaces with us. So beautiful!😍❤️
I love seeing what other home owners have done with their yards. The creativity is amazing.
I am loving these before and after videos. They can never get old. I purchased my home in 2017 and the first yard is pure inspiration for me because my yard has a huge hillside and I have been trying to figure out what to do that would fit in my budget. I know having different levels would be the way to go and that yard confirmed this is the approach I will take. I found Garden Answer back is 2017 and I have been watching ever since and I have been sharing with anyone and everyone. Thanks for all the inspiration ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I love this series! I plan to start a small vegetable garden this year and Garden Answer will be my guide through this challenge 🤞🏻🤩
Same here! 🙋♀️😍
@@fridaandren5097 awesome! Do you plan on raised beds or will plant directly in soil?
@@fiore2151 we’ve gotten our hands on a small allotment garden so there is already some structures there. But i think we will mainly go with directly into the ground (soil is quite good if adding some compost). We live a bit away from the spot and no way to do drip irrigation so maybe not many beds since they dry out faster. Since we have limited of time i’m thinking about some ”no dig” beds using lots of organic materials. In this space function and productivity will be the main focus, in the future it would be nice to do something more structured with beds. What are your plans? 😍🤩
@@fridaandren5097 Sounds like a good plan! I am located in the capital city of Bulgaria (Eastern Europe) but I live near the city in a house. Unfortunately the previous owners didn’t look after the soil and garden in general and in order to cut expenses I plan to start with raised beds so I can adjust and enrich the soil to my needs. Also digging will be veery hard since the soil was never maintained and processed before. Hope it works 🤞🏻
@@fridaandren5097 is there any shed on property? You can do drip irrigation if you collect rainwater in barrels.. Have some high plants, flowers or vegetables, around barrell if it is made of plastic. 👍
Shout out to James in my home province! Looks fantastic!!! I moved to west coast zone 8b in 2007. Miss home, not weather! We have a similar slope in our yard, definitely can utilize more space terracing.
Wow! All these before and afters are amazing! I really have loved this series and have been so inspired. I cannot wait until spring to get out and start transforming my yard!
I submitted photos but everyone's gardens are so much more! I guess I have some work to do. I don't have the money so I gather plants from the for sale racks and this spring we are going to have a plant/seed exchange with family, friends and neighbors. I know that my garden is just a different kind of garden. But WOW to all. And thanks Laura. I just started watching and you are inspiring and your mom is just so sweet. Thanks for all you do.
This before and after series is incredible. It's the perfect winter content for me--I've screenshotted so many parts to use as inspo since I'm currently planning out my garden projects for the year. I can't wait for spring to get started!
I love this series! I would love to see a winter landscaping/winter interest episode for us poor souls who only see snow for 5-6 months out of the year.
Laura I could watch this for hours! I am starting my journey as a new gardener because of you and tomorrow I am going to get lots of before shots. Thanks for everything you and your family do to help us realize our dreams. God bless.
Some of these gardens brought tears to my eyes ! What beautiful inspiration ❤️ Thank you Laura for showing us the way!,
Same!!! I cried. I did. 😊♥️
Connie needs to have a UA-cam channel! I’d love to learn more about herbal & plant remedies.
So inspiring and encouraging to see these different gardens. Gives so many of us hope and courage to step out and get started. 🌸
You all have beautiful gardens! This year I'm finally getting serious about my garden. These videos really give inspiration. Thanks for sharing!
Seeing these wonderful before and after shots gives us hope for the future of our skinny little gardens. Now with my wife hearing she has incurable cancer makes me want to bring in whole already grown plants. Thank you all for sharing your beautiful gardens❤️💙
Go for it. 👍
These videos are so inspiring, Laura! Thank you for this series of videos.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your "Inspiration Series". You can just feel the love reflected back from you Laura. You are truly a gardeners best friend. Keep up all the hardwork. Thanks for being there for us.
Hello 👋 Shannon, how are you doing?
I absolutely adore seeing all of the before and after pictures! People are so creative and amazing with their ideas! Please show something like this once a week. I watched it twice it was so awesome.
I love this so much. I truly enjoy seeing the submissions. Thank you all for sharing.
All the hard work these folks put in. They are all beautiful. I would say that you are very successful in the challenge given to you by Proven Winners to inspire more people to garden. You sure have inspired me. Thank you and Aaron for creating this wonderful channel.
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I really thought that watching Laura in her own garden or her moms was enough to feed my garden loving passions but these inspiring photos take me to a whole new level of love! I normally get bummed about gardening from November until late March but now I am sooo ready!!! Thank you for making this type of content on top of your already amazing “routine” content!! I’ve watched you since around the day you moved to your new home and I never get tired of your show.
All of these were so inspirational. My husband and I just bought our first home in Dec and once we finish renovating it, I can't wait to really go ham on the landscape!!
Good luck to you and your hubby as you transform your space !
I love the side yards pictures! We in zone 9b (New Orleans) area can’t plant right up to the house; it’s recommended to leave 3 ft before planting, this is because of termites. I was wondering if the other viewers hav3 had termite problems because of planting so close to the house that you can’t see the termite tunnels. Thank you Laura & Arron!
Everyone has the cutest dogs in all their afters !
I take pictures every time I plant something. I start with where it’s going. The actual plant and after it’s planted and as it’s growing.
Hello 👋 dear, how are you doing?
I love looking at everyone's beautiful gardens.
So enjoyed this, thank you everyone for sending them in and thank you Laura for talking us through them! Well done everyone for creating these beautiful spaces!
Love this video! Kind of you taking so much time helping others!
I love seeing these lush green gardens at this time of year. I cannot wait to get back out in my own garden and these videos help. Thank you Laura and Aaron.
I love these before and after videos. I do hope they will become an annual event. Those of us just beginning would love to submit our efforts in the future. You are such an inspiration and your channel has become an oasis for me.
Every "after" I gasp and say, "holy smokes!" Beautiful work, everyone! Thank you for sharing, GA team. 💚
Yay! 👏🏻 Just love seeing everyone’s beautiful gardens. Such inspiration 💕
I want to hang out in all of these gardens! They are all so beautiful! I love, love, love what Nick did in Athens, Wisconsin! The board and batten siding on the house is absolutely gorgeous and the garden is stunning too! I love Jennifer's cape cod house in Albany, NY too. It proves that you don't have to do a massive remodel to make such a huge improvement to your property. Laura, you and Aaron have truly given us so much inspiration and encouragement! Love this series of videos!!!❤❤❤
I really loved seeing these before and after photos and hearing each garden's story and where in the world they are located. It is so interesting and inspiring. Perhaps this could be a regular segment called "Show-N-Tell"