Horatio's Garden - One of my Favourites!

[@janedonahoe2728]

You are a treasure to us all Bunny. Much love to you and team💚

[@zvitalisica4420]

Wow! Bunny GENIUS!! 🐰

[@squalter.kaufmann]

Bunny, you’re a treasure. A bright light for all 🌝

[@jeanrae2171]

Bunny! I love your work. You're a genius.

[@artemisgrier8989]

Kindness a necessary skill for landscape designers… who knew? 🥰

[@patriciawalshconcannon7887]

What a wonderful and thoughtful garden. Very emotional watching this ,thank you!

[@alisonburgess345]

What a major asset your garden must be to the hospital, the staff and patients. A really challenging brief but you've created an absolutely mind blowing garden - let's hope lots of other hospitals watch this and realise what's possible. One of your best vids Bunny. Enjoyed every minute!

[@bunnyguinness]

Olivia Chapple, Horatio’s mother, plans to create gardens at all the spinal units in the UK. Patients tend to stay in them for really prolonged periods so these seem really vital while they start to adapt. But it would be good if more design input went into the external spaces of all hospitals,.🐇

[@cassandrasingleton3267]

Bunny, I am in awe of your designs, but this one is amazing! Thanks so much for sharing! 🥰🌺🌹

[@itsjustmetomc4848]

This is absolutely my favorite video you have posted and thank you so much for sharing it! Shalom

[@imahappygal1]

Amazing transformation! It’s very special.

[@forthelove77]

What a beautiful and important garden.

[@GrannysGarden]

Incredible design. You have catered for the needs of the patients, the staff, the visitors, even kids and still managed to make it beautiful!

[@carolrose4784]

What an excellent design. Again I’m impressed by Bunny. Thanks for sharing!

[@vivdoolan6846]

Bunny is so thoughtful in her designs

[@debrabray8855]

Oh Bunny! It's just magical! I'm so wooed by your thoughtful, practical and beautiful designs. The addition of a Hartley is just icing on the cake. Excellent!

[@lloydharris1272]

Elegant and considered. Congradulations.

[@gardener5857]

I really love this. The employee entrance to their own section of the garden was such a nice thing to do.

[@louise8582]

Bunny, you are a class act in garden design and planting.

[@rebeccavalicoff1581]

Oh my! So fabulous! Thank you for sharing!

[@SmallWonda]

Oh, Bunny, what a beautiful garden - having suffered a horrible back injury myself, I can't say how much I would love a space like that. Imagine if ALL hospitals & institutions were blessed with such careful therapeutic landscape design?! I'm sure the bean-counting boffins would baulk at the cost, but Agnes Hunt is/was so right - I'm sure we wouldn't have a fraction of the sickness if people had access to beautiful spaces like this & wonderful fresh air - instead of mechanized climate control... Excellent! You deserve a medal for this!

[@RichardAndPeter]

Superb Bunny. What a wonderful resource for staff and patients and a total transformation from the previous 'garden'. It definitely looks as though its being well cared for.

[@SteveL2012]

What a gorgeous, innovative and practical design-certain to promote healing. ❤️

[@redbougainvillea]

Bunny, you are a national treasure. This is an amazing project.

[@davida4963]

Best thing I have ever stumbled across in all my years on KZbin, is Bunny. What a wonderful human being.

[@venicelight1320]

What a spectacular transformation! So beautiful, welcoming and serene!

[@ThreeRunHomer]

Terrific!

[@jennifer-threedogsinagarde8265]

So much thought and consideration goes into even the smallest details. Fabulous design! Every hospital and wellness centre needs a beautiful and healing space like this.

[@pebblesmiller9026]

Especially mental health units

[@janedonahoe2728]

Completely agree.

[@gwenwade6059]

This is exquisitely thought out Bunny. Love everything. Better than a Chelsea or Hamptons which gets dismantled.

[@eileenchang2173]

Bunny, not only is this design stunning, it really demonstrates the necessity of harnessing nature’s healing energy as a type of alternative therapy for not only the patients , but also for their families and caregivers and staff! You also thought of all the seasons. Well done! 🌸❤️🇨🇦

[@elsagrace3893]

It’s does a lot of things but it does not demonstrate the necessity of harnessing natures healing energy. That could be done and probably already has been done my double blind control medical studies.

[@daiseegray9110]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@kathymilesdesign]

Thoughtful design, brilliant execution and a very special environment. Well done.

[@janetleeharrison]

It's beautiful and so thoughtful! It would be wonderful if ALL hospitals had an area(s) like this. Well done as usual, Bunny!!!

[@raccuanirome5740]

amazing gardern design, as always... you truly are the garden whisperer.😄

[@judycooper2293]

Wonderful work. You are a good person.

