The Spring Garden Waits for No One! What Happens Now?

The spring garden weights for no one! Right now everything is exploding all at once. So much beauty and work to be done. Things fading, things peeking, things coming into their own. Warmer than usual temperatures and wind play their part. But it’s supposed to cool down next week, and I for one and looking forward to it. #gardening #gardendecor #gardendesign #cottagegarden #gardentour #cottagestyle #backyard
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[@jeanniecollier6763]

Oh my word! I gasped and had happy tears when the camera showed the first view of the foxgloves! How in the world did everything grow so much since last week? Girl, now I know you have a MAGIC touch!! Yes, double ball topiary those hollies!

[@carolynschmid]

D. Mmmmdtillppp hbblooming oh my I ihllhiilll😮I😢l😢😅😊😊x😊

[@Blake.Cooper]

Every sentence you say is like a song lyric or poem stanza. I love the way you so eloquently speak of your garden, teaching us little tidbits along the way! Excited for a wonderful growing season with the Vater Team!

[@reneel2502]

You absolutely have to topiary the Hollie’s! What are the odds that BOTH of them have a topiary form?! Amazing and beautiful changes in your garden! Thanks for another awesome video!

[@dignit1620]

I love how you show ways to recycle and reuse useful information! And you do it so elegantly!

[@blakehahn-atlantaga8510]

Great episode! Thanks Linda and Stewart!

[@lindaga820]

Oh yes that magnolia looks so much better ! Your work space looks pretty neat to me.

[@LadyCourtney13]

Spring is SPRINGING HARD. We are in the 70's, got up in the 80's, but we will dip down into the 60's and then back up to 70. Prettiest spring I can remember for a long time, but the gardener is getting behind. I will be out there at sunrise tomorrow morning. But isn't this what we live for, SPRING?!!!

[@maryeliason1504]

You've got that classic old money look goong for you today. Always stunning Linda dear. Looking forward to John's garden tour. Hi Stewart

[@mnevils4493]

My jaw dropped the moment I saw those foxgloves! So much joy happening in your garden Linda and your outfit is darling as always!

[@lisakrynick7166]

Loved, loved, loved today's show. I enjoyed watching the pruning of the Magnolia. Also I vote for making a topiary of each holly.

[@donnahazlett7305]

Cutest outfit ever. And your garden looks magical.

[@delphinenyirahabimanam.d.8510]

So elegant ✨️ She has very good taste

[@susanjohnson5988]

I think the Holly's in topiary form would look amazing!

[@nadia_rem8511]

You got me doing the evergreen in a pot surrounded by pansies. I love it. Also, your fashion is just perfection!

[@samcarpenter4347]

Make the holly @ the fake door match the two closer to the road that are cone shaped.

[@kerryclare3456]

IMO, the hollies would be better as conical-shaped flanking the door. But, my Midwestern brain always goes to "Christmas trees". 😊

[@nancyhajeski3360]

Linda, You might know this, but in case you don't, you need to hand fertilize the pumpkin flowers in order to get fruit. I used a paintbrush and harvested pollen from several male flowers before sprinkling it on the female flower. (My late mom used to get quite a kick out of my "Dr. Ruth" exploits in the pumpkin patch!)

[@77sun222]

Excellent,Mrs Vater🎉You have achieved the cottage garden at the Cottage on the Hill. Dreams come true❤

[@dianetemple4243]

The upper terrace is looking spectacular! I use paint sticks with a v cut in each end for spacers when I am manipulating shrubs. Now I am obsessed with your platinum blonde lamandra and must have one for a large urn that I have in my backyard.

[@CarmenTorres-gf3sg]

Your garden looks better every week

[@LeDeQua]

Hi Linda, I always love your videos. Thank you for being with us weekly. You've inspired me to redo my yard. Starting with the front. Hope everyone is having a beautiful garden day. ❤

[@lindaables7492]

I like the conical shape idea for your Oakland Hollie’s by the fake door.

[@pf6079]

I vote for conical holly bushes! Your garden is looking so lovely!

[@GraceLifeCounseling]

Beautiful Walk about! My White Wedding Hydrangeas have not started to bloom yet. I planted them last year and I am hoping that our late Georgia freeze did not kill the buds! Hoping for beautiful white blooms soon!

[@lauriebartkowiak8849]

I would let the holly grow the way it wants. Not a topiary.

[@christineschulze3718]

Hello from Germany😘

[@nancybogart3960]

Happy Wednesday!

[@janiewilliams5803]

I would enjoy watching the entire process of removing the branches from the shrub!

[@user-cp7zb6yw7f]

Could you make the hollies into three balls? Love all the flowers blooming. ❤

[@kathleenpascoe7323]

Have you considered taking that screen door off the door to nowhere?

