"Water Garden" | Planet Botanic | Planet Zoo Let's Play (4)

[@DeLadysigner]

My gosh Mike this turned out SO beautiful ♥ and I feel SO honored that the water garden is dedicated to me ♥ my gosh thank you SO SO much ♥ I really wish I could do more because you deserve so many more subs and views ♥

[@rubygrahame-dunn5367]

I bought tricolor sedum spurium succulent a few years ago and it has lasted me a looong time. I love them. Great for breaking down sharp edges in a garden. Recently been loving Piet Oudolf more, a fellow Dutch landscape architect whom I met at university and his work is stunning. He does monoculture so well and he loves plants that give architectural interest all year round and loves his perennials because some of them look amazing when dead. If you have the time look at his stuff for inspiration DeLadysigner :)

[@kristinebellamy5249]

“Welcome, fellow plant nerds”. I’m not really a plant nerd, but what you do is enjoyable for everyone.

[@ilyxr]

Haha, if you're here there's at least a fraction of a plant nerd deep inside. I will extract it!

[@kristinebellamy5249]

Mike Sheets Hehe, if anyone can, it would be you. Your designs are gorgeous.

[@-B-B]

I never thought I'd be watching a person making gardens in a video game and enjoying so immensely. This is currently the best content on KZbin right now.

[@supermark7075]

Before watching this series I never even acknowledged flora. Now all I can think of the botanical gardens I’ve ever decided to or have visited in the recent days. Your passion is contagious my friend. Keep it up!

[@Joshua_Knowles_]

Mike sheets plays a zoo game: didn't intend of having any animals.

[@fabulousk9014]

Thaaths the only tjing his videos doesnt make as boring as the others! He tries to build unique things instead of just one of thousands already build exibits

[@Jakeylicious7891]

Seriously! You managed to make a game about simulating a zoo, become a landscaping garden simulation that any landscaping software we have on the market would only dream of. I imagine this garden having peafowls roaming around and turning it into an open enclosure. I could only imagine the peafowls fanning their feathers as the mid-day sun gloriously sitting above their majestic colourful feathers. And the migration garden leading to a flamingo sanctuary. Imagine a billionaire owning a sanctuary like this in real life, while the guests are having tea and scones in front of the estate, guests looking over the migration garden would have an amazing view of the flamingos taking flight on the horizon and peacocks roaming around freely as if they're the boss of the sanctuary. Ahh...I'd make this a reality if I were a billionaire tycoon.

[@TheQuestingBeastSpotted]

I think the specimen trees work because at the angle you were filming at, they create two "structures" with the iron water lilies: the red-orange of the trees and the lilies are close enough in hue, saturation, and proximity to visually "lump" together (though in a more pleasant way than the word "lump" usually suggests). These two larger splashes of orange rest almost exactly on the one-third and two-thirds points of the garden, when viewed from the wood path between the seedum gardens. It might not follow the Rule of Thirds, exactly, but it certainly follows the Golden Ratio.

[@ilyxr]

Thanks for that analysis - I definitely agree!

[@mattshannon3182]

I need this to exist in real life. if i get rich im commisioning you to do my home gardening

[@LestardCalhoun]

Heck, if I get a garden of any sort I'll commission Mike O.O

[@nick_1312]

i have to say, when i first started looking into planet zoo, deladysigner was one of the first accounts i started paying attention to and it's paid off a lot. she's introduced a lot of wonderful creators to her audience who have in turn introduced others - and mike, you are definitely one of my favourites! with that said, it was a surprise to me that you don't have a larger following. i hope the views keep rolling in. you definitely deserve it.

[@RudiRennkamel]

DUDE, this is your best built yet. And your other once weren´t bad at all. This is so insane! Love it so much

[@pondshrimp8158]

Absolutely stunning, Mike! I’m totally in love with this garden, the reveal of the finished product was breathtaking!

