Garden Tour: Michael McCoy's private dry climate garden!

[@TheGardenist]

Thanks Stephen and Matthew! I loved seeing my garden through your eyes! Now given the huge overlap between Star Wars nerds and garden lovers (not!), I feel the need to clarify that the inspiration for the planting around the veggie beds came from the port in the Death Star that R2-D2 plugs into towards the end of the first movie, in order to shut down certain protective functions. it was a series of shiny steel concentric rings that he plugged into and shifted around. I don't know why that design idea stuck with me, since 1977!, but it has!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Well, thank you for the clarification, is now as clear as mud for us non Star Wars nerds. Glad you otherwise were happy with our insides into your garden. Regards Stephen

[@lynmccullough4860]

After many years of watching Michael McCoy on TV and reading his books and articles, it was wonderful to see his own garden. It really inspired me at a time of year when my own new country garden is struggling and I have realised that I need to make some changes to accomodate the reality of possums ravaging the garden. I will let them eat the roses now and plant more grasses and bulbs instead! Thanks for a wonderful start to Friday.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

An absolute pleasure. Regards Stephen

[@brocktoon8]

LOVE when you guys analyse landscapes. Really enjoyed this episode!!! Gorgeous and fascinating experimental gardens he has there.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed it! Regards

[@twosheds2030]

Superb video again, gentlemen. I miss Michael McCoy’s TV show very much. There are many of us out here who love shows on garden design and related grand projects. Having said that, I tend to be like Stephen. I get excited about particular plants and am forever searching for spots for them! Thank you so much for your outstanding videos. Like Michael’s show, they are eagerly watched in our family as soon as you post them. Bravo 👏👏👏

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thank you very much for watching!

[@jomassey4207]

Mutabalis roses are so underrated. The colours are interesting and they seem to be in flower most of the year. Lovely meandering paths and repeat planting with interesting plants that suit the environment. The oaks are stunning....like a room by itself with dancing shadows.😊

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you liked it and you are also a Mutabilis fan. Regards Stephen

[@jaqmackie]

Please go back in spring or summer. I’d love to see the garden change seasonally. I also only have tank water so watering is minimal at my place. Thanks for the tour💚

[@thehorti-culturalists]

That's the plan! Regards Stephen

[@loriedmundson782]

Beautiful garden. Enjoy seeing Mediterranean gardens because I have the opposite; woodland shade.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Mine is a bit more like yours I think and as much as I love Michaels garden I like more shade as a habitat to live in. Regards Stephen

[@sylviahardy4568]

Such a loverly garden. You're right about rose bushes not making the best garden plants, which is to say I agree with you! They're a regular feature of ornamental front gardens here in the uk, and it seems I'm a minority of one who feels their winter look makes them an unsuitable choice.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

glad I have a group of those in agreement with me, there’s are lots who don’t. Regards Stephen

[@TimurDavletshin]

27:50 - Steven, if you like Rosa "Mutabilis" probably you should look at old tea roses (before they were hybridized and gave us hybrid teas) like Etoile de Lyon, Parks' Yellow tea-scented China, Madame Joseph Schwartz and others. Many people, including me, find those airy shrub roses with nodding flowers of buff colours very elegant, not as show-stealing as later hybrid varieties.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Am aware of the others but it wasn’t a rose video. Perhaps some other time! Regards Stephen

[@Kramfors1]

Lovely garden!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@joanne-et6pm]

Thanks Stephen & Matt another interesting garden really unique but the fact minimal water is used & it still is pretty I think this guy has it " nailed" Gardening is an Art form definately Happy gardening guys love ur videos Jo-Anne 🌸🙏🏻

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it. Regards Stephen

[@svetlanasgardenhomeofredwa4342]

Thank you for another wonderful episode. I was wondering if you would consider making an episode about the creatures in your gardens. For someone like me, watching your channel from Oregon, any references to your fauna are rather fascinating. Mad pigeons and parrots... who else eats your plants?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Possibly! we’ll see. Regards Stephen

[@Kinnibari]

Possums are a regular garden menace, even though the ring tail possums are very cute.

[@attilahorgosi1595]

Calandrinia grows so easily from tip cuttings. Although it won't survive below -7⁰c

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks. Regards Stephen

[@nitajain4720]

Gravel garden is beautiful. I have 3 patches of autumn flowering saffron and now as leaves are dying back I wonder what can be planted around? I'm in Zagreb, Croatia zone 7 I think. Thank you!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Spring and summer Cyclamen might work. Regards Stephen

[@nitajain4720]

@@thehorti-culturalists Thank you Stephen ❤️

[@DanandPatKerr]

We loved this episode and this unique garden. I am going off topic. We are in Bruce Mines, Ontario Canada and our provincial garden group is in an upset over allium. (You would think, we had better things to do and think about.) Anyway, do you have references on how allium was bred, i.e. are any of the cultivar's descendants of our native allium? How can we identify which types are harder to control or they self-seed extensively. Thank you so much. I love your balanced viewpoints.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Sorry but I’m too far away to know enough about Alliums in your area and certainly don’t have any info to help with native to your area hybrid forms. Regards Stephen

[@joansmith3492]

how does he manage the rainwater? The garden does not look terraced. Does he try to hold onto the rainwater or does he try to drain it off the garden? how he do that? Does he get his rain in brief deluges or is it spaced out? love the green columns with the tall grass airy bushes.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

The. garden is designed to exist on what falls from the sky. It is more about plant selection than manipulating the water. Regards Stephen

[@Sonya-k2b]

Where is the garden located? Somewhere in Victoria?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Woodend North West of Melbourne. Regards Stephen

[@grandmothergoose]

Greetings Matthew Lucas and Stephen Ryan, I have a question! I'm in Broken Hill Far West NSW. I have a big old Grevillea Robusta in my front yard, and I want to get a hardenbergia violacea 'Happy Wanderer'. I was wondering, if I let the hardenbergia grow up the old silky oak, could it cause the tree any potential harm - or would I be better off building a trellis for it to grow on away from the tree? It's my understanding that hardenbergias aren't terribly long lived, but do they grow big enough and for long enough to choke a tough old tree?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

The Hardenbergia won’t hurt the Grevillia. Regards Stephen

[@grandmothergoose]

@@thehorti-culturalists Thank you. 💜

[@marktischler3099]

No mention of rough area of garden location.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

The garden is near Woodend in country Victoria.

[@FireflyOnTheMoon]

"My wife was given a little plot of land around behind the clothes line that I couldn't think of anything better to do with". Is that what passes for a marriage in Australia?

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Apparently! Regards Stephen

[@John_NY10566]

please be as rude as you like with Roses. I wouldn't grow one for a $1000

[@thehorti-culturalists]

A kindred spirit! Regards Stephen

[@stevenrowson4339]

I think you're being a little unkind to the rose, I had one left in the garden by one of the previous owners, it was dark red, the buds were black, it grew on the shade side of a wall and the scent was intoxicating. These days there are so many easy shapes and varieties that flower all summer. I have to say I'm not a fan of dedicating an area to them though as they can look effing aweful in Winter.