Thank you, thank you, thank you, Roy, for putting the plant pictures on the screen. I already write down names and look up plants, but that is so helpful. You could even leave them up longer, while you are still talking about the plants.
Ok now I have to buy seeds and start seedlings and bump them up and grow them on and harden them off and plant them out AFTER planning where they will play well with others. I just want a heliotrope this year! And probably fix a lot of hodgepodge planting. I do so want not just beautiful plants but beautiful plantings. Thanks to this kind gentle man I will reach and stretch to a higher experience in the garden this year. I hope his whole life has been filled with this much fun!
My favorite combination is the echinacea white swan with Molinia caerulea ‘Hiedebraut’. Hopefully I will find both in the garden centers I visit this spring. This project we are part of - is both educational and inspiring to say the least. Thank you for the opportunity to witness the details and thought process you are undertaking. 🙂
Splendid just splendid and Mr. Diblik has a cool and easy delivery. Thanks so much Erin, this was fascinating and I can't wait to see your garden evolve with this approach!
You sound so much calmer than I would have been about the collateral damage done. I would have been so much more emotional. Lesson taken. I LOVE your furry supervisors!! 💚💚💚
So sorry the crew disturbed an area that wasn't supposed to be touched. I definitely would have cried and had to leave. It must have been needed but so hard to see. Kudos to you for absorbing it and moving forward.
Honestly there’s only one plant in there -Hylomecon japonica-that I’m really worried about. It’s very hard to find and I love it. Everything else is pretty ordinary and can be replaced (although that’s still a bummer). They did do a good job of staying away from my tricolor beech which I sort of threatened them about if something happened to it. 😀
Erin - I've thoroughly enjoyed the entire design process. I can't wait to see the next steps. I'm hoping to see more details for your dry creek bed area you have as I have one too. It's definitely a designers challenge for dealing with one.
Love Roy's office. He is easy to listen to and love that he encourages to enjoy gardening, be open to changes. It's seems a bit overwhelming to design, but I imagine if I listen to his video's more I could learn!
this is SO FUN. i love watching you and roy play in the garden, and to see the creation of the plan is such a bonus. can not WAIT to see you guys place it out and get these beautiful plants in the ground. it's like garden magic
Roy is a very nice man and explains very well. I totally understand the Latin names, to narrow down to exact plant, as there are a variety. This is going to be lovely!
*Subbed to Roy's UA-cam channel too! (Thank you Erin for making us aware of Roy!)* This is going to be AMAZING! How wonderful to be starting Spring with an authentic plan. I can't even imagine knowing EXACTLY what plants to buy, where they will go, & knowing the results won't be disappointing. I MUST make the time to research & plan.💚
This is going to be so beautiful. It was really helpful when you put pics of the plants up on the screen. I am looking forward to seeing the next iteration.
Thank You - Roy & Erin !!!! this was so very interesting and actually kept my ADHD self enthralled and now educated. It's always fun when you learn something - and Roy explains it all to simply so it makes sense. I am so looking forward to the coming videos on the further planning, placing and planting of what will be a magnificant new garden.
Another fascinating look at the planning process. Watching you plan brings life to everything in your book. I'll be trying your system for a new garden I'm designing for a friend. Thank you!
Absolutely fascinating. I live in inner-city Melbourne so it couldn’t be more different to your garden, but I also have an area to replant after substantial building work destroyed almost everything. Roy’s approach to design is teaching me so much about the importance of understanding plants and their habits. Thank you both.
Seeing this more defined version on paper has made the process up to this point make a lot more sense for some reason. I'm finally understanding his explanations and descriptions with this hard copy visual aid. I've been kinda lost on this project up to here! Thanks for bringing us along.
Always good to have “Newfervision” in the garden. My newf follows me in the garden while my retriever disappears in the woods every chance he gets. I like how Roy describes this process!
what an excellent learning tool. I shall have to try that whole "thinking" thing. normally, I figure if I can see dirt, something has died and I replace it with whatever is available. right now I don't have a garden so much as a place to put my plant collection.. I see a long road ahead for me.
Thank you Erin for introducing us to Roy! He is an amazing plant artist & I feel very lucky to live close enough to Northwind to visit in the spring! I have a HUGE border that I needed inspiration for, so your series on design has been fantastic! Also just bought his book and can’t wait to dive into in. His gardening style is our future ♥️
So very cool watching and listening to him think things through. He is an artist. He paints with flowers. I'm sorry about your Pagoda Dogwood. Come on summer. Expecting another icy mix with snow accumulations.
