Natural Water Garden

[@TheDeadofNightAmbience]

The Spring and Summer insects and animals that find Bealtaine must think they've discovered Heaven! What a treat for them!

[@sandiemilthorpe8542]

Thank you so much Collette for this video just what I needed I’m such a novice at wildlife living but I’m learning My newly dug pond will not hold water and thanks to you I now know why SILT! I love what you and Mother Nature have created long may it continue

[@deewise552]

The land around my then new house was clay loam and nothing would grow. After more than 30 years of leaving the leaf duff to accumulate, the soil is now rich and several feet thick. It took awhile but Nature returns if you let her! Bealtaine is lovely!

[@bealtainecottage]

Way to go!

[@OkieJammer2736]

Ahh, beauty. What a delightful way to enjoy my morning coffee. Thank you!

[@elainerichards6406]

Hi Colette, Weather is completely different today here in Norfol UK, dull and showers! Bealtaine looks like she's flourishing! Blessings to you and sweet little Patsy ❤❤

[@9FatraBbits]

You really have made the most of your land. By observing and enhancing what was there all the time you’ve helped create an amazing biosphere! The big wetland is just teaming with life. Thank you for showing…☮️🐇

[@katpeters-midland8174]

I love what you have done with your bog garden and pond! What a sanctuary for all beings there

[@yvonnebirch6026]

That makes your gardens even more enchanting. The light !! I look for it in your video’s. 🙏💕🌷🍀🌈

[@dianadee23]

Such a joy to watch this esp as I am on a busy train to London. Forever grateful for your videos

[@jimdavis9315]

Ah, there's Pats "The Little Explorer", helping mommy at the cottage with the froggies, birdies, and the snail. I would love to have a little stream to listen to. Have a blessed day, Colette. Mrs. Jim from Tennessee, USA. 🏡🏡

[@parry3231]

Blessings to you and your dear friend, Patsy and everyone with peacefulness and joyous celebration with love and harmony. We are witnessing the glorious unimaginably magnificent experiences that are happening because of your heart felt energies and your continued progress in creating a sanctuary ❤ Thanks Collette for sharing this walk and talk with us ❤

[@corinnemurphy7278]

What a lovely wee tour with ya, dear Colette and lil’ Patsy, too! We have enjoyed a lovely spring day here In SW Quebec. Right now it’s sunny, warm, and oh-so-quiet that I can hear the mourning dove cooing gently, Peace to all. 🇨🇦😅 Happy weekend!

[@Gardenwitch1954]

🐝The bees are buzzing! Paradise.

[@ellensinkinson4459]

A beautiful place to be. I would stay forever ❤

[@beckyarmstrong4990]

So Heavenly! Thank you for such a gorgeous peaceful visit with you in your gardens. You continue to inspire my faith and hope in our beautiful world. What a place to forget all of the outside troubles. Thank you Colette. Be well!

[@lindaallen78]

I used to have the tiniest quarter of a circle shaped garden, when I lived in town many years ago. I was terrified for my cat but I set about making a little paradise for her and she loved it. Thankfully she rarely left the garden. These days I live next to a small wood. I no longer have pets but I have birds, hedgehogs, a woodmouse (Speedy Gonzalez) and a fox visit. Nature is glorious, just like your garden! It's your little bit of heaven. Patsy must be a very content little dog. ❤

[@joycesmith1270]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR BEAUTIFUL GARDEN.

[@jennifersmith3709]

I love the tool you use for the silt work!! That little Robin was an absolute delight to see taking a morning bath💓 And the lilies in the pond!!....There is a surprise in every nook and crannie at Bealtaine. Lol my heart is all a flutter this morning now💓💓💓 Blessings in abundance to you always! xx

[@bealtainecottage]

Thank you! 😊

[@myrtleholly2016]

Thank you for posting these journeys through your land! Watching your videos is the perfect way to end the day, with peaceful view of opulent nature. The work that you do emphasizes the impact that one person can have on making our world a better place.

[@diamondslashranch]

It’s astonishing when I think back to when I first found you years ago how far you have come. The back breaking work you’ve done everyday has paid off amazingly.

[@marysevaillancourt-prescot3097]

Thank you Spring is beautiful there...

[@mariaguadagno9483]

Bravo Colette,you have things as best as possible working with nature...hard work I know!

[@karenbee1898]

Everything looks so beautiful and peaceful.