[@JoannaLouise200]

What a transformation ~ from a bland utilitarian space to something very very special. You have sorted out the practicalities with panache, and then injected a fabulous profusion of voluptuous planting - the scents of the roses and lavenders alone must be incredible. You have clearly created a healing garden Bunny, and I can't help thinking there must be an immensity of solace felt by residents when entering this beautiful welcoming paradise of a garden.

[@ТатьянаБелковская]

Bunny, beautiful! ..)

[@goldsharktooth]

You deserve the ultimate award for this garden. Extraordinary Excellent. Congratulations on the completion of such a wonderful asset to those needing the healing from nature's beauty. You are Horatios heroine.

[@jo-annpotter9389]

Just wonderful.

[@karenkennedy5396]

This is such a beautiful and well thought out garden. It looks and feels as though you could really be healed by spending time in it. Well done Bunny. I’m your biggest fan and love all that you do. Pure Genius. 👍🏻👌💚

[@stacywettstein8285]

Seriously Bunny, I'm enameled with your work!!!! And I'm very picky. I think everyone should be watching you!!!!!! Thank you for all your hard work!!!

[@janaschuster2813]

Stunning!! Such clever, thoughtful design. I hope that everybody who ever has any major medical incidences can recuperate in a space such as this one day!

[@cherylfinch3687]

Love the garden. Greenhouse is beautiful!

[@lilwilliams7277]

You have thought of everything Bunny, absolutely beautiful 🥰

[@andreab2627]

Beautiful and practical design, what a lovely haven to go and be in, with friends and family, outside of the hospital buildings.

[@kathrynmettelka7216]

What a wonderful project! Illnesses frequently are accompanied by depression. A beautiful garden and destinations within the garden are healing as we know from "The Secret Garden."

[@Kay-qt2id]

What a truely lovely and rewarding experience you have had doing this job. It looks wonderful and must bring the patients some joy to see it. Well done

[@peggyhelblingsgardenwhatyo7920]

How extremely beautiful. You've thought of everything. You truly are a Master at Design. 👩‍🌾👍🌿💚🌿

[@asianangie7209]

You are amazing!

[@holly_kay5570]

This is really a beautifully designed garden for patients and staff as well as visitors. A healing place.

[@sarahbarton2089]

What a totally wonderful set of designs. Congratulations

[@svprior]

Wonderful!

[@Reypeg]

Bunny ! I love this…..I always look forward to your next video. Thank you for the inspiration….from USA.

[@3lightsteps]

Love the design and learning about the astrantia...I have woodlands and deer.

[@gwenwade6059]

I wept when I came to the part about Agnes Hunt. What a wonderful woman.

[@erinm3522]

Such a beautiful, thoughtful design!

[@ernestturman706]

What a remarkable design Bunny I love your work, America needs a Bunny too!

[@lindasands1433]

You really put a lot of thought research and care into this design. Great job!

[@jimbarwise2809]

Really lovely

[@carolhenderson2466]

Just wonderful! You put so much thought and consideration for people in this oasis. I especially love the private "rooms" for people to chat.

[@penelopehammerton2907]

Just so wonderful, what a blessing you are to have designed such a garden. You have considered everyone, patients, health workers, visitors and their families and children. It's totally unrecognisable from the original photographs you showed us.

[@bunnyguinness]

❤️🐇

[@margaretmitchell8368]

A brilliant solution and creation. Your addition of a fireplace made me catch my breath - what more perfect symbol of homeliness could there be....the absolute antithesis of the sterility of a hospital setting.

[@clairemcconway6266]

I couldn’t agree more! A few armchairs and a dog and cat asleep in a basket by the fire would make it so nobody would ever want to leave!

[@DamsonElvira1212]

Marvellous - the garden room ceiling mural too, you have really made something very special and healing. Loved seeing the patients gardening too.

[@bluesky7226]

Always inspiring!

[@conniekeshet]

Wow!! Really beautiful and practical. A fantastic place to go to! Trees and gardens up higher more visable. to someone in a bed!! I love the cuvy line, then mirrored in the space between the two buildings, wider thinner..The planting isnt to crazy, keeps an elegance!! Wow. From israel.

[@OWB-ml2ux]

Wow - this is an incredibly thoughtful design. Well done Bunny - huge kudos to you for being such a 'thinking' and caring designer. Truly inspirational. Also, as always - there are snippets that can be taken from this design and used in any garden. xx

[@chuckylamb4398]

Brilliant well done

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Uggh! Everything about this is therapeutic and soul-restorative, the bonus being that it is absolutely captivating and beautiful. Just when I think you have outdone yourself, I am amazed at another gem you have designed. Thank you Ms. Bunny!

[@Gajdacsi61]

Dear Bunny, I watch your videos from Hungary and I am a huge admirer of your work. So much beauty, so much imagination. Thanks so much for sharing your work with us.

