How to Make Garden Feel Bigger, More Interesting. Manipulating Space

[@jeanp5395]

Olga, you have a lovely way of sharing your ideas & knowledge with those of us who adore gardening & landscaping.🦋🌷🌻🏡

[@lotteingerslev5776]

These are excellent ideas, Olga! Thank you. ❤

[@claudiameyer6254]

Wonderful video Olga! You’re a natural teacher!

[@JRussellArtistry]

Your garden is so interesting! You say it's fairly small but it seems huge because of how you create interest in different spaces! Very inspiring! Thank you!

[@camirichardson7485]

Your garden rooms are very lovely, and most definitely reflects your personality. Lovely! Thanks to the camera man! Good job, dude!

[@OlgaCarmody]

Camera man had some missteps, but did good! Have a lovely day!

[@awkardbutawesome]

I have a large flat plot of land with no plants or trees, so this was really useful. Even if it is meant for smaller gardens, I still found lots of useful tips. Thank you for sharing ❤

[@michaeljonesdougherty.209]

I.love garden room's &views from diffrent areas . You garden rooms looks so pretty & magical like a secret garden 💛 big THANKS to the camera guy your husbent 💙

[@aalovelace2776]

Thank you for sharing your garden and advice - very beautiful and smart

[@2Peachcobler]

Olga just want to say thank you for all your wonderful videos with such great ideas. And a special thanks to your husband for filling them for you. It warms my heart knowing that you have somebody special to do that for you.

[@OlgaCarmody]

Awww, you are welcome! I am going to pass the word to my special "camera man"!

[@cathyhatfield5340]

Love your garden and this was a wonderfully informative video! Keep up the great videos 👍❤️

[@OlgaCarmody]

Thank you Cathy, as always! I am airing another video in this series about how to reduce garden maintenance. Stay tuned!

[@rs6588]

Nice presentation with a lot of love of beautiful garden. 👍👏❤️🌹

[@OlgaCarmody]

Thank you! Have a lovely day!

[@JuneCleaver56]

This series is wonderful and so eye-opening. Now I realize some of the reasons your garden is so engaging and pleasant to behold. I've definitely picked up some tips and ideas for improving my own garden. Great job! Thanks so much for all you do for your gardening friends. On to #4!

[@CasaCreations]

Oh my , Thank You!

[@quailhollow7955]

I love the room by room walkway. I started 10 years ago with a hot unplanted yard and have slowly added rooms. It makes me so happy and feels so much more interesting. I also love all the wildlife that flits among the hedges and trees I have planted. Your garden is certainly inspiring and is filled with good ideas. Come visit me on Cape Cod anytime with your family and we can chat all things gardening ❤️

[@OlgaCarmody]

Aww, thank you for your message and your kind invitation! Lovely.

[@eileensuckley4005]

Ms. Carmichael, You are my very favorite KZbin gardener. Your posts are engaging and informative but more importantly filled with a passion for gardening and a love of nature. Thank you!

[@OlgaCarmody]

Thank you Eileen, glad to hear it. Olga Carmody

[@maymon207]

You and your way of presentation are both lovely. Of course, so is your garden. Thanks for sharing your applied knowledge.

[@OlgaCarmody]

My pleasure 😊

[@erikamiller6497]

I love your style. So informative and engaging. Love the rooms you created. I am renting a house, and have created two gardens, one shade and one sun. I am looking forward to making some vertical structures as well. I will have to watch your video on how to make that archway. Thanks for all of your wonderful inspiration.

[@OlgaCarmody]

You are welcome, Erika! Good luck with your garden! Fun stuff, right?

[@jacquelinelauri4022]

Beautiful as usual your garden is so lush very pretty. PS say hi to the cameraman did a great job🌞🦩

[@OlgaCarmody]

Thank you, I will! Hope you are doing fine!

[@gratefulheart860]

So nice and useful video! Thanks a lot, our Gardening Queen!

