This Week at The Cottage! Tree down in the Storm, Cooking and a Visit to the Garden Centre

[@MarionN-w3d]

I love your excentricity, please never change. It's what makes you, you. The Colette we all love.

[@jhankri]

Oh this was a much needed video as I've been ill and housebound. The new wall color really opens up the space and gives it depth and is a nice backdrop to all the colors, textures and patterns in the room. Patsy seems to realize that mum is speaking to a much larger audience than herself as she gazes towards the camera lens. She continues to settle nicely into her new life. The evolution of the woodland that you are assisting Mother Nature with is inspiring. Ash where the downed pine is, modification to the stream, new garden beds...... one is never bored in such an environment. Your garden center is very similar in scope to one that I like to frequent. It's much smaller but I can spend hours there. Never mind being eccentric. People say that about me too. The replacement of your stove interests me and I hope that is an adventure you will take us on. Blessings to the kindred spirits who dwell in or visit Bealtaine.

[@Good-DaySunshine]

Sorry you've been ill, blessings sent to you! ❤

[@parry3231]

The ability to cook a lot of food in that fabulous steamer is a great resource for our lives. ❤ Thanks Collette for taking us along with you on the way of understanding the importance of peace and joy in life. Blessings to you and everyone in this beautiful world that is fulfilling our needs and gives us all the healing and the ability to live. We certainly are privileged to live on Earth. You have created a place of peace and abundance with your work and your continued progress on this journey with creative passion and dedication to live with harmony and joy. ❤🍀🕊🦋✌️😍🪺🌲🐝💜

[@FarmhouseWorthy]

Those chimes, that is a sound that I love. I enjoy the garden center too.

[@dclaet1135]

Me too. They are heavenly.

[@thegardenmuse2398]

"Plant another Tree, or two, or three." 💞Do I smell a children's book in the future? I sure hope so! It would be AMAZING! 💖

[@bealtainecottage]

I hope so too!

[@carolwhite6979]

There use to be the most beautiful garden centre close to my home. They had beautiful healthy trees, shrubs, perennials and annual bedding plants, bulbs, onions sweet potatoes and garden related statuary and bits 'n pieces! I would go there on a rainy afternoon just to wander through the greenhouses! They even had clear umbrellas in a stand for those who wanted to wander through the grounds! It is a dozen years now since they closed and I still miss the place..... but also the lovely people who made it a treat to step through the door.

[@dragonfly9209]

Oh, how sad! A year ago my favorite one closed as well too, after many years. But at least I have a consolation. I work in the outdoor garden center at Lowes---it's larger than most--and we have many beautiful plants. Trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials, etc. We are getting close to the time when deliveries are about to start for Spring planting. I'm excited!

[@shirleymcmurtrie7853]

Thank you for this lovely video, Colette. I especially enjoyed the lapping water. Blessings for you and Patsy.💕

[@nancykelly9393]

I wish I could move to Ireland and live near a magnificent garden center like this...sigh....

[@JR-kz2xn]

Enjoy spending a bit of my morning with you Colette. Thank you for taking the time. Loved hearing the little trickle of your stream down at the entrance to your drive. So peaceful. It is so nice seeing things budding out. Spring fever has set in for me now. Have a blessed day Colette. Hugs to you and Patsy. 💚

[@margarethughes3763]

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[@lindylou3519]

Beginning March my friends & I start getting together to find privately owned garden centers. We travel as far as 2 hrs to enjoy & shop & have lunch. It’s a fun way for us to spend time together & see what other garden centers have outside of our own. (We always come home with a trunk full of plants! lol)

[@cindybarrett6868]

Your home is so beautiful and I love the garden center. One of my favorite things to do besides walk in the woods go to garden centers, libraries, and bookstores. Patsy is adorable.

[@loisbanks3614]

Thanks Colette! I am entranced in a garden centre too- so good for the mental health like being in the forest & near water.! That was a lovely tour -- nice place to have a warm drink with a friend in the calm! It's ice and snow here for at least another month or so, but the buds are swelling if you look closely. The new roadside entry is going to look stunning!

