Making Every Inch Count 🌿 The Garden of Ed Lyon 🌿 Talk & Tour with Garden Gate

[@wiezyczkowata]

I'm so freaking happy that I found this channel!!

[@GardenGateMagazine]

So are we! Thanks so much for watching!

[@upnorth21]

It's so much fun to see video, and then go back and reread the article, it makes the garden come even more alive!

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So glad. It's great you went back to read the article. Awesome! Thanks for watching.

[@leadepp4047]

Love this garden. A calm and beautiful garden.

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[@naturegirl7777]

...hi James and Ed...it's delightful "meeting" you both! I wish I had less lawn (and I just have a city lot) because there sure is a lot of (literal!) sweat equity in caring for mine in the hot humid summers in Maryland (mowing/trimming/blowing/sweeping). Ed, your place is a little paradise, and I would NEVER want to leave the house. ...and your potting bench sure is a nice addition to the orangery! Your partner's skill-set is a sure compliment to your green thumbs! 🏞️ (I always tell folks that I don't have green thumbs; I've got a green body!) 🙃 I LOVE gardening for wildlife and pollinators...it feeds my soul so! This tour was AWESOME and is a nice precursor for when the new Garden Gate edition comes in my mailbox. Cindy in Maryland Zone 6 =^..^=

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[@susananderson4094]

Love this garden and the ideas for beginning a garden. I also love these videos. I had decided not to renew my subscription but the videos changed my mind. Keep it up - Thank you

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[@daiseegray9110]

Absolutely beautiful, can’t wait for my issue to arrive

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[@bagpipegnat]

Ed's garden... lovely!!

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For sure!

[@GDSavingThePast]

Great garden. Would love to know how Ed made the little signs in the crevice garden

[@onetwocue]

Just bought a house in Linn County IA. I'm new to the area. Can't wait to see what grows and what doesn't. I'm a sucker for evergreen magnolias, stewartia japonica, azaleas and winterberry. I always need those plants in my landscape. I hope that Linn County IA does home garden tours.

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Good luck with your new garden!

[@carolynclark5341]

Lovely garden and info.

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[@amyjones2490]

I've been moving my garden this spring/summer. It sure is a job but so rewarding.

[@GardenGateMagazine]

It can be grueling but worth it! Good luck!

[@Voices4Learning]

Wow! Awesome Video!!

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Thanks for the visit

[@gardeninggrandma5247]

A beautiful garden. I enjoyed the tour immensely! I learned a few new things, specifically about the succulents. I have some waiting to go into the ground and now have a better vision of what I need to create. Thank you!

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[@karentandy3331]

Is this garden in Des Moines or Ames? Loved this tour and the one I watched yesterday from Vermont! Great advertising for the magazine, and to get our garden FIX we need so much right now. Thank you for doing these tours. Our garden club has been to James garden a few years ago. It’s great too.

[@GardenGateMagazine]

Ed's garden is in Ames. So glad you enjoy this tours. We thought it would be a great way to go more in depth. We have a new one coming out today!

[@hayleyk8278]

I love that hellstrip! It makes me want to live in that neighborhood just so I can walk past this!!!

[@GardenGateMagazine]

Yes, we wish we had neighbors like that also!

[@gfutube1]

Nice. What about red lily beatle

[@patriciaadams3149]

Love this video, what zone is his awesome garden? Thnx!

[@GardenGateMagazine]

Zone 5

[@terrystripling2971]

I'm going to watch this over again exclamation very Charming masculine Garden if you know what I mean one question I have 10 a crevice Garden be used in another environment other than Alpine

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[@beeler178]

What did you use to kill the grass?

[@GardenGateMagazine]

If time allows, Ed lays down cardboard to suffocate the grass and kill it off.

[@GardenGateMagazine]

Here's another method using newspaper you might find helpful: www.gardengatemagazine.com/articles/projects/all/start-a-new-garden-bed-the-easy-way/

[@AbbeyForney]

I’m so curious about how it went selling your old property with the plants moved to your new one? I’m guessing you tidied up the holes and didn’t photograph or list the property until all the plants you wanted were gone so that you were representing it accurately. If that’s the case, I bet that was hard since you’d want to show it in its glory. I am contemplating a similar situation and would love to hear your perspective.