[@Thepotagerscottage]

I have just created a gardening channel on here and I love your videos, awesome! I also love your natural wood arch. Going to do that, definitely!

[@audramacbeth2969]

I absolutely love your garden and videos.

[@ruthmccauley8546]

This was a great explanation of how to make a garden so much more interesting. I need to redesign an area to make it more engaging and these ideas are great. thank you for showing us how you did this in your garden.

[@OlgaCarmody]

Glad it was helpful! Yes, spaces can have so much potential in them! Happy gardening and good luck redesigning your garden!

[@sheilabroad8192]

New subscriber here. I’m getting so excited listening to you. Everything you say makes perfect sense. You are very inspiring. 💚

[@OlgaCarmody]

How wonderful! Thank you and welcome to my channel! It is good to have you here.

[@elmaelmar2761]

Love your garden!! You tube queen!!!🌸🌸

[@OlgaCarmody]

ha ha, for them I am the queen of it all!

[@susanschellberg4509]

Very helpful and interesting. Loved the points about corners and borrowed landscape.

[@OlgaCarmody]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BenjesBride]

Excellent video! Interesting, informative, entertaining - well done.

[@OlgaCarmody]

Thank you very much!

[@ninamarfi]

Thank you, very ineresting! Greetings from Poland:)

[@Holly_at_gypsyhollergardens]

This was very fun and interesting ! Love your layering and room creating , your ideas and design principles bring Linda Vaters style to mind 💙 thank you for inspiration 💐🦋🐞🌺🌹

[@OlgaCarmody]

I also thought that my boxwoods remind me of Linda Vaters style. Love her channel!

[@Holly_at_gypsyhollergardens]

@@OlgaCarmody yes boxwoods too! Love her videos also , her back gardens are so enchanting . Thanks again for all the inspiration 💙

[@titiaswildlifecottagegarden]

Loved watching the 3 part series of how to design your own garden. January last year my now fiancé and me moved from an apartment to this 3 bedroom house with smallish front and back (42 m2)garden. For our housing price category it has a good amount of garden space. So happy to have a garden now where we can enjoy being outdoors, also for our early elderly cat. I want to achieve a romantic, wildlife, cottage garden look with a small pond and native plants for local wildlife. Seeing your video and some of other KZbinrs, makes me realize that my garden lack evergreen structures. What kind of green hedge plants do you own? The fluffy kind looks really nice. I'm also planning on adding a hawthorn tree this fall, for vertical interest and natural shade for the house during the warm summer months.

[@OlgaCarmody]

Hi there, you are going to love your garden, and your can will enjoy it too! I use privet for hedging which I won't recommend, it grows like weeds. I also have arborvitaes which demand sunny conditions and good watering schedule during first year of planting. Yews are great too, if you don't mind their dark green presence in winter. I would recommend Japanese hollies and boxwoods as well. Enjoy your new green space and happy gardening!

[@SamWinover]

Your garden is beautiful. Thanks for sharing such interesting subjects.

[@mikeq6384]

another wonderful video Olga ! Great lessons for all to share in our gardens. Thank you...................

[@OlgaCarmody]

My pleasure!

[@Cookson66]

Fantastic video .. learnt so much .. just found you xxx Thank you ❤❤

[@bigfamilyboss]

I just found you last week! Talk about kindred spirits! You have a beautiful yard! Thank you for sharing with us. I was wondering what camera and mic you use? So many videos of others are good but you can't hear them but your videos are loud and sound so nice.

[@OlgaCarmody]

Thank you, welcome to my channel! I use rode microphone system. Very good sound.

[@choctaw5050]

Loved loved loved this video.. Thank you “Husband” for the beautiful angles and views…. Your garden is excellent. I have worked on rooms for two seasons now.

[@OlgaCarmody]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[@annereach3145]

Such an informative video! I had to pause a few times to run outside and consider some of your ideas. Thank you so much.