[@deniseheupel8814]

Aww! Precious little Patsy with her darling little paws crossed so ladylike! 🥰❤🥰 It's always so interesting to see how much Western Ireland reminds me of Western South Dakota with the buttes around the Loch area. Such a beautiful place.🥰❤🥰

[@corneliaarendsen1358]

A wonderful video.❤Connect with nature is so important❤Have a nice wednesday.❤

[@gardentours]

I love to go to garden centers as well 🤗 There was really a big choice of seeds 👍

[@daggy1778]

thank you for showing us the garden centre...............................my garden centre is 3 km away,often I goes by feet......................have no car .......................................your woodland looks very good anytime...........................Blessings and Greetings from Daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘

[@gardentours]

Here in Germany we often walk. I walk to my garden center as well or ride the bike 🚴🏻‍♀️

[@elainerichards6406]

Hi Colette, Thank you for your video, So lovely to see sweet little Patsy enjoying life! Love seeing the surrounding countryside where you live, very tranquil. We are noticing many different species of birds feeding in our garden lately, it's so special to watch them! Many blessings to you and little Patsy! ❤❤

[@tracyrupp4882]

Patsy has such a personality.

[@marksadventures3889]

I have the same steamer set, I have an electric steamer too and had a halogen oven that sadly passed on. I kept the big glass base as it's excellent for proving bread dough. Yes, you are correct about good mental health. Nature is the best thing for mental health. Blessed Imbolc to you and yours. Bright Blessings 🎉

[@BeFree-BeFrugal]

You are so right Collette, my number 1 priority is my mental health 🌳🌳🌳

[@jackiepark4673]

The raspberry red looks beautiful .

[@JoseeAlana]

I enjoy spending time with you so much. Thanks for taking us to your favorite garden center. My favorite one is very close here in Delaware in the US. I’m looking forward to visiting ours soon. They haven’t got much this time of year, but I may want to plant some organic vegetables this year in a small raised garden on our patio. Thanks for the inspiration. ❤

[@bealtainecottage]

You are so welcome! 🙏

[@jenniferharmison8870]

You have certainly been working hard! Ther new cottage paint color, graveled drive, ground clearing...whew!! Everything looks great. Garden centers are one of my weaknesses.☺️🌱🌱

[@mikeinportland30]

Love the wander through your garden center! Your prices are much cheaper than ours and ours never carry bare roots (you have to order them from online places) because they charge more for potted trees...but you get them home and the trees have not had time to set any roots so you basically get bare root trees at potted prices!🤷‍♂️. But I think bare root trees thrive more so I get less piqued.

[@bealtainecottage]

I agree ☝️

[@kathybrooks-uz2kv]

The land is awesome everything is beautiful little patsy with yourself looks as your doing beautifully well blessings my friend 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@gail-elizabethengland7853]

What a fabulous garden center. There is so much variety and the prices are a fraction of what they will be in my local, tiny garden center. Thanks for the tour. I too would be able to spend hours there. Blessings to you and Patsy!

[@user-kr2In3eg7v]

Thank you for the lovely video!

[@susanthomas5464]

Thank you for another wonderful video . Sending love and blessings to you and dear Patsy 💚💚

[@ShannaRowell-uy3zh]

Have a nice week and Imbolc. I hope the groundhog in my part of the States doesn't see it's shadow.❤

[@DottieStanley]

Patsy looks happy and content in the silvery light of your darling cottage! Loved that steamer! Now I want one!

[@londonschoolofwigmaking5793]

Patsy is such a darling. I love her. I also love your cosy cottage full of lovely tut.

[@lindaedwards7840]

Thank you Colette for the new video, so many trees have uprooted due to high winds on the Wirral . It's always sad to see..I have two garden centres local to my home both within a few miles travelling or on foot. Always a welcome and a nice sit down for a chat after the shopping is done. Also I look out for the rescue trolley often a few plants to take home and give extra care and attention to rejuvenate each one . So much work to be done, as usual. Just getting out and about after what seems a long time coming, the silvery light or the golden sunsets here are a blessing. Your home looks calm and peaceful and Patsy has settled in so well. Hugs and Blessings to you .💚🌹

[@maryexton7929]

This is a very lovely video. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for taking us along. Be well and enjoy

[@bealtainecottage]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@OLaura3552]

Wow!! What a video!! So many ideas in here!! That steamer!! Hi little Patsy!! So sorry about your tree!! But the trip to the GARDEN CENTRE is so much!! Those pots!! Too much to mention here! But thank you, Colette!! What fun!!💞💞

[@angelofloveiam50]

I love how excited we get when we see r gods and goddesses no matter were we r .love your videos ❤❤❤

[@leighwiseman8389]

Loved this video Colette. The Garden Centre was brilliant, I absolutely love a Garden centre. All the best to you xxx

[@9FatraBbits]