[@FrancesDavey-c8y]

Thank you for showing us the beautiful woodland blessings to you and patsy

[@ValeriaVincentSancisi]

Wonderful to see such a closeup of the woodland and bog and wetlands and Patsey roaming a bit nonchalantly learned the wonderful ways of Bealtaine...

[@user-fs6ou3fk9p]

We love the Merlin bird identification app. by Cornell University. My goodness, Miss Patsy is off leash. She's come a long way.❤

[@bealtainecottage]

Not quite yet, but making small steps in that direction I hope 🤞

[@lyndaturner6686]

What a peaceful meander through your lovely woodland , such joy.❤️

[@JR-kz2xn]

Such a delightful little walk about this morning. I've mentioned before how much I love the water garden and your shot at 13:01...just like a painting. So green and it just draws you in. Thank you for sharing Colette. Blessings. 💚

[@corneliaskipton4191]

Thank you Colette for a wonderful start to my morning. I love the Merlin app and have learned a lot of bird songs using it. Have a beautiful day ❤.

[@jmck6320]

Woodland Gardens are even more vibrant! Blessings to you Colette

[@lindaedwards7840]

Hello Colette, lovely stroll around your gardens. Everywhere is looking remarkable after a few days away coming home to my gardens I was surprised to see how much more everything had grown plants maturing quickly, its wonderful to see after high winds heavy rain battered fences, nothing hinders natures rhythm the goddess in her glory. Hugs and Blessings to you .💚🌹🎉

[@suginami123]

SO delighted with all the videos. I often re watch and feel so interested in all the elements at the project.

[@OLaura3552]

Lovely!! And that app for birdsong sounds very practical! Many thanks!! Blessings to you and little Patsy!!💞💞

[@georgemaxwell4984]

I'm on the Merlin app, it's excellent. -Frances

[@marianfrances4959]

What a delightful tour! Thank you for sharing, Collette. Those of us who love gardens cant get enough of Bealtaine. 🍀🌿🐢🐸🐦🕊🙏💚🇨🇦😎

[@georgemaxwell4984]

Wow everything is blooming. Spring has definitely sprung. ❤- Frances

[@irishcottagerenovation9900]

Lovely video and the bog garden looks great, I know what hard work it is to maintain your garden in a sympathetic way working with nature. Thank you for sharing.

[@nikkicasanova4469]

Paradise. I have been learning and attempting to make the. Twig arches and using more natural dropped wood in my garden. I love all ur garden. But so love how you make arches and other support w braiding twigs

[@louisemay974]

Another wonderful visit to Bealtaine Cottage and Woodland 💚

[@leemiller9246]

Dear Colette and Patsy, It was so wonderful to follow you on your dander around your stunning woodland garden. As always, it was truly inspirational to see the results of all your hard work, which honours the Goddess in such a profound and special way. You remain my favourite tree shepherd. I am so glad to see Patsy enjoying all that Mother Earth has to offer. She is one very lucky wee girl. Brightest blessings to you both. Dee X

[@bealtainecottage]

And I am blessed with Patsy 😊

[@leemiller9246]

Absolutely, they bring real joy and warmth to our lives. Dee X

[@paulaniclinseach8672]

Every May, I hear this little bird in my garden & I had no idea what it was, so I was waiting for it to return so I could record it on the Merlin app & find out what it was, I always thought perhaps it's not a bird but a large insect because of the unusual shrill it makes, turns out it is a bird & a rarely seen one because of its secretive nature, and its called a grasshopper Warbler! How wonderful is that!❤ The woodland looks absolutely fabulous in May with everything coming into bloom, I wonder if I'd be able to create a pond, too!

[@mayb.wright509]

Another lovely video - and lovely comments too! 🥰

[@parry3231]

Merlin is a great resource for identifying birds and the way to do things for each individual species in a variety of ways. I have a basket that contains dog hair, my hair and bits of fabric and pieces of thread that the birds are constantly gathering for their nests. It really is a great resource for all of the birds. The hummingbirds are especially busy with flying away with tufts of hair in their beaks.❤

[@suzannehughes8697]

Hi Collette everything looks magical, I have taken a leaf out of your book and I have started putting all my grass cuttings ( I have a biggish garden ) and leaves, spread around on the garden beds instead of putting them in the green refuse bin, and it is working, they are rotting down and becoming great soil, I used to do this year's ago but just became lazy and started putting everything in the council refuse bin, it smothers the weeds too, I have left the bottom of my garden rather wild, ie bushes and trees, and we now have hedgehogs and foxes, and so many different birds, I would love a pond, but I'm not sure there is room, it is only a suburban garden, but I love gardening and plants, I also have bluetits nesting in the trees, it's lovely, and I have started working more with nature, take care xxx

[@bealtainecottage]

It all sounds wonderful!

