I think it would be lovely to plant your sunflowers along the fence next year. The perspective would make the garden look so much larger. Just a thought. 😘
Wanted to tell you I just got home from watching a young Irish lady named Ceola McGowan become lady's world champion at double bit axe throwing here in the little community of Barrington Nova Scotia . She was awesome she did Ireland proud.
I’m envious of your delphinium! That is one plant that I simply have had no luck at growing.😢 I’ve also been cleaning up the flower beds. It’s a little sad but it also reminds me that they’ll be back in the spring! I also thin out my plants and share with other gardeners. This is my favorite ritual because those plants always do better than the garden store varieties (the dreaded delphinium failures) and when they bloom I have a special smile from remembering the person that gave me that plant. Weird, I know. I simply love your garden space and your little adopted hedgehog 🦔 Kerpi. You inspire us all sweet lady! 🌻
Wow! That's a lot of sunflower seeds for hungry winter birds...lol. Aren't hedgehogs just adorable? Yours is very well behaved. Hydrangeas make the best dried flowers...love them in vases, wreaths, or garlands!
Drought in US too, really bad. The earth is cracked like desert soil. We all need rain desperately. Praying for all to get rain. Great video! Happy September ❣
Great tidy up. Eucalyptus young leaves are button shape but they change into long leather looking leaves as they age and as you now know, grow into huge trees. However, cutting back hard encourages new button leaves and keeps it under control.
I know it's an older video but regarding planting perennials and plants in general, it's good to dig a hole, put a plant in and fill the hole with water. Only when the water seeps into the soil you cover it with remaining soli and water again to compact it. It will keep moisture much longer than only watering it from the top.
Such a gorgeous garden!! You've given me some inspiration to go out and do a little more in my own. Our driveway is gravel and absolutely covered in weeds. I'll never do it all, but can do a little at least!
I wake up Sunday morning and think "ooo it's garden video time". I pulled up some spent sunflowers this morning and am starting new to see if I can get a second crop here in Hawaii. I am also painting garden chairs bright pink. I am planning for next year also.
Your garden is colourful even without the sunflowers. Maybe next year, they would be better in a bed by the wall. Love how the plants around the pond have grown up, so that it looks as though it belongs there.
I bet Blondie was excited to have you back home from your holiday. I'm excited to see how your apple tree grows. Eucalyptus is one of my favorites. Your flowers are beautiful. 🌸🏵🌹🌻🌼 Those cabbages😀
You feel it when you see a place made with love; cats, bees, kirpis...they are all well looked after in your beautiful garden 🦔🐝💚 by the way, we also have a saying in Turkish as "Kirpi yavrusunu pamuğum diye severmiş" meaning: "Hedgehog mom loves her baby by referring to him as 'my cotton'." It is used to say that one does not see/give attention to the bad traits of someone he/she loves" 🦔❤
👍❤ The yard looks lovely after the cleaning, I'm inspired to do better with deadheading. I enjoy your videos so much, it gives me the hope to revive my beds with a variety of new plants for next spring.
Hi Catherine🌻, Kirpi is such a cute name! Sad to see the sunflowers go but happy to see the rest of the garden, especially the snapdragons. I know the sunflowers were because of a happy accident, but perhaps next year you could have them near the fence. They definitely love your garden. I also saw that they come in miniature size at the garden centre. I guess you could have a whole choir of sunflowers organised by height, haha! That was a good move staking that apple tree. I've learned over the years "If in doubt, just stake it", especially if it's a young plant. Because honestly you might think it's okay, and then suddenly a storm comes up and snaps your plant. I've had to do plant surgery to save rose bushes with masking tape after a freak storm snapped one, and then a few days later another storm snapped another. All I can is that I'm thankful for UA-cam garden gurus because those plants would have died if not for their videos. I hope you're feeling better, and are well rested after your holiday💙.
@@DaintyDiaries I love all of your videos Catherine. I have some plants popping up from who knows where. I have what looks like a sunflower possibly sprouting too. Must be from the birds and their seed maybe? I got given a budlea last week so I have put that in and am keeping up with the watering.
