The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.

[Jodi]

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).

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Also, I really liked this video about the chicken coop.

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[Jodi]

@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.

[pique]

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.

[DeweyLOU]

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.

[wtg]

@Jodi said in The most spectacular garden I’ve ever seen.:

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That video is amazing. I cannot even imagine how much money it took to pull it off.

[wtg]

@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.

[wtg]

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:

https://www.theotheroregon.com/making-a-living/from-ontario-oregon-your-garden-answers/article_6ef026f4-246b-11ea-9698-e727ea2ceb3a.html#

[wtg]

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?

[Jodi]

Lol. Zone 6 - no wonder her place looks so fabulous (we are somewhere between zone 2 and 3…). They have a really successful YouTube channel - maybe it pays for all that work and all those people. They do make videos full time.

[Steve Miller]

Zone 6 is where I am and I find it anything but easy to deal with. Winter hammers pretty much everything but grass.