GREAT video!! Everything he talks about is so in tune with how I feel…..”planting emotionally” is such a deep understanding of how a gardener works in the landscape……I have a much smaller space than you do but the intuitive approach is the same! Feeling joy and having fun!! I understand about what happened in the yard…..we had a plumber come last year and they destroyed half of our yard…..it was terrible because they didn’t care and they did terrible work on the plumbing too….I was devastated and it’s still not fixed but c’est la vie!! I’m so excited to see this plan move forward! It’s going to be amazing!!
I loved this. Design is the hardest element for me. I also really liked Surburban Homestead s recent video on " Cottage Garden Design Master Class" which helped me with the basic plant shapes, etc. Really trying to learn here.
Great video! Very helpful on how to group and importance of using graph paper and understanding centre points and area needed.... I was a bit confused on his math because when he used total square footage divided by the centres, the amount for 15 inch centres( 1.56 ) was the higher number, and the 18" at 2.24 was the lower...I will have to check out his you tube to see if there is more info on this... But great content! I'm off to buy some graph paper!!!
I really feel for you. Last year we had a gas leak. The crew that fixed it swore they wouldn't have to dig up my side flower bed... & they didn't. What they DID do, however, is plop ALL the heavy clay soil they dug up right on my flower bed, then used the mini back-hoe machine to pick up all that clay when they refilled the trench. At least 1/2 of my flower bed wound up in the trench w/ the soil. My only solace is that most of the remaining plants, which were crushed by the pile of clay, came back up come spring.
It’s going to be gorgeous! Can’t wait to see it completed! Do you think you could possibly replant the other pagoda dogwood and leave it to itself to recoup?
My first thought is, spring maintenance on so many grasses. I find cutting grasses back in the spring to be such a pain, that I keep removing grasses, not adding them. My second thought is cost. Never ever would I plan to buy so many of the exact same plant to carpet an area. I am pretty sure I've never found a plant I like so much, I'd buy 20 or 30 just to fill up a space. While interesting to see and hear his thought processes, one can certainly make lovely garden areas using different approaches and by spending FAR less money. Novice gardeners need to know, this is only one way to create a garden and they do not need thousands of dollars in order to plant an area.
I appreciate that Roy uses mostly Latin names. It really is far more accurate & consistent. A fairly big problem in the houseplant hobby is misuse/overuse of inaccurate & random trade names. One single plant can end up with 5 common names, often times using the entirely wrong genus, like calling rhaphidophora tetrasperma, ‘mini monstera.’ That’s totally wrong. It’s so confusing & misleading. Sellers also do this to charge more for a plant. For example, the word ‘blizzard’ has been substituted as the species for ‘philodendron giganteum’ plants that show more variegation. But that’s often up to the conditions the plant is grown in and it’s likely to revert in our homes. A lot of excited, new plant collectors are getting ripped off. I don’t know if it happens as much with landscape plants. But it certainly could. I think it’s useful & important that we attempt to learn & use Latin names with the cultivar added at the end, when applicable. That’s the only way to make sure we’re all on the same page & no one is getting swindled
Love the creativity you both share. Living in zone 4 I would love to find a Salvia plant that would work for me. I hope you can send some links of suppliers in WI or MN that you use in future videos! I dream on paper and can't wait to stretch out my garden hose into desired garden shapes this spring!
My planning will be a simple eye balling. Still trying to figure what to plant, with what and were. I wish I could get out and get started! But still too early. 😕 thanks
When we had our septic replaced, it was close to a steep hill and they carelessly swiped that hill uprooting hundreds of my Iris. They didn't even need to cut into the hill for the septic. Their priority definitely is not the landscaping around them.
Relax, you'd be surprised how resilient plants are when sleeping in winter, do not think that dogwood is a loss. I'd replant it elsewhere, seeing that Roy only has one dogwood in the plans. I've cut back to the ground many times and the plant loves it and is revigorated as a result, sending off new roots and foliage.
