Freshen Up Your Porch for Spring!

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[@sueepling7280]

Everytime I hear Stewart talking, I think about "Home Improvement" and Tim's neighbor who we heard but never saw!! I imagine many other people try to catch a glimpse of him in a window or door reflection like me. Great relationship between you two! Oh, and I love the porch refresh ❤️

[@gardenloveinthemountains]

Zone 7a- high desert NM…I’ve thought of that TV series many time because of Stewart 😆…Garden is beautiful Linda, I have bought a variegated boxwood and a saved a topiary lemon cypress from Christmas so I can have a little Linda Vater in the high desert💚…No worries they will only get morning ☀️…I just love so many styles of gardening and I refuse to only have hot xeric landscaping as so many others have here…My garden beds have a dwarf purple smoke bush, a pugster butterfly bush, Carl forester grass, pink/white guara, lemonjade sedum, firefly peach colored yarrow, violet pin cushion flowers, mid night masquerade penstemon, pink and white coneflowers, peach & pink landscape roses, purple illusion Veronica, Helene Von Stein lambs ear and more 😌…

[@anndaily9872]

Can you hear Stewart? I can’t but would love to.

[@sueepling7280]

I hear most of what Stewart says, my hearing is excellent to make up for my poor vision!!

[@livingdoll3445]

Hi from Annie in Australia, your place looks great lots of green nice to see more flowers too. I like to place bit more furniture around along with lots of flowers real and material or silk ones done in an arrangement. I am hoping to include tulips and other bulbs in to the garden but they are very expensive to buy have to save up. Many plants that I have bought from shops have not always grown well some have just fizzled out after a short time, I complain the the plant shops but they don't care just want there money, they make such huge profits as it is.

[@jomoney465]

@@gardenloveinthemountains sounds lovely !!

[@almagrijalva6399]

I can’t believe how fast your garden is almost in full bloom. It’s just lovely. I wish I could be one of those driving by to see your garden and take pictures of it.🌷🌸💕🌸🌷

[@LindaVater]

You would be welcome :-)

[@lindaga820]

Alma, I was just thinking the same thing ! The front yard is all ablaze with beautiful color and it looks sooo beautiful. I would absolutely love to be able to visit with Linda and talk gardening !!! Greetings from sw Pa.

[@almagrijalva6399]

@@lindaga820 greetings from Los Angeles CA🌸🌷🌸

[@ritasinger4208]

Your free form pruning give me courage to trim my own plants.

[@kathleenroberts7972]

The garden and porch are vibrant and beautiful.

[@kaychaney6102]

First time having a front porch to decorate and now a screen porch! Older lady here but ready to learn.

[@katiec9895]

Love, love, LOVE the banter with Stewart! Mic that man up! So fun! I'm so ready to refresh my porch now! Beautiful display!

[@lisaneinast4425]

Just received my book today! I also bought one for my best friend for her birthday! All cozied in bed and reading it now!

[@LindaVater]

I hope it doesn’t disappoint!

[@Juancantor76]

Hi Linda, I very much enjoy watching your videos and I for sure want to know about your products and all of the products you use, so that I am able to replicate the look in my own home/garden. I don't mind you mentioning your product at all! Thank you for being an inspiration to me and many other gardeners here in the US and beyond.

[@MomDroogs]

Everything is so beautiful! And I am one who enjoys not only your gardening but your products that you love, and your outfits of the day and your thrifting of such beautiful pieces. I , too, love to thrift useful items in the garden and clothing.....

[@joywhitley3141]

Love your ‘happy little clouds,’ Stewart! 💗

[@denisecarvill4705]

My word, look at your front garden. It is beautiful. The colours are so pleasing to the eye!

[@marybeth4002]

All of the above - thumbs up! It feels so refreshing to be able to clean up the front porch area. Your landscape and porch looking beautiful.

