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Thanks for sharing

I have a garden that is set up for walking meditations. It is a circle of pavers. The center has a huge oak tree and statuary. Agreed, it is lovely to have sacred places in your garden plan.

I don't think decayed concrete or building negligence is attractive.

My jaw dropped when you said barberry. True, deer don’t eat it and that’s why here in PA, as seeds are introduced by birds into our native woodland, it grows out of control and becomes a monoculture replacing great wildlife habitat! Barberry is also an oasis for ticks in PA. It’s important to plant a diverse native garden, not just for beauty but for functionality, providing services to wildlife. Glad you’re taking out lawn. Adding native plants will make a huge difference.

Inspiring Journey. Peaceful rooms. I just loved it.

Your garden is beautiful and so much more interesting than just plain grass.

Love your videos and particularly when you say 'critters' :) That is a great word that I will try and adopt in England :) Keep cool!

Your garden is just beautiful.

Love the rocks. My Mom found a number of those type rocks and painted cats on them that look like they are curled up and sleeping. I can’t bring myself to put them outside so the two I have are displayed in my house. ♥️

I'm impressed that you got that done in this heat Sue! I've been going out at 5:30 or 6 to get a few things done but nothing this strenuous - kudos!

Love what you’re doing in your garden! I live in Australia and have my first ever garden after living in the city with a shade covered balcony near the ocean (not great growing conditions!) to now living on a third of an acre, where I’ve put in huge perennial borders, an orchard, a shrubbery, a potager, and a cut flower garden. It just goes to show that even at 60 years old, dreams can come true. I’ve grown most of it from cuttings and seeds. Love your channel!!!

Glad you got that off your list, Sue. I’m a list maker too. Love those pretty rocks. You’ll find a special place for them.

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Would have been nice to see the Limelight that you pruned later on in flower😁

I think a gardener is a gardener. I'm happy to listen to their experiences and learn second hand. Where I find myself drifting away is when I sense an undercurrent of deliberate 'influencing'. I'm old enough to know what I like and what I want to do. My grandfather used to say that advertising is the art of creating a need where there is none. So kudos to you, for reminding us of the basics. My limitation is time, so I've bought plants that ended up dying because I couldn't get them planted properly before the heat kicked in. For some reason, marigolds hate me. I've learned to curb my desires and work with what I have, only buying something fun or different as a treat. And I have found some lovely orphans on the Walmart clearance shelf, most famously my $2 Fiesta rose. I appreciate your thoughtful and philosophical words.

I am binge watching your videos. I love them and i have a lot of respect for you not accepting sponsored plants. I have always loved gardening and read about Gertrude Jekyll years ago. I think it's time I pick up gardening books again this winter. I have been really struggling with my age. At 59, I know i have limited springs left to see the garden burst with blooms. I have little tolerance for things like drought, bunnies eating all my zinnias, and the deer, but when i was younger, i would think...there's always next year. It is very inspiring to me to see comments from people older than me loving their gardens. Well, thanks for letting me vent in Columbus Ohio!😊

I am so late to this video and I am no gardener. I am doing my best and trying with what I have. I am starting a garden for the first time in my life with my son. I so appreciate this video, thank you.

Hey ky neighbor here, I’m in the same problem your having. With this global warming crap, our summers have begun earlier and with less rain. In March April may I’m mowing twice a week to my full lush dark blue tall fescue lawn. It is also slanted on a hill and gets direct sun from 0700-6pm so in the heat like this week I’ve been watering every other day getting up at 0500 to change the sprinklers. I’m getting tired of it, and was thinking of putting rocks till I saw your video, now I have some ideas to throw around thanks

Anyone else getting plants in at 8pm with a headlamp at the ready? New England Zone 6

Very nice garden

Great job with clearing the border but I wish I was your next door neighbour as I would have definitely taken the Phlox David off your hands. I’ve been trying to source it for my white garden without much success. That sickle is a great tool to have!

The bed looks great. We have had a huge cool down and it is barely 45 degrees out this morning. I need to tackle a garden area while it is cool and instead I am here watching you. Time to get up and get it done, seeing how wonderful your bed looks inspires me to just DO IT.

I love love that tool so much that i have about 5 or 6. That way i have one handy at all times. I garden with my sister and husband and if i pick up their tool instead of mine, i immediately know it is an imposter and go look for my tool .

I love finding rocks in my garden and your are gorgeous 🥰 Beautiful job Sue xx

❤ Sue those rocks are such a sweet of all the lovely times you've had with your parents at their home. I'm glad you're able to showcase them. Great job on the clean up.

