SHOPPING a New England Garden Centre| Cape Cod Day out | Autumn plants & Pumpkins | Life by the sea

[@gogo-word]

I love the waves, the rhythm of the sea.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Yes, as I was filming I thought, "Gosh I should just make an hour long video of the song of this place @go go I can easily sit down there for an hour as the waves play and dance and sing and just get lost.

[@gogo-word]

@@DonnaDavisArt absolutely 💯

[@kimmurphy6864]

It is so very tranquil to watch the waves move through the grass and hear the birds calling 💕 I loved the shop 💕 The cape is so magical 💕

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Glad you enjoyed it and isn't it just? @Kim Murphy

[@capecodruthie8595]

I so enjoy seeing things through your eyes: scenery, waves, plants, and pumpkins. Thank you for your contribution to my peace and happiness. Wishing you a joyful week.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

You are so welcome @Cape Cod Ruthie I'm happy I can show you a place we must both love very much, in a new way :) It really is a magical place to be, especially in the Autumn.

[@cagarden8808]

Great fall plant haul! Your stag horn fern is so beautiful. Love the sunlight on the incoming waves and the close-up shoreline footage. Just breathtaking!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you so much! @CA Garden I am thinking I should do a long video one day of the waves and sounds they make just to put up for people to listen to and enjoy as a background sort of video. Yes, I couldn't resist that staghorn. I'm going to possibly plant it up for my house studio so I can look at it more as I work. The bromeliad was really wonderful too, amazing colour, and it's already started to bud! I'll share the flowers in a future vlog if they bloom.

[@cagarden8808]

​@@DonnaDavisArt Your current vlog focus on capturing the beauty in nature is spot on! These incredibly stressful times. Remembering to take "tranquil nature moments" will reduce the strain that we are all feel nowadays. A long New England ocean waves video will be a very welcomed addition to my meditative environmental video playlist! In advance, thank you for sharing the bromeliad buds and autumn flower garden designs.

[@Jasonmarcnash787]

Hello Donna, I love the introduction, such beautiful music with amazing cinematography. What a stunning variety of pumpkins, especially the ghost pumpkins 🎃. I love the wall boat planters , such a unique idea. The prices of the shrubs are very good in relation to the garden centres around here. Your choice of plants for your garden is perfect with the chosen variety of colours. It was a perfect outing for such a perfect day. I love how the sea grass dances in the tide just to show us it’s beauty one last time before it’s winter sleep. Thankyou Donna for sharing another wonderful vlog 😊😊😊😘

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it @jason nash and yes some form of boat planters are often found round here, being so near the sea. They are adorable. Some of the prices were so good as it was end of season so they mark them down 50% off. Tho, that one shrub I really loved was $150 US dollar, a bit steep for me :) We are lucky with quite a few nice garden centre around here so I try to spread it around to all fo them :)

[@mariaguadagno9483]

Hi Donna,How pretty is this video !! Enjoy your new flowers.Have a great week!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you! You too!

[@marilynnash1197]

Thank you Donna, I so loved your trip to the garden centre and how you finished your vlog. The music was just perfect 😊😊

[@DonnaDavisArt]

You are so welcome @marilyn nash and I'm happy you enjoyed it. It'd been some time since I did an outing but truly it'd been some time since I'd truly been out altogether, I can become a bit of a hermit here if I don't watch myself :) Thank you again for watching.