[@RubleTrillions]

This is easily my favorite series in Planet Zoo. Your design skills and use of plants are incredible. Can’t wait to build that conservatory!

[@DaddyKazlan]

Truly a work of Botanical art and a feast for our eyes. Also love how in depth you explanations are. Thank you for your gift to us.

[@Sweety15267]

OH MY the labyrinth turned out beautifully!! Those colors are amazing! So pretty I'm speachless!

[@ephixel]

my two favourite details form this episode are how perfectly you're captured the colour of the sedums and also the palms on the 'unkept' side of the path to the water garden. it's such a subtle but very tangible reminder of the climate this garden is in, i love it

[@remnantboy9180]

Absolutely blown away, man. Seriously my favorite series right now. Stunning job!

[@gates92]

Breathe taking work. Truly a fantastic garden. Wish this was a real place to go because I'd totally visit.

[@lynkhart1108]

The sheer level of planning and execution in this is absolutely mindblowing, I love it!

[@revavanlent]

My family is full of gardeners, horticulturists and landscape architects so it’s wonderful seeing another person so excited about plants and design! Just found you recently so now I have so many videos to watch. Thank you for sharing your work, it is absolutely gorgeous. 😊

[@GuanoLad]

Breathtaking. I bet Frontier are even in awe of what's possible in their game.

[@5turmundDrang]

The wooden trees you made remind me of that big sculture they made for expo 2015 in Milan, I love them. Anyway your work with planet zoo is surely one of the most original I've ever seen

[@misswriter21]

This is so gorgeous! I really never thought of using the ripple effects in that way before but now I really wanna try that in my own builds, along with the gorgeous lotus sculptures! You're truly an inspiration when it comes to creating all things foliage in this game, so much so that I feel like I need to take notes during every video! Keep up the amazing work! 🌺🏵🌸

[@yoyosmugglerr]

Really love the elevation change this garden brings. Awesome episode!

[@Silverroses013]

Rules exist as guidelines! Sometimes it just looks better to break them. This is amazing and I cannot wait for the next bit, as it's wonderful seeing how each section enhances the others.

[@tarathornes]

Absolutely beautiful! I really have no other words for it. It's astounding to see what you create with this game.

[@TD-wc2cr]

I'm in awe of what you make in these - jaw met floor with the reveal of the first collab interior. I suspect the accent trees work so well because the two plus three "lillies" makes five and just < 3

[@dilabetes]

Mike, I don't hit the like button on videos very often, but so far I've liked every single Planet Botanic video because they **deserve** it. Your work is incredible! Keep it up, man

[@jimimac168]

absolutely stunning! this completely blew me away.

[@Yellowbrick559]

Dude, this is amazing! I'm going to school for landscape architecture, and you capture the essence of why I love these games so much. Sometimes it's hard to explain to people that I am not just playing a zoo or rollercoaster video game but rather using it as a design medium. So much creativity.

[@rogerklk]

this series is so satisfying it's damn soothing, absurd how good it is

[@kingdom7538]

You blow my little mind my friend, that is just a feast for the eyes, the balance and flow is spot on, love this long time

[@Pfenix23]

This was absolutely gorgeous! Can’t wait to see it all out together.

[@elizabethhusser8942]

I've been obsessed watching planet zoo gameplay and your pt 1 popped into my recommended, so I definitely weasled over to your channel and I love these! Subbed!

[@coasterzigner]

OMG, this is SOOOO the Getty! Love it, such a wonderful place! It also reminds me of the botanic gardens in Pasadena (particularly the australian snake trail area). I just subbed because builds like this and recommendations from those I've subbed to (cough cough Mr R. Camel and Teddybear-loving Sdan) said I should and now I agree!!

[@recklessone]

Absolutely gorgeous as usual. Keep up this series man, I bet even the Frontier devs are amazed at what you are accomplishing with their game.