[@linamoles509]

Love… love… how you presented your garden by explaining what best! I wish I seen your KZbin much earlier like 5years ago!😊 Now my garden is already established so really hard and expensive to change it😒but my garden is not bad at all, I love gardening after or before going to teach my classes( I’m a yoga teacher, live in Scotland) Thank you for your KZbin Chanel, such a good talker as well. And I love it!🌹❤️

[@OlgaCarmody]

Oh, you are welcome Lina, thank you so much for such a warm message!

[@joannewilliams5589]

I love your garden.

[@emilykiesling2315]

Enjoyed your garden and your speaking of how to build your garden to your liking. I like the idea of having a pathway to different areas of your garden thank you 🙏

[@OlgaCarmody]

You are welcome, Emily! Have a lovely day, thank you for watching!

[@nagaokayoko8840]

Hello,Olga. I like your garden has many different rooms, it look so privacy and each family has own favorite spot. My house is semi detached house, so neighbors can watch me from their upstairs master bedroom window when I am in the back yard, which sometimes annoy as such hot day I would like to wear very less clothes and sit down in some evening especially after took a long bath. I had a big plastic gazebo long time ago but it’s only cheap one and blown away by heavy gale. More I deep bottom garden I go then neighbors can see me, so I only can sit down very close to the back door near the house area where no one can see me even I am in my pajama. Wish I had a kind like an Igloo made by plants or bush. Hahaha 🤗so I can escape from peoples eyes when really want to relax. Today UK will hit 40 C, heat wave, very hot, but I am use to hot summer in Japan but we have every single room had air conditioning but here none, UK only 0.5 % people only have house air conditioning, so night time a little uncomfortable. But soon will go back to normal British weather. My Hydranger Annabel, Hydranger Bluebird and Japanese Wisteria called Honbeni will be delivered tomorrow sometimes, I am looking forward to grow them. Best Wishes 🌹🌸🌹🌸🇯🇵

[@OlgaCarmody]

Hi Nagaoka, lovely message! Hope you are enjoying your new plants. And hope your hot weather will be cooler soon! We have drought conditions here in Connecticut as well. Days are hot!

[@leshamonk9311]

Very good video!! Thank you!

[@anthonyjeremiah4708]

Very beautiful love it thanks for sharing😍

[@OlgaCarmody]

Thanks so much 😊

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

Lovely video Olga! You make understanding these garden principles so easy! Have a great weekend.

[@OlgaCarmody]

Have a lovely weekend as well!

[@esthersnell2357]

Very informative as always ❤️

[@marionmich7702]

You give wonderful advise... one more thing that I have shared is the idea of looking out your windows and planning a garden for our viewing pleasure.. So happy to know you, Olga!!! One more question... what do you do with disgarded plant materials that have fungus. I'm thinking you dispose of them to a landfill somewhere? My campanula suffered terribly with fungus. :(

[@OlgaCarmody]

Hi there, I am merciless to all the diseased stuff. It goes strait into the landfill, no questions there. Happy gardening!

[@NicoleSmithGardening]

I just love your videos! This one was especially helpful 💚🌱 Thank you!

[@OlgaCarmody]

I'm so glad!

[@denisecarvill4705]

Super video. Beautiful gardening!

[@OlgaCarmody]

Many thanks!

[@Tarot_Time_with_Belle]

I really enjoy your videos and your knowledge. Thank you. I do find where you keep shifting your body side to side, sends me a little dizzy so I can’t always watch, as I have a neurological disorder that is a bit like vertigo. Movement makes everything feel like it’s spinning. I know that’s a me problem, I just wish I could watch more of them. 😊

[@OlgaCarmody]

I know.... I move and think, and talk... But thank you for watching!

[@Melinaa124]

I'm in oakdale ct!! I love your garden! I'm currently working on making mine more private and interesting!