[@susankilpatrick2918]

Love to hear Stewart’s thought! Feeling like he needs a mike so we can hear everything he is commenting on!

[@peachesmonroe251]

👋🏼 Hey Miss Linda! Received my beautiful new copper plant support in the mail today. It's so heavy! 😍 I wasn't expecting the weight to be so substantial. Thank you for that! Love it! Happy gardening!

[@LindaVater]

I’m so glad!

[@soniewhitten4844]

hi linda just would like to say great garden!!! every thing is so perfect and in place. and those little gloves you are wearing are the cuttiest little things. be safe and waiting for the next video

[@edwarddabkowski541]

I just received my copy of your book (The Elegant & Edible Garden) It is beautiful I have looked at every picture and now plan to read it cover to cover I live in South Carolina zone 8 and so enjoy each and every vlog Thanks for taking the time and effort to complete this book. I love it

[@LindaVater]

How kind! Thank you so much… Make sure to let me know what you think

[@paulapeeler3157]

Linda, I enjoyed this video... I wished KZbin would allow us to give two thumbs up 👍👍

[@LindaVater]

Awwww

[@ermafreitas3673]

The Easter Parade video of your yard was just so so gorgeous!!! Thinking the entire yard/pots bloomed over night!!👍👏🏻👏🏻

[@tallgrass000]

Your garden is a feast for the eyes. Thank you for all you teach us. I watch your podcasts on my TV and keep on wanting to go to my iPad to comment, but always tell myself “later” and you know how that goes. I appreciate when Stewart inserts (edits) a photo and name of a plant. I know it’s extra work, but it’s so helpful. Happy Easter to you all. -Ruth

[@LindaVater]

Thank you dear!

[@LAL0216]

Love your videos, outfits, jewelry, discussions with folks, and Stewarts interaction. Reminds me of Aaron with Laura at Garden Answer. You two keep up the great work, and keep telling us about your "outfits du jours". We love to hear about your stylings! 💕🏡😎

[@pattiohare4280]

My book is here!! Churchville, Maryland! I love the way a new book smells. LOL :) Can't wait to curl up somewhere and read it. Thank you Linda. It looks lovely!

[@LindaVater]

Oh my! Thank you for letting me know and for your thoughtfulness :-)

[@RevAcres01]

Garden is looking beautiful and the front porch enhanced the overall beauty even furtherr. In Zone 4b MN gearing up for the season by purchasing two gray baskets and a plant stand from your product line looking forward to adding boxwoods. thanks!

[@rongoertzen6342]

Painted the ceiling light blue. It was dark brown. Love the lighter look.

[@libbymiller5240]

Oh, this was so WONDERFUL!... I gotta tell ya...I am so WHIPPED from packing!! GADS!! But, how nice to wake up this morning, get my coffee, and join you and Stewart on the porch!! Your front garden and porch look GORGEOUS! I just LOVE the boxwood with the bunny!! What a GREAT, fun, Easter look! And your window box is LOVELY! I know I go on and on about how ENJOYABLE your vlogs are, but it is TRUE! I actually stopped and ate lunch and came right back to watch this again! So, thank you and thank you Stewart for getting me through the day without "LOSING IT!!"...LOL. Much love and blessings! Now, back to packing!!!

[@LindaVater]

Don’t wear yourself out my dear you have a lot going on!

[@susanwatson3372]

Thank you for another great video! Your porch is lovely. BTW after your recommendation a few videos back I bought the pruners. My hubby and I love them. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge of gardening and tools for the garden. ❤️❤️

[@LindaVater]

They are truly Lifesavers!