[@GardenGateMagazine]

What I planned when I knew I had to sell the house and what happened ended up being two different things. When I listed the property, it was with the Gardens intact and the images they used had the gardens although we also presented a picture of what it looked like before I created the gardens. It was written into the sale contract that I would be able to move a certain amount of plants and the amount of time it would take and that it would have to be at a time of year when that was possible (so if it didn’t sell until winter, I could come back in May). It also specified I would return the garden spaces to lawn. It turned out that I found the house I wanted in Iowa immediately and could move into it right away. Usually there is some form of transitional housing. At the same time, the house in Wisconsin took a year to sell - complete surprise to realtors and myself. I did not rent it in the meantime because I wasn’t expecting it to take so long - I paid a double mortgage for a year! But that also gave me the opportunity to do all of that transitional work with no new buyers to consider. The house went on the market in February, I had all of the work done and areas converted back to lawn by June. I took probably 75% of the plants but keep in mind that I was starting with probably around 3500-4000. I had no lawn at all so my process was to remove all the plants up to the point of being perimeter borders - that was converted to lawn. I took all plants out of the perimeter border that I wanted, those I left behind all went into the borders. Not everybody has that kind of timing. If you want to take out plants to prep your home for sale, you have to have someplace for them if you haven’t already purchased and prepped the new home. It wasn’t good to double mortgage for a year; the only good part of that was the time it gave me to move the garden. Had I pulled the garden plants before I had a new home, I have friends in the nursery industry who were going to hold them and care for them, another option most people do not have. Ed

[@AbbeyForney]

​@@GardenGateMagazine Ed, hearing the nuts and bolts of your experience is so helpful! Thank you for replying. Your ideas about adding verbiage to the contract and including a sample before photo help me imagine a way forward for my own upcoming situation. The other aspect of moving that I anticipate will be very hard is my emotional reaction to driving by and seeing my property that was previously beautiful gardens converted back to lawn (which will fail because there is too much shade - but I know it's likely a new owner will try it) or seeing my xeric beds poorly maintained if the new owners do not take the time to learn how to manage them. I guess I just need to keep my focus on the good memoires I have and the new possibilities in my new space, not dwell on what a new owner may choose to do with what will be their property. I've pondered offering free seasonal and on-demand garden coaching to the new owners for a year if they want it, but maybe that's too intrusive. {Sigh} It's so hard when you really do love your garden. Garden Gate, I'm sure there's a whole article's worth of ideas and emotions to explore here, although it's probably too niche of an audience who would be interested in the topic, so instead thanks for offering the comments here as a forum to hear about other's experiences. Also, I absolutely love the way you organize these garden tours and conversations. The flow between the photos and the conversation adds so more than just reading an article or even seeing the garden in person or on video could provide. In fact, if our garden club ends up hosting another online garden tour this year, I think we should use your format as a model, and/or offer it as a way to go deeper and get more insight into the gardens included on the tour. Kudos for your work and keep it up!

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@@AbbeyForney Thanks so much for watching and interacting with us. We will have a new Talk & Tour up soon.

[@sharonloomis5264]

How many?!? How close can you plant? Don't you have to plant with space between? Such as the plant is 2 feet diameter so you should add 1 foot to that? Also you are not on top of a boulder are you? Oh dear, I love rabbits. They are so cute! Couldn't you have a bunny garden? Or is that feasible?

[@GardenGateMagazine]

He does have a lot of plants. Some aren't all that big and some bloom early and some late. It all works!

[@maural0135]

It’s to expensive I have a large place for garden but I don’t have the money to bay all the beautiful plants

[@GardenGateMagazine]

Yes, some plants can get expensive. Some small plants are very reasonable and a lot can be grown from seed which also saves money. Once some plants get established, you can divide them which is also cost effective. Thanks for watching and commenting.