Eucalyptus is my favourite foliage..wish I could grow an artificial bush for crafting. I was just thinking as you said , how big your garden looks without the sunflowers, I do love them they were my Grandma’s favourite. I finished moving all my craft stuff to the garage yehhhh, tomorrow I plan on shifting the lounge around Autumn cleaning the pumpkin time 🤗. Stay safe stay well xx
Hello Catherine, You've become so knowledgeable about garden matters. What a development over time your garden shows. Wonderful. It's becoming more and more a mature and cohesive cottage garden. Enjoy watching your garden vlogs (and the other vlogs as well)!
Toffee is gorgeous. My Leo has been sleeping with my pansies in the window box. I couldn't think what had happened to them, and then I caught him napping one morning 😂😂
Nice and tidy, so pretty at every stage.Always love seeing the pond area, it is almost as adoreable as you, almost. I am possitive Blondie must have missed you very much. It's always so good to be home no matter how much fun holidays are. Your garden is so inviting, I bet time working there is also so much fun. Gardens are good for the soul. You always put me in mind of a pretty little fairy buzzing around the garden with the bees, cleaning up. Tee hee! Just so adoreable. Love every video. Just found you a couple months ago. Hope you had a wonderful holiday.
Yes, from reading up about hedgehogs, they are really friendly, cats can't harm them because their mouth are too small and if they try to bite, they get a mouthful of spikes, so Blondie doesn't annoy them x
I'm with you ... I love the smell of Eucalyptus. I grew up in Southern California and there were huge Eucalyptus trees everywhere. The smell was amazing!
I’ve been gardening for decades and I still fell for planting some discounted perennials in August. 90 degrees Fahrenheit and no rain all month. Dragging the watering can out twice a day as a result.
Gardening vicariously through you Catherine. Although my little balcony vertical garden is doing well. I have abundance of parsley and my sad sad tomatoes have decided to bloom, 🤞, may be will get tomatoes 🙈.
Just returned from vacation myself, and I took your book with me for a wonderful relaxing read. Wonderful job on the book! Can’t wait for the next one.
Girl... I just picked up your autographed book from Barnes & Nobles McAllen Texas USA.. it took a while to get to my city but it was worth the wait, I just wanted to say thank and that I ❤️ it... girl keep up the amazing work and I can't wait for future books. A big hello to all of ur followers. ✨️
Your garden held up well! It sounds like your area and my area on the east coast of the US are going through the same lack of rain. When I look at my weather app it'll forecast scattered showers and then nothing happens. My front lawn is burnt to a crisp right now. My backyard isn't too bad, as I have a big shady maple tree there. So far, the perennial gardens are holding steady. Looking forward to your next video!
Moved into a new house with no garden plants at all. Bought garden plants, lots and lots and some big specimen plants too for impact. Had I known then what sort of summer we were going to have I would never have started. Monty planted Nareems I see....they are the grand finale of the summer garden.
Looking like you had a great vacation Catherine! If up ur frying sunflowers for the birds. They need to stay dry. You could hang them from a wire for them 🐦
I love eucalyptus, the house I grew up in had one and then we went to Spain a lot and they were just lining the streets, in the hot evenings you could just smell it everywhere it was lush
Glad you are back from your holiday trip. Hope your niece and nephew were excited to see you! Your garden looks nice and tidy! It's still warm here in California around 80-90 degrees. Waiting for cooler weather starts end of October. See you next week. Kathy from California! ❤️
Your garden looks awesome considering you have been away on a jaunty. I can't wait to move and have a garden big enough to steal some of your ideas. The sunflowers are still growing so that's a happy plant to keep seeing till late September 😊 ☺️
Girl you sound like you need some more mulch! a nice layer 2-3 inches thick will keep a ton of moisture in the ground especially for potted plants! I'm out here in arizona (desert) and it's the saving grace for my little potted trees.