[@judyshallstrom415]

Great video. I think you and Stuart are having some fun today. I talk to my plants Outlook to encourage them, I also talk to my dig and cat. It's amazing how relaxing that is. They obviously think I'm a genius. 🌞

[@caroldieter2483]

I’m watching your video and I get a pkg delivered - OMG your book is IN MY HANDS! It is so beautiful!! Love everything you do for my garden inspired life! Happy Easter Everyone!🐣🐇🐰🌿🌷

[@LindaVater]

Please let me know what you think of me

[@caroldieter2483]

@@LindaVater I’ve only had the book for 2 hours and I cannot put it down. Your written word is mesmerizing; I’m reading it almost like a story and the photographs are simply stunning. I am savoring each page - you have created a masterpiece!❤️ Enchanting!

[@pearlsontuesday8697]

Another great video Linda❣️I spent the weekend sprucing up my porch areas as well. I have to tell you that I giggle each time I hear you and Stewart say “ruuts”. It is adorable 😊. Here in Virginia we say “rooots” (of course, making more syllables than necessary). The first time I heard you say “ruuts” I wasn’t sure what you meant. So sweet❣️

[@LindaVater]

Isn’t it fun to hear the white people around the country say words differently? I find it fascinating and kind of entertaining :-)

[@susanschellberg4509]

Love the product epilogue. Have purchased many of the products you recommended and been very pleased. Your porch is gorgeous. I change pots with the seasons . Add evergreens in winter. Want to start mixing herbs in with flowering plants and evergreens.

[@dorothytaylor5480]

The main reason I started watching you tubes was to find out products to use and my in ground and containers have improved so much. I have added tools also that have made things so much easier! Keep up all the good information!

[@theswissgardenvlog3189]

Thanks for this video, always so inspired when I watch you do garden tasks like these. I‘ve been back and forward about when and how I should add my boxwoods (that are currently growing in several places of my garden) to my container arrangements. We had some serious winds last week and they blew my blooming bulbs in all directions🙈 I feel like boxwoods will help bring back some equilibrium to the arrangements. Also love the use some herbs in your window box. Thanks for the inspirations💚

[@LindaVater]

Great idea. This wind is sooooo irritating!!

[@elizabethnicke1095]

Fashion Epilogue Yes! Products Yes! Your porch looks as pretty as you Linda!

[@jaferjane9716]

Just received your book!…..gorgeous photos… looking forward to reading it!

[@margaretfrise8047]

And I should add I am quite amazed how quickly your yard has gone from cold and snowy to all in bloom and warm.

[@terirachelsims8928]

You just made me feel better by referring to squirrels as "annoying"! Until recently we haven't had too many in our neighborhood, but lately they've been a real nuisance. I'm in the process of doing some re-potting, etc. with a lot of my many large planters, and I keep finding walnuts buried so neatly that unless and until I "dig in" I'd never expect to see them. So I'm now sprinkling garlic powder, crushed pepper, etc. around plants, and when I put bulbs into planters I'll have to add some tooth picks!

[@ldaylilyevans4560]

Yours is always so lovely! My potted tulip blooms were shriveled just as I thought they were going to bloom. Not sure why, it’s only my second attempt, the first froze out in 2020.

[@josephinebrevig8748]

This was so satisfying to watch. Thank you Linda. Thank you Stewart.

[@AtHomeWithSheree]

Looks beautiful. So full of life already. I’m in Minnesota so we are just getting outside. So much cleanup and planting to be done. Thanks for sharing with us. And I love your dress!

[@bettygotschall4504]

Your porch looks great!! i love all those topiaries and the whimsical bunny in the pot with the box. I generally put pots of tulips & hyacinths on porch with my cement rabbits for Spring.

[@brendacejda7069]

I don't know what #2 & #3 would be, but my first "Spring Refresh Thing" is to get inspired by Linda and Stewart! Love this! Thanks guys! ❤, ❤, ❤ this!

