May Garden Tour 2024

My very favourite time of year and so a great time for a spring garden tour. Join us as we explore each garden room, discussing what’s looking good, what needs improving and jobs that we’re up to at the moment.
0:00 Intro
1:27 The Hornbeam Walk
3:10 The Long Walk
4:48 The Quadrant Garden
11:08 The Sunken Garden
12:20 The Woodland Garden
20:25 The Pond Area
21:43 The Butterfly Borders
23:35 The Parterre
25:30 The Seating Area
28:05 The New Garden
30:03 The Long Borders/ The Rill Garden
36:38 The Vegetable Garden
42:00 Thank you and goodbye

[@Scottacus-kq3os]

Out of all the "Home Gardening" channels, you have by far the nicest actual garden in my opinion. You should have way more subscribers!

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you so much

[@lise-annjackson7059]

I absolutely adore your garden - so beautiful and so inspiring!

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you

[@nicholasryan5401]

Greetings from Ireland, beautiful gardens and pots, They are the bees knees.

[@MurphysGarden]

Hello in Ireland, thank you for joining us!

[@retra-il9uy]

Wszystko jest piękne. Ale ten Clematis jest niesamowity 🥰

[@KimsCountryCorner]

The whole garden is absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! I think I would have a bench at one end of the Hornbeam Walk just to sit and enjoy that view and the calmness of that area!!! I love your use of boxwood and how you have all of those different "rooms" to explore and enjoy! Kim from Missouri, USA (garden zone 5b)

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you, we can’t sit down yet, there is too much to do!🤣

[@KimsCountryCorner]

@@MurphysGarden I totally understand that. I have a youtube channel about my homesteading lifestyle and we are so busy here on the homestead in Missouri during Spring and Summer it is sometimes difficult to even find time to make videos tu I do my best. I just love gardening so much and I love visiting gardens. Yours is so beautiful and what fascinates me the most are all of the different rooms that you've developed. And I appreciate the overhead shot where you could really see the layout of them :)

[@MurphysGarden]

I will check out your channel! It’s tricky juggling work, family and everything and I love recording what we are doing and I love getting other people perspectives and ideas but editing takes time away from the actual gardening! I hate staring at screens all day!

[@jessicabradshaw3365]

Absolutely stunning!!! Love all the green, the structure and your grass is looking amazing too!!!❤🌿❤️

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you so much for your kind comments Jenny

[@shanlynwebb]

Amazing!

[@asaliden4584]

So beautiful! I have almost 90% of all your plants, and if I don’t have it you can be sure it is on my must-have list. Much of it inspired by Laura in Garden Answer Every morning and every evening I make a stroll in my garden. Practical also hunting slugs 😈. Often with a coffee cup and always taking pictures. These photos feed my soul in winter time, sometimes I make a watercolour painting of a really good combination. I only wish I could bottle up the fragrance in the air, lilacs are in full bloom now. Wallflowers along a path with their scent. Irises and nepeta are my favorite scent and look wonderful together.

[@MurphysGarden]

I feel the same way, if we could bottle that wonderful feeling, no one would ever feel depressed again!

[@jomassey4207]

Looking outstanding and such a large area to maintain. The colour combinations are a pleasure for the eyes. Have fun at the flower show.😊 Jo.

[@cheriedodd9358]

Wow. I had no idea just how magical your whole garden is! Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to seeing it bloom even more throughout the season. 💐

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you so much

[@margaretmichelsen766]

Well done on achieving an amazing perennial border. Not an easy feat. Your garden looks professionally designed, but you have created and designed it yourself. I do not have this talent but I love plants and am getting better at design but it has taken decades! and thank god for You Tube which is a great place to draw inspiration. I also love that May feeling in the garden which is so pleasing on the senses, the smells and the colour riot and the warm days, which just releases endorphins and whatever else in the way of brain chemicals. (November in my case in Australia) I am currently walking from patch to patch of spiring narcissus peeking through the soil and am full of anticipation for the bulb display in Spring. Your garden is beautiful, thank you for your videos.