[@nemmie]

Crikey Mike! This is one of my favourite things you've ever built. I'll be thinking of this one for years, just like I did with Nero. Really beautiful and very inspiring.

[@ginoandreas352]

Just listening to this in the background and watching the final is really inspiring, after seeing your build in DeLadysigner's park, this went way over my expectations. Keep up the great work

[@Naktya7]

This is so beautiful! I hope this garden will be on the steam workshop when it's done. We would be able to explore it ourselves.

[@vegetableFudge]

This is just absolutely stunning! And hey, congratulations on 10k subs, Mike!

[@illirea1761]

It's gorgeous, the level of detail is so impressive, love your series!

[@gidget330]

Worth all the wait

[@BakerPeter]

Loverly! I'm excited to see how you connect around the paths on the outside when using such a strong hub layout, but of course I'm looking forward to every part of this series! Btw the estate has really grown on me. What you have done so far really strongly evokes the sense of discovery I get from puzzle games! Neither of these would be out of place in a MYST or The Witness type setting. Very cool :D

[@ieatatsonic]

I love this series! It makes me want to visit my local botanical garden honestly. For when you need sculptures in the future, I recommend looking at Dale Chihuly's blown glass sculptures as inspiration. The Missouri botanical garden has a few of his works and it's very fitting. The blown glass style feels like flower bulbs at times. Idunno how possible it would be in PlanZoo though.

[@ilyxr]

LOVE Chihuly's work - wouldn't that be a sight in one of these gardens?!

[@aimeegrayson9051]

Honestly, this series is remarkable so far. Your work in this game just keeps getting consistently better and better! I really can't wait to see a huge greenhouse like you experimented with in Ep. 1, but this really made my day! Water Gardens are so calming to me and you have really successfully done it here. Keep it up Mike!

[@Sdanwolf]

Oh Daddy 🤭 I need like a Planet Botanic T-Shirt

[@cyrilmdltn8801]

This is very very beautiful. Can't wait to see the next episode.

[@Anigmandra]

These Garden is soooo amazing and incredible!! You can be verry proud of that! It looks awesome!! The lotus blossom is verry impressiv too!! And so useful for such so many things! Thanks for showing all this, and that you explained it in so much detail!!

[@brightspark765]

down at walking lvl is where the magic happens. My first thought was, well it looks okay, but when you took us down to the walking lvl and went through it, my gosh. It hit me in so many different levels. In a good way that is. It is rly hard for me to describe how deeply this garden affects me. It's a living soul. So thank you Sir.

[@froginatub]

this thing fucking rules, man. can't stop looking at it.

[@jacobbuffett4753]

Great work so far! It looks stunning. You should check out Alnwick poison garden at Alniwick castle in the UK. It’s designed in the shape of a shake and all the planets are various poisionus species ranging from deadly nightshade to canabis. Its a really well planned and educational garden which looks beautiful.

[@Mealie]

I hate watching these videos, because they make me feel inadequate that I couldn't think of making such amazing things in Planet Zoo. Everything you have done here is absolutely fantastic

[@someonekenobi]

Found you from deladysigner's channel. Love your work!

[@ChrisSmith-yj8kq]

Mike this is amazing work mate - I love this series.

[@joschuaknuppe5849]

Beautiful piece so far, among the PZ KZbinrs you are truly an artist. One of my professors did her PhD on garden art, might need to show her your stuff!

[@SPRidley]

This is incredible as always, prbably one of my favourite parts you have done. I loved how clearly proud you were about it after the big jump cut and you having everything already done. Glad delady is helping you so much with promoting the channel. Im sure she loves that plaque :D

[@fsclips]

There have been many discussions whether computer games can be a piece of art. I always thought so, and in future I will use a link to this video to prove my point 😊

[@LostScissors]

"Unsettling"...word of the day. I love it.

