Making Over Our Garden 🌼🌷🌹 Bring In The Flowers & Trees

It's finally stopped raining every day! Let's make over this garden from parking lot to English cottage garden 🌿
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[@emmkaa2099]

...but that PEAR!! Good morning! I so appreciate you sharing your yard which is quickly becoming a proper "garden"... SO lovely! I live in the southern California desert just outside the entrance to the Joshua Tree National Park - the beauty here is unparalleled but I must say, I miss the lush green colors I used to be able to nurture, so I'm living vicariously through you right now. I'm excited to see how things grow and I'm hoping you'll continue to show us around as your efforts pay off. Thanks again for sharing. Hugs, MK 🤗❤️🌵❤️🤗

[@halinakajfoszova4354]

I can't wait to see the tiles get powerwashed!! *chef's kiss*

[@allie1224]

I think you could look into encouraging your hydrangeas blue (I thought you said that they're pink right now) They bloom blue in acidic soil :)

[@anieth]

I used the old tiles at my house to build raised beds--it worked like a charm.

[@reeda5390]

That sounds awesome! Would you mind explaining how you assembled it? :o

[@anieth]

@@reeda5390 Hi, I didn't really have to assemble it, as in put screws or something. I stood the pavers upright, digging down, so that they were braced against the flat pavers before them. As if the pavers turned upright. If you need to put ends on the "beds" (I did mine in a long line) put the ends on the inside of the longer rows of pavers and just bury them. It seemed to work to have about 1/4-1/3 of the paver buried. Since your pavers are so large, you would have a deep bed for plants. I also have open ended beds with pavers that just slope down naturally and used some rocks to round them out, like a large "U" shape. I find with gardening with what you have, you move things around and experiment. But yes, those pavers would make fabulous uprights for a bed. They will be sturdy if you dig down, so the patio in front can keep them upright, especially when the soil gets wet in the winter. The raised beds with drain faster and hold in the heat.

[@mandarinz69]

Violets and pansies are great, they self seed everywhere!

[@annakapskaya1619]

Shock content is to see the channel just behind your fence ahhah you never mentioned it before, maybe because it is so normal for your area, but I am shocked and excited! Soo cool!!!!

[@doxiegirl2522]

I love, love lily of the valley! They are the meaning of my name. The small white flower bulbs. Your garden looks so pretty!

[@InThisEssayIWill...]

Yeees! Violets are perennials, they have a rhizome not a bulb but they will continue to come back i found a patch under my walnut tree and my goal is to let them take over my whole yard! (Also they're edible! So take your cakes to the next level!) I was super glad to hear you were focused on native trees! My plant/gardening journey started when we bought our house. I realized I could name every car driving past us on the street but none of the plants i was stepping on in my own yard. It has been a wonderful journey thus far and I never cease to get a thrill when I see something new and learn about it.

[@joellewatkins5528]

You can change the color of the Hydrangeas by changing the soil PH. For blue 5.0 to 5.5. Purple On 5.5to 6.5. Pink on 6.0 to 6.5

[@sallygally5202]

I live in California and Ceanothus is native here. In fact, it's one of the best things you can plant here to support pollinators. It's perfectly adapted to drought and poor soil, so tip for growing Ceanothus successfully- not too much water, and don't ever fertilize them.

[@lollipoopism]

I squealed when I saw the thumbnail! Ahhhh!

[@BeansOfStarlight]

It’s so exciting seeing your fruit trees bear fruit but it might be a good idea to prune the fruit off until the tree has had a chance to mature

[@PlantFrog5]

the little white flour one is Lily of the Valley and I love mine, they smell so good but be ready for them to invade your whole garden.

[@agsuvongiest]

Some facts about it; Lily of the valley is the national flower of Finland and it's poisonous so if you have kids you have to teach them to leave the flower and its berries alone. I can remember that there were a lot of lilies in the woods near my childhood home and I was taught to not touch them

[@Kansas-Claire]

The 5 plants with tiny white flowers from the pack that you put along the ivy wall look to be Lily of the Valley. They smell AMAZING but will try and take over that entire section of ground if you let them! They’ll come back every year and will spread each time. When the flowers are done, the pretty green leaves last all summer and autumn until it freezes. Makes for beautiful little flower arrangements💕

[@sophie1766]

Yes! And also they are poisonous. Not a problem normally, but might be if pets or young children will be around.