[@LindaVater]

What a dear thing to say :-)

[@rosemariemello6675]

I purchased one of the tools you showed on one of your shows the other day and it arrived today from Amazon so thanks for the tip. Your garden looks beautiful and I too am starting to do some pots . I love the end of your video for fashion btw..it gives me inspiration . ❤

[@robinluchsinger2493]

The bunny is so cute in your cloud topiary. In my zone 8b I usually refresh my porch pot twice..once in spring and once in fall. Fall planting gets layers of bulbs tucked in beneath cabbages and other winter color. Spring gets summer annuals for more color and I leave a central evergreen shrub year round for height. Stewart’s happy little cloud made me laugh. You are a great team.

[@rosewedemeyer]

I can't stop admiring your hair color 😀

[@LindaVater]

🙏🙏🙏

[@marywhitfield7553]

Great video. Always like your fashion epilogue. Also like you adding the name of the products you use. Our porch is small and I change my wreath each season and in spring bring some of my house plants out to the porch. Use colorful pillows for chairs. Good to hear Stewart interacting with you. He seems very sweet. Loved all the changes you made.

[@sherrybrown4340]

I love to hear Stewart talking along!

[@jackiereese977]

Loved the Bob Ross reference. Come to Muncie Indiana and see Bob Ross's studio at Minnetrista 🙂 Happy little face

[@dorenecatella3328]

So beautiful! Love your garden tips and your fashion ideas ❤️ I want all your easy to slip on boots!

[@tracyhobbs886]

My favorite videos are when your working. I learn so much from you. 🌹🌷😊

[@PlantBasics]

I really loved your porch styling ideas, learned a lot! Corbin

[@lindaortolano7837]

Hi Linda! First....You are the prettiest gardener I have ever met! Second....I love the interaction with Stewart! Does he have on a mike? I had a little trouble hearing him clearly. Third......the front porch and front garden look absolutely STUNNING!! Just beautiful and I can see why you have so many onlookers!!!! Thank you, Linda, for all your great knowledge as I have learned so much from just watching you! Have a wonderful day and I will see you in the next one! Hi Stewart!! :)

[@vickiejones7085]

Linda, I loved this video. I like so many use to be scared to prune, but not anymore, I see the benefits from it now and fertilizing with plant tone and such. Your front porch looks so pretty and inviting. Thank you as always for sharing with us and helping fellow gardeners continue to grow in knowledge. 🌿

[@stephaniesharkey3538]

My plumbago blooms almost all summer long and gently spreads, which I love!

[@stephaniesharkey3538]

Oh Zone 8 N GA!

[@ritasinger4208]

I like to change wreaths, doormats and , of course, flowering plants.

[@teresahatfield4521]

Linda. Your videos are so informative and wonderful! Enjoy watching them to see all your beautiful flowers and how to grow flowers and new tips. Thank you for all your great advice! Your videos are great. Thanks for telling us about the products you use. Very useful to me so l know what is great to buy!!

[@gendeb9666]

Love hearing Stewart interact!

[@marlenabarnes7280]

your yard and porch are looking amazing! my tulips are starting to bloom. Can you get Stewart to wear a mic? 😊

[@margaretfrise8047]

I always use your trick now of using pea gravel from Lowe's on top of the soil of all my pots. This hint has been a lifesaver in stopping squirrels from digging my plants out daily. They don't touch them at all! If I want to change my plants a little bit I just scoop stones to the side. Love the interaction between you and Stewart, that's the most I've ever heard him speak. I was curious what he uses to film with, a cell phone or something else?

[@LindaVater]

iPhone usually:)

[@designbyjosephineandjosee]

Hello Very pretty porch thanks for sharing

[@nataly3492]

Looking lovely as always! Your haircut looks beautiful on you. The tulips in baskets are just darling. Great job my friend, love your videos. ❤️

[@LindaVater]

Thanks dear! I’m trying something a little new

[@Holly_at_gypsyhollergardens]

This was so fun !!! "The great freeze"... 🤣 Loved that

[@janetcarey4579]

Your yard is gorgeous! Would you talk about growing the redbud seedlings that are around your space (and mine)? You once mentioned that yours were seedlings from a parent tree that is now just a stump.