[@irrelechan7]

This is so gorgeous. I love watching your videos because you're so knowledgeable and I always feel like I learn something new after watching. Keep doing great work 👍👍👍

[@leehaffenden9390]

Mike, this series is truly awe inspiring! They are genuinely the highlights of my week at the moment! Never realised I love trees and plants and landscaping until now :)

[@overlookers]

Flexing on everyone yet again with another perfect addition.

[@inamelzvoice]

Not only your channel is incredible, you just made me discover Big Dreams Small Spaces and now I dream of the day I will have my own house and garden, but saddly, I'll have to wait in my small appartement.... But back to your video. To told the truth, first I tought that the colorful flowers sculptures looked better, but once you finished your color palette, it's true that the more rusty vibe was a better idea. And I just love your philosophie of creating point of interest and interactivity. But now I'm curious : with the trees and the bigger slope and the sculptures, what does it look like from the central domaine and mirror fountain, like you were talking about in the start of the video ?

[@ilyxr]

From the grand channel at the base of the estate? It's completely disappeared! The way the whole thing is terraced you can't see much of anything - which allows for discovery of the garden as you traverse through it at human scale. Thanks for the lovely comment!

[@PeterPannekoek1850]

You just earned a subscription. Was curious who you were after watching silvs Koali Zoo video. Now I know for sure Koali will be awesome!!!

[@stevenhagting4349]

Beautiful gardens! That's quite an inspiration for the rest of us

[@robinsommer]

I'm quite late to the party, but catching up now - really enjoying this series, and your latest creations across current series. I was looking if someone had mentioned this already, and someone did! I had the same thought when you questioned the odds with the two trees. It would not have worked the way it does now with the waterlily sculptures, if they weren't colored that rusty hue. Well, it all depends on color and spacing. Also the shape of each sculpture is close enough to the tree shape for them to be visually grouped, or noted as something cohesive in combination with it's surroundings. Yet it frames the sculptures nicely and makes them stand out. Apart from this selfish comment to make me feel better, I mostly want to use this as an excuse to say that I really love what you are doing here. I don't comment often, which means nothing, but I can say that I truly enjoy your latest videos. You really can tell that you love it, and it's coming across. Also I like that you explain the "why" of everything, actually taking the time to elaborate. I mean, I feel like you are always pretty (over)aware of all your builds - leading to a lot of trial and error (thus leading to be cream of the crop) - but, I dunno, maybe because you take your time or whatever. Anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk - I'm gonna watch some more. Keep killing your darlings, and all the best!

[@ilyxr]

Hahaha, I really enjoyed that TEDTalk. Yeah I think that is something people sometimes forget - in the abstract, colors can be referenced even if the plant material isn't the same. It's about knowing the design rules and choosing whether or not to follow them, hahaha.

[@robinsommer]

@@ilyxr I think it's also just something we adapted from art history, and film and such. How they had to play with contrast etc. The "rule of thirds" comes mainly from 2d media composition, but in general odd numbers are interesting to us mere symmetrical human. Maybe also because even amounts have no visible middle. In the end it's all expression and there are no rules. I mean, some art is AWFUL to look at - but that might just be the point. Ugh, who am I.. It's to late. I'm sorry. Thanks for staying for the TED talk encore. Good night.

[@FredericEffe]

How to turn an amazing (zoo) game into a toolbox to create botanic master pieces? Art, creativity, allegories, emotion, pedagogy. Everything is here but there is more. Thanks to your amazing videos, i also got to understand better the high interest of modern art (geometric patterns and forms, modern sculptures, ...) into botanic gardens and nature conservatories' design.

[@ilyxr]

Thank you so much and plus I got to learn something today...pedagogy - fascinating term!

[@PantoffeltierXD]

Maaaaan this is so aesthetically pleasing!!! I wish this garden would exist in real life cause I would basically live in there for the rest of my life :D Well done!!

[@koko01116]

I swear to god this man takes my breath away with every video! Georgous.