I inherited a eucalyptus tree when I moved to this house. They shed leaves and bark continously, I was in the garden one day and huge limb the size of a small tree fell off of it. So I had the whole thing removed for safety. It had grown for about 25 years it was taller than the house. Hope all your holiday washing is dry😊 lovely video as always Catherine. 🥒🌽🌸
Was thinking that a bottomless pot for your apple tree would be awesome. You can then leave the pot in place indefinatley! Just need to breK the ground underneath. My 2 cents worth...lol.
Lovely video☺️. I’ve been using every water saving tip I can to save my plants, especially the ones in pots. I have recycled my soda water bottles into watering reservoirs. Leave the cap on but put a couple of small holes in, cut the bottom off and push into your pots then fill with water. This will trickle water your plants 🪴. 🥰
Eucalyptus leaves are great for the garden to keep bad bugs away. The good one know to avoid it. Loving the teal dress on you. Your so lucky to have the tall block walls in the perimeter of you back yard. Were only aloud 6 foot heights in the back yard. Yours looks more like 9! 👍Have you enjoyed any of the tea you brought back with you Catherine? Lucky you! 🫖
Plant your tomatoes beside your nettles because the aphids will go for the nettles and stay off your tomatoes.
Oh top tip!
🍅🍅🍅🍅
U can also plant chives and onions by tomatoes bc the scent will mask them to other pests.
I think it would be lovely to plant your sunflowers along the fence next year. The perspective would make the garden look so much larger. Just a thought. 😘
I'm planning to do exactly that
This is my year of getting into gardening and I just learned what a perennial is - so please carry on with the beginner's tips! I need them 👍😊
Ciao bellissima grande fiore mi piace 👍🤗🤩😍👏🇮🇹
Is it strange that I enjoy my Saturday afternoon watching you mow your lawn? :) Thank you for sharing your garden. Love it!
So nice of you! Not strange at all x
Wanted to tell you I just got home from watching a young Irish lady named Ceola McGowan become lady's world champion at double bit axe throwing here in the little community of Barrington Nova Scotia . She was awesome she did Ireland proud.
Brava ottima 👍🇮🇹
I’ve been following your garden journey it’s looking lovely - your next book should be a gardening one x
Oh thank you! Thanks for following along x
Love your house and yard! You a beautiful person! Thankyou for sharing🌹
So nice of you x
I’m envious of your delphinium! That is one plant that I simply have had no luck at growing.😢 I’ve also been cleaning up the flower beds. It’s a little sad but it also reminds me that they’ll be back in the spring! I also thin out my plants and share with other gardeners. This is my favorite ritual because those plants always do better than the garden store varieties (the dreaded delphinium failures) and when they bloom I have a special smile from remembering the person that gave me that plant. Weird, I know. I simply love your garden space and your little adopted hedgehog 🦔 Kerpi. You inspire us all sweet lady! 🌻
Wow! That's a lot of sunflower seeds for hungry winter birds...lol. Aren't hedgehogs just adorable? Yours is very well behaved. Hydrangeas make the best dried flowers...love them in vases, wreaths, or garlands!
Drought in US too, really bad. The earth is cracked like desert soil. We all need rain desperately. Praying for all to get rain. Great video! Happy September ❣
🙋♀️❤ kirpi is so cute! Glad to catch him in! Lol
Busy lizzies are brillant summer flower they great coloures in garden and flower all summer
with Halloween coming up, I'm excited to see what you plan for this year
Hello how are you doing?
Your pond area is looking spiffy! Very pretty.
Thanks 👍
Great tidy up. Eucalyptus young leaves are button shape but they change into long leather looking leaves as they age and as you now know, grow into huge trees. However, cutting back hard encourages new button leaves and keeps it under control.
Great tips Sharon ❤️
Also you can use the prunings in dried arrangements or hang them fresh from your shower head, for a nice shower steam!
I hope you get rain. Your garden is so beautiful. 💛
I know it's an older video but regarding planting perennials and plants in general, it's good to dig a hole, put a plant in and fill the hole with water. Only when the water seeps into the soil you cover it with remaining soli and water again to compact it. It will keep moisture much longer than only watering it from the top.