[@kimhaughton3771]

Another lovely day with you! Why am I not surprised that you also love watching Laura on Garden Answer? She has inspired me to up my garden game. 🤭☺️. I also love Dan!!!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Yes @Kim Haughton I LOVE Laura, and usually start my morning (after doing the chickens, quail, ONE garden thing and my walk) is settle in with my hot pot of tea and watch Garden Answer :) And yes Dan is hilarious we are so lucky with our garden choices of channels to watch. I also love Gardeners world (one of the few 'tv' type shows I watch) but I wish the entire show was just MONTY DON in his garden, like Laura, now they jump around too much to this clip and that...People just want to be with one person in their garden , well at least I do haha. They could learn from the youtubers. The reason I get excited about Proven Winners is due to Laura. I always look out for the white pots now. I used to be a die hard Monrovia gal (still like some of their variety) but so many Proven Winners are such good doers. Their roses are AMAZING. I just got one of the smaller variety of butterfly bush , after seeing Laura point it out and luckily one of our garden centres had some, and it's already done so well and it's its first season. I could talk plants far too long, thanks for watching :)

[@kimhaughton3771]

@@DonnaDavisArt Same here as far as talking about plants so don't worry about talking too much about it with me. Haha. I had never heard about Proven Winners before Garden Answer! I'm happy to know that you've been able to find their products in your area! I will be planting Proven Winners as much as possible next year at least to the extent that they are available. I also have plans for a butterfly bush in my garden. I'll have to check out the other show you mentioned. 💕💕💕

[@charlottestone9946]

I love the drive to the garden center. The plants were very interesting. I enjoy going to garden center in the fall, you can always fine a good deal. Have a good week. I will look forward to next week.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Me too, the prices are always so good @Charlotte Stone and it's also a good time to support the local centers as they're sales slow down.

[@blueyzsf]

I love how the area around your home is sparsely populated, not house upon house like some areas.😁😁

[@DonnaDavisArt]

As do I @Edward Kenneth we're lucky there as there are some spots, on the water, where the houses are cheek adn jowel as they say, but luckily during the post WW2 building boom the clever ancestors round here were smart enough to put in conditions and no one can build on any less than 3 acres in our little points, which basically means, no new houses (other than tearing down and making over the ones already here). There are some darling spots with homes closer and of course I love in the villages when they are close, my own little antique cottge near the village has neighbours (tho with good hedges and trees for privacy) so it's a nice mix of village and country I think.

[@magdastar2249]

A beautiful video. Sooo nice to see you again. Thank you for sharing your lovely outing. 👍❤

[@DonnaDavisArt]

My pleasure 😊

[@terrythomas2735]

I love learning about your home and all the beautiful places, homes and especially the antiques. Let’s not forget the most special part you, your art and your stories🥰Thank you so much

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Yes! Thank you!

[@katrinatoland7553]

Donna l have never seen a pink pumpkin before, its really lovely. Love the drive to and from the garden centre. Love your vlog XXX Thankyou Donna XXX

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I love them @Katrina Toland in fact I grew them first time this year. In one of my previous videos the pumpkin I shared, the one on my fence post, is of this pink variety but the lighting was probably not doing it justice, the variety is Porcelain Doll, if you want to grow them :) I'm not sure how they are for eating but really lovely to look at.

[@katrinatoland7553]

@@DonnaDavisArt l am going to try and see if our garden centre has some, but honestly Donna l don't have green fingers. I will try my hardest, but I will also live in hope, lol. XXX Thankyou Donna love all you are doing XXX

[@DonnaDavisArt]

@@katrinatoland7553 If not I Think I ordered mine from Johnnys seeds pretty good seeds

[@katrinatoland7553]

@@DonnaDavisArt 💕

[@cathrynuys7346]

So beautiful Donna. Thank-you! 🌹

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you @Cathryn Uys

[@HB-MrCatLover]

Lovely drive through the village. The houses are so nice with lots of trees and bushes. I love going to garden centres and usually spend quite a long time there .... and also a lot of money, occasionally. I think I have never seen so many pumpkins, so many different varieties, some of which I have never seen before. Whenever I go on an outing, I am always happy to get back home to a familiar scene, tea, music, reading, the cats, of course, and my garden. I must admit I am a very home-loving person. Thank you for the lovely moment spent in your company. Take care of yourself. See you next Sunday! 💚🙏💚🙏

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I'm so happy you enjoyed my little outing @Huber BARIL and yes we always have such a glut of pumpkins. This place actually has a smaller number than the larger places. When we had our place in Boston, each year this time of the year, in the Common in the center of the city, not far from where we lived, they do a large display, almost a story and half tall, of carved pumpkins, jack o lanterns we call them. Hubby is in the city during the week for work, so I might see if He can get a bit of footage of it this year. Americans, especially New England, really do love their pumpkins and many variety this time of the year.