[@itsmewende]

It's always a pleasure walking around seeing all you do for your habitat. I love the Merlin app, been using it for a few yrs, love they don't want your life info and contacts as well.

[@rebeccawhite7448]

Always a pleasure 🙏🏻😘🇺🇸

[@cassandrasmith5517]

What a spectacular picture of your very own nature garden❤❤❤

[@morrigans_cottage]

You really do have your own paradise!

[@myrtleholly2016]

Also, I loved that snail!

[@connielee2797]

Stunning.💚

[@leighwiseman8389]

Thank you so much for such a lovely video, you've got it all going on there. Take care Colette xxx

[@kathybrooks-uz2kv]

Awesome 🇺🇸 ❤

[@marikajohn6522]

Great job. 😊😊

[@victoriawitte7672]

Well this doesn't connect too much with this video but I just found this quote while reading an article about the first botanical garden started in the US in 1801. The quote is by Thomas Cole, one of the most famous landscape painters in the US and an early environmentalist. His words remind me so much of things that you have said. "We are still in Eden. The wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly"

[@bealtainecottage]

A wonderful quote and wholeheartedly agree!

[@gillwoolley6515]

Thank you for the heads up about the Merlin app, I have just signed up ❤

[@vallip4254]

My frog big sits under 5 large deciduous trees, each year the big clogs, and like you I have a 3 pronged implement which works a treat...I've just started bagging up to get leaf fall to create leaf mould... compost of the future. Great program as usual

[@TheEmpressgoth]

Love ❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊thank you

[@rosemariemendes5391]

In this Pond and Bog garden I thought I saw that Patsy was not on a leash? Is that so? Enjoyed your walk and information very much.

[@bealtainecottage]

On a very long leash so she can run about!

[@KerryPrice-x3d]

WOW Looks beautiful & is still evolving. .Was little Patsy off lead or was l seeing things maybe.❤Kerry Australia

[@jennifersmith3709]

I thought the same ! Patsy has learned the sacred trails of good old Jackie Boy❤️✨🐶

[@bealtainecottage]

Patsy continues to be on a leash for the time being!

[@scarletlea5748]

Beautiful ❤

[@debiebrumley3104]

wonderful !

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

When we work WITH nature, we are just guiding hands.

[@DoneGone282]

Thanks!

[@bealtainecottage]

Thank you 🙏 that was most unexpected, but much appreciated! 😊

[@cameliaturda6472]

💜

[@maxineblick451]

Such a great garden Collette , a credit to you. I wonder if you have any Japanese Irises for your bog garden. Perfect place for them. Kind regards from NZ.

[@bealtainecottage]

Not yet! However I am pleased that so many wild Flag Iris have established themselves!

[@mariagamboa6249]

💚💚💚

[@lindagethings7953]

No sunshine in Co.WICKLOW, it's miserable 😢

[@hd.37]

Thank you for another, much needed escape into Mother Nature's beauty Colette! I look forward to, appreciate and love your videos. Do you happen to know of an plant identifying apps too? I'm in awe of your expansive knowledge of plants. X

[@bealtainecottage]

Sorry, I have never used a plant ID app. I am sure that there are lots available and will be fine on your search engine.

[@jillraymond2394]

Such a lovely tour, thank you, but I'm surprised you seem to have no ramsons aka wild garlic as it loves damp places

[@bealtainecottage]

But I have! In a few places and filmed a patch in the Fairy Wood just recently 👍

[@carolineholm9312]

Beautiful video as always, Colette. I found the Merlin app too, and my bird-watching son is absolutely thrilled with it. If I can't find my phone, I know where it is! Amazing what you have done in 20 years. What do you think would have happened to the land if it had been just left? Would bushes and trees have gradually self-seeded, or is that not possible in the mess it was when you bought it?

[@bealtainecottage]

Nothing to seed from…it was barren.

[@marylynch2510]

🥀🌹🌻🌷🌻🌹⚘️🌷

[@windwhisper2456]

🌱🍄🧚🏼‍♀️💜🌒🌕🌘💜🧚🏼‍♀️🍄🌱

[@carolineholm9312]

Oh, and I see Patsy is off-leash! Are you able to trust her now, not to go running off?

[@bealtainecottage]

Patsy is on the leash.