Kirpi🦔
Well that's adorable.
isn't it cute x
Happy Sunday ! Glad to see you back missed you girl!!!
Hey, glad you found me again, if you head to my page you’ll see my recent uploads x
Loved the hedgehog !! Am envious of your bees 🐝 Hi from Australia xx
Such a gorgeous garden!! You've given me some inspiration to go out and do a little more in my own. Our driveway is gravel and absolutely covered in weeds. I'll never do it all, but can do a little at least!
Hello how are you doing?
I wake up Sunday morning and think "ooo it's garden video time". I pulled up some spent sunflowers this morning and am starting new to see if I can get a second crop here in Hawaii. I am also painting garden chairs bright pink. I am planning for next year also.
Aw love this! Happy planning x
Your garden is colourful even without the sunflowers. Maybe next year, they would be better in a bed by the wall. Love how the plants around the pond have grown up, so that it looks as though it belongs there.
Just wanted to say I love your garden ☺️
Oh thank you!
Hi Catherine your garden is looking lovely, your friend did a great job.
Have a great week 😊💖
I bet Blondie was excited to have you back home from your holiday. I'm excited to see how your apple tree grows. Eucalyptus is one of my favorites. Your flowers are beautiful. 🌸🏵🌹🌻🌼 Those cabbages😀
You feel it when you see a place made with love; cats, bees, kirpis...they are all well looked after in your beautiful garden 🦔🐝💚 by the way, we also have a saying in Turkish as "Kirpi yavrusunu pamuğum diye severmiş" meaning: "Hedgehog mom loves her baby by referring to him as 'my cotton'."
It is used to say that one does not see/give attention to the bad traits of someone he/she loves" 🦔❤
Awwwww, that is so sweet! Thank you for sharing that with me x
Glad to see your yard is still doing so well. I bet the birds are going to love those sunflower seeds.
You look so well that colour really suits you I love eucalyptus trees
That dark teal colour you are wearing really makes your eye colour pop, hair and skin look super warm honey ginger.
Good job once again in the garden! Welcome back. 👍🌞🌻🌻🌻
Hi 👋 how are you doing?
As always, 💖💖💖
Great video Catherine x
That turquoise dress on you with a bit of a tan- stunning! It’s so your colour🥰
Welcome back!
Beautiful garden ..well done 👍 🥰
Thank you so much 🙂
👍❤ The yard looks lovely after the cleaning, I'm inspired to do better with deadheading. I enjoy your videos so much, it gives me the hope to revive my beds with a variety of new plants for next spring.
Your Apple tree would look AMAZING espaliered on the wall right there!
Hi Catherine🌻,
Kirpi is such a cute name! Sad to see the sunflowers go but happy to see the rest of the garden, especially the snapdragons. I know the sunflowers were because of a happy accident, but perhaps next year you could have them near the fence. They definitely love your garden. I also saw that they come in miniature size at the garden centre. I guess you could have a whole choir of sunflowers organised by height, haha!
That was a good move staking that apple tree. I've learned over the years "If in doubt, just stake it", especially if it's a young plant. Because honestly you might think it's okay, and then suddenly a storm comes up and snaps your plant. I've had to do plant surgery to save rose bushes with masking tape after a freak storm snapped one, and then a few days later another storm snapped another. All I can is that I'm thankful for UA-cam garden gurus because those plants would have died if not for their videos.
I hope you're feeling better, and are well rested after your holiday💙.
Glad you’re home!
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Great video and welcome home xx
Thank you!! 😊
Ohhhhh so excited. Cup of tea and time to chill after a busy day in the garden.
I hope you enjoy 🥰
@@DaintyDiaries I love all of your videos Catherine. I have some plants popping up from who knows where. I have what looks like a sunflower possibly sprouting too. Must be from the birds and their seed maybe? I got given a budlea last week so I have put that in and am keeping up with the watering.
It’s definitely been a struggle this year for us gardeners, but hope springs eternal so we keep planting.
Eucalyptus is my favourite foliage..wish I could grow an artificial bush for crafting.
I was just thinking as you said , how big your garden looks without the sunflowers, I do love them they were my Grandma’s favourite.