While I definitely would have no issues pruning a shrubby dogwood such as Cornus sericea back to the ground I wouldn't do that on a woody dogwood like C. alternifolia. I'm not so much concerned about form but rather about the root ball being fully exposed to sub zero temps for a night. Most plants are tough as you point out, but it should be clear pretty early on about whether it makes it or not. I'm not overly concerned as it was sort of a bonus plant to begin with.
Experiencing a serious desire to fast forward to the future to see this design implemented 😆 I can visualize much better after this video. Alas Roy's reminders- we're still having fun ✌️ Cheers Erin!
The "planned" path of destruction is always half of what the actual path of destruction ends up being. With any kind of work that ends up getting done, just reality
I have watched all of your videos and just read Roy’s book and now I’m chomping at the bit for this gardening season to get going. I live in Michigan so the winters seem to go on and on and on and on… I will be planting up a space quite similar to yours and already have the majority of the plants picked out but, I am struggling to know how many plants I will need. Can you share what the size/footage of your garden space is that you designed with Roy? Maybe that will help me figure out this mystery. Also, the plants I am purchasing are in 2 inch pots because they are so much more affordable for me. What spacing would you recommend for that size pot. They are all Michigan natives similar in size, shape and vigor. Thanks Erin! Love watching you on UA-cam!!
This area is about 15x30. We planted mostly on 15” centers. If you’re doing 2” plants you might want into plant a touch closer to keep the weed competition down in the beginning and then edit from there in a few years
My heart hurts with you over your poor yard being destroyed and them breaking your tree ..about 20 years ago we had to have our garden's in our backyard destroyed because of needing new fingers system clay tiles don't last forever..anyway I know you will make it beautiful in no time...I gained more garden's because of it.
Love your videos!! I have an unrelated question for you. I finally got my Rhodochiton purple bells seeds and I was wondering if you had any tips on growing these successfully?
I am trying them for the first time, too. Planted 3 weeks ago and they came up after 2. I used a heat mat and watered from the bottom. They are under grow lights. Keeping my fingers crossed!
All of the plants he’s using in this project are available from his nursery Northwind Perennial Farm in Burlington, Wisconsin. Obviously is that’s not close to you (and they don’t ship) you’d have to do some looking but many of these are available at good independent garden centers and if they aren’t they would be able to suggest a substitute that would be good in your region. The idea of this project, however, is not to say you should plant these specific plants but to better understand the process of how to pair plants that are appropriate for your region and situation and then to make those parings harmonize with one another.
So exciting! What a great mind and person Roy is!
Wonderful to see and here Roy's talk.
This video is fabulous - so interesting and useful. Thank you for sharing!
I really love how he talks about ‘emotional’ placement of plants. Go in with a plan, but let your emotions and the space guide you within it. 👍
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Roy, for putting the plant pictures on the screen. I already write down names and look up plants, but that is so helpful. You could even leave them up longer, while you are still talking about the plants.
Roy's comment on creating a garden quilt blew my mind. I'm going to remember that description forever. Thanks Erin!
Ok now I have to buy seeds and start seedlings and bump them up and grow them on and harden them off and plant them out AFTER planning where they will play well with others. I just want a heliotrope this year! And probably fix a lot of hodgepodge planting. I do so want not just beautiful plants but beautiful plantings. Thanks to this kind gentle man I will reach and stretch to a higher experience in the garden this year. I hope his whole life has been filled with this much fun!
This was so wonderful! Love all of the information he shared. I can’t wait to see this beautiful “cloud of flowers.” ♥️🌱
It will be great to see this all take shape. It will be beautiful.
My favorite combination is the echinacea white swan with Molinia caerulea ‘Hiedebraut’. Hopefully I will find both in the garden centers I visit this spring. This project we are part of - is both educational and inspiring to say the least. Thank you for the opportunity to witness the details and thought process you are undertaking. 🙂
This is going to be so wonderful! He has such a relaxing voice and is a great teacher.
Splendid just splendid and Mr. Diblik has a cool and easy delivery. Thanks so much Erin, this was fascinating and I can't wait to see your garden evolve with this approach!
It sounds beautiful and I cannot wait to see it completely finished 🌸🦋🌸
Can’t wait to see how the design will come to life! It is feeling very creative, with structure, but also casually elegant!!
BEST co-lab!! Your both so full of knowledge. 🤩🎈💚
You sound so much calmer than I would have been about the collateral damage done. I would have been so much more emotional. Lesson taken.
