3 PRIVATE GARDEN Tours Through Syracuse - Ep. 106

Though I couldn't attend the full annual conference of the North American Rock Garden Society this June, (which was conveniently hosted in Ithaca, NY), I did take up an opportunity to visit three private gardens in Syracuse that gave us a sense as to how a labor-of-love and decades of gardening can transform a land. Though I didn't have a chance to interview the gardeners personally, I put together this compilation to give you some garden inspiration.
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[@suburbanhomestead]

It comes as no surprise that the second garden is by far my favorite.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Ours too! I said that I liked how wild and loose and full of pollinators it was. The first and third didn't nearly have as many pollinators.

[@ChuckKnightTaylor]

Love you videos. Reminds me of my own journey gardening in my yard. The best part is the journey where you install trees, plants and features. I’m 62 and still love it. Keep up the amazing work

[@Holly_at_gypsyhollergardens]

I absolutely love home garden tours , not only are they visually inspiring but the soul of the gardener is so present , which births such wonder and promise in the hearts of all who enter 💙 thank you for this !

[@ja-uh9gz]

I love garden tours and these three are absolutely gorgeous...in their varied designs. I get so much motivation and ideas from these tours, as well as from your videos. Thank you, Summer. 😃🥀🌻🌹🏵🌲

[@SMElder-iy6fl]

I particularly love small gardens because that is what i have.

[@crystalclark9939]

It’s easy enough to edge garden beds with a straight shovel and keep tidy as needed also easy to remove more grass if you decide to expand an area.

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thank you Ms. Summer. I love seeing other peoples gardens. 🌸💚🙃

[@pavana2810]

Thanks for taking us along. You’re really great at giving garden tours bc you re a real plantswoman. Your voice, narration, cinematography, and that terrific mellow guitar music is all of high quality. So enjoyed

[@Costachel77]

Hi @pavana2810 It's a pleasure to meet you here. How are you doing?

[@cefcat5733]

Oh thanks for making time to send us a video tour.

[@lindaellin559]

I love the diversity of plants in all of these gardens!

[@conniewojahn6445]

One of the nicest garden tours I've had the pleasure to view. Thank you.

[@charlesbale8376]

I am always looking for new things to add to my garden and seeing how others have gardened always provides new inspirations.

[@susancheer5981]

Another lovely, serene video...really liked the raised beds in the second one, but they were all wonderful. Thanks so much.

[@wind9487]

Tnk u...the gardens featured in this episode is amazing I lov ur background music.very soothing.

[@plantsandpiggies7758]

It’s so exciting to imagine what your garden at Flock will grow into in years to come! Thank you for sharing your journey with me. I appreciate it!

[@johnstone7763]

Beautiful painted turtle. He/she got a log to hang out on? Excursions beyond your property make your channel a gem.

[@Gtumrths]

Oh yes, bring some more garden tours. I enjoyed it very much! Thank you Summer!

[@merrimcarthur7198]

All three are absolutely lovely, but the second garden just caught my heart and held it. I have a deep love for semi-wild gardens. The ones that civilisation never really tamed. One day, if I am fortunate, I'd love enough land to create my own version of that second garden. Thank you. ❤🌹

[@peterclark2374]

Thanks, Summer! Nice job with the tours! I hope to see these gardens someday soon!

[@ashokmehta3593]

Wow...what a wonderful tour😊😊

[@carolinaleon5290]

Love your channel, please keep doing what you do here!

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Thank you for the encouragement.

[@hivicar]

Music and thoughtfully spare commentary helps to allow viewer real sense of virtually being at these beautiful gardens! Ahh! Memories of late afternoons in Upstate NY 13:14.

[@robertobobby7646]

Green summer blooming garden tour..

[@robertobobby7646]

Green summer blooming garden tour...lovely scenery.a peace of mind..

[@barbthreinen2628]

Love these garden tours you do and the light vocal adds peaceful viewing.

[@sandragoerlich7134]

Beautiful gardens, yours is in the beginning stages and is looking amazing, thanks for sharing!!!

[@asianangie7209]

Beautiful!

