Tips on How To Make Garden Rooms

[@GardenMoxie]

Today I wanted to share a few tips on how to create a garden room within your home garden. I talk through how I created my Mary garden to provide some ideas about different ways to divide your backyard space so we don't see our gardens all at once. I hope you find these tips helpful. Happy gardening! Thanks for being here.

[@shimmyhinnah]

Sue!🌼🌺💐🌞 Thank you for taking the time to film your incredible garden. As always, it is a feast for sore eyes! ❤😍🙏

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you so much! I appreciate you being here.

[@carolrose4784]

Sue what an excellent job you have done and I appreciate your in-depth explanation! Thank you!

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks so much. I appreciate you watching the video. It is hard to believe we are in the middle of July. I feel like the summer is flying past us.

[@bernadette1510]

How lucky are we to have you to take us on a tour of step by step creation of a serene garden. You are excellent in explaining and teaching… lovely to see “shorts” with your mom.

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you and thanks so much for your kind note Bernadette. I hope you are enjoying the garden season. How are all your seeds growing this year?

[@kritomoralea]

I love your videos! I hope I can have some garden rooms. I have a lot of land and I don’t know where to start 😢

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you. Starting close to the house and moving out from there is a good way to start. Thanks for watching.

[@emmalavenham]

This looks really great - kudos - I love the look of a white garden space that leans on textural contrast

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks so much and thanks for watching.

[@rosset4music]

Beautiful.

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks for watching.

[@daiseegray9110]

Beautiful! Thanks for the easy to understand details on creating garden rooms 🐝

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks so much. I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@dianeruesch8655]

Exquisite ❤

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you. I appreciate you being here.

[@YalisCommunity]

Absolutely gorgeous Mary Garden. I enjoyed seeing the evolution of the garden. It takes lots of work, vision and patience to achieve such marvelous results. Truly inspiring. I have been propagating my boxwoods to make more hedging and rooms. Loved this video.

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks so much friend! I hope all is well.

[@kimmicannon5629]

Love it. This is a great informational video and your garden looks picturesque in the winter. Thank you.

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks so much. I appreciate you being here.

[@theplease1099]

This is such a lovely video! Your garden is beautiful and gives me hope of some day having one of my own that is half as well curated.

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks so much and thanks for watching the video.

[@terrymcintosh9986]

Enjoy your channel very much! I especially enjoyed seeing some before pictures of how your garden room started and what it looks like now--beautiful!

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you and thanks for watching. I love looking at garden before and after photos too.

[@wendykirklian8570]

Lovely & so inspiring. Thanks!

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you and thanks for watching.

[@user-jb8yz9tv2h]

Very empress!

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you and thanks for watching.

[@dianaford9040]

Beautiful, as always Sue. Here’s a topic that might be of interest, if you haven’t already covered it: how you’ve worked your soil, enriched it, amended. PS, are you secretly a weeding machine? I just cannot comprehend how you manage all of this single handedly. Thank you!❤

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks so much. You made me laugh about being a secret "weeding machine". It's all thanks to my hand sickle and scuffle hoe. Those two tools make quick work of weeds thank goodness. Thank you for your note. The two main things I do for soil health is to layer shredded leaves over the surface in the autumn and adding quality compost in autumn when my budget permits. I just shred the leaves that fall in the yard in autumn with my lawn mower.

[@Laura-rx9mp]

Thank you Lovely garden!

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks so much and thanks for watching.

[@rosemama9995]

Great video. I’ve followed several of these principles. Here in Northern Virginia my Frans Fontaines drop their leaves but my European beech hedges keeps its Brown leaves till Spring.

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you. That is so interesting about your hornbeam trees. I absolutely love beech hedges. I bet they look amazing. Thanks for sharing your experiences from your garden. It is so helpful to hear.

[@bluesky7226]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos and hear your nuggets of wisdom. Do you have Japanese Beetle issues with your Hornbeams?

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks for your kind comment. I am happy to report that I have not had issues with Japanese beetles on the hornbeam. That is one good thing about growing "Kiss-Me-Over-the-Garden-Gate (Polygonum orientale) in the front. That plant is a magnet for Japanese beetles so the only place I find them in the garden are on those plants and the roses.

[@bluesky7226]

​@GardenMoxie, good to know, Sue! Thank you. ❤

[@PeggyMills]

Lovely as always, Sue. I saw a miniature lambs ear called Little Lamb that was new to me. I put an order for it into Rare Roots. It would look nice in your Mary Garden.

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you Peggy. I have not seen the mini lamb's ears. I am going to have to look them up. Thanks for sharing that tip.

[@mrsrover8997]

Wonderful video, thank you Sue. I love garden rooms. How do you stop weeds from growing between your patio blocks?

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you. I don't do anything special with the patio blocks in terms of weeds. I do need to trim back the ajuga that will tend to creep across the path during the season, but the weeds are not bad luckily.

[@urchinsushi2041]

It is a very “MERRY” garden 💚😊

[@GardenMoxie]

Ha! I love that. Thank you.