I finished moving all my craft stuff to the garage yehhhh, tomorrow I plan on shifting the lounge around Autumn cleaning the pumpkin time 🤗.
Stay safe stay well xx
Hello Catherine, You've become so knowledgeable about garden matters. What a development over time your garden shows. Wonderful. It's becoming more and more a mature and cohesive cottage garden. Enjoy watching your garden vlogs (and the other vlogs as well)!
Another productive gardening day. Love the smell of eucalyptus, too!
Thank you for your inspiration
It's my pleasure Tracey x
That apple tree looks like it would be a great candidate for an espalier. And you already have the wall anyways!!
Toffee is gorgeous. My Leo has been sleeping with my pansies in the window box. I couldn't think what had happened to them, and then I caught him napping one morning 😂😂
Nice and tidy, so pretty at every stage.Always love seeing the pond area, it is almost as adoreable as you, almost. I am possitive Blondie must have missed you very much. It's always so good to be home no matter how much fun holidays are. Your garden is so inviting, I bet time working there is also so much fun. Gardens are good for the soul. You always put me in mind of a pretty little fairy buzzing around the garden with the bees, cleaning up. Tee hee! Just so adoreable. Love every video. Just found you a couple months ago. Hope you had a wonderful holiday.
Thanks Debi ♥️ you’re so sweet! Gardening is absolutely good for the soul I agree xx
I especially like the view down the walkway between the raised beds looking down to your greenhouse 👍🏻
Really ENJOY your videos. Thank you ❤️
Loved the difference it made dead heading! I noticed the ivy is creeping back on the top of your wall.
Loved seeing Kirby snoozing! So adorable! I'm surprised he just sleeps there when cats are also around?
Yes, from reading up about hedgehogs, they are really friendly, cats can't harm them because their mouth are too small and if they try to bite, they get a mouthful of spikes, so Blondie doesn't annoy them x
@@DaintyDiaries so interesting! Thanks for the info! :)
Catherine love your videos such a breath of fresh air
Cheryl Townsvilles Queensland Australia 👍🤣
Oh thank you!
Catherine nice garden tidy up. Hope the apple tree does well.👍👍❤
I'm with you ... I love the smell of Eucalyptus. I grew up in Southern California and there were huge Eucalyptus trees everywhere. The smell was amazing!
I’ve been gardening for decades and I still fell for planting some discounted perennials in August. 90 degrees Fahrenheit and no rain all month. Dragging the watering can out twice a day as a result.
I’m glad I am not alone 😆
The pond area is filling in so nicely Catherine.
Wish I had your energy Catherine. Love your dress and love the colour such a change from your white or floral dresses. It suits you.
Thanks Mandy ♥️
Gardening vicariously through you Catherine. Although my little balcony vertical garden is doing well. I have abundance of parsley and my sad sad tomatoes have decided to bloom, 🤞, may be will get tomatoes 🙈.
Just returned from vacation myself, and I took your book with me for a wonderful relaxing read.
Wonderful job on the book! Can’t wait for the next one.
Looking good, Catherine. 😊🌻🍀🐈💗
Warm and entertaining as ever. It all has a nice wholesome warm glow with you love. The garden. is doing really well.
Girl... I just picked up your autographed book from Barnes & Nobles McAllen Texas USA.. it took a while to get to my city but it was worth the wait, I just wanted to say thank and that I ❤️ it... girl keep up the amazing work and I can't wait for future books. A big hello to all of ur followers. ✨️
Awwwww, I am so so happy to hear that! I hope you enjoy it and thanks for all the support x
Your garden held up well! It sounds like your area and my area on the east coast of the US are going through the same lack of rain. When I look at my weather app it'll forecast scattered showers and then nothing happens. My front lawn is burnt to a crisp right now. My backyard isn't too bad, as I have a big shady maple tree there. So far, the perennial gardens are holding steady. Looking forward to your next video!
Hi how’re you doing?