[@alanconrad8490]

wonderful tours....tyvm :)

[@ytubechannel997]

Loved the tours. Some beautiful mature plant specimens.

[@bretfurgason7615]

Thanks! Beautiful gardens, Summer in all your video's your voice is so Zen, calming. I find my self nodding off. But this is good . Can rewind and watch again

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Thank you Bret. Glad you're finding some calm here. And thank you also for the tip. Always appreciated. :)

[@hotfeva9843]

The 2nd garden is a dream 🤩 that's what I imagine for my garden, I love the wild look and the reuse of the old timber.

[@oksanabotsman6893]

Thank you so much it was very beautiful peaceful with the Beautiful music video please stay healthy be happy peace

[@AmericanaGardens]

Lovely!

[@lulajohns1883]

Beautiful.

[@JC-dq8un]

Love this❤️ We need an update/Q&A from The Flock(Summer, Sander and Joey) How’s everyone doing?

[@FlockFingerLakes]

We'll probably do a late summer update. So much renovation projects here that we've been busy with.

[@Wendy-zl8kv]

Another wonderful video! So many ideas!!!

[@Costachel77]

Hi @Wendy-zl8kv

[@DH-ku6qg]

Lovely, thank you.

[@williamtaylor2412]

LOVE THIS

[@havfaith56]

Cute the way the first gardener hung fly catchers on a basket hanger.

[@jeanniecollier6763]

How beautiful!!!

[@agnieszkakowalska6352]

what a great idea for raised beds in the second garden

[@naturecare6072]

Beautiful garden. That’d be nice to see fruit tree in the entrance. Well manicured for sure. Thanks for sharing.

[@tedvandermale2597]

Really enjoyed this video Beautiful gardens Great music Love what you do Please keep up the fantastic work you do

[@nancyleeper3113]

Lovely 🌸

[@rivertrees4733]

Nice and beautiful! Thank you!

[@pamelacorbett8774]

Perfect music for a beautiful subject, this was a treat. You have a nice voice, too. Many thanks.

[@DuongGarden]

Thank you for sharing, thanks to you I have been able to see beautiful gardens in places I have never been to. It's great, hope you will share more videos like this, thank you.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Love hearing that. Makes it worth the while. Happy gardening!

[@GrandmaSandy]

Thanks for a wonderful video and thanks for sharing so many beautiful gardens and vignettes, in the garden. I love the little fairy displays that you shared I love doing a Fairy Gardens.

[@rons3236]

Very nice Summer! And your videography is wonderful! Thank you!

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Thank you Ron!

[@jenniewilliams1668]

Wow, these really are inspirational gardens. I would love to hear the gardeners voice on the development of the plantings and vision. Warm regards Jennie

[@FourSeasonFarming]

Was; what a nice view of gardening 😍🤩

[@artsdefolle]

Love the gorilla artwork!

[@jeanninef2110]

I am a little late at viewing this vlog....beautiful gardens. Very inspiring! Thank you for sharing!

[@sondarang538]

I love private gardens❤❤❤❤❤ yt suggests me more of it

[@sandylee1717]

So very beautiful and serene

[@folplantsparadise21]

beautiful garden,,love the nature colour. 👍👍

[@dreamagood8321]

So beautiful ♥️♥️♥️

[@Murf1802]

Thank you for sharing, Absolutely Stunning, This video made my Day, I seen so many inspiring Designs I'd love to try in a smaller scale lol, I live on long Island with a 75 × 100 yard ,well most of its a house but I use every bit of land to plant different Things that I love!! Thanks again so peaceful your knowledge and the music,and beautiful Gardens!!

[@cefcat5733]

If you are ever in Wisconsin, go see Whitnall Park in Hales Corners.

[@koreanature]

Wow, My best friend, Thank you for your hard work in making the video. I enjoyed the good video. Have a happy day.

[@goinsvirginia]

Beautiful Peace of Heaven on Earth.

[@timescale8]

Amezing ❤️❤️❤️

[@gardengatesopen]

Dreamy... Just dreamy...

[@nancysueleske7819]

Thank you!

[@Costachel77]

Hi @nancysueleske7819 It's a pleasure to meet you here. How are you doing?