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you for your lovely comments, it’s amazing how we can all share ideas on KZbin from all over the world, that can only make for better gardens! Our garden has very much been trial and error, at the beginning mostly error 🤣but finally we are seeing the fruits of our labour and it’s deeply satisfying. Thanks for watching all the way from Australia Jenny

[@vickimaiorano5763]

All your hard work is paying off. everything is looking beautiful.

[@Rougebasque]

Absolutely divine! Love your channel, so inspiring. Great job from both of you!

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you so much

[@Bandaid17]

What a great tour. I was very busy taking notes. Looking forward to the Chelsea video. Maybe one day I may make the trip over the pond for the season.

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you, hope you can visit one day!

[@geerandall5855]

Haven’t even watched it yet and pre-clicked on LIKE because that’s a given. 💜🌱🌺💜

[@johnsmith-ls4rc]

Great to follow the garden progress. I have found Desdemona to be my favourite DA bush rose (to my suprise) after growing about 20 different varieties; the blooms get more plush with each year of maturity. Emily Bronte and Eustacia Vye have been my dogs. Camassia - I would personally remove to leave 3 spaced clumps per bed, leaving room for plants later in the season. NB I have discovered a wooden fence is the hardest thing to manage in a garden. Estate fencing, brick or stone wall and hedges - OK. A wooden fence always ends up as a partial mess; not one thing or another IMO.

[@MurphysGarden]

Hi John, Thank you for your comments, you’re right, the Desdemona rose gets more stunning every year, I like that it stays at the perfect height and the smell is subtle but exquisite! Fences are a pain, if they aren’t getting blown down then they constantly need painting, The hedge the other side is quite a thug and would encroach on the woodland garden too much, I want the paracanthus to cover the fence and then it won’t look so ugly!

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

What a stunning garden. Here in my cottage garden in Wales I lost alot of my plants duuring the wet winter and have never known so many slugs who are even eating my hardy geraniums and iris siberica at the moment. But unbelievably the garden is still looking magical. I think your cammasia look enchanting

[@MurphysGarden]

Every year is so different and brings its own problems and surprises. Thank you for watching Jenny

[@twpsy634]

I also garden in Wales and have found Nematodes a great help over the years .They don't help with snails though.

[@cerridwencottagediary9194]

@@twpsy634 Thank you so much for the advice but I am vegan so won't kill anything

[@amyjones2490]

Looks very beautiful. I’ve enjoyed watching your garden evolve.

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you, we have no shortage of content, so much more to do!

[@dr.niluferrahman8524]

Love your garden.

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you

[@user-fv8rn4gi3x]

This gardens absolutely beautiful and total credit to you guys for all the hard work put in not matter what weather you’ve faced so thanks for sharing it with us. Regarding the Camassia could you lift some over a period of years and then plant in containers into the ground to keep them contained? Then deadhead as they finish for the year? It may slow them down a bit it also might not but that way you get to keep some of them and it’s something to trial.

[@MurphysGarden]

Good ideas!

[@VancouverIslandgirl]

Thankyou for sharing your impeccable beautiful garden. You and your husband are a great team .💐

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you, we have good fun!

[@GardenMyselfHappy]

What a winter and spring we've had. Really lovely to watch your tour and see your beautiful garden for another year.

[@MurphysGarden]

It was a long dreary winter, so wonderful to see everything again! thanks for watching Jenny

[@UB2004]

Hello from London, so nice to find a garden channel in England! I follow so many in the US but I'm excuted to find you with the same climate. Your garden is just fabulous! It's as good as any show garden and the fact that you have achieved such an amazing result through trying gives me hope. Thank you for sharing your beautiful space and for all the invaluable knowledge you have gained. Beautiful

[@margaretwalsh1456]

I agreed...I watch from Ireland so very similar climate and easy to relate to...Really enjoyed this video..thank you

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you so much,it can be a bit disheartening in the early years as it’s all hard work and minimal results. Then suddenly, it all mature and things that were just a dream start to become a reality! Stick with it and don’t be afraid to make mistakes, we keep revisiting areas as we grow in confidence and knowledge but the hard work makes it so much more rewarding in the end. Good luck and go for it!

