The Garden Fling 2024 | Day THREE at Heronswood and Heckler Garden

[@joyreaker387]

You are the best garden tour guide on the web it would be wonderful if you can make touring gardens as a regular on your channel

[@HelloGarden]

Oh my gosh. Seriously high praise! Thank you. And I agree… I think there is so much beauty to share and to be able to use this platform to do so would be INCREDIBLE.

[@cyndiamontgomery6524]

What a beautiful tour! You are an amazing guide and I love your expressive nature - the gasp as you saw the woven balls! I actually did the same watching! The ferns, the hydrangeas , all the plants were divine. I’m not familiar with gardens in the PNW so this has been a real education and now I have new places to visit on my bucket list!

[@HelloGarden]

We are so lucky up here… the plant life that we can grow is spectacular. And thank you. I really do love to share gardens and am so fascinated by all the little details that a normal tour might miss!

[@GillianMathews]

Great video - two of my favorite gardens!!

[@HelloGarden]

Weren’t they gorgeous?!?

[@AmandaKennedy-bv4dh]

I've gotten such inspiration from your Fling episodes. Thank you so much!

[@HelloGarden]

Well thank you for watching! And I’m right there with you.

[@lrogers707]

may I add Dr. Ross was so interesting - including the honor of the local communities/indigenous...thank you for sharing your wonderful videos

[@HelloGarden]

He is a genius and I’m such a fan. The S’Klallam people have brought such life and rich culture (not to mention incredible caretaking) to this garden. It’s incredible.

[@KathrynJohnston-s9t]

Yes! I was hoping Heronswood would be on here!

[@HelloGarden]

It was spectacular and I’m totally heading back. I feel like I barely scratched the surface!

[@kristinthomas6035]

So fun to see these gardens. And YES, I think those are VERY OLD glass floats. I have a relative who also lived in Hawaii and used to collect them from the beaches, too.

[@HelloGarden]

Oh I love that. I feel like the glass floats are just as much Japanese culture as they are Hawaiian. I found one on the beach with my dad when I was young too.

[@kristinthomas6035]

@@HelloGarden I think they came off of Japanese fishing boats, if I remember the story correctly. I’m secretly hoping to inherit some…

[@HelloGarden]

I’m crossing my fingers for you!

[@jagodaperich-anderson5058]

I'm so glad you toured Heronswood. It's my favorite botanical garden and I'm lucky to live only 10 minutes from it. So of course, I'm a member. So much inspiration in these tours.

[@HelloGarden]

No way! Jagoda, you live in one of the most beautiful parts of the world. 💕 You are one lucky woman!

[@jasminelouisefarrall]

Wow I’ve got so many ideas from this amazing tour 🙌 Thank You Kate 🌹

[@HelloGarden]

Oh yay! And you are not alone either… my brain is buzzing with things I want to add to my garden.

[@wendyshanahan2652]

Adding high praise for the diligent curation and management of these amazing gardens. Pacific Northwest areas so flush with natural grandiose trees & abundant complex understory vegetation, I'm swooning for the hidden pockets of delightful plants with the gardeners whimsy added. TFS.

[@HelloGarden]

Spot on. I think the most incredible part of each garden is they include so many specimens that I haven’t seen and the world gets to now enjoy! Or if we have seen them, are used in such a way that the mind explodes with creativity!

[@bobr9895]

Oh my goodness, that huge vine ball, don't you were that creative!😊

[@HelloGarden]

It was SO GOOD!!! The whole garden was brimming with creativity!

[@kenlani1]

Heronswood! Wow! I see another road trip in the future. I follow their instagram account but your tour says so much more Thank You!

[@HelloGarden]

Oh definitely tour it if you can. I am headed back at some point because I didn’t get to even see half of what I wanted to!

[@Thehealinggarden-2]

Thank you for this tour!!! It will be an inspiration for perfecting my garden in the years to come. Is just a dream 🤩

[@HelloGarden]

I’m so tickled to share the inspiration! I am bubbling with ideas for the garden.

