A garden with a sense of place...

[@karendomigan4612]

Loving the elderly lady’s garden which the new gardener has taken on, loving the new owner’s attitude and love for this fabulous garden, what a wonderful man.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@joannemurphy7407]

This was so lovely and heartwarming to see the owner and the designer so respectful of the past, and so thoughtful in the process of discovering and designing the spaces. Here is to slow gardening!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad you enjoyed it! And 'slow gardening' is a very good term for it!

[@j.m.7056]

This garden now and its history were wonderful! How great that you were able not only to meet the current owner but the man who helped 'unearth' this new/old place.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@Shravanidakeens1178]

I adore these private garden tours and the stories behind them!!!!

[@heatherh3457]

These are life skills that EVERYONE should follow.👍

[@busarafirestone1180]

Such a sensitive and respectful design process...really refreshing.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@elsagrace3893]

Alexandra your videos are amazing in that I am never left wondering what a property really looked like or what was that tree, object, building that I caught in the corner of the screen. The way you orientate the viewer and Lee’s us through and the questions you ask the host and gardeners leave me very satisfied as if I was there myself.❤️🌸❤️🌼

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you so much!

[@francineh.7825]

Oh what a great space. I love the tin roof building area and the blue bench in front of the mural wall !!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@TheEnthusiasticGardener]

Wonderful!! My Mum & Dad used to take us to Margate for the day, probably 50 years ago now. I love that they left the colourful wall, it’s so unique. A beautiful courtyard garden, thanks for sharing Alexandra 😍

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you! And we used to go to Margate around 50 years ago too. My grandparents lived nearby.

[@TheEnthusiasticGardener]

@@TheMiddlesizedGarden 😍😍

[@elizabethmunday5713]

Beautiful, lush garden. Great to see a smallish garden with shady plants looking so fantastic. Shows what you can do without lots of showy flowers! Thank you!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

That's a pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!

[@adrabruzzese7610]

Beautiful garden. I love the weathered look.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Me too.

[@anna-lenameijer9942]

As always, well done and it is always interesting to get new perspectives and ideas.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@anna-lenameijer9942]

@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Always, dear.

[@steveaustin286]

Utterly charming garden - thank you

[@irairod5160]

What a beauty! I love that they didn't paint over that multicolored wall. I hope they have objects inside the home that repeat some of those weathered colors.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

The colours inside the home are lovely and feel historic - I tend to stay with the garden as that's what this channel is all about, but perhaps I should include the occasional interiors shot when it's appropriate to the garden.

[@irairod5160]

@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Thanks, but I truly feel that the way you keep the focus on the garden is the best approach. You choose such spectacular locations, and we learn so much from your presentations! My comment was just a fleeting, wistful thought because **this** particular place made me wonder if they owners had kept much of the interior features that evoke times past. Don't change a thing! I can't imagine how laborious it is to film and edit "just the gardens" as it is! Much love and admiration from the mid-Atlantic coast of the USA!

[@kemifm]

The very best resource out there- my favourite go to place for new ideas. Fresh and original ❤️

[@catacombcatholic5571]

What a beautiful legacy plants can be!

[@beckyscheller9358]

Love a secret garden. Love the church view also. Reminds me of the gardens of Charleston South Carolina Nice the keep the history of a place. Thanks for showing. Very jealous of your sea trip.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you - and it's always a joy to visit the sea. I'm very lucky to be so close to it, without actually having to live through the sea winds in winter.

[@great-garden-watch]

My house doesn’t even have an architecture. I did notice though that i kept trying to make the garden elements symmetrical and it never looked right. I decided it must be because my house is asymmetrical. We have a Margate here in New Jersey US as well. I like yours!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

That's an interesting insight - I'm sure you are right that the assymetrical house wants an assymetrical garden. And thank you.

[@bridgetevans4978]

What a delightful surprise this video was for me. I grew up in Thanet before moving to NZ in 1983.

[@ClausDalbyEnglish]

Thank you for sharing, Alexandre. Such a serene place ...

[@helloplantlovers]

What a fabulous garden and design ethos - it did look very tropical! Thanks Alexandra!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you! Hope you're not too locked down.

[@helloplantlovers]

@@TheMiddlesizedGarden Very locked down....getting tedious now!

[@2010lrain]

Beautiful garden. I love the green lushness of it.

[@yvonnehall544]

Nice...love the greens love the look of the past and present rolled into one ...Rustic.. Wild and fresh..so much for the imagination another classic. Thanks

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@debbebunch9973]

How LOVELY and unique!

[@anneharkin168]

Brilliant as always. Greetings from Melbourne 🇦🇺

[@laura2842]

Thank you Alexandra. What a delightful video and the older garden is a dream!!!! something to aspire

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

I thought it was lovely,too

[@WM37980]

Very inspiring, thank you!

[@sueb-t2183]

interesting that we all have such different taste.

[@agnespm4181]

thank you. I really can connect with this design process - letting things evolve and embracing a sense of the past. I would find this connection very comforting. it is a beautifully gentle approach and sensitive to the history of the place.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@suepercy8390]

I love gardens that you walk into and think ooh this is machete country!

[@TheMadsros]

Wow, I can really invision some pots on the terrace area against that patchy wall 😍

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you so much! That was what I felt - I thought the layers of history, both in Margate and the garden had a real feel to them.

[@micheleblair]

Please do more videos on the progression of this garden.