[@wendyelliott5851]

All that hard work and dedication is paying off, beautiful, keep it up 👏👏

[@shelpen]

I noticed that the nepeta along the Long Walk is barely making over the boxwood edge. Might be why it has such a hard time growing behind the boxwood. Any Russian Sage is taller while it will provide the same effect as the nepeta!

[@MurphysGarden]

Yes, that may be a good solution. I’m not sure if we damaged it last year when we cut the hedges or whether it’s simply struggling due to the roots of the hedges and too much competition. I wonder would Russian sage have a similar problem but they are tolerant of drier soil aren’t they?

[@shelpen]

@@MurphysGarden Yes! Russian Sage is an excellent drought resistant plant. 💪 Plus it’s taller.

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you, good idea 👍🏻

[@sunitashastry5270]

Kudos - your spring garden looks lovely - especially how neat everything looks, and how many garden rooms you have. Re the camassia - you could take large pair of head clippers and chops them off instead of going one by one. Why not seed with something like tall zinnias which will come up and cover your cut back camassia? Looking forward to your tour of Chelsea - I saw the bbc official version but I like to see it through your eyes. Wish I could be there!

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you for your comments, the Chelsea video is coming, it’s a lot of footage to edit but I’ve made a start!

[@cindym6065]

Good morning from North America! Your garden is looking lovely. You and your family have worked very hard and have created an inspiring garden. Good show!

[@cindym6065]

PS love the Murphy t-shirt♡

[@MurphysGarden]

Thank you so much, glad you like my new t-shirt!

[@yesidtac7863]

Muy buen video

[@MandyGreen-oz3sd]

Hi. Your garden is looking fabulous. Always a pleasure to watch your updates. Can I just ask do you deadhead your alliums or leave them set seed or a bit of both? I ask as there seems to be mixed views on this. Thanks

[@MurphysGarden]

I’ve always just left them, I like the seed heads and I don’t mind them self seeding but if they get a bit scruffy I remove them. Thank you for watching

[@debbieripley4790]

Love your garden. Re the cammassias. They are native in my neck of the woods in the nw of usa. They thrive in our climes of wet winters and drought summers , on prairie thin or sandy soil, sun and partial shade. Love the advice of growing in meadow vs flower beds Looking forward to your future videos specially re the rill. Tx for posting the videos

[@MurphysGarden]

Oh wow, that makes sense then, our climate has been exactly that, we had a very wet winter and because we are on sand it dries out in the summer, the perfect conditions for them! Do you grow them in gardens there or just enjoy them in the wild? Thanks for your comments, so interesting to hear that

[@debbieripley4790]

@@MurphysGarden they grow wild on the local prairie but I am not sure whether exactly the same as they tend to get only 8 to 10 inches tall, but they do create a beautiful blue haze in may. I love them so much that I have purchased the bulbs to grow in our small orchard as well as flower beds and they are the taller varieties

[@geerandall5855]

Will you be removing the wooden posts and straps holding the lime trees? They certainly look established enough to stand on their own.

[@MurphysGarden]

Yes, I think you are right, we will need to remove them soon, we left the hornbeam in probably longer than we needed to as our garden is so windy and we were nervous about removing them. The limes grow at such a rate we have to loosen them off regularly. The posts that support the frame will remain.

[@lindat5321]

Do you fertilize or just use mulch/compost?

[@celis727]

What material did you use in the joints of the cobble path?

[@MurphysGarden]

Cement, I can’t remember what the mix ratio was, hubby probably would know, we had the whole family helping, the kids were only young but they soon got the hang of it!