[@anyadesignz401]

so fun to watch

[@imaginethat2003]

You can change the hydrangeas color to blue/purple by changing the soil ph.

[@mirabellegoldapfel6256]

Yes, they sell a box of chemicals called "Hydrangea blue" in garden stores. I think you have to apply it before the blooms form, so in near future.

[@loissage3630]

On behalf of the bees, I thank you! I love the idea of painting your planters and the jasmine will be so wonderfully fragrant and feed bees for years. Now, out to my garden. I live in Washington state US and we must share a garden zone because I have the same plants as you and we are just starting our garden season.

[@Loepsie]

We get lots of bees in our garden, always so excited to see them! 😄 Butterflies and other insects as well which in turn attract birds and frogs from the water out back. So much life in here! ❤️🌿

[@claudiagonzalez8686]

Beautiful! Will look amazing when you get your bifold or french doors 😊

[@Loepsie]

Yeees we can't wait to redo the back of the house!

[@anitacaines4947]

You have a river in your backyard? I had no idea! I was so surprised to see water so close. Your garden looks beautiful! ❤

[@Loepsie]

Definitely not a river haha, I wish! It's a ditch, they're quite dominant in the (western) Dutch landscape. One of the ways we deal with living below sea level 😁 But it's really nice to have, we use the water to water our plants

[@MsNimJ]

Think the word youre looking for is brook (beek in nederlands), thats a brook flowing behind your garden. Ditches are tiny

[@anitacaines4947]

I would float down it on an inflatable boat 😊

[@Loepsie]

Oh I would 100% refer to this as "sloot", "beek" in my mind is something natural, like a creek? 😅

[@MsNimJ]

@@Loepsie oh yeah youre right, beek does have that more natural connotation. Ditch feels wrong to me though, like thats the small waters that surround meadows here? Maybe english doesnt have a proper word for our diversity of waterways :p

[@LittleLotte5]

Your garden is lovely! I'm sure it's gonna look gorgeous with all the flowers in bloom. Can't wait to see it!

[@r.d.durfey5862]

Your garden is going to be so lovely in bloom. There are wild violets growing out back. And we have a couple crocuses that come up every year. My front yard space is a huge puddle everytime it rains. I so enjoy your garden content as I can not have a garden here. The kids like to steal or just ruin anything left outside. So I am going to enjoy yours😊💙🌳🌱🌷🌸🍃🌼

[@amyslingsby6947]

Why am I so excited about the baby pear?!

[@Sassy.Sasquatch]

The bush you planted next to your tree looks like an arborvitae. Give it a few years. It'll get tall. They're used as privacy hedges all the time where I live.

[@meamela9820]

Lovely to see your garden take form. I would be a little bit cautious about the lupines in the purple flower mix. The name on the package seem to be a ok spicies, but the picture is of the types of lupines that are classified as invasive where I live. So depending on how things are where you live, be prepared for them to possibly wanting to take over your whole garden.

[@aleksandrasivolob]

Excited to see what you do. I’ve been slowly gardening this spring and making small improvements. I commend you for doing quite a bit.

[@Loepsie]

I'm impatient, haha! It's a flaw, gardening really is best done slowly and over time 😊 You're on the right track!

[@laughingbear2581]

I love it! I'm currently working on planting new pretty things in our front beds... and I have lots of Dutch bulb flowers (tuplis, of course). And peonies that I have been tending for 3 years from just a root - this is the first year that they are going to bloom for me! I'm so excited! Word of warning about the mint: it will TAKE OVER your garden. It loves to spread! But as much tea as you drink, I'm sure that won't be a problem. 🙂

[@Loepsie]

That's why the mint is in a pot, as much as I love it I don't want it everywhere haha!

[@laughingbear2581]

@@Loepsie I've heard it can jump out of the pot, so keep an eye on it! 😂

[@farangarris2598]

Beautiful garden. Make sure you plant Rosemary by your garden gate and lavender for good luck. Lovely

[@asiaclayed]

Yay garden update, can't wait to see how it goes!