[@melissah6235]

I would love to visit a garden like this!

[@NielsPilon]

So beautiful and so many great sightlines. It's so diverse but still blends really well. Up to 10k subscribers.

[@svenh6786]

I'm so inspired to go out and change my whole garden, to bad it's winter. Love this project, keep up the good work.

[@ilyxr]

Same here, haha can't wait for spring's bounty once again

[@_LunaTheBlackCat_]

The perfect video to relax to. Having a massive migraine right now and this kinda helps :)

[@robertnmatthews]

Awesome job! I watch just about all of the you tubers and you have taught me the most about terrain and path-taming, realistic planting, design awareness and scale. You must have lots of patience. Why didn't Frontier work on the path system since Planco? Why bring that problem to the next franchise? It's not like they didn't know that we all hate it. I complain but I am still hooked on them both. Can't wait for the next episode.

[@ilyxr]

It's complicated - but from what I gather, PlanZoo's development started directly after PlanCo's release - meaning that a lot of the programming and structure had been done already, but updates to Co were not in sync with the development team for Zoo. Therefore they didn't really improve on a lot of issues that Co faced as well. Soooo paths are the way they are.

[@jaguar_x5501]

Take some parts of Kirstenbos Botanical Gardens in Cape Town South Africa 🇿🇦

[@LuukLewis]

I would love to see some speed build parts instead of the 'Update' style videos. Whether you'd decide to give that a shot or not, all this work and your knowledge is really impressive!

[@Floflotintin]

Whoa you are a master of garden making. This is lovely stunning.

[@Maria-hm9zz]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR ANOTHER PLANET BOTANIC!!

[@ArthurRuno]

What a beautiful design! I love it

[@navillus0409]

This is beautiful 😍😍 Love this series so so much!!

[@PlasticSwans]

Damn that's good!

[@ArianneCriseyde]

This is impressive! It's insightful to hear your thoughts about landscaping. It looks excessive (I prefer less walking but that's just me) but there's a transitional experience between setpieces.

[@ilyxr]

Yeah, i prefer a reasonably direct path, until elevation is a factor. Then you've got the challenge of path wrangling which results in a slightly indirect path, haha. Direct in that instance is stairs, but then you have the problem of lacking inclusion for people who are not bipedal. From there, budget is factored...as to move people vertically it's either an elevator or escalator. When budget is a thing, it becomes more likely to path wrangle a slope, thus losing the directness of the path.

[@ambidexterity1]

I love this series. Keep up the great content!

[@Icotheus]

That garden thiccc

[@groves8133]

that is amazing. Genuinely breath-taking.

[@allixian2177]

Hey, Hi Mike, pretty much new subscriber of you. I love your build and pretty pump you're joining Kaoli Zoo. And I just wanna know what your insight or what can you say to some of the Botanical Garden in my country the Philippines. I basically knew 3 garden. First is La Union Botanical nd Zoological Garden in San Fernando, La Union, Philippines, a natural garden with a serene Japanese setting, an herbal wheel garden, an arid paradise and more theme gardens - a romantic hideaway or a classical landscape. Second is Baguio Botanical Garden in Baguio, Philippines is one of the green parks of the City of Pines "where nothing much happens". And I might add that Baguio is known to be the flower capital of the Philippines because of the beautiful flower that comes from the city. And Lastly and probably my fave is Terrazas de Flores Botanical Garden in Cebu, Philippines, a flower garden where local flowers are meticulously arranged on a mountain slope to form flower terraces. It has over 120 species of plants and flowers, also flaunting other beautiful art and fascinating poetry. Just wanna share some Botanical Garden in our country, although it might not as good as the garden in your country or other foreign country but i find then pretty 👍☺️

[@MohamedLazraq-uk2pv]

That's a man of quality

[@woutdejongh8923]

Awesome episode. It turned out great 😊

[@mineraljunction]

truly outstanding work mang

[@Kiterou]

Omg this is breathtakingly beautiful!