[@kathrynstull6158]

Gorgeous! I'm going to have to get my hands on one of those tetrapanax. Low water needs for such a big tropical impact, love!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

It's certainly a stunning plant.

[@maryanna6302]

This is a wonderful take on how to approach renovating or maintaining an existing garden which so many of us do when we buy a house. I've learned so much in one short video and I'd love to visit Margate as well. The plants in this garden remind me of the tropical feel of Jack Wallington's beautiful (former) London garden. He grew tropical plants for quick growing and lushness. Thank you so much for this visit to a local historical treasure!

[@mrsh810]

lovely - my favourite thing moving house - starting a new garden - always delicious adventure to see how it develops, not perhaps as you think it might but as it will anyway

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

I completely agree! Thank you.

[@marianafranowicz]

Thank you for an interesting vidio

[@shanlynwebb]

Beautiful

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you

[@42apprentice]

What would be interesting would be to take a mixture of big leaves and daub around them on the weathered wall and create in distinct organic shapes to blend it with the garden

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Interesting!

[@katharinedavis4947]

I like the ' summerhouse ' ! K

[@Ash-xx5zd]

Beautiful garden! Thanks for the tips....perfect to apply for any dimension of space!

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

You are so welcome!

[@feeonaghchambers7403]

Yet another great video! Really loved this garden. Thank you .

[@lulajohns1883]

I look forward to your videos as I am in the States and nice to see your prospective. Thank you

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you

[@totallydomestic433]

I would have to paint that wall & probably green.

[@rosemaryhowes8047]

I love this and the story behind this garden, my own is very lush and I'm aiming for that kind of secret garden too.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

It was such a pleasure to do, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@nspector]

Interesting leaving the raw wall where the conservatory was. Might have looked a little contrived, but I think it works here. Also, the idea of getting that green lush feeling without plants that need a ton of water -- timely for me.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

I thought it was such an interesting and unusual garden.

[@marksinfield1266]

Very interesting video 👍🏻

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Glad you liked it

[@marksinfield1266]

and The Horti-Culturalists.👍🏻

[@hellwheresthefire]

This is great.🙂

[@mariedeyo7399]

Hope you had a lovely time by the seaside. The garden looks nice but somewhat unfinished for me. Thank you for sharing.🙂

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you!

[@BlackDogDesigns]

Absolutely beautiful ❤️

[@jennifert2469]

What is the plant above the bench on the wall?

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

It's a wisteria, recently cut back quite substantially which is why it looks a little more wispy than most wisteria.

[@RoseMary-vs3io]

A change from almost perfect public and private gardens, thank you, a little too unfinished for me, however, the greenery is lush.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Thank you! I always think it's nice to see different sorts of gardens, even if they are not to everyone's personal taste.

[@CC-blue]

Mimosa is very invasive.

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Yes, I see that it is considered invasive in North America, but in the UK it is only hardy in the mildest areas, such as in coastal towns, so it doesn't have the same ability to spread.

[@jeanrae2171]

How about getting a 'body perm' on the largest rollers for your lovely hair? It did wonders for smoothing out my own fine, thinning hair and added a youthful bounce, my stylist added a few long layers to add more fullness. I set it on velcro curlers while it's still damp and let it air dry, style it then add a little soft hairspray. It's a miracle. I look like I have 3 times as much hair! And, the style lasts for several days--each day looking a little different than the previous but still great. But, you need to set it or the waves from the curlers are obvious, which may not bother some people. I hope you don't take offense at this suggestion, Alexandra.

[@gail101242]

You seem to have dropped into the wrong video Jean, this one is presented by a knowledgable gardener and the focus is the garden. I suggest that you search "beauty" or some such nonsense. and offer your pearls of wisdom to someone who is interested. I find your comments offensive, did you not learn that it is impolite to comment on the appearance of others?

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

Jean, I'm not at all offended and thank you for thinking of me.

[@jeanrae2171]

@@TheMiddlesizedGarden You're a beauty, Alexandra, thank you!

[@sventer198]

❤️

[@kevinjamesparr552]

I would have restored the conservatory rather than see that wall so stark and war bomb site

[@TheMiddlesizedGarden]

They looked at it, but it would cost too much and would still have been a newly built conservatory as not enough of the original material remained to restore it.

[@kevinjamesparr552]

No patio its SPANISH. We call then terraces

[@sarahmarti141]

I am very offended that your insensitive guest said he bought the property from “an old lady”. It is so disrespectful. What does it matter how old she was? Oh and by the way old man: pot…kettle! I’m sort of surprised you didn’t cut that out or have him rephrase it…

[@rosc2022]

Why take offense where it isn't intended? Peace be with you. 🌻

[@ellie.l6585]

I'm sure he didn't mean any disrespect. He was probably just trying to explain that the garden had been loved and cared for by the previous owner for a very long time but that age/infirmity had prevented her from laterly giving the garden the attention it deserved.

[@vanessab2726]

Get over it

[@irairod5160]

@@ellie.l6585 I had the same reaction---I envisioned a sweet, old lady in a big sunhat who probably cared for this garden since its infancy and lovingly tended every plant and every shrub for many, many years. A woman, aged and slow because time waits for no one, but one who is content and fulfilled by knowing that caring for living things other than oneself is the ultimate act of love. The image gave me great joy. Old is not an insult.

[@ellie.l6585]

@@irairod5160 I bet she'd be thrilled to bits that her pride and joy is still being lovingly tended 🤗