It’s wonderful to see the cottage and garden…and the light!! The loch was lovely and peaceful too. Your area of the world is indeed beautiful and gentle. I can’t walk far right now because of a broken foot but every day I limp out to my garden and perch on a bench or chair and absorb it all. Snowdrops are up and hellebores are cautiously unfurling. The snow is melted away and it’s very warm and wet. Blessings🐇💜🇨🇦

[@kathrynriggs2489]

Collette- I grew up in Michigan, US, and spent my summer days at the big lake every summer. My parents took me camping as well. Woods and water seem to be a necessity for me. The sounds of the water and wind through the trees are a necessity for me. I don't think I would survive in the city, I seem to crave nature. Ms Patsy does love to sit and survey her kingdom, doesn't she? Knowing her breed, she misses nothing does she!

[@bealtainecottage]

My clever little girl!

[@lisapieper3598]

Love seeing what plants and such are available in Ireland & what the price variance is!

[@InappropriatelyAsh]

Garden centers offer us hope in the cold winter.

[@lorainejohnson6043]

Thank you so much for sharing your lovely environment

[@bealtainecottage]

My pleasure 😊

[@jackiephi6310]

❤❤❤ gosh. Those windchimes sound beautiful. I wish I was standing there with you.❤❤❤

[@Kate42]

Very enjoyable video. I loved you taking us on a shopping adventure to your local plant store. It was a lot of fun to watch. Oh, and Collette, I love your red berry walls in your living room. So cheerful and lovely room. It really softened the look of your room and the walls. It really makes your wall art pop. I love it!

[@CeliaAWhite]

Your cottage is just perfect. Beautiful and cozy.

[@veronicasmith1147]

I love your floor tiles🎉❤

[@andrearenee7845]

Can't wait to see the new stove. Lovely time in nature.

[@LULC0759]

Love the new rosey red color. So cheerful. Oh we have months to get to nice springy weather.

[@chuckiehaeg5622]

A beautiful video! Lovely with Patsy and the trip to the Garden Center was beautiful. So much diversity of products. Just perfect! Thanks much for sharing this! You certainly have a Wonder-Full outlook on life.

[@theherbalsanctuary811]

definately a little pool, that would be lovely

[@arkus1928]

❤blessings

[@marianfrances4959]

How awesome! Thanks, Collette. 👍😎🇨🇦🌲🐾

[@leslieweber5177]

I love the recent shopping visits to your grocery and now to the beautiful garden center…what else do we need.? 😉. Thank you Colette. 😊❤️

[@dianehall5345]

Good morning Colette from snowy New Hampshire. We are a winter wonderland at the moment. I enjoyed your taking us along to the garden center. Green 🌱🌱 is my new favorite color :-). Yes your kitchen wood stove is looking tired. Any thoughts on the model or will it be a newer Stanley? Our Home Comfort is vintage 1930.That said, "Matilda" only had one previous owner, our Great Uncle Robert. She's a fine stove after restoration. I agree regarding our mental health and well being. Without it, I would be adrift. The birds at the feeder are cheering my spirit at the moment ~ Diane

[@bealtainecottage]

I will show you in the next video…hopefully delivered by then 😊

[@annbarron606]

Lovely video ❤ I love wind chimes and water sounds, so soothing. Or hearing church bells in the distance. I think garden centres are like my third place. The theory being, we have 3 places, work, home and that third place we go to 😊

[@margidaly6874]

Hello love the idea of a pool when the tree came down. Gorgeous nursery hold me back. 😊happy the silver light is with you. Blessings to you and Patsy.

[@bealtainecottage]

Thank you! You too!

[@connielee2797]

Awesome video.❤

[@lisafulford5874]

I really enjoyed going with you to the garden center, the loch, & learning more about your cooking tools! As always, Miss Patsy is adorable & i would give her hugs & wee kisses if I were there. I hope to visit Ireland in the future, as I have Scot-Irish, French & English ancestry. I feel I've had several lives in Ireland & Scotland! Much love & Merci for you, Colette!❤🧚‍♀️🐶☘🐦

[@lindawitherspoon446]

I love your place. It is just magical. So peace and . What a great video. The garden center is spectacular.

[@nadinemasteller1089]

I'm a Pisces, I'm always drawn to water. The bark and ivy and moss make a beautiful picture. I love wind chimes too. I have several. I love zinnias because they seed themselves prolifickly. I did enjoy that.