[@Bethgael]

OMG. This is fantastic. I used to really dislike geometric shapes in gardening (I like the English Garden aesthetic because I'm boring), but I'll have to change my mind now. [Arrived at your channel via Geekism's cliff-face and now I'm just going to have to subscribe, dammit.] (You also get away with 2 of the second tree, I think, because 3+2 = 5 so you still have the odd number of a similar coloured focal points overall?)

[@ilyxr]

Yup! I think that aspect of design overrides the rule of odds. Good eye!

[@tedradearr1530]

Awesome, are these on steam workshop, the flower statues?

[@elliebookham5221]

This is INCREDIBLE

[@sandboxIRL]

Absolutely fucking increadible, as always

[@nikodemus59]

you will make a french garden like versaille ?

[@ilyxr]

Not sure if I will go fully in that direction, Versailles is....on a scale that I don't even think the game could handle, hahaha.

[@nikodemus59]

@@ilyxr of course , not the scale but the style ?

[@TheHoneyBadger83]

Pretty awesome work

[@sven1762]

Its beautiful man.

[@ilyxr]

Yup, I mentioned it towards the end of this video - some of the major gardens are going to have seamless habitats integrated into the design of the garden. For instance, the Chinese Garden is likely going to have red pandas, the japanese garden is going to have Komodo Dragons...the modern garden is going to have peafowl - ect.

[@sven1762]

Mike Sheets Ah cool. sorry halfway video i had to see the doctor. So thats why i asked about it. Haha.

[@stephanejrbell5303]

Wow! NJ!

[@LordBrian]

magnificent

[@koolcat232]

omg are those lilly sculptures on the workshop?!

[@ilyxr]

No, but I could add them if they'd be useful to anyone!

[@koolcat232]

@@ilyxr Yes please! they are amazing

[@pantheratora]

How do you color the water garden plants? I've never seen a option for that before! AWESOME work btw!

[@ilyxr]

I believe they're simply the "bedding plants" from the gardening tab - those are the only fully recolorable options in the game!

[@pantheratora]

Mike Sheets I’ve never seen that before, pretty awesome to know! I have no idea why but I’ve never really used them before

[@crazygraham1]

hi Mike this is amazing I don't know how you do it I feel like I'm playing a different game as everything you make looks so good and realistic. have you got a steam page so we can look at the things you've uploaded ?

[@ilyxr]

Because of the way I play, I don't end up making a whole lot of workshop items - but when I do I'll be sure to link them!

[@crazygraham1]

@@ilyxr that's such a shame as what you create is brilliant, I've noticed how well you do the rocks to make them look like believable cliffs and mountains I've been trying to do this myself and seem to fail as it never turns out like yours, Maybe you would consider creating and uploading some larger rock arrangements that can be used as cliffs faces or mountains to the workshop, Even watching you set out trees and flowers and plants, I think to myself how hard can it be lol but it's not just a case of popping things down I've been trying to get a north American feel going and its killing me as I compare it to your work then out comes the multi select tool and bye bye I'm never pleased with it. Maybe you might even consider makeing an episode giving us loyal followers tips on creating mountains and cliffs along with creating tree and plant arrangements that you could upload to steam and that are ready to make any garden come to life and look semi believable once in are parks and zoos. Well I'm glad I have found your channel I'm so impressed with what you do it's on another level than 95% of other KZbinrs. Cant wait to see your next video the garden in this video like its amazing I cant wait to see where this park goes. Well I'll keep my fingers crossed for a tutorial guide video and hope for some uploads I'm sure many would be very grateful like myself to have items created by you in thier zoos. Graham.

[@ilyxr]

@UCIwqzhb_bZtIsmMETYrLVIg sounds like a brilliant idea! I'll have to start working on this

[@crazygraham1]

@@ilyxr That's brilliant thanks you I cant wait now lol.