[@sandiemable]

Oh my goodness, the garden is so pretty! I must find that white pom-pom plant, for my garden it's gorgeous. I'm not sure what type of hydrangea you can do this with, but to get blue blooms, you put coffee grounds around them. My grandma had a massive hydrangea; she would give me the coffee grounds, to put under it. I can't wait to see your garden in bloom! Have a great week, xoxo's Sandie🌷🪴

[@chapirouge]

I don't know if it was intentional, but it seems like you haven't peeled off the cloudy film on the pvc of your tiny white ikea greenhouse. It's on both sides of the glass pannel, and if you remove it, the greenhouse will be fully transparent and give a more direct light to the plants inside !

[@milacolman]

I love your hanging chair everything looks lovely 💕

[@ginadelfina5887]

Looks like the pansies or violas in your little planter reseeded themselves. I really am liking this garden video :) I have been wanting to grow ceanothus for a while (only I want to grow the pink ones). I noticed in your shady plant mix, the same shady plants that are popular where I live (America) - though the one you were calling hoya, we would call hosta. Everything is looking really cozy in your garden - congratulations on all your hard work!

[@kjtherrick4031]

The garden is looking nice. I especially like the viburnum--what a wonderful flower!

[@devancarpenter9706]

Beautiful garden! So cozy... and you're on a canal?!?! Fabulous property!! 🏡🌳🌱

[@MsHedgehog]

Very pretty! word of warning, depending on where you are, those lupinus in the mix box of seeds migth be somewhat invasive. I do not know the details in species, but a version of them have gone somewhat wild where I live. They generally grow in thick patches and pretty much choke out all other plants in the area where they grow. Each little flower creates a seed pod with multiple seeds so one flower can become a thicket pretty fast. Very pretty when they all flower but not so good for native species or perhaps for giving the other flowers in the garden an honest chance.

[@jaedyncall8212]

Ive never loved certain colors and am always drawn to certain ones, but ive come to learn that picking some of those other colors, make the others pop and complete our garden. That being said, your garden is yours, make it what you want, but im only saying you might find it a surprise that you like the others.

[@wendymalik6784]

There are some additives you can mix to hydrangeas that can make them blue.

[@lusiakurk5801]

The ugly plastic container is great for burying in the main part and then you can contain more invasive plants and then control them. I have done this with raspberries in giant plastic barrels with the bottoms cut off.

[@beseggg]

i would think before removing the ivy, you are very lucky to have two established evergreen walls in the otherwise very orange garden.

[@Loepsie]

Oh no we're definitely leaving the hedge, I was talking about the front yard where the ivy is crawling across the soil!

[@anneliisnovikov2461]

the excited squeal about the baby pear made my day :D

[@Chaosophia24]

I've recently visited Netherlands (northern part) and, oh my god, such a beautiful country! And I love how everyone has gardens full of flowers and they take such good care of them. Oh, absolutely dreamy!

[@isabellachampion6029]

You are becoming PEARents

[@Loepsie]

😭🙏🏻❤️

[@tinyandcharming]

If you want blue I recommend nemophila! They have fields full of them in Japan and they look so beautiful and want some for my own garden

[@Loepsie]

Ohh those are stunning!

[@Woeschhuesli]

Linen/flax is a pretty blue, as are nigella (love-in-a-mist) 😉

[@AJansenNL]

Viburnum is also called Sneeuwbal (Snow Ball) in Dutch. Very apt.

[@Woeschhuesli]

It is in German and English, too - there are many kinds of viburnum…

[@ameliaroseillustrations]

🌿I love gardening!🌿 Also, your hair is looking so pretty!

[@Loepsie]

Thank you! 🥰

[@sandrab2000]

Oh I love these kinds of videos! So soothing😭 Also it brings me back to my childhood home. The backyard was the same size as yours and the previous owners loved gardening. They had planted a cherry tree, elderflower tree, apple tree, pear tree, rhubarb plants, raspberry bushes, blackberries, strawberries and tons of beautiful decorative flowers… it was heaven for kids in summertime haha

[@Abbe1133]

I really love these gardening videos! It makes me very excited for my own garden(probably a couple years down the line but still). Your videos are always lovely ♥️

[@xmomo01231]

I know I'm not one of your original viewers but i found you during the pandemic and i am now a DEDICATED follower! Love all your content ❤❤ also im growing tomatoes and raspberries from seed and I'm trying to germinate lemon trees! I love to see your progress!