[@beckysteffka2434]

Hi Sue, I really like the white/green/silver color palette of your Mary garden, it's very soothing. Also, I had a Quick Fire hydrangea standard planted in my patio garden this spring, and it's quickly becoming my favorite!

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you. You have now made me want to add a standard form Quick fire to the border. That sounds beautiful. I am very happy with how that hydrangea is growing in my garden.

[@gardensenglishandbeauty]

If I had a chance to start once again, from scratch, I would definitely have a number of "rooms" in my garden (on condition the space allowed for that). Your white one is my favourite! PS. Your figure is amazing, I hope you don't mind me saying so :-)

[@GardenMoxie]

Hello and thanks for watching. There are so many things I would try if I was starting from scratch too. I appreciate your kind words friend.

[@lynnpurse]

What a great lesson in design and planting Sue! I remember that quote from Penelope Hobhouse and it's always in the back of my mind when I'm gardening. Just curious - have you ever created a bird's eye map of your gardens? You are so artistic and it would really be interesting to see how all of your gardening beds connect to the house and each other.

[@GardenMoxie]

Oh my goodness...I have wanted to create a garden map for years now. You may have finally lit the spark under me. Thanks so much for your kind note.

[@lynnpurse]

@@GardenMoxie I've been wanting to do one too! I just found a video that shows how to get started using Google maps - I had no idea that you could get such detailed info, including the exact measurements of the property lines and house. I'm starting mine this week 😊

[@MartinHouseFlowers]

Hi Sue, so beautiful! How wide is your backyard to allow space to create a separate room for the Mary garden? I’d love to do that, but don’t think my yard is wide enough.

[@GardenMoxie]

Hi and thanks so much. My backyard is roughly 150 feet across. One thing to consider if you have a long, narrow garden is to divide it along the length rather than width. Or sometimes you can place small trees and evergreens strategically along a curving path to get the effect of not being able to see everything at the same time. I have found looking up photos on Pinterest for side gardens is helpful to give you some ideas.

[@emmalavenham]

Love the hornbeam - we chose the American -- now that a fastigiate one is available -- because of its versatility (it’s an understory tree), its tolerance for wet feet and being native for our butterflies - while also having the fab fall foliage and great bark. These trees should be planted more, and this is a great way to do that. NB Hornbeam can be hard to find particularly if like me you choose a nativar in the US outside of the Milwaukee area Plan ahead !

[@emmalavenham]

Absolutely agree - the trees are marcescent - not just sticks - providing shelter for our birds in winter - like our beeches without the worry of beach leaf disease

[@GardenMoxie]

Thanks for sharing the details on the trees you selected. They sound fantastic. I also agree with your comment. I searched high and low for these trees. Now the nursery where I purchased them only sells wholesale which is a shame. I never see these trees on sale. I absolutely love these trees.

[@emmalavenham]

@@GardenMoxie I find that the European hornbeam is stocked, but “Fastigiata” is by far easier to find than FF. But these places that stock them are expensive because they are used primarily by those in garden design, so sales are not sales - they become reasonable price. The native tree is likely easier for you to find since you are within trucking distance of Johnson’s Nursery which introduced trees including Firespire (greater Milwaukee). Zone 6 New England

[@GardenMoxie]

@@emmalavenham Thanks for sharing those details. It was very helpful information.

[@cindyrae2605]

Do you add anything to the soil where the Annabelles grow? They're so healthy looking.

[@GardenMoxie]

Hello. The Annabelles are on their own in my garden 😂. The one mistake I made this season was forgetting to place my staking before they grew so they are very floppy this season. Some of the flowers are the size of a head. They seem exceptionally big this season because we have had consistent rain.

[@emmalavenham]

Do you find that little quick fire is of interest to our bees? So many compact ones on the market have been selected for flower and plant size not forage.. I am really liking Haas Halo, but it is really big and at least here, there is an issue with cane borer…. Alice HQ is also huge. Trying the mountain Hs like Pink Dynamo.. will see…

[@GardenMoxie]

That is a great question and I don't know the answer. Now that you mention it, I have not seen a lot of pollinators on that hydrangea, but I haven't been checking. I am going to keep my eyes peeled. I know the bumble bees love the Limelights once they start blooming. Thanks for sharing all your experiences. That was helpful.

[@sterlgirlceline]

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[@GardenMoxie]

Hello and thanks for watching.

[@chrispetersen6402]

Which Shasta Daisy are you growing? I have ‘Becky’ but I want to replace it with a cultivar that blooms longer. Any ideas?

[@GardenMoxie]

Hi. I am growing Becky as well. It grows best in well draining soil with tons of sunshine. I do not have mine placed in the best location, but I love it. I do not have personal experience with another variety. Thanks for watching.

[@jcrane45585]

How do you keep grass out of the beds?

[@GardenMoxie]

The edge along the turf is fairly deep (3 inches) and I use my hand sickle to keep the edges clear when I weed. It is pretty easy to keep it in order.

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[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you for watching the video.

[@cindyrae2605]

How funny that YT is running ads that have to play asking viewers to 'chip in' for Kamala Harris before we can watch your video will play. Sad.

[@rosset4music]

Beautiful.

[@GardenMoxie]

Thank you!