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!
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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.