[@Loepsie]

Ahh thank you so much! 🥰 I'd love to grow tomatoes and raspberries as well! Tomato vine is one of my favourite scents in the world and raspberries are my favourite berry 😄 Hopefully I'll get to planting more edible plants next year when the foundation of the garden is laid

[@xmomo01231]

@@Loepsie first of all, I'm crazy freaking out that you responded! I'm having very good progress with the tomatoes, too much honestly the package said plant 4-5 seeds to insure germination... well i planted 8 pots of all those seeds! In trying to give some to friends but none of mine like tomatoes 😯 so now i have to find space for about 30 tomatoe plants! I do love the smell as well but omg if my raspberries grow i will feel like a gardening goddess! Imo nothing tastes better than fresh picked produce, ESPECIALLY raspberries 😍😍

[@Aplusinskal]

Oh wow, your garden will be so beautiful! I watch your videos, Lucy, with somewhat of an ache. As a mother to two young children (3,5yo & 1yo) and being in a lot of pain, there's just no room to make nice. Not even in the house. So seeing all you young people making beautiful homes is sooo wonderful =) I long for that for myself. Stay awesome you, your videos bring peace and food for thought and longing!

[@karlineseigel8867]

So excited! Absolutely love your videos!!

[@YlvaVala]

Yay, garden update!! :) just be careful with the lupin flowers in the flower mix! Although they are absolutely beautiful they are an invasive species in Europe and tend to take over and smother everything else!

[@sveapollock2537]

I have better luck planting rosemary in the ground rather than a pot. Just make sure you give it a lot of room it can get large. I plant different kinds of mint around it, sweet alyssum and edible flowers around that. It smells heavenly.

[@InThisEssayIWill...]

Ahh! My pear trees have baby pears rn too!

[@kendall7041]

you can change the colors of rhododendrons by changing the acidity of the soil i believe

[@valerydiane20]

What a lovely garden! 🥰 Btw can I suggest you to move the lavanders in another pot? The winter jasmin grows really fast and big and it risks to suffocate the lavander very soon. I have one in my garden and we need to give it a big trim at least twice a year because it tends to spread all over very quickly.

[@lynnhobby32321]

An outdoor rug! I use them in my screened backporch. ❤

[@Woeschhuesli]

Very cute to watch you start out with gardening, you will gain knowledge with experience! Look out for some late summer blooming plants - it‘s easy to have your garden all beautiful up to June and then no flowers in the warmer months 😉 It will be fun to see how it all develops - and how fitting to be on a canal!! I am heading up to NL in 2 wks and looking forward to it all again for a while!! 👍

[@lillilium1914]

I love what you are doing with the garden. One thing beware that Jasmin gets overgrown quickly specially if it has access to soil with no boundaries, I have one that basically overtook an entire wall, but it smells amazing. Viburnum is gorgeous it's probaby one of my favorites in the garden, during Spring it looks like balls of snow, in summer looks lush green and in Autumn when the leaves start turning red and fall mostly all together and winter while she looks a bit sad you can see when she starts sprouting new tiny buds

[@danlise]

Yeeeeees ! Garden update ! 🎉 I am finally doing mine but there’s waaaay more work to do. All the garden was covered with pebbles, and it was so sad and ugly. You help me stay motivated ❤️ great first results Loepsie ! Kusjes !

[@impposter560]

Was going to plant seedlings today, but woke up to a deluge and window rattling thunder. Spring is practically over and not a single solid stretch of gardening friendly weather yet! Poor seedlings are going to be stuck in the house for even longer, alas. At least I can watching other people getting their gardens in order 😄🌱 It looks beautiful, and your joy at the pear was uplifting!

[@andreapinho2953]

you're garden is looking great! I believe you can change the hydrangea's colour over time, if you put in the soil next to it, pieces of iron, like old nails, coins that kind of stuff

[@merilwen-g1b]

Hello loepsie, I admire your passion for nature and gardening (which I completely share), and you garden is charming! But please, do not take offence if I permit myself give you a piece of advice. In my opinion, you plant the plants too close to each other. For example, viburnum, when it’s grown up, can be about 3-4 metres high and almost as large. And the planter where you’ve put jasmine doesn't have enough room for lavenders, for they aren’t small either. So you’ll have to constantly prune and trim the plants. I’m saying that judging by my own experience; when my garden was “young” it seemed to me that there’s a lot of empty space, so I added more plants, without thinking of how big they’ll grow. If you feel like you need to fill in empty spaces between the perennials before they grow up, it might be a good idea to think of annual plants that will keep the garden in bloom. And also a little tip for the hydrangea. Some species can change the colour of their flowers, depending on the type of soil they grow in. In acid conditions they flower lilac or blue (vice versa, in alcalinous soil they are pink). So you might try adding some peat around you hydrangea and see how it will react. I wish you tons of good luck and I will be happy to watch your other videos! You’re a great person and I respect you a lot!

