The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.
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@Jodi Did you see what they started with?
Dead flat and all scraped to bare dirt.
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@Steve-Miller said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:
have to believe that garden is irrigated, especially the lawns. No one is going to keep up with hand watering that yard.
Definitely automated watering. She showed a sprinkler that was mostly hidden in a shrub that was obviously connected to an in-ground system. And she mentioned some drip irrigation she installed around other plants.
OTOH, you'd be surprised how long a shaded yard like that can go without too much supplemental watering. The plants she has selected are pretty hardy souls. The hostas under my maple tree hardly miss a beat, even in semi-drought conditions. Heck, I dug up a bunch of them in the spring and left them on a tarp in the back of the yard all summer, only watering on rare occasions. I just planted them all up in pots and they look great.
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@Steve-Miller said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:
A landscape designer friend of mine once told me that a landscape should never contain more than 7 different plants. Any more and it’s no longer a landscape - it’s a plant collection.
If it’s variety you want, take a look at the host’s YouTube. Her garden is much larger and appears to feature at least 3 of whatever she could find that will grow in Wisconsin.
Lots of annuals.
I would never hire your landscape designer friend. Only 7 different plants? What is even the point of gardening?
I will not look at the host's youtube. I cannot stand her mewling repetitive adjectives!
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@Steve-Miller said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:
@Jodi Did you see what they started with?
Dead flat and all scraped to bare dirt.
Which video did you start with? She started the channel like 10 years ago and was doing small planter and arrangement projects. Trying to figure out where the Big Dig starts....
Pretty amazing subscriber base. Almost 2M.
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@pique said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:
@Steve-Miller said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:
A landscape designer friend of mine once told me that a landscape should never contain more than 7 different plants. Any more and it’s no longer a landscape - it’s a plant collection.
If it’s variety you want, take a look at the host’s YouTube. Her garden is much larger and appears to feature at least 3 of whatever she could find that will grow in Wisconsin.
Lots of annuals.
I would never hire your landscape designer friend. Only 7 different plants? What is even the point of gardening?
I will not look at the host's youtube. I cannot stand her mewling repetitive adjectives!
Turn the sound off. You’ll like the garden.
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@Steve-Miller No, I will try to find the video - I just picked a recent one - really amazing. I didn’t watch much of the first video you posted (I also found that garden pretty boring
) but the host’s voice didn’t really bother me, and for sure didn’t bother me in her own videos. But maybe I was just so enamoured with her plantings I didn’t notice it! -
Here’s a glimpse of what they started with.
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Holy carp, I just started down the rabbit hole that is her youtube channel. It makes me miss living someplace with a decent growing season - ours is so short here. Last frost about June 20th. And you can easily get your first one (or snow) in September.
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@Jodi said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:
I just started down the rabbit hole that is her youtube channel.
No kidding. Me, too.
Plus I'm finding all these videos (not her channel) about growing potatoes and other vegetables using some very interesting techniques and "ingredients". I'll start another thread and post a few there.
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@Jodi said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:
Holy carp, I just started down the rabbit hole that is her youtube channel. It makes me miss living someplace with a decent growing season - ours is so short here. Last frost about June 20th. And you can easily get your first one (or snow) in September.
^^^^ This. Plus its so very arid here. I would love to be able to grow roses again.
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I watched her September tour.
Link to videoAmazing garden. Guess it helps they have outbuildings and tons of space to store materials. And a greenhouse
Having a Bobcat and other equipment doesn't hurt either.
About Garden Answer and Laura:
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@Jodi said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:
It makes me miss living someplace with a decent growing season
Flowers or veggies or both?
I picked up a copy of this book years ago, but never really got into off-season gardening. Maybe it's time to revisit it.
https://www.amazon.com/Year-Round-Vegetable-Gardener-Matter-Where/dp/1603425683/ref=sr_1_1?sr=8-1
I'm sure there's tons of stuff on YT, too...
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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I am fascinated by this woman and their garden. You should give her a chance, Pique - she is really good in front of the camera. They have quite a few people working for them. I think her parents own a garden center - this video is worth watching - it shows the layout (with footage of what the place looked like when they bought it and what they have done - which is MASSIVE).
I’m wondering where the money comes from to do all of this - she talks about flying people in from all over to do the pond in three days. (I’m sure they make money on YouTube, but they must have other funds for this).
Link to videoAlso, I really liked this video about the chicken coop.
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@wtg both. I have sunflowers that have not bloomed yet, and we are supposed to get down to 31 degrees tonight. Vegetables are impossible. I manage some tomatoes in a container on the cement patio. Completely failed at zucchini this year.
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Jodi I was just talking to a farmer at the farmer's market today who said everything is more than a month late because of the smoke. His corn was usually ready to go Aug 1 and he's only just harvesting it now. (then he went off on a riff about why the dinosaurs died and why there was a year of starvation in Europe--due to ashes/smoke blotting out the sun). Anyway, our tomatoes are only just starting to ripen, and we averted disaster last night by running the sprinkler on the veggies from 5-8 am. But hard frost in lots of the yard.
I watched the first video you posted in part. Clearly they are wealthy or they couldn't possibly do what they did in the amount of time they did it.
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Along this same vein, check out the documentary about master gardener Frank Cabot's amazing garden in Quebec:
https://www.gardenconservancy.org/news/the-gardener-us-release
Cabot's daughter is a friend/acquaintances of ours and major patron of the arts here in LOU.
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@Jodi said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:
Link to video
That video is amazing. I cannot even imagine how much money it took to pull it off.
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@DeweyLOU said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:
Along this same vein, check out the documentary about master gardener Frank Cabot's amazing garden in Quebec:
Available for free on several streaming sites.
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-gardener-2017
Thanks, @DeweyLOU . Will catch it on Hoopla or Kanopy through my library.
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I shared a couple of the videos with a friend who it turns out was already familiar with the YT channel. She sent me this 2019 article:
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To watch her videos, you'd think Laura spends most of her time in the garden. And by most standards, she probably does. But it may come as a surprise that she does have other hobbies, like knitting (in the winter) and playing music. "I actually play the piano almost every day. I've played since I was four," says Laura. "I was trained classically for seventeen years." Her go-to composer is Brahms.
https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/laura-leboutillier/8982.html
Knits. Gardens. Plays piano. Think she wants to join WTF?