[@LindaVater]

Yes! I’ll talk about that in my next Wednesday Walkabout

[@tru_passion2424]

Hi Linda love the video. My refresh is changing the pots with ever green and putting pots with flower color. My second is changing the furniture. Third is add cushion and rug.

[@olwinwalker1432]

It is amazing to see how this garden flourishes in just a few months. I love your plant choices and numerous working tips. #caribbeangardener🌺

[@1littleway]

You asked about what folks do for front or back porch/patio? I never know what to do 🤔 it’s inspiring to see the topiaries. I’ve never had a boxwood, but I always struggle with pots or containers to do anything with.

[@yvencia1150]

Great video and thank you for sharing 🌱🌱🌷🌷💐💐☕🌅🌈🥰

[@77sun222]

Hi Linda and Stewart Love how you transform the front porch. The holly is a lovely colour. I do think you need that chartreuse shade in your front yard too💞😘😎

[@susankilpatrick2918]

Right from the start - the front porch looks amazing!

[@tawanajorden2990]

Love the dress

[@cathierose2009]

You both were on your game today. And lots of good tips

[@RebeccaRohrHome]

🌻Beautiful garden🌻 TFS ☀️

[@connieparcaro7502]

It was snowing here in Salina, Kansas this morning! 32°. It is scary with all the fluctuations in the extreme changes. Monday it got ip to 93° and very windy!

[@LindaVater]

Sounds like here!

[@romiehutson5230]

Oh Linda your front front and yard look absolutely brand

[@jaminorman343]

I would happily pay a hefty fee to tour your yard! I'm so in love!!

[@LindaVater]

No fee! You would be welcome;)

[@mariemcgrath8681]

Love your ínstant' beautification of the front porch. Particularly, loved the idea of herbs, fantastic, I will use them myself !

[@denisecarvill4705]

Loving your blues and whites!

[@helenwilliamson7099]

in Scotland there's a saying,never fling a cloot oot till Mays oot 😅

[@LindaVater]

😂

[@christyluckett439]

So so Pretty

[@sherrisclafani9702]

🌷🌹🌺💜My favorite is the white basket from your QVC line filled with pansies here in SE Florida!

[@dignit1620]

Love all that you share!

[@beverlyasleson3321]

Front porch looks nice always fun watching what you do. Love the cute dress and earrings. Stewart needs a mic

[@jillspady6450]

You can topiary olive? I have the little Ollie .. that would be awesome!

[@michellem.7327]

Thank you for your posts! This morning while clearing some remaining dead leaves with my hands from a flower bed, I disturbed a small snake🐍 hiding in the leaves so I came back here to find out which leaf blower you use, Linda! I will be using a blower from now on. Are you able to share the brand of blower you used in this video? It looked so lightweight and precise! TY!

[@LindaVater]

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[@bettenotap4791]

I have an old boxwood that is large, too round for my liking and sparse at the back. I’m going to expose it’s legs and bonsai it. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@tiffanyroberts5993]

I loved this video so much!!

[@DH-qz2so]

I keep, all year around, 3 grey planter pots on the front door stoop....at Christmas/January, I pop in a pre made HomeDepot greens planter... (stuck in that green foam with sticks, greens, pinecones, red twigs, bow)... in February/March,... I leave the greens as they are still great!, take out the bow and the red twigs...and add in a birdhouse, and pussywillow branches...April it stays empty until May long weekend...then I pop in a Greenhouse Hanging basket but I cut off the hangie things... this is good til September...then the fall mums go in... mid Sept to beginning of November... then wash, rinse , and repeat!

[@patriciawalker1787]

I want to paint front door and the bench out there and add plants. I only had one box wood make it through the winter. I had tried growing some from slips.