[@kareharpies]

Cant wait for the July Flock garden tour! Particularly interested in your mushroom bed and if the deer fence has been a help to the [enclosed portion of] woodland. I love the fauna of woodland gardens 😍.

[@livingonthedelta7068]

oxymoronic statement the fauna of the woodland leave nothing but fauna thus no woodland survives.you dont get your cake and eat it too so pick one exclude the other this is why there are lost forests and we eat deer

[@kareharpies]

@@livingonthedelta7068 Have a snickers.

[@volvosafe4662]

Love 💕 your work Thanks 🙏 Ps: minute 4:08 is a Wych Elm 🌳 Ulmas Glabra (Scotch Elm ) Love your great inspiration 🌿 Atlanta Botanical Gardens are awesome 😎

[@Mairalife0]

Nice 😄 😄 😄

[@katevorster8484]

Thank you. That was lovely. If you’re ever on the Oregon coast you might like to come see our gardens at Windsong Garden Cottage. We work thru Airbnb

[@Costachel77]

Hi @katevorster8484 It's a pleasure to meet you here. How are you doing?

[@Nicole-ds9sm]

The people starting to walk backwards threw me for a loop at 5:29 😂 I immediately thought of The Happening

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Wondering if anyone would pick that up! Wanted the clip to go the "other way".... Everyone must've missed the flower they had previously passed. Haha.

[@jjsious]

I love how the pergola clip and a small bit in the last garden were reversed so everyone was walking backwards 😂

[@FlockFingerLakes]

haha yes, did the reverse trick a couple times throughout. I was REALLY the one in reverse that day-walking backwards.

[@carolfisch9750]

Beautiful. So many pollinators. Beauty for insects and people. Made me wonder…any chance you will be able to grow some milkweed someplace on your land? Or too invasive? I didn’t see any in these gardens either.

[@delphinenyirahabimanam.d.8510]

Thank you for sharing! Those gardens are real gems!❤ What is that plant at 7:29?

[@caroltrego1640]

You squat when planting. Wish I could still do that :))

[@TaxEvasion777]

Try wild flower seed mixes, you can just drop those seeds

[@yLeprechaun]

A turtle?!! I love turtles! That was a box turtle, correct? A biggun. :)

[@wimhance6541]

I enjoyed the pergolas, rooms and shade in the gardens but what really struck me was the lack of seating to stay still and enjoy it from, sometimes it's nice to see what passes rather than being what passes. We can drag deckchairs around but only so far. Aren't fixed places/spaces of seating/relaxation landscape destinations in themselves (and a good use of local materials), or would you find that too restrictive?

[@shannonbowman5990]

❤

[@Avesandfruits]

[@great-garden-watch]

I wish i knew what that tall skinny evergreen is that looks like a cypress tree considering it’s Syracuse (first garden, backyard). Looks too narrow to be an arborvitae

[@ganna6644]

7:36 Хтось підкаже , що за сорт піонів?

[@reahlegaspi8953]

Vlog na naman ..Idol mabuhay .

[@blackopsgamer12345]

Does anyone know the name of the plant shown at 8:25?

[@FlockFingerLakes]

I think it's a Mascagnia which is not hardy in this area but I think because it's in a sheltered spot, you can make it work. Smothered in pollinators btw and great for shady areas.

[@jeanneeguizabal471]

💚✨💚✨⭐️

[@glgardener4972]

Very interesting. However, it was difficult to hear over the loud music.

[@Ruth1803ZigZag]

what is the plant at 11:43 ?

[@patriciareed3510]

They must not have deer?

[@SliceradioAu]

Metal edging like that is very spendy

[@worldnaturalbeauty]

Hello, very good * I liked it very much. Thanks so much for sharing such a beautiful video. 🌺 Join the good news by watching with likes .. It was great: I became friends, stay with me. Waiting for the next video * .see you next time is here like today. ok

[@jacksonyim6161]

1st...🥇

[@ole340]

edging and manicured and lawn, how boring!

[@shannonbowman5990]

❤

[@Costachel77]

Hi @shannonbowman5990 It's a pleasure to meet you here. How are you doing?