[@Helga-fe5xl]

Looks great 👏 turned our front lawn into a herb garden with brick borders and it looks so good if i say so myself

[@kathrynledger]

Don't know what your climate is like, but lemon balm in the UK is invasive. Keep it it a big pot away from anything you don't want lemon balm in. Just like mint, except it spreads with seeds too.

[@pheart2381]

You have been busy!

[@croccatcher]

Garden looking great is there a river

[@rebeccanichols9758]

YES

[@yarnellka]

That's so neat that your property backs on a waterway! Are you allowed to use kayaks and boats in it?

[@joerp8215]

I've hit the like button as soon as you said good job to the pear tree 😂

[@Loepsie]

I'm so proud of it 🥹

[@CardsbyMaaike]

die leuke witte zijn Lelietjes van Dalen en die gaan , net als munt, je hele tuin door, ik zou je in een pot zetten en ingraven, zodat dat niet kan. maar ziet er al leuk uit nu, wordt vast hemels vd zomer

[@misatopt]

if you put a (big) rusty nail in your hydrangea vase, they'll eventually turn blue

[@hannayoung9657]

You are lucky that isnt Asphalt I seen that in Dutch back gardens, makes a heat trap from hell.

[@Loepsie]

I've never seen asphalt in a back garden but that sounds like a nightmare to live with and remove 😨

[@hannayoung9657]

@@Loepsie My friend lived in a row of houses where half of them had asphalt and everything just dried out and burned due to this, you could feel the heat from the gardens.-

[@Loepsie]

Horrendous 😬

[@hannayoung9657]

@@Loepsie Yes and then they complained that their houses where too hot.. well yeah all that warm air has to go somewhere.

[@dudie5403]

Dus jullie wonen aan het water? Leuk zeg! Kun je ook bij mooi weer met een bootje gaan varen :)

[@thebirchtree8871]

Where is your blouse from? Love it.

[@Jackson-nr2mw]

Be careful with the white lily of the valley plants, their kind of invasive and spread very quickly and can take over an entire section of the garden 😅 speaking from experience

[@vicki9298]

What planting zone are you? I'm 8a and it's so crazy. I am RIGHT Now sitting here waiting on my delivery from the garden center with??? My Jasmine!!! Yes!! I see yours and now I'm pacing back and forth...hurry people hurry

[@-ParisTexas-]

Als je liever blauwe hortensia's hebt kun je de bodem veranderen. Dan worden ze blauw. Even googlen! Sommige Rododenrons bloeien 1x per 2 jaar.

[@deannatroy8113]

Are you going to hitch a boat in the canal to your gate?

[@rachela3066]

Love that you have done. How tall will those trees get? We have beech on the road outside our house and they are HUGE (over 20m and still growing) and are causing damage to the road, pavements and neighbours garden walls!

[@Loepsie]

Since it's pleached it shouldn't really get any taller than this. The trunk will grow thicker of course but it needs to be trimmed annually to keep its shape so it'll be stunted

[@RomyDandelion]

I don't know of you've said something about it before but can you go down to the river from your garden? 😍 Could you put up a little dock there?

[@lmkays]

Any ideas on how to hide your garbage containers behind a trellis or bushes?

[@threewaystreet]

Hostas, not hoyas :D

[@e_viola]

I hope that mint is in a pot, otherwise it will spread like a weed and choke everything else out

[@carnifaxx]

16:24 suspicious footage of a decapitated mouse...

[@Loepsie]

DECAPITATED MOUSE?? 😂 Those are my rat puppets, they represent all the rats I had as pets 😊 Each one looks like one of the real ones. The heads are very much attached, but on a wire so they can move 😜

[@carnifaxx]

@@Loepsie Ježiši :D I certainly missed this information in previous videos, if it was there, I'm sorry :)

[@ranigazala650]

Why i eat in a day making the video

[@ranigazala650]

You are cute