DESIGN COURSE Part 3: Endless Boundaries

Bunny talks us through the highs and lows of both external and internal garden boundaries. She guides us through how to design them for purpose - whether that be concealing eyesores or enhancing views and separate areas of the garden.
Bunny explains how to achieve height at minimal cost and effort and how to use varying boundary heights within a garden for maximum impact. She also talks us through see through boundaries and gates as well as using very low boundaries where appropriate.
#gardening #howto #minimalcost

[@canuckviolet3322]

Your whole design series has been excellent. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise.

[@lilwilliams7277]

Excellent as usual Bunny, thank you 😊

[@colette8694]

“When creating a boundary make it something you have never seen before, think outside of the box” 🌳 🌳 love your videos and useful information!

[@helenachase78]

I wish you could help me with my garden plans ! I can't afford any help at all so I will go very rustic. I liked the chestnut fence !

[@floweringacre3079]

Ten thumbs up!

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Absolutely fantastic presentation on boundaries in the garden/landscape! I believe they are absolutely necessary. I am learning soooo much from you Ms. Bunny! ☺Thanks for sharing!

[@FireflyOnTheMoon]

Thanks Bunny, A great overview

[@joanwalters4741]

This was a Gem and a Classic lesson on Garden structures. Bravo🌟🌟🌟.

[@juliedubberley1192]

So much incredible knowledge and amazing ideas. How has Bunny got under 32k subscribers?? Should be millions!

[@bunnyguinness]

Thank you for kind comment - please spread the word, social media is not my strength! 🐇

[@helenachase5627]

@@bunnyguinness we will Bunny

[@heathermcelroy7171]

Thank you Bunny! This series has been incredibly informative and helpful to me as I try to plan out my garden space, especially seeing the wide variety of example gardens.

[@bluesky7226]

What a wonderful presentation. You are so generous and kind with your time and talents. I so appreciate you and all you share with us. May God continue to bless you abundantly. 💝

[@smartinez1376]

I absolutely love your designs. They are creative and beautiful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@sheilagavin6536]

Thank you Bunny! You are very generous in sharing your extensive knowledge, and most thoughtful in your presentations. I am charmed and delighted by you in every posting! All the best to you and yours!

[@lizteske4453]

I couldn’t agree more. Thank you for these videos!

[@joybanner5925]

@@lizteske4453 Absolutely. More useful even than gardeners world!

[@tinahart1712]

You are such an inspiration Bunny, we love you ❤️ more more more xx

[@annablume7931]

I enjoyed watching this video very much. It is very informative!🙋‍♀️💐

[@rinskeraphael8755]

Wauw you saved from reading a thick book about this subject and making big mistakes🤩 ....thanks for these tools to work with, it came just in time. Doing a make over from my garden....into mix of vegtables and flowers and green and hight....now I have a standard to live up to🥰😍greetings from The Netherlands.

[@YalisCommunity]

Wonderful tips! Thank you for sharing.

[@sunitashastry253]

Enjoyed this very informative sessions on boundaries. It gave me some new ideas too.

[@suzetteccc]

Wow. What a great series. I was fascinated. I kept running over to the window to look and see what I could do. Thank you .

[@clarebannon1481]

Great presentation bunny as usual. Very informative.

[@tivolidecor]

Wonderful! Thank you for making your videos❤

[@helenachase5627]

Horacio 's is a real success !

[@aprilm9551]

Thank you, Bunny for your excellent details on creating the right boundary for various situations. I am honored to learn from you. And, I will note: I'm American. Near the end of this presentation, you're talking about boundaries where one might want to be able to see surrounding landscape, such as pasture... and your favorite boundary is no boundary at all. Then the camera swings around and we see a few cows grazing just beyond your manicured lawn. I appreciate this reveal, that all along you've been sitting there observing the cows not too far away. And I'm having fun with that. And as we're smiling watching the cows, you say, 'obviously a ha ha is wonderful but not everyone can put in a ha ha..." and then I'm puzzled. Are you referring to the clever reveal that there are cows right there, and it's a joke or a ha ha, or is there something in a British landscape that's called a ha ha? So I pause the video and off I go to research on the internet "what is a british garden haha". Ah ha (ha ha)! Now I get it. : ) And I can see the ha ha between your property and the pasture. Among other information, I found this: Horace Walpole surmised that the name is derived from the response of ordinary folk on encountering them and that they were, “…then deemed so astonishing, that the common people called them Ha! Has! to express their surprise at finding a sudden and unperceived check to their walk.”

[@bunnyguinness]

Yes I think that is the correct reason for the name and it makes sense. The view is really quite ordinary but when the ha ha went in it improved far more than I thought possible. 🐇

[@virtualcircuit]

My first encounter with a haha once i was an adult and had become interested in gardening, i was walking through the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh admiring the beautiful view of the cliffs of holyrood park towering above, and open fields that appear to go off quite a distance, and suddenly encountered a 6ft drop and burst out laughing, and also thought "Of course!" at the same time. So the name is definitely fitting.