[@OlgaCarmody]

I am glad to hear it! We all need privacy these days!

[@kristineobrien8878]

Very well explained! Thank you…Loved all the examples of rooms, textures, color, value and di people using that space. Con passing your garden test…you are Amazing❤

[@OlgaCarmody]

Thank you, Kristine! Happy gardening!

[@GardenDoodles]

Lots of useful info to learn and apply. Thank you.

[@OlgaCarmody]

You are welcome!

[@PMPatte]

Thank you for sharing your garden.

[@1967avl]

Thank you for another informative and enjoyable video. I'm going to be looking at my property and trying to incorporate entryways and "rooms" in certain areas like you have done - great idea.

[@OlgaCarmody]

That can be a refreshing way to look at your garden! Enjoy!

[@sharonandrews2907]

I am so glad I discovered your videos and channel. I too have garden rooms. It is amazing what can be done in quite small areas. Looking forward to your next video Olga.

[@OlgaCarmody]

Thank you, Sharon! I am also glad you found my channel! Happy gardening!

[@KitchenGardenTours]

New subscriber here…you are a delight! Thanks for sharing these tips! One day I want to move to Old Saybrook and design a beautiful garden. I’ll keep these ideas in mind!

[@OlgaCarmody]

Welcome to my channel! It is good to have you here! And I am glad that those tips will be helpful in designing your future garden.

[@jeanrothman8516]

Great video!!!

[@julieibbotson6193]

Very informative. I love how you have incorporated a ‘walk’ around your garden. My garden is also shallow, but has open views over a farmer’s field, as such we can’t plant anything tall as it would hide the view. Someone recommended that we ‘frame’ the view by having something tall at either corner of the back border and then shorter planting in between. I don’t like that I can see the whole garden all at once, but it is very small, and it would be nice to be able to include some interest and a walk through it as you suggest. Thanks Olga, love from the UK x

[@OlgaCarmody]

Oh, I am jealous for your view of farmer's field! Thank you for your message! Have a lovely day!

[@julieibbotson6193]

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[@atcjohn75]

wow I really love this video! Thank You!

[@OlgaCarmody]

You are welcome, John.

[@tricia8727]

Excellent video covering all of the important principles in an easy to understand way. Thank you very much for all of the effort to make such wonderful content! ❤ Definitely subscribing!

[@OlgaCarmody]

Thank you Tricia, for your subscription! Welcome to my channel.

[@sandykobke9959]

The link for composting didn't work😞. Thank you for sharing your beautiful garden and knowledge. 💕

[@OlgaCarmody]

Hm, I just checked, should be all right. Thank you for letting me know. Happy gardening!

[@sandykobke9959]

Got it. Thank you!

[@raerobey]

i absolutely love your videos and explanations, thank you for being so generous with your knowledge and advice! I only have a patio (no in ground planting) but one day I would love to have a space like this. For now, just lots and lots of containers (and one Desdemona rose from David Austin). :)

[@OlgaCarmody]

Aww, thank you! I have Desdemona too, just a baby so far. How old is yours and how do you like her?

[@raerobey]

​@@OlgaCarmody I planted her in March as a bare root rose along with a Queen of Sweden that I gifted to my mom for Mother's Day. She's absolutely beautiful and getting a ton of sun, still blooming nicely, but the foliage was ravaged by sawflies early in the season. And I think I need to up the fertilizer -- her blooms and buds have gotten so small! (I fertilized once with Espoma rosetone + do a weeklyish liquid seaweed/homemade nettle feed). Learned a lot from your videos already, so fingers crossed.

[@magiaeencantosdanatureza7600]

Teu jardim trás muita paz e tranquilidade. Grata

[@AmericanaGardens]

I like your purple shoes! Where did you get them?

[@OlgaCarmody]

I had to look into my email to see where I bought those shoes. They came from Maryland Square website. I have big feet and that website carry big and wide sizes.

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