[@marcusseidel6824]

Here in Belgium, we bring the boxwood clippings to church ...for Palm Sunday. ( I belief in other countries they do it also.) Dont you use the clippings for your Easter decoration ? Love the Easter rabbit integrated in your boxwood. Here in West Flanders we have a serious problem ( boxwood moth / catterpillars) many people replace them by thougher shrubs. Once I saw very old boxwoods in flower ... little white flowers with a special mild scent. Adorable. Kind regards, Marcus

[@LindaVater]

That is fascinating. It’s not typically an Easter green that way used… Probably use more at Christmas. But I may have to change that tradition!

[@marcusseidel6824]

@@LindaVater Please use your longer clippings in a spring flower arrangement.

[@juneramirez8580]

I. ALWAYS talk to my plants I tell them how beautiful I think they are and I stroke them when I pass them! I have a friend that also talks to her plants.

[@odettedemedeiros7486]

Hi Linda I live in Canada and I love your show. Question what is the make of your artificial grass., thanks

[@LindaVater]

Nextgen:)

[@angelacollins1343]

I bought the Barnell pruners last year, they are awesome

[@mike1968442]

In Tucson, we have two seasons…hot and hotter! So I only have to prepare for one season.

[@aileenpetzoldt8668]

I can see an interesting home across the street over your right shoulder, style similar to yours. Are these neighbors gardeners? Would there be an interesting garden tour of this yard/garden?

[@Cenepk101]

I have a bench with a cushion on one side of my front porch- There are 3 outdoor tables used as a console table - center table is slightly taller against a wall with a large mirror over the center table. I always wrap the bench cushion in a seasonally appropriate fabric with matching throw cushions. I’m not a pagan - so there aren’t any bunnies. On the other side of the porch- there’s a 2 seater rocker with a skirted table. The table skirt coincides with the bench cushion across the porch. The front door is between both vignettes. Those are THE BEST SHEARS of all In season- the plants are changed appropriately.

[@LindaVater]

Lovely🌸

[@barbaraciprane2250]

Beautiful

[@findmysoulgarden914]

Love Bob Ross!!!

[@jacquelinegomez1529]

zone 3 IIhave a red tulip for the last 25nyears. they are multiplying every year. I am so stiled with them .

[@billsmith8339]

What's the best way to use oregano? I have been growing this for a few years, and dry it out in fall, but separating the stems from the leaves is tedious. I tried using it freshly picked, but it didn't really have much taste (it had the smell tough). Thanks.

[@LindaVater]

Any Italian dish!

[@debrahalcrow1933]

Linda: Could you provide plants for a covered porch that faces north? I live in S. California zone #9. Enjoy your videos. Thank you

[@peggy-ann1961]

Zone 3b. Please , could the famous Stewart mike up? We’d love to hear everything he has to say! Your yard looks amazing! Here in Manitoba we’re expecting what could be the worst blizzard in decades on the 13th! So no pretty yards to us for awhile!😱😱

[@LindaVater]

Please stay safe!

[@peggy-ann1961]

@@LindaVater Thank you! I forgot to mention how much I loved “ Gramma” she’s adorable!

[@lisalundstrom1591]

Unfortunately, here where I live, we can’t always refresh with plantings. Sometimes it’s just too cold. But I do like to set up my porch with benches and pillows with throws when weather permits. I also change out my Decour seasonally or for holidays. I have a collection of doormats, much to my husband’s dismay.😄 I always change out my wreaths and door decor. And sometimes I create little vignettes. Right now, on my front porch, I have a flower stand and a potting bench with some faux daffodils and tulips and other spring flowers. I’m not a huge fan of people putting fake flowers out in their landscape, but if they are quality flowers it does look better. And you have to choose ones that would naturally be blooming at that point in time. Also with natural colors. Unfortunately these flowers would not be able to bloom in my landscape right now but they are available at grocery stores and garden centers. This way I can have a pretty spring display and be able to reuse it in other ways. My husband is not a huge fan of what he calls “wasting” Money on flowers that don’t last very long.