I LOVE your furry supervisors!! 💚💚💚
I really wasn’t at the time. I just left the house and got updates.
Absolutely fascinating! What a wealth of knowledge, I had several “light bulb” moments. Thank you for sharing his planning practices. 😊
The analogy of Roy's process to an orchestra conductor seems most apt.
Roy is such a kind man I love listening to him. Excited to see the next step in laying the plants out.
Roy’s plan is amazing. You have one busy Spring/Summer ahead of you and I hope you bring us along.
So sorry the crew disturbed an area that wasn't supposed to be touched. I definitely would have cried and had to leave. It must have been needed but so hard to see. Kudos to you for absorbing it and moving forward.
Honestly there’s only one plant in there -Hylomecon japonica-that I’m really worried about. It’s very hard to find and I love it. Everything else is pretty ordinary and can be replaced (although that’s still a bummer). They did do a good job of staying away from my tricolor beech which I sort of threatened them about if something happened to it. 😀
Erin - I've thoroughly enjoyed the entire design process. I can't wait to see the next steps. I'm hoping to see more details for your dry creek bed area you have as I have one too. It's definitely a designers challenge for dealing with one.
Love Roy's office. He is easy to listen to and love that he encourages to enjoy gardening, be open to changes. It's seems a bit overwhelming to design, but I imagine if I listen to his video's more I could learn!
You’re so blessed to have Roy’s help❤️
I am and we're all fortunate that he shares his knowledge so generously.
Roy, thank you so much! And Erin! You have no idea how helpful this is. Yes let’s all have fun gardening ❤️ It’s the best.
Thank you so much. So fascinating to watch Roy’s process. I find it incredibly helpful in understanding plant associations and harmony.
This was very heart warming! Thank you for including him - it was wonderful. 💐 💐 💐 💐
Thanks to you and Roy for a chance to see and hear about the design. That’s going to be stunning. I can’t wait to see more videos as this unfolds.
Absolutely amazing video . One that actually explains how to design a garden .
Always a pleasure to see Roy work on a project, and I love learning the botanical names! It will be so cool to see your newly planted area later.
Can’t wait to see this garden in all its glory!!! ☺️
this is SO FUN. i love watching you and roy play in the garden, and to see the creation of the plan is such a bonus. can not WAIT to see you guys place it out and get these beautiful plants in the ground. it's like garden magic
This is fascinating I could watch him all day
The plant placement is so interesting
Roy is a very nice man and explains very well. I totally understand the Latin names, to narrow down to exact plant, as there are a variety. This is going to be lovely!
*Subbed to Roy's UA-cam channel too! (Thank you Erin for making us aware of Roy!)*
This is going to be AMAZING! How wonderful to be starting Spring with an authentic plan. I can't even imagine knowing EXACTLY what plants to buy, where they will go, & knowing the results won't be disappointing. I MUST make the time to research & plan.💚
So helpful to hear him speak about each choice
‘Constructing a quilt’ I love that
This is going to be so beautiful. It was really helpful when you put pics of the plants up on the screen. I am looking forward to seeing the next iteration.
Outsourcing plant design to Roy is the best idea 😁
Thx Erin and Roy for so generously sharing info!
Thank You - Roy & Erin !!!! this was so very interesting and actually kept my ADHD self enthralled and now educated. It's always fun when you learn something - and Roy explains it all to simply so it makes sense. I am so looking forward to the coming videos on the further planning, placing and planting of what will be a magnificant new garden.
Boy do landscape designers earn their keep. Overwhelming for a homeowner to develop a garden. So great of him to share his knowledge.
Another fascinating look at the planning process. Watching you plan brings life to everything in your book. I'll be trying your system for a new garden I'm designing for a friend. Thank you!
Roy is such a great teacher! I have really enjoyed this process and learned so very much. Thank you both.
Absolutely fascinating. I live in inner-city Melbourne so it couldn’t be more different to your garden, but I also have an area to replant after substantial building work destroyed almost everything. Roy’s approach to design is teaching me so much about the importance of understanding plants and their habits. Thank you both.
I just love Erin and her channel. This project with Roy is so exciting! Cannot wait to see things evolve!
Seeing this more defined version on paper has made the process up to this point make a lot more sense for some reason. I'm finally understanding his explanations and descriptions with this hard copy visual aid. I've been kinda lost on this project up to here! Thanks for bringing us along.