[@suzismith9681]

I would remove the door too

[@kerryclare3456]

In NW Iowa. Tulips finally opened today after light rain yesterday! 🌷 🌷

[@altheab.8907]

No topiary on the Hollie’s. Conical shape would look much better in that spot to my eye. 🥰

[@rosemarytheherb]

Beautiful gardens! Could you show us the pruning of the magnolia shrub in its entirety? I would love to see it from start to finish in real time. Is there a way to do this without speeding up the video? I like to hear your thoughts as you decide which branches to keep or cut and well, just your reflections in general as you work. Please show us the potting up of the plant across from your kitchen window? I would love to hear the decision making process and your musings on pot placement, etc. Thanks again for providing us with enjoyable and creative content!

[@LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica]

The garden is full of beauty!

[@marilynmourdock3688]

You could transplant some of your ajuga to the base of your snowball bush

[@beckid5107]

I think double ball topiary would be perfect!

[@lydiaellisor4090]

That makes sense! Love the idea! 11:42

[@pamelacallaway3922]

I’m looking for my cleome too! I hope they are just hiding and that I can collect the seeds again.

[@annierampersad3982]

Hi Linda. The garden is looking great 👍 Happy gardening everyone from Trinidad 🇹🇹

[@raylened930]

Dreamy garden. Thanks for sharing so much beauty Linda.

[@Flower_hoarder]

🌱🌿🌳AWESOME GARDEN ‼️🌳🌿🌱

[@DianeML419]

Almost forgot, I’m so excited to see John T’s garden (Sorry that I don’t know how to spell his last name).

[@user-mi4tf3em8b]

YES!!!! Love your topiary lessons.💕🪴

[@susanhietikko6905]

I vote for cone shapes near the side door. Thanks for all the information and beauty in the garden that you share with us

[@pamburket1179]

Copper looking stove covers, genius!

[@Mary-ik1zf]

What a clever lady.

[@anndaily9872]

I got an Ann Magnolia because of you. The blooms on mine only last one day, like day Lillie’s. I will have to over winter it in shed , but I’m willing. I’ll need lots of encouragement to cut a single limb .😳😳

[@karenlehn2351]

WOW! Bursting with beauty! Foxglove,one of my very favorites. I think the English,loved to tell the young children that, the circular spots,inside the Foxglove flower,are Fox paws,heading into the Hen house🤣

[@karenwestby-gibson758]

So excited!!! I planted boxwood basil seed and they are UP!

[@whitercat2302]

If it was up to Linda, she will turn you into a topiary too ha ha

[@mariainnes2456]

Your garden is looking lovely, can you talk a little about fox gloves and how to grow them thank you

[@128titanic9]

Hi, Linda. Thank you for your video. ❤

[@DianeML419]

I think the hollies will look great in double ball topiary form. That spacer idea, how great, thank you! Everything is looking beautiful. I have to say the arborvitae look so much happier from when you first moved in. They are loving your caring touch.😊

[@evalindell2757]

Yes! Dobble ball topiary!

[@DanaLynnette]

Yes! Topiary form for sure! 😊

[@candicebuchanan4845]

I can't believe how beautiful your garden is after winter..❤️❤️❤️

[@joanofarc6402]

I adore foxglove! 😊

[@virginiaramirez4214]

Amazing how beautiful everything is turning out. 🪴

[@ineedmickey5170]

First year sleep, second year creep, third year leap…. I believe your Garden has skipped the creep part! Beautiful 💚!

[@blk123]

Yes please, double ball topiary’s. Your yard is beautiful.

[@andrewcox07]

You look beautiful Linda and the garden looks amazing as well! I have been officially inspired to grow more Foxglove.

[@sydneykasmar]

I really appreciate learning how I can use spacers to change the shape of a bush. I love your ideas on limbing up shrubs to take on a tree form.

[@brookerlay]

Linda, you looked so gorgeous today!!

[@SusanGoodman-bz2pw]

Warm and humid in the Dallas area. The garden is beautiful, really responding to this perfect spring. Killed my first mosquito this morning…alas, summer must be just around the corner.

[@pattik8335]

I can't get over how quickly those foxglove bloomed! Yes to the topiary at the door to nowhere. Everything looks so beautiful!!

[@andrewcox07]

Just the other day I caught a video of someone advertising a reblooming rhododendron. One that blooms once in the Spring and once in the Fall. I had a lot of thoughts about that. I LOVE reblooming roses. But many other plants I am not a fan of seeing them over and over again. To each his own. But I like your comment about having sequential bloom. It takes skill and some savvy to design a garden so that you always have something in bloom. But that's the challenge! You've accepted the challenge and you do it effortlessly! Love your channel!

[@jessicakillian3738]

Oh, propagating the autumn joy is sooooo easy and fun, I have a whole row from doing this. I just stick a sprig in the ground!

[@user-vs8ok3ch9l]

I vote to let the hollies grow naturally, no to topiary. Garden is looking fantastic.

