Tessa, do the spray painted hydrangeas drop their petals or does the paint help hold them?

Absolutely beautiful Tessa! I love that you can reuse next year or compost the lot. Can I ask What hydrangea that is?

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Beautiful Tessa, love that arch!!💚💚

Well done Tessa! I am a huge advocate for foraged Christmas decor. Your in situ rose covered arch absolutely makes a perfect armature for your garland. BTW... your architecture is beyond charming as it looks to be an English inspired 50's cottage with great proportions and wonderfully scaled windows. No doubt you will enjoy years of excitement developing your home and garden to your vision. 💚

I'm with you on the nails!! The money we save on manicures can be used for bulbs 🌼

What a wonderful idea for a thoughtful and budget-friendly Christmas gift! The lasagna-style planting technique sounds interesting, and it will be fun to see how it turns out in the spring with those bulbs. Looking forward to the updates!

Hi Tessa great video I love the contrasts in the large terracotta pot 💚

Charming little helper😊. He's a star. It's lovely to plan a succession of plants and planters for our darker months and very sensible to use perennial plants as sustainable options. Very handy links, especially the books. I love suggestions from fellow gardeners. Can I suggest " The gardens of Arne Maynard", a hefty beautiful book, also " Mein Ruys the mother of Modernist Gardens". Enjoy!

Good morning, I’m really enjoying your content. I’m a gardener in Seneca, S.C.☕️🌻

Im a designer as well. Have you done Rachel Matthews' course? Your style reminds me of her (and the kind of curves I like to see in a design too!)

I'm designing my front yard now in a cottage garden style and this was helpful. I noticed you didn't place any plants on the border of the walkway, opting for lawn I presume instead. I'm going back and forth on this as well.

I enjoyed your video very much, especially the part where you show your sketch design of the front yard. I’m not a designer or anything like that but when we bought our first little cottage I immediately drew on paper my vision and slowly worked on bringing it to life. Your video made me get up and search for that sketch 😂. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

" Doing what we can with what we have and being content with it" is indeed key to both creating a successful garden and being an adaptive, creative, excited gardener. My mother was this type of gardener and taught her children it is these accumulative small joys that makes our lives blessed 💚

"The key to being a happy gardener is doing what we can, with what we have, and being content with it." I love this philosophy!

Here in the UK , I decided to plant up my container bulbs today. What a lovely video...excellent timing!😊 You have a lovely gentle manner and explain so clearly . Thankyou

A happy gardener is a Trump! Gardener! Go Trump!

Love your channel.! Agree about the election. The birds, the trees, the frogs and my garden are my medicine.

Thank you for the info on Bidens,will not be planting those😊

Also thanks for linking K Van B for bulb source. Great variety and prices!

I enjoy how you stage your work bench for each video.

Just found your channel and really enjoyed it. So refreshing to see simple and affordable ideas that turn out beautiful too. Look forward to watching your other videos. Happy Fall! 🍂🌳🍁

Nice,welcoming seasonal display Tessa BUT ... I would have enjoyed a long view of your assemblage in relationship to your home's architectural statement, not just your entry. Also .... whyever do you allow your shrubs to overtake your windows?

It is a loss. 😢 I still miss the loquat tree I lost in hurricane Ian.

All the best! I should check my seeds and see about planting some that say "early spring" this fall instead. Here in SC the Spring goes so quickly into summer so getting a head start is great.

Love your very artistic! Huggicates!😊

Does anyone know where to find metal hanging baskets like this?

It seems that all the bulb company links are broken

Thank you so much for the kiss of death tip! I have been fighting creeping bellflower for years! It's impossible to pull out because it grows very deep add creates a super highway of roots. If you pull it and leave any of the roots it creates an army of more plants. It's in a perennial border and I don't want to kill my other plants. I've tried so many things put this sounds like the way to go. Praying this works! 🙏🤞💚

Thanks for another great video Tessa. I have wanted to try fall sewing for the past couple of years and this is a good reminder. Perfect timing!

I’ve had good luck with poppies here in S.C. I plant them in late January. I just broadcast them in my flower beds. Don’t cover with soil.

Really lovely garden at Chanticleer. I'm green with envy. I need a teacup fountain. So whimsical :) Over time I'm learning better on how to have plants suit the space: being willing to remove plants that don't work either because they can't thrive where they are or because they just look wrong--too tall, or too short, or too sprawling. I'd say it probably took about four years of hard work before any of the neighbors even noticed the improvements and I still have problem areas, bad erosion, poison ivy, etc. Sometimes I feel discouraged, but I try to build on my successes and gradually adopt neglected areas.

Thank you for the very thorough explanation of the hanging basket. I have a large tree basket that i use like this every year. Experimenting with it every year till i get it just right. We took it down this year to stain our deck. My niece wanted to know where it got to. Enjoyed your thoughts on the empty pots. I actually did that this year with large ceramic pots and got compliment on just the pots. Quite frankly, I just didn’t get around to planting anything in them but they look pretty all on their own. Chanticleer is one of my favorite gardens. I too, was inspired by the pots of blooms and have the pond dye to give this a try. Really enjoyed the secrets to Chanticleer’s Gardens.

Enjoy your videos and content. Thanks for sharing.

Chanticleer is amazing. I love the Korean Fir - Horstmanns Silberlocke. After my first visit, I emailed one night and asked “hey what is that tree on the steps to the tennis garden that looks like it has snow on it?” They answered by 7:30 am the next morning.

I’ve completely enjoyed this series Tessa. Thanks for another great video.

Our myrtles have begun doing the same thing. I'll have to take some time to get ahead of them this year.

My sympathy. I have more invasives than I care to count. The prettiest invasive on the property are the mimosas, but they grow way too fast and were crowding out my conifers. I also have tons of native oak and gum tree saplings that would take over the neighborhood and turn it into a forest given half a chance. However the worst thing of all is this year I have a new invasive plant called dodder or love vine. It is a parasitic plant that looks like orange string--distantly related to morning glory. It destroyed a stand of goldenrod before they could bloom. This dodder especially seems to like anything in the aster family. When I looked up how to control dodder some people suggested burning it, but since I live in a highly populous neighborhood, I'm not going to use that method. Frost also kills it but the seeds survive in the soil--I think I accidentally spread some just by walking on it last year . I plan to cut away the dead host plants . It will be less of a problem once it frosts. Next year I want to put in some plants dodder can't parasitize. I wonder if goats or chicken eat dodder--not that my neighborhood allows either.

Wow you look so beautiful and tomboyish in those overalls! 😊 awesome job on this video! ☺️

There is a tool called a pullerbear made in Canada that is amazing for pulling invasive shrubs.

Thanks for sharing this! 💯❣️

I will be replacing a large circular bed of mostly white daffodils with yellow varieties in a month or two. I'm looking forward to the change.

I learned a lot. People sometimes overlook the need to create pathways in their gardens. Thank you so much.

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You’ll regret those bluebells! They will be everywhere 😮

Be very careful with Spanish bluebells. They are a menace in my western NC garden.

Thank you for such an informative video. Would you please give me the name of the climbing rose , the white one on the wall near the irises.

Thank you, thank you for the reminder of getting the bulbs now . Is there a specific place where to order a better bulbs from, or any brands recommendations. Thank you, always watching from Ohio ,

More fancy daffodils and new alliums this fall here in NC. Same zone

Excellent video, Tessa - great footage and explanations of the design elements of paths in a great garden. ❤