Garden Design Secrets I Learned From the UK

8:32 what flower is showcase here? Anyone?

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👋 I would like to hear more about specific layouts, hardscape. For instance, I see your layout is straight edge throughout. No curving walkways.
I am planning on doing straight edges so the mowing will be easier, with about a 4-5 ft border where plants will go next to fencing.
Do you have a reccomended planting border off fencing?
TY in advance!!! Your garden is breath taking!
Powerscourt Garden just outside Dublin Ireland is stunning, if you want to check it out!

Your garden is stunning! We live in a small tudor cottage so all your ideas resonates with me. Your content is fantastic!

Lovely video. Very inspiring. Thanks

Did you visit Great Dixter? My absolute favourite and I’m English.

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If you liked the design of Sissinghurst, you need to see Wollerton Old Hall gardens. Smaller garden, but brilliantly designed.

Thankyou very much.I love the garden. Stunningly beautiful ! Very interesting.

What a lovely, thoughtful, insightful discussion of these gardens! You honor the gardens’ creators by really stopping to think about what they made, and you give your viewers some wonderful inspiration. Excellent job on the video, and thank you for inspiring me as I embark on the process of re-designing my own little yard. ❤

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nice sharing

I love the way you care for the land

Beautiful narrated video and truly matches the scenes portrayed.

Hi! I do want to make those narrow lawn pathways for our residential gardens and possibly at our allotment too!

Thank you.

As a Englishman this breaks my heart to see these beautiful old buildings just left there to rot away like this but this is American history that has o be preserved immediately aren't there any historic building trusts that can save this town or will it be demolished for new apartments ??

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Gardening in England is borderline a National obsession. It’s a big part of our culture!

Thanks for sharing

So helpful! Thank you!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. I love the idea of “chaos within structure” in a garden, and these two design concepts combined are just gorgeous. Thank you.

I felt the love in this video, but i still feel there were still some aspects missing. I would love to talk to you, about what this could entail, also how i may be able to help. <3 please have a fantastic rest of your day, and i look forward to your response. Tommy.

I think. both concerns are being embraced everywhere. The idea of garden rooms has resonated with me – esp in terms of the different environments a lot of us have in our gardens. And rewinding is getting quite popular. I still think one should not assume that such gardens do not need maintenance, because managing them is not as easy at it seems.

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Love your comments about authenticity in the garden…each of us has our own ideas of how our own garden should be and we should be brave in our own spaces.
A couple of other very beautiful English gardens are Levens Hall in Cumbria and Wollerton Old Hall in Shropshire. I am sure you will find videos of both on you tube.
Its so lovely that people across the globe can see these gardens without having to travel, which of course may not be possible for all.
Thanks to all those who share their views and thoughts ❤

Most tourists to Sissinghurst fail to understand that the white garden was to viewed from the tower during the full moon.

This was so inspiring Sue as I get ready to put together my video sharing the beautiful gardens I just saw in France. 🤓💚😊

thank u for a beautiful video, its very inspiring.

Hi, You are always so thoughtful and philosophical ! Keep up the great work! Best, Albert, SF, CA

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One thing I enjoy more than I would have expected, is limiting myself to only native plants. I'm a huge fan of the formal gardens, and love seeing the gardens that have matured over a century or more. Trying to accomplish something similar but only using native plants that help our ecosystem….. well, that's next-level kinds of fun! For example, a solid boxwood hedge looks absolutely perfect as the backdrop to a more "naturalistic" bed full of Echinacea and other wildflowers, but boxwoods aren't native to my area. Imagine my joy when I discovered that Ilex vomitoria (Yaupon Holly) has a variety with very small leaves similar to Buxus microphyla and can be trimmed to a hedge fitting for any English garden!?! I'm sure you can guess what my next step is going to be!

I started with a few potted roses and herbs at a rented home, then a 200 sq ft yard mostly covered with a deck, and am now trying to tame about a third of an acre (with the dregs of construction debris on 30%, lots of rocks, and clay soil), and though in live in Southern California, at every step I've been inspired by English Gardens. While sweeping Capability Brown landscapes and the full blown Sissinghurst experience are out of reach for most of us, scaling down the look and working with what you have can still provide a place for beauty. I am obsessed with urns and trellises, but have collected free used bricks and river cobbles for future hardscape, and incorporated the bougainvillea and native oaks here into my design plans. A White Garden can even be a few containers in a shady corner. I've always enjoyed your videos; you have a true gardener's spirit, and an excellent eye. The extra level of analysis is so helpful; we can all benefit from the knowledge these garden giants refined over their lifetimes. Great job!

This video in and of itself is a work of art

Lovely 😍

I like the Cottage garden look for my own garden. I plant for bees butterflies and Birds Love your video

My dream is to go to the UK. I live in mid Missouri USA. One of the things on my bucket list is to visiting Sissinghurst gardens

I totally agree! Having visited many English gardens myself I have tried to replicate the same in my own garden. Even small gardens at B&Bs are designed in the same way and are just lovely! Thanks for the beautiful visit!

I really enjoy your videos. You have a beautiful garden!

I definitely prefer a more natural garden. I don't get nearly as much enjoyment out of straight pathways and regimented plantings. What's odd is that achieving that 'designed by Mother Nature' look is surprisingly difficult!

I seen a pink columbine and I had a surprise showing of the same this year in the middle of a wild bunch.

Oh yes, the hardscaping. It’s what really makes a great landscape and I don’t have any. I have fenced in play areas to keep out the herds of wildlife. I’m trying to pick up ideas of what to do next with a front yard project. It’s really difficult. I have all the utilities Everywhere—fiber optic, gas line, electric, electric to septic and well, electric meter, A/C unit, need to stay away from the house because of snow from roof, no trees near fairly close drain field.
It’s almost impossible to figure out when your ideas love formal and your area says eclectic and no hardscaping to guide plantings. The only thing I’ve settled on was moving two Very heavy statues with an arborvitae backdrop that needs to grow in and 3 lovely redbuds that are small but so pretty—the flame thrower has a burst of unique leaves as tiny as they are right now. Haven’t decided on fencing yet, need some stone for sitting area and a low retaining wall. Waiting for tulips and irises to finish doing their thing so I can move them out of sitting area.
Need an arched gate and it’s difficult to figure where it should be, but the safer area is to stay well away from utilities.
I’ve successfully propagated some boxwoods and maybe will use to disguise fencing. I seen a large doe and rabbits ate the tips off tuff yucca leaves and within hours coneflower that I just planted in an unprotected area. Sigh.

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