[@sheilamongeon763]

Yes topiary the hollies, it is your signature after all😀

[@PleasantPrickles]

Everything is looking wonderful, including you, but I think Oakland Hollies grow way too big for the narrow side yard. They look great out front as a large hedge, that’s an appropriate place for them, but you need dwarf evergreens on the side. Verbena bonariensis is a gorgeous plant. 🌿🌿🌿🌸

[@gorettibertram9892]

The garden is looking fantastic at the cottage. The foxgloves will be beautiful when in full bloom 💚🪻🌿

[@rachelmontoya2314]

LINDA YOUR YARD BEAUTIFUL❤ I'M HOPING TO REMOVE ALL GRASS AND PUT FLOWERS ALL ROUND THE FRONT YARD! THANK YOU FOR YOUR MOTIVATION🥰👍

[@sharabenson]

The snails and slugs are eating all my cleome starts, they feast on them overnight. I’ve put out beer traps and Sluggo, hoping to save anything left.

[@janicebelcher2829]

Yes, topiary the Holly's.

[@gardengal26]

I would like to see you make the hollies a conical shape. I think they would show better because they’d be thicker and would mirror the ones below. It’s amazing how much your garden has filled in since last year. Everything is looking beautiful!

[@zoreslavazinczenko1060]

Everything is outrageously GORgeous, Linda! (even at this early stage/time of the season). It amazes me with such dense plantings - do you not have issues with powdery mildew, aphids, or bunny-damage, and such? Can you do a video with these (and other kinds of) issues? So jelly of your temperatures; I'm SW of Cleveland, OH (zone 6a) and we have, like 2, 3 days of upper 60's & 70's, and it's GLOrious to get out and putz around. Now we're looking at hight50's/low 60's with night time temperatures at 33, 36 degrees. AAARGH!!! I'm already seeing some annuals at the retail stores starting to pop up = uh, no thanks, I think I'll wait...

[@aprilshomeandgarden]

Loved watching you prune the bush into a tree form. Love learning from ya. Putting a spacer between the branches was “brilliant”.

[@anasofialulo7808]

Ohhhhhhh... espectacular+!!!!!

[@shirleyprescott1528]

Where were you when I was growing up? I would have been tall and thin instead of short and fat! love the Idea of making things go in the direction you want them to go. The garden looks wonderful every time it is shown!

[@janzatovich6677]

Yes to the topiarys by the door. And I'd do the lower ones by the bottom steps as well. 4. matching topiarys!

[@karenlehn2351]

You are so correct about the continuous blooming with different plants. Also goes with the planting of Spring/ Summer/ Fall Tree and Shrub blooming,giving your Garden interest also. Things look so good for early Spring !🌺🌺🌺

[@Cassieskins21]

As expected, garden looking better without all the red.

[@pegbro6163]

How pretty your garden looks, I just loved how you showed it today. It is just so perfect Linda. And I would keep the hollies how they are so they will really soften your brick wall.

[@emanuelad3534]

Beautiful

[@juliabinford6500]

As I’m waiting for tulips to open, I’m once again transported to a different season in your garden. I would want the Ann magnolia as a tree form too:)

[@cathykirkmcrae7727]

Wow, I have never seen a season move quite as fast as it has in your area. I'm zone 8-9 in southern B.C. and we are still in Daffodil/Tulip season. I love the all the stuff I'm seeing in your garden right now.

[@janzatovich6677]

It's ABSOLUTELY PERFECTION 🎉❤ everything is stunning !

[@ChristinaBendix]

Loved how airy the magnolia became🌸

[@justanonymous5681]

Looking forward to seeing John’s garden this Friday!!! 🪴💚

[@gracefulgrowing144]

Definitely the double ball topiary with it sitting on top like you said you were going to do. I think it'll look fabulous. Everything is just coming to life there in your Oklahoma garden. I am still waiting in indiana.❤❤

[@martivasiliades8407]

Great pruning tips! Thanks!

[@betsyschaffitzel5127]

Thank you for showing how to limb up the Magnolia! Such valuable info!! Love your garden!! Of course you must Linda Vater up the Holly’s! Your topiary style!! Will Add texture, shape and contrast to the other conical shaped evergreens on that side!💚💚😃

[@TonyaD_]

Beautiful Linda❤

[@trangn6564]

cute outfit! Your garden is growing up so nicely and looking so bright and green this spring! I enjoyed this walkabout very much, and you seem so happy in your yard today!

[@suzzannemcguirk2853]

Beautiful ❤

[@Corinne-rc4xm]

Omg…. So beautiful and lush! I live in the northwest… Vancouver, B.C. Canada. My plants are growing but we are months behind you for sure. Some of my tulips are just opening up! Great Wednesday Walkabout! Thanks! 😎🇨🇦

[@user-lm3ye4db7v]

So many great ideas!!😊

[@janzatovich6677]

love John's yard ! So excited .

[@lindylou3519]

Hello Sunshine! Great video & breathtaking foxglove views!❤

[@mkp8942]

Garden looks gorgeous and yes to the triple ball topiary by the fake door

[@madamesivadgarden]

🌿💗🤣 No words!!! Just WOW!!! 💗🌿