Such a nice work💖💖💖💖💖💖

Beautiful footage ❤

Sue, I purchased that tool the first time you talked about it. I've used it so much that my husband had to sharpen it for me! The rocks are pretty. Every time I put a shovel in my ground, I dig up rocks like that... sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller. There are so many rocks that I have put together two dry river beds. My favorites are the quartz ones...pink and white. Love these little projects! ❤ Lina

Years ago we built a compost bin system and it did work well but as you mention, rodents did come. Raccoons, moles, mice, voles. Ya, the rodents became a problem. No more composting on my property.

Hi, Sue. I’ve just discovered your channel. I loved your garden tour. It looks like such a peaceful place. I was interested to hear about your use of Heuchera americana in your shady areas. I, too, have had it with those beautiful, but one-season, heuchera hybrids. My mind refuses to think of them as annuals so I can never be happy with just one season out of them. The americana is not native here in the Pacific Northwest. But years ago, I stumbled upon a plant that is native here, Tellima grandiflora, and I use it just like you use H. americana: as a filler at the front of my shady beds. The tellima has apple green foliage that contrasts beautifully with what I have near it: native sword ferns, a blue-green hosta, Acanthus spinosa, dark-leaved hellebores, a variegated rhododendron, and native trilliums. Both the tellima and a native carex (deweyana) weave around the larger things to fill any holes. They both re-seed, but politely. The tellima looks a lot like your H. americana in its leaf shape and its tall flower stems. Even after a light wind the stems are flopped over and look messy so, like you, I prune them off to restore the pleasing look of the foliage. I’m looking forward to hearing about more adventures in your garden. I’m subscribed!

Great work!

What is the nursery that specializes in native Michigan plants?

Wow that was a big job cleaning up the phlox, looks great! It's in the mid 90's here in Northern Illinois and I've also got seedlings to plant, maybe tomorrow?! This heat certainly makes it tough, but as you said we just need to get up early to get those projects off our list.

Sue, I have decided that I have to pace myself with my projects and it's been going great. I don't feel stressed and its very enjoyable. Small projects have great rewards and best of all I have accepted that some things will simply have to stay as they are until I get to it...or not 😁. Great video.

Looks great! Good job 👏

We were thinking along the same lines this week my friend! Thanks for sharing! 💚

Satisfying task in the garden, I like the tool you are using, I will try to find one.

We tried to get the heavy stuff done before the heat hit WI also. I definitely have to wear a rolled up handkerchief on my head or the sweat gets in my eyes and glasses. 😂 I was a real mess a couple days ago because the mosquitoes were SO bad I had a head net and long sleeves and was harvesting and weeding the brassicas under their bug netting. Omg, I almost cut the irrigation twice as I couldn’t see and even though the bugs couldn’t get me they were buzzing by my ear 😒. I have that same sickle and I keep storing it safe locations and I forget where I put it😅. It’s very handy when I find it. Oh the memories, I know all too well how you feel. Trips we made up north to in-laws cabin and how places and things use to be. I miss them, my folks and sister, ect. Seems time went so fast and many close family skipped out one after the other.

2:15 my favorite tool! I also have one that is full sized, I think 53" long that I purchased from Garden Tool Co. Worth every penny 🙂

I didn't prune mine till they were 6 years old. They are going to be 9ft tall. I would like to corrective prune to stop it from being top heavy. I have lots of empty space below the 9 I have. Can they take a hard cut? Thank you!

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Just found your site! Beautiful! I am in Glen Arbor, MI. Are you able to grow Butterfly weed down south? I have good luck with it up here!

Your videos seem so real! This is how real gardening it. A bunch of emotions at once!

The water view you showed looked like Grand Traverse East Bay. My husband grew up on that bay with what looks like the same view. I love your tool, must try to get one.

Looks very nice!!

Question about your brown paper bags from Home Depot. How well do they work for you? I would like to stop using plastic. My concern is rain. Will they hold up for weekly pickup?

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Garden moxie!! new video time to pause and watch lol thanks for sharing

I didn’t realize those allium bulbs produce the mini ones. I will have to keep an eye on it. Where I live the spring Scilla (I think that’s what they are called ) flowers emerge just as the snow is melting. Although it produces a beautiful carpet and spreads throughout the lawns and gardens, what is not fun is removing the mini slender mini leaves and stems , as the foliage makes my gardens look very messy after the flowers die. These flowers are best for woodland areas and fields. Nature obviously found a way of implanting themselves. 🌸🇨🇦