[@sallynolan5928]

It’s fab.

[@gerdabreig9689]

You are an absolute genius!! I love your garden designs, clever, beautiful, functional and different garden rooms gives something to everyone. Just love it💓💕

[@gwenwade6059]

I love it. Having had my sister indoors in a Netcare Auckland Park Hospital for a year paralysed from the neck down. I would take some chairs and tables to the hedge edge. Allowing the bulky beds to be parked in the private arbours. Chair can thrn be pulled up. A dream sleep under there must be transformative.

[@scottanthony6269]

All I can say is Wow

[@julieotoole2383]

Wow Bunny! I am an American doctor and I am so impressed with your thoughtful, lovely, artistic garden design. Hospital/hospice/nursing home gardens are almost always either institutional or "cutesy", yours is dignified and inspiring. This is very important work.

[@revonda5204]

What an amazing design! I cannot imagine how wonderful this place is for the patients, the families and the staff. You have done an incredible job considering everyone's needs. I love the raised beds with the edge that can be sat on especially since I watched your conversation about with Charles Dowding first! 😊

[@janethothersall8345]

I’m still saving for your design service bunny…getting closer! 😂

[@tommyependergrass1913]

🎼😎Spot on ole chum‼️😍✨🎯

[@JOHNKIRBY1000]

Beautiful! Well done...

[@bertibear1300]

Spot on garden!

[@YalisCommunity]

This garden is absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing. What an amazing transformation! I love the use of every single space ... everything so well tought and the little square nature rooms was my favorite! What plant you used for creating those privacy square rooms!? I would love to create something like this in my garden.

[@bunnyguinness]

Thank you ! I used yew hedging to form the alcoves and then had quite narrow borders at the base of the hedges with roses, tulips and other plants around the base. The Osmanthus trees form the corners and we have planted scented climbers to grow over the arches.🐇

[@YalisCommunity]

@@bunnyguinness Thank you so much for your reply!!! You are awesome! I hope to create a cute yew hedge then!

[@dmcr8171]

Lovely. May I ask what are the little pink and white flowers in the concrete containers?

[@annbashir5888]

Wonderful

[@janeward2878]

A stunning transformation! What really puzzles me is the mystery of the 4 people who gave it a thumbs down. Could this be an early sign of mental illness? I prefer to think they just had a tremor and hit the wrong button.

[@nemkini]

i love this design. whats the name of the roses at about 6:40? thank you

[@ImogenWheaver]

Rosa 'Olivia'

[@nemkini]

@@ImogenWheaver thank you so much

[@FireflyOnTheMoon]

Bunny, you know what would be really (more) interesting? Some videos on maintaining this kind of project. Community/shared/public projects tend to suffer from waning enthusiasm after a certain point. Garden budgets are not ring fenced or sustained. There is an over reliance of on volunteers (staff, managers, users) who leave or change etc. In my view, the easier bit is the design and planting. The very hard bit is to have it looking that good over a sustained 20 year period. That is the gardening part. Good design has to take those 20 years plus into its remit, else it's a pointless exercise. Shows never focus on the challenges of the sustain, or explore ways to manage it. They usually never even mention it. Your insights to community garden managers (a series) would be super useful. Thanks.

[@pebblesmiller9026]

Well said. National trust etc have huge excitement with new projects but budget for maintenance 🤔😕

[@ferngrove7897]

Hi Anna, if you take a look at the Horatio's Garden website you will see how we maintain our gardens by employing a head gardener, who has an assistant along with a team of trained volunteers. www.horatiosgarden.org.uk

[@alinad2928]

I'm considering doing courses in landscape design, open to online courses as well; any you'd recommend? Preferably one that can help me to progress to a degree, if I do decide to go further with it.

[@bunnyguinness]

I think it’s best todo a course in Landscape Architecture, there’s a better career progression than garden design, so you can get employment from companies far easier and then you learn as you work. You have more scope too- you can do huge commercial projects of all types as well as small garden spaces so far more opportunities all round.hope this helps. It took me 7 years to qualify as I did a horticultural degree first, but I was also working with a company and learning when I did my landscape architecture day release course. Think it wAs 7 years well spent though!🐇

[@alinad2928]

@@bunnyguinness thanks so much for the reply 😊

[@gwenwade6059]

A peririon for a road detour would be the best long term plan. Lose one sense. Enhanced hearing of traffic may be the gateway to more frustration and depression. Imagine the true peaceful, healing nature of the garden then.

[@gwenwade6059]

Petition.

[@elsagrace3893]

Bunny is so empathic to the people she is designing for. Her high degree of empathy skills seems rare to me. I wonder if she has ever fallen into a relationship with a narcissist. Hopefully not and her boundaries are as strong as her empathy.