[@LaReynedEpee]

Your garden centre put the pumpkin festival Dan visited (4 pumpkins!) to shame, just with its out-front display! Never seen the gnarly bumpy variety before. Choked slightly at the cost of some items - I've had a stag's horn fern in the garden for years, very tough, it'd be worth about $100 if we were going by size 😄. A lot of similar plants to those sold here in the UK, maritime climate I expect.

[@grizeldaxxx4568]

Thanks so much for taking us out on a little jaunt ... I love Your area and the Garden center too x

[@DonnaDavisArt]

You are so welcome @Grizelda XXX we are lucky with many lovely garden centres.

[@grizeldaxxx4568]

@@DonnaDavisArt I loved the Antique section too ..that Floral picture was so sweet x Your vlogs inspired me to pot up some plants and pop them on our front deck , starting to look so lovely as we are now in Spring ..can not wait to be able to go to Thrift shops and find more pretty containers xx Grizi

[@vickiejones2683]

What a lovely day out!

[@DonnaDavisArt]

It really was @Vickie Jones and I'm happy I could take you along.

[@sarahburton3110]

Always beautiful.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Thank you! 😊 @Sarah Burton

[@stephenknob7540]

Truly a beautiful and serene vlog today. I love Cape Cod and the beauty of the scenery you provided has doubled my affection for it. The sea is mesmerizing. Ahhhhh...... Thank you. Stephen

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Glad you enjoyed it @Stephen Knob

[@deniseconnors8124]

Your videos are so enjoyable- we have similar tastes. It’s pleasing that you are so knowledgeable about plants, indoor and outdoor types. There’s nothing like fall in New England 🍂🍂

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I'm so glad you enjoy them @Denise Connors and I know a bit about plants, I've just been obsessed with them my entire life, but I'm so bad with many of my Latin terms. My Grandfather was So good, he could give me the Latin for almost any plant we encountered. I always think of him when I'm in my garden; I have him there with me in spirit. Yes New England shines this time of the year. The golden glow of the light and the leaves the waves and shores, the grasses fading and all the church spires and old cedar shakes, crooked sidewalks and even our lovely our burial grounds and cemeteries take on an extra beauty round here this time of the year.

[@angelapa9513]

Love all those pumpkins 🎃 and the oyster shell gravel. Thank you for a wonderful vlog.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

You are so welcome! @Angela Pa I Love the oyster shell too, the white broken shells are such a coastal New England look in drives round here and ours are almost all gone. One day I'd love to get some in, but they aren't cheap to order. When the family had the oyster grant in the bay it was just part of the deal , but alas no longer. It's lovely to see them against the old weathered shingled houses here.

[@pattyatrumdycreations134]

A local garden center in my area had a trip to the Proven Winner's test garden in Louden NH a few years ago. It was great. We toured their gardens and greenhouses and we had a talk by P. Allen Smith. I got his autograph! I'm a garden groupie 🤣🤣

[@donnastevenson6700]

Hi Donna sending hugs. You are a busy bee

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Well hugs back @Donna Stevenson and yes, I'm really piling on the work this month :) I think doing a lot this month so I can slow down as we approach Christmas :)

[@hetty2974]

Hello there Donna, thankyou for a lovely video, its a lovely visit through your village and to the lovely little garden centre (shop).oh some exiting autumn 🍂 😊 plants and beautiful pumkins.oh my its always temp ting isn't it seeing lovely things. Love the little fun decorations. Oh my I always love the sound of your footsteps on the crunchy ground,usually on your beautiful beach shells. Lovely choice of plants, I'm pleased you found some good ones.so relaxing 😌 and calming to travel along with you and back again. Its always just lovely to be there with your sea views and sounds and beautiful gardens. Thankyou Donna it will always be interesting and exciting with you videos of your beautiful home,.do say hello to your chicken s for me and una and friends. All your little creatures.its very comforting ☺ watching your videos. Xxsee you soon.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I'm so happy you enjoyed it :) @Heather Culverhouse and yes I love the sound of walking on our beach, it's part of the music and magic of this place.