Moved into a new house with no garden plants at all. Bought garden plants, lots and lots and some big specimen plants too for impact. Had I known then what sort of summer we were going to have I would never have started. Monty planted Nareems I see....they are the grand finale of the summer garden.
Looking like you had a great vacation Catherine! If up ur frying sunflowers for the birds. They need to stay dry. You could hang them from a wire for them 🐦
I love eucalyptus, the house I grew up in had one and then we went to Spain a lot and they were just lining the streets, in the hot evenings you could just smell it everywhere it was lush
Glad you’re back❣️
Glad you are back from your holiday trip. Hope your niece and nephew were excited to see you! Your garden looks nice and tidy! It's still warm here in California around 80-90 degrees. Waiting for cooler weather starts end of October. See you next week. Kathy from California! ❤️
Amazing beautiful garden blessings..a big hug from Los Angeles California 🙏🙏🙏🙏🤗🌿🌸🌱🌸🌱🌸🌿🌸🌸🌱🌸🌱🌸🍃🌸🌱🌻🙋🏻♀️
Your garden looks awesome considering you have been away on a jaunty.
I can't wait to move and have a garden big enough to steal some of your ideas.
The sunflowers are still growing so that's a happy plant to keep seeing till late September 😊 ☺️
I always enjoy viewing your content and your garden is beautiful. 🥀🌻🌹
So wonderful to see you ..on video. Love your garden . Hugs from Winnipeg 🇨🇦🥰❤️🌸
Wow..those 🌞 flowers...were trying to reach the 🌞 I think... fabulous...and looks great after a good trim... Hope you had a wonderful holiday x.
Blessings 🌻 beautiful 🥰 garden
Thanks for watching ❤️
Good to see you. Your garden is looking 👍
Great tidy up 👍😀
I love your videos! Thanks for sharing them! 😊
Glad you like them!
Love your plant pots and plants. Sometimes it does you good to get away
Girl you sound like you need some more mulch! a nice layer 2-3 inches thick will keep a ton of moisture in the ground especially for potted plants! I'm out here in arizona (desert) and it's the saving grace for my little potted trees.
Loving the cottage look in the garden...very nice..🇦🇺🥰
Hi Catherine great video as always.really enjoyable.cabbages are awesome.thanx for sharing x
I inherited a eucalyptus tree when I moved to this house. They shed leaves and bark continously, I was in the garden one day and huge limb the size of a small tree fell off of it. So I had the whole thing removed for safety. It had grown for about 25 years it was taller than the house.
Hope all your holiday washing is dry😊 lovely video as always Catherine. 🥒🌽🌸
Holiday washing is sorted indeed! Thanks for stopping by ♥️♥️
What a darling little patch you have. I love it!!
Thank you! 😊
So inspired to spruce the garden. Called the gardener LOL!
ha ha love it Sally
Was thinking that a bottomless pot for your apple tree would be awesome. You can then leave the pot in place indefinatley! Just need to breK the ground underneath. My 2 cents worth...lol.
You have a wonderful friend- garden looks great.
Thanks so much x
Beautiful
So nice to watch. Garden is always lovely x thank you for sharing
Ha! I am doing laundry as I watch your video. Noise didn't bother me at all.
Your garden looks wonderful!
Hope you feel better soon. Your garden is looking so lovely.
Knickers 🤣 you make me laugh as always a great video x
Lovely video☺️. I’ve been using every water saving tip I can to save my plants, especially the ones in pots. I have recycled my soda water bottles into watering reservoirs. Leave the cap on but put a couple of small holes in, cut the bottom off and push into your pots then fill with water. This will trickle water your plants 🪴. 🥰
Great tip with the water bottles Charlotte! X
Your “grass” with the purple flowers are called monkey grass in the southern U.S. they spread like crazy too. Love your channel ❤️
Eucalyptus leaves are great for the garden to keep bad bugs away. The good one know to avoid it. Loving the teal dress on you. Your so lucky to have the tall block walls in the perimeter of you back yard. Were only aloud 6 foot heights in the back yard. Yours looks more like 9! 👍Have you enjoyed any of the tea you brought back with you Catherine? Lucky you! 🫖