[@Heather0804]

Ohhh the clear perspex / acrylic plant tags with the clear with black lettered printed label. I’ve got to get myself some of that. A brilliant way to hide plant tags in the landscape whilst still having robust tags. Fantastic idea. 🥰

[@HelloGarden]

Wasn’t that GENIUS?!? Dan Hinkley carried that technique into his personal garden. Apparently they have the plexi labels cut locally and have multiple sizes depending on the plant/garden. They wanted to share the knowledge without distracting from the plant life.

[@pattyvalinote4612]

Lovely. So many hydrangeas that were so unique. I enjoyed walking with you not sure what was coming around the corner❤️❤️❤️

[@HelloGarden]

The hydrangea collection was blowing my mind! I wish I could’ve put a mic on Dr. Ross Barton earlier because he is pure genius and so exciting to listen to!

[@SammyTDIYgardenAdventure]

Wow.... the beauty of nature, such wonderful flowers and plants I would love to see this in my garden one day

[@HelloGarden]

You and me both… I now want to rip up the side and back yards and get to work. Ha!

[@junemilliken6888]

These tours were incredible! Thank you for sharing

[@HelloGarden]

You are so welcome! And I have to say they were some of the most spectacular gardens I’ve ever seen.

[@Anghooeyrhymeswithjulie]

I love a gsrden cliffhanger! ❤

[@HelloGarden]

Who knew?!? 🤣

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thank you Kate. 🌺💚🙃

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you for coming along! It was so much fun!!!

[@stephaniesharkey3538]

Just beautiful tours! Thx

[@HelloGarden]

Thank you for coming along! 🌱

[@KathyDavenport-i3u]

It was so beautiful, and all were so unique. ❤

[@HelloGarden]

Isn’t that the most wonderful part?!? A garden that is unique unto itself is a glorious thing.

[@marilynquaccia701]

What a coincidence, I was at Heronswood yesterday with a group of friends… so nice to hear Dr Ross share the story behind the prairie and travelers garden and future garden plans. Thanks Kate - couldn’t go home without one of their Japanese hydrangeas

[@HelloGarden]

Oh good call on the hydrangea. I fully support that move! And Dr. Ross is an amazingly brilliant man. I tried not to fan girl too hard, but he’s literally a genius. I’m going to go back because I still didn’t see all of the gardens!

[@donnasmalley3713]

I believe the white hydrangea is called "Shooting Star". I bought one at Longwood Gardens but when I planted it in the ground the graft died and now it has pretty blue flowers

[@HelloGarden]

I love that the world of gardeners helps me ID plants. 💞 Thank you!

[@amyjones2490]

A master class in how to layer plants! Gorgeous

[@HelloGarden]

The depth of some of these borders and the incredible layering was 🤯

[@darlenencambria]

More amazing gardens. I love all the history and the awesome varieties of hydrangeas. Can you put a link to the tours. Have family and friends in the PNW. Would love to do this on my net trip

[@HelloGarden]

The only garden available to tour is Heronswood and the link to their website is already there! The other garden is a private home and not open to the public.

[@jeaniemcdaris8276]

❤

[@HelloGarden]

💞💞💞

[@peggy-ann1961]

There is nothing I can add to what others have said already….stunning!! Question, did you buy a lamp!? 🇨🇦👏🌸

[@HelloGarden]

I’m going back for one! She can custom make anything so I thought it might be fun to get a pair… we’ll see what I end up with!

[@peggy-ann1961]

@@HelloGarden perfect, you must show us! 👏🇨🇦

[@Charm313]

what kind of gardening style is this? I think I like this more "natural" look than the "swoop/drift (everywhere you turn)" that a lot of the gardening influencers have been doing lately (especially with new gardens). I was beginning to think that we have entered the insert-name-brand-display-garden style era.

[@HelloGarden]

Heronswood displayed so many different styles but all were curated and collected. I think the big swoop/drift/band plantings is a good example of the impact that mass plantings have in design, but many times it’s done without a thought to the layering that helps a garden feel dynamic and full of movement. It is a fabulous design tool, and easily repeatable… so I think that may be part of why it’s repeated so frequently. I would love to see the rise of the garden vignette!