[@AnnetteSaxman]

Love the colors in your cottage, and your beautiful garden

[@trisha1076]

Thank you, I love the loch and that peaceful lapping sound, how lovely. Your raseberry shade walls are perfectly inviting. The sound of your voice is so calming for my hyper brain, my body isn't hyper at all, just my brain. Oh, well. Enjoy, so much to be grateful for.

[@marksadventures3889]

I'm sure you probably know, but the side branches off of the fallen tree will hold fat wood, quite darker and stick from the other wood, it's excellent for getting fires burning 🔥 quickly. I really must get over to Eire.

[@krazedvintagemodel]

I enjoyed the variety in this video Colette, not so much the downed tree. Peace and Blessings to all 🌲

[@jimdavis9315]

Loved this video, Patsy is so cute and thanks for taking is to the garden center. Have a great day.🧡🧡

[@camilleschoonover4789]

Beautiful light coming through the windows of your cozy cottage!! I have a river behind my cabin and I love listening to the water!! It’s so relaxing and calming!! As always I have to mention sweet Patsy. She’s such a sweetie!!!🤗

[@beverley1539]

Hiya Colette, Thankyou for visit. Hope all goes well with the new stove. Blessings southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝

[@cathylynnpietranton]

Hi Colette thank you for a lovely video. We like your streamer. ❤❤❤

[@traceygreenwood1970]

Wonderful video Colette . I got up a bit early and watched it before work , great antidote to anxiety . Thank you ❤

[@christinestockdale5768]

Thankyou for letting me see your beautiful home and garden shame about the tree

[@lesleyobrien5842]

Always a nice start of the day when I see your video waiting in 1st place on my feed. Many blessings to you and Patsy.

[@sarahgorsline1340]

thank you for sharing your beautijul world

[@irishcottagerenovation9900]

The interior of the cottage looks beautiful and the woodland at this time of year has its own beauty. Arcarne garden centre is a favourite of mine as well although not quite as close as you are. The staff are so helpful and know their plants, a thing that a lot of garden centres are loosing. Your new border will look lovely, lots of hard work. Thanks for inspiring

[@orgmngrose]

Thank You, that was very enjoyable! 😍

[@gregharden9963]

I think the cottage looks beautiful

[@thefairyjam]

Awww Patsy such a little sweetheart 😍💗

[@louisehyden4802]

Hi Colette, good to see you didn't suffer much damage during the storms . Loosing one tree is bad enough but I'm sure you can put it to good use . The wind here in wales was awful but thankfully no damage. Love a visit to the garden center any time of year ...... conforts the soul I think ❤ snow drops are out and tulips coming through makes me feel spring will soon be here .❤❤ many blessings to you and patsy xxx

[@grizeldaxxx4568]

Oh Colette, I must thank You for another Magical sharing here. I just found out a Young Friend of my has Died and it has really shocked me and put me out of wack , and when You took us down to the Loch it was like a Balm for my Soul . What you said about Our Mental Health effecting everything else is so true! I let the sound of vision of the waves wash over me ...Blessings to You !! Wee Patsy on the corner of the couch looking at You with so much Love also warms my Heart xx Hugs to You both !!

[@bealtainecottage]

🙏❤️🙏

[@Zone10Permaculture]

That was a big tree that fell over in the storm but like you said it will make some beautiful logs for the stove. I really enjoyed the video tour of the garden center and seeing the prices as well. I love walking around places like that. Thanks for your sharing your day with us. Happy Birthday to your daughter! 🙂

[@myrtleholly2016]

I enjoyed the image of the ivy and moss on the tree bark. so many intriguing visions in your videos!

[@RachelLovejoy]

Here in southern Maine (US), it will be winter until perhaps March. Although I did see some daylilies sprouting before this last snow, all is covered again. The light is with us longer and it is "silver," as you so aptly describe it. But the weather powers still dominate, and we do a dance with winter until spring is too close to be ignored. Meteorological spring begins here on March 1st, while astrological spring will debut on March 19th this year. So many people here think they have to wait until a certain time in May to start planting, but I've had a lot of success starting things in late February/early March and setting them outside in pots by April. Our climate is changing somewhat here, as I am seeing flowers persisting into December now. How nice it must be to live somewhere, as you do, where so much stays green all winter! Blessings.