Always good to have “Newfervision” in the garden. My newf follows me in the garden while my retriever disappears in the woods every chance he gets. I like how Roy describes this process!
This is going to be so exciting ❤️😊❤️
‘… you, the joyful gardener’ 💚
what an excellent learning tool. I shall have to try that whole "thinking" thing. normally, I figure if I can see dirt, something has died and I replace it with whatever is available. right now I don't have a garden so much as a place to put my plant collection.. I see a long road ahead for me.
What a pleasure to get the Latin names…finally!
Thank you Erin for introducing us to Roy! He is an amazing plant artist & I feel very lucky to live close enough to Northwind to visit in the spring! I have a HUGE border that I needed inspiration for, so your series on design has been fantastic! Also just bought his book and can’t wait to dive into in. His gardening style is our future ♥️
Explained very well. Love the design. I’ve also had to remove my effluent tanks, totally messed up my garden. Lots of shopping opportunities 🙂
So very cool watching and listening to him think things through. He is an artist. He paints with flowers. I'm sorry about your Pagoda Dogwood. Come on summer. Expecting another icy mix with snow accumulations.
Absolutely awesome!!! I love the plan and plants! great job Roy!!!!!!
GREAT video!! Everything he talks about is so in tune with how I feel…..”planting emotionally” is such a deep understanding of how a gardener works in the landscape……I have a much smaller space than you do but the intuitive approach is the same! Feeling joy and having fun!! I understand about what happened in the yard…..we had a plumber come last year and they destroyed half of our yard…..it was terrible because they didn’t care and they did terrible work on the plumbing too….I was devastated and it’s still not fixed but c’est la vie!! I’m so excited to see this plan move forward! It’s going to be amazing!!
I loved this. Design is the hardest element for me. I also really liked Surburban Homestead s recent video on " Cottage Garden Design Master Class" which helped me with the basic plant shapes, etc. Really trying to learn here.
Thank you for sharing this especially the names of the plants
How fascinating, Erin. What a great design eye! Brilliant 👏🏻👏🏻 He was definitely the man to collaborate with. Can’t wait to see the progression. 😊
"We're still having fun..." 😄
Great video! Very helpful on how to group and importance of using graph paper and understanding centre points and area needed.... I was a bit confused on his math because when he used total square footage divided by the centres, the amount for 15 inch centres( 1.56 ) was the higher number, and the 18" at 2.24 was the lower...I will have to check out his you tube to see if there is more info on this...
But great content! I'm off to buy some graph paper!!!
So interesting. Can’t wait for the planting in the spring.
I really feel for you. Last year we had a gas leak. The crew that fixed it swore they wouldn't have to dig up my side flower bed... & they didn't. What they DID do, however, is plop ALL the heavy clay soil they dug up right on my flower bed, then used the mini back-hoe machine to pick up all that clay when they refilled the trench. At least 1/2 of my flower bed wound up in the trench w/ the soil. My only solace is that most of the remaining plants, which were crushed by the pile of clay, came back up come spring.
I am so sorry about all the destruction. It's gotta hurt. Life goes and and so do plants, at least some of them.
It’s going to be gorgeous! Can’t wait to see it completed! Do you think you could possibly replant the other pagoda dogwood and leave it to itself to recoup?
My first thought is, spring maintenance on so many grasses. I find cutting grasses back in the spring to be such a pain, that I keep removing grasses, not adding them. My second thought is cost. Never ever would I plan to buy so many of the exact same plant to carpet an area. I am pretty sure I've never found a plant I like so much, I'd buy 20 or 30 just to fill up a space.
While interesting to see and hear his thought processes, one can certainly make lovely garden areas using different approaches and by spending FAR less money. Novice gardeners need to know, this is only one way to create a garden and they do not need thousands of dollars in order to plant an area.
I appreciate that Roy uses mostly Latin names. It really is far more accurate & consistent. A fairly big problem in the houseplant hobby is misuse/overuse of inaccurate & random trade names. One single plant can end up with 5 common names, often times using the entirely wrong genus, like calling rhaphidophora tetrasperma, ‘mini monstera.’ That’s totally wrong. It’s so confusing & misleading. Sellers also do this to charge more for a plant. For example, the word ‘blizzard’ has been substituted as the species for ‘philodendron giganteum’ plants that show more variegation. But that’s often up to the conditions the plant is grown in and it’s likely to revert in our homes. A lot of excited, new plant collectors are getting ripped off.