[@aprilm9551]

@@virtualcircuit What a charming description of your encounter with a haha! I hope to see one in the UK some day, would LOVE to do a tour of gardens. I wonder if in the US hahas would be illegal, there is so much regulation here. Since it's not already a tradition, I imagine it would not be allowed.

[@kathrynmettelka7216]

Some fascinating concepts. For accountants, OCD is not a bug but a feature. For gardens with hedges, topiaries, clipped box shapes, OCD is a torture. I would be bonkers in no time at all with such features. I think they are beautiful. I love them at Versailles and other European or UK gardens. I just can't have them at my house. I know my limitations. I would be clipping incessantly. Always trying and failing to get all plants to be perfect.

[@bunnyguinness]

You are not alone, others don’t like them as they are unnatural ! Each to their own, but I love contrast and using topiary in wilder areas can look great too 🐇

[@kathrynmettelka7216]

@@bunnyguinness Thank you for understanding. I like the formal style in a theory though I couldn't possibly maintain such a garden. I like the geometry, the possibilities of form. As for unnatural, all gardens are unnatural. It is a continuum of which are more unnatural than others. Wildflower gardens are usually seeded or planted.

[@wiltrudfriesch6781]

7:59 I like the shape of the gate

[@bunnyguinness]

Gates are a great way to do something a bit different, and by adding some great colour to them you can can really enhance a space 🐇

[@dianehernandez6051]

I live in zone 9a, N California and am struggling to make "rooms" on my 1.60 acres. Our property sits between a vineyard on one side that provides a great view and orchards on the other side. I LOVE Bunny's ideas, which work well with her beautiful home and English style, but probably wouldn't work here. Any suggestions on how to even start or ideas? 😁

[@sunitashastry253]

You could use ornamental grasses as boundaries. Seasonal interest plus one cut back in late winter/ early spring. Not mother maintenance. For seating area, use arbors or trellis or pergolas to define a space and grow deciduous or perennial vines. Look for non invasive native shrubs in your area to form boundaries. Some suggestions.

[@bunnyguinness]

Sorting out the way to break up the spaces is nearly always the part that most people find the most intimidating and difficult. I tried to explain how I approach this in my video on design, part 2 - Sorting the Spaces. It is a fairly logical process but you need to do pencil overlays on an accurate site survey to scale and when you think you’ve sorted the best arrangement mark them out in the ground with pegs and string and live with them for a week or so. My garden had no real spaces initially. Hope this helps 🐇

[@helenachase5627]

Bunny, I have 2 different hedges within my back door space. I find because of the different colour green density and growing habit that the transition between looks awkward. I enjoy passing through the gap between the two . Should I use a trellis like you did to hide the ugly flat roof addition ? Or should I plant a lilac or something to break the visual awkwardness and make an opening in just one of the hedges ? Sorry for being so long winded

[@harryhj5981]

Very informative video. I have a 12 foot ugly retaining wall in my front garden next to my lawn. What could I plant to screen this? It’s in full shade all year round

[@bunnyguinness]

Plant a hedge at the base of it to grow maybe 6 foot high. Have a look at Matthew Rice video, he made his own render for his high walls. This could improve appearance . The hedge could be yew clipped into an interesting shape then you might not be aware of the wall at all. 🐇

[@helenmaxwell6473]

…. thinking about neighbours right to light could fend off relationship difficulties…..

[@pertelote4526]

I have lost a lot of light "thanks" to my neighbours' thujas planted 30cm from the fence, which is illegal in my country but the man who planted them years ago did not care about the regulations at all. We did not want to argue with them on end (we generally avoid confrontation) and they did cut down the trees a little in the past but now I am stuck for good with those monsters (the thujas) and little light on one side of the garden.

[@bunnyguinness]

Yes that is a very good point if you can get privacy without offending a neighbour it does improve both parties enjoyment of their outdoor space 🐇

[@nowyouareoneofus9684]

My experience with gravel is that mice go under it. Any tips to prevent it?

[@dinomite078]

Can anyone tell me how I get rid of spiders and or bugs ? I feel I can’t relate in my yard because there’s spiders everywhere 😞

[@bunnyguinness]

My sister has this problem, a bit of a draw back for gardeners. I have to say in the house I find them a bit creepy close up but when outside I just grin and bear it. We must be total ogres to the poor spiders! 🐇

[@dinomite078]

@@bunnyguinness I’m just scared when they bite me 😩

[@kevinjamesparr552]

Sir ROY still has his gardens but he left them to a charity for when he dies

[@bunnyguinness]

Yes that is quite right! I should know that as I introduced the charity to Sir Roy!🐇