[@bealtainecottage]

I know and feel blessed 🙏

[@katherineb6102]

That is a delightful garden center

[@missglenellen]

Thank you so much, especially for the walks though the garden center, which I absolutely loved. I live near Future Forests, which is much smaller, without too many garden paraphernalia , but enough choice of plants, tempting pots, bare root trees and mainly well adapted plants to our West Cork climate. Not to forget a lovely little café with wholesome freshly baked cakes, some sandwiches and a daily savoury dish.

[@natashab2304]

Thank you for taking us to your second home 🥰

[@bealtainecottage]

Second? What do you mean? This is my one and only home! 😆

[@natashab2304]

I meant the Garden Centre LOL!! @@bealtainecottage

[@marikajohn6522]

Have also started using lots of pots. Easy to re pot plants if one passes on. Better then digging. Also look on plants that are going over I call it death row. Once home I bring them on with plant food TLC and that’s it cheaper also. 😊😊

[@bealtainecottage]

My eldest daughter does the same!

[@elisabetsoniaerceg]

Hi Colette,i'm Argentina ❤

[@guitargirl7452]

A new stove is a grand idea. And the current well used one can be recycled, so it's all good. Loving the nature. I saw and heard a Woodpecker on a walk last Friday. It was a glorious day. I felt truly blessed to be out enjoying it too. I'll be getting my hubby on to ordering the book tonight.... he has the PayPal account. I asked him last week but he has the memory like a sieve 😁. Are you planning to write one for the other seasons? Looking forward to reading it regardless. Much love to you and Patsy xxx

[@bealtainecottage]

Happily yes!

[@Laura-rx9mp]

Hi Colette. Love your cottage tour today and your garden center. I have to contain myself purchasing statuary lol Cheers

[@paulaandrews1183]

I am compelled to suggest you use that storied old stove in your garden?

[@bealtainecottage]

And I had the same idea…😊

[@oilpntr]

Yum-- I’m on my way over!😅blessings as we slip into Imbolc/Oimele light the candles make the portage and weave the rushes

[@LS-um3zq]

The birdseed brand was "Peckish"! How adorable!

[@angelatateclownreality869]

❤ x

[@markcaselius5993]

I love shops like that. Of course the wife won't let me go into them by myself anymore.😂

[@lyndaturner6686]

Oh Collette I did enjoy this video, it was at a time when I really needed reminding of the beauty around me, I don’t have a woodland but I do look out over fields and mature trees border my garden I see the woods up the lane , but I needed a reminder to appreciate what I have . Also I really loved the walk round the garden centre especially as I couldn’t actually buy anything 😂❤️

[@synovoid]

It's sad to see a tree blown over, but in another sense it's a fantastic milestone for the forest garden. The forest is mature enough to be starting to undergo natural windthrow, which is part of a woodlend's life cycle. I hope to live long enough to see my own planting in my woodland project do something similar. It's one of those life course waymarkers, like when the young trees get as tall as you are, or when you start noticing the canopy closing over your head. Anyway, more space for new planting!

[@dclaet1135]

Sorry to hear about your old stove. It was built so sturdily. How old is it? I love how your windows face opposite of each other. They must create such a nice cross breeze for you. Your nursery has such great prices. Thanks, Colette, for the videos.

[@bealtainecottage]

Not sure but it had been heavily used before I bought it.

[@maxinedefty9462]

Lovely video, thank you Colette. Oh I pay for the building of anything we buy as my hubby and I fall out if I don't 😂. Blessings to you and patsy xx

[@carriemcmurtrie2906]

Collette, you mentioned feeding those little perennials. What do you feed them? I'm a new subscriber from NB Canada 🇨🇦. Thank you for all that you've done for this beautiful Earth! Many blessings!

[@gregorymcd944]

such a wonderful video!! i really enjoyed the cooking and curious to see how the stove situation plays out! I loved how you talked about that stove in your prior videos-- heart of the home. Loved seeing the Garden Center too. It's a great Garden Center! Also, in your prior video Colette, i particularly loved seeing the pheasant. We have some pheasant around my way (Boston MA area) --look just like yours -- and i am told they originally came to the US from China a very long time ago -- like the late 1700s

[@cindyw7008]

So much fun to go along with you shopping - to the market, and now to Ardcarne, which we've heard you talk about many times - esp since some of us may never get to go to Ireland ...

[@theherbalsanctuary811]

hello from TN, I love the water too. I grew up on the east coast for most of my life and now I am more inland, I find I miss the waters edge. I recently found a lake that is just gorgeous and only about a 15 minute drive. I plan to go explore it more when the weather turns warmer.

[@MarionN-w3d]

Don't forget the watercress.