[@michaelkeely4229]

I truly enjoy your videos and the beautiful scenery that you show us your magical walks in your garden and your honesty about things at your house that you need to do I'm also in that boat I need repairs in my home but I don't have the funds you made me see my house in a different way so thank you so much for that the wonderful videos

[@DonnaDavisArt]

You are so welcome

[@hetty2974]

Going to go back over your previous videos from before I found you .thankyou again. Lovely view gentle water sounds.cheers too,with a cup of tea,or nice cup of hot chocolate 🍫 😋. Mmmmm.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Many thanks!

[@robincapuano8216]

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[@beverlymiklaszewski8599]

I was happy that you got the stag horn fern ,thanks so sharing this beautiful video

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Me too, it really is lovely. It seems happy thus far :) @Beverly Miklaszewski

[@brendam5356]

Just enjoyed the visit to the garden centre my eyes flying around absorbing the lovely shrubs varieties of plants such a lovely centre Can’t wait till ours open again my favourite place to be I’m the same Look I have to have that Thankyou for filling my morning with a strong urge to get planting and get those seeds moving as always Donna I’m left breathless😘😍😍❤️👌

[@DonnaDavisArt]

Many thanks @Brenda M and thank you for going on a visit with me to the garden centre :)

[@brendam5356]

@@DonnaDavisArt my pleasure were in lockdown Nz will binge your vlogs so helpful I’m loving you’re back you have so much love and calm to share within what you can my love😍😍😘😘❤️❤️

[@angelaengler2387]

I'm only 36 seconds into this video and have to tell you how much I love it already lol! I just love New England and I hope to visit someday. I've only been to Williamsburg in Virginia. I did have a stop in the Newark NJ airport once but that doesn't count! I would love to visit every state on the east coast. Greetings from the Chicago suburb of Oswego!🌞

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I hope you can make it to New England @Angela Engler we have many lovely environments, here we I live it's coastal so low hills woodland , fields and seashore , old buildings and quaint villages. There is also lovely mountainous New England as well, we used to ski often in the NH mountains with covered bridges and large mountains and running clear rivers. I hope you can make it to New England one day.

[@helenstella2666]

Visiting the garden centre is right up my street Donna 😊 I’m tempted to buy everything! But I was good recently & only bought spring bulbs to plant. Another beautiful video, thank you ❤️

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I know it's hard to keep a tight grip on the purse strings at Garden Centres for me too @Helen Stella. I've still some bulbs to get in and I need to go back for more garlic, I wanted to plant Elephant garlic this Autumn, but might have to order it online, I always try our local places first.

[@olainfree905]

Beautiful beginning and ending music, punctuated with the lap of waves. You made some lovely purchase choices, especially the rudebekia (sp?). Did you not buy the assortedpotted plants? Darling peekaboo doorway greeter. Did you buy the staghorn fern? It is quite dramatic. I'm glad for you that you took the pressure of daily posts away.

[@DonnaDavisArt]

I forgot to show that but YES I did buy that staghorn fern @ola infree, it has pride of place just now in my little plant room, but I'm going to put it in a lovely pot and either keep it in my house studio or in the main sitting room. I got the other wonderful bromeliad as well and it's already started to send out a blossom, when it flowers, I'll video it for the vlog. I forgot to get the cute framed picture, but might get it when I go back for garlic to plant, if its' still there.