I don’t know if it happens as much with landscape plants. But it certainly could. I think it’s useful & important that we attempt to learn & use Latin names with the cultivar added at the end, when applicable. That’s the only way to make sure we’re all on the same page & no one is getting swindled
It’s going to looks so pretty
Love the creativity you both share. Living in zone 4 I would love to find a Salvia plant that would work for me. I hope you can send some links of suppliers in WI or MN that you use in future videos! I dream on paper and can't wait to stretch out my garden hose into desired garden shapes this spring!
Thanks for sharing. So fun to see.
My planning will be a simple eye balling. Still trying to figure what to plant, with what and were. I wish I could get out and get started! But still too early. 😕 thanks
When we had our septic replaced, it was close to a steep hill and they carelessly swiped that hill uprooting hundreds of my Iris. They didn't even need to cut into the hill for the septic. Their priority definitely is not the landscaping around them.
Hi Erin, Very Interesting. 🥰 Chris
he is a very good teacher
I enjoyed this.
Nice👍👏😊
Relax, you'd be surprised how resilient plants are when sleeping in winter, do not think that dogwood is a loss.
I'd replant it elsewhere, seeing that Roy only has one dogwood in the plans. I've cut back to the ground many times and the plant loves it and is revigorated as a result, sending off new roots and foliage.
While I definitely would have no issues pruning a shrubby dogwood such as Cornus sericea back to the ground I wouldn't do that on a woody dogwood like C. alternifolia. I'm not so much concerned about form but rather about the root ball being fully exposed to sub zero temps for a night. Most plants are tough as you point out, but it should be clear pretty early on about whether it makes it or not. I'm not overly concerned as it was sort of a bonus plant to begin with.
Experiencing a serious desire to fast forward to the future to see this design implemented 😆 I can visualize much better after this video. Alas Roy's reminders- we're still having fun ✌️ Cheers Erin!
Also, when you are buying this many plants where do you get them? I’ve tried to look for “plugs” online with no luck.
The "planned" path of destruction is always half of what the actual path of destruction ends up being. With any kind of work that ends up getting done, just reality
Love your dogs 🐕 ❤
I have watched all of your videos and just read Roy’s book and now I’m chomping at the bit for this gardening season to get going. I live in Michigan so the winters seem to go on and on and on and on…
I will be planting up a space quite similar to yours and already have the majority of the plants picked out but, I am struggling to know how many plants I will need. Can you share what the size/footage of your garden space is that you designed with Roy? Maybe that will help me figure out this mystery. Also, the plants I am purchasing are in 2 inch pots because they are so much more affordable for me. What spacing would you recommend for that size pot. They are all Michigan natives similar in size, shape and vigor. Thanks Erin! Love watching you on UA-cam!!
This area is about 15x30. We planted mostly on 15” centers. If you’re doing 2” plants you might want into plant a touch closer to keep the weed competition down in the beginning and then edit from there in a few years
My heart hurts with you over your poor yard being destroyed and them breaking your tree ..about 20 years ago we had to have our garden's in our backyard destroyed because of needing new fingers system clay tiles don't last forever..anyway I know you will make it beautiful in no time...I gained more garden's because of it.
Love your videos!! I have an unrelated question for you. I finally got my Rhodochiton purple bells seeds and I was wondering if you had any tips on growing these successfully?
I am trying them for the first time, too. Planted 3 weeks ago and they came up after 2. I used a heat mat and watered from the bottom. They are under grow lights. Keeping my fingers crossed!
Is there a video of the planting of this garden and what it looks like now?
Where does Roy suggest getting the plants and using the Latin names?
All of the plants he’s using in this project are available from his nursery Northwind Perennial Farm in Burlington, Wisconsin. Obviously is that’s not close to you (and they don’t ship) you’d have to do some looking but many of these are available at good independent garden centers and if they aren’t they would be able to suggest a substitute that would be good in your region. The idea of this project, however, is not to say you should plant these specific plants but to better understand the process of how to pair plants that are appropriate for your region and situation and then to make those parings harmonize with one another.
It's horrible watching your garden being dug up, you have my sympathy
This is so great to watch. I’m learning and can’t wait to see how this comes together when planted.