I think you live and learn making videos. I really wanted to have my own thoughts when I looked at gardens, so I finally figured out other people liked it too! Thank you for visiting my garden.

We just got done with spring cleanup; now the mulching starts. Long process. THANK YOU for the visit.

Thanks Elaine. I am thinking spring thoughts too!

I'm glad you were pleased; I like to watch them in the winter myself and was having to turn the sound off so I would not hear my voice; now I get to hear nature in the winter and view it too!

I love to do the same thing. Glad it made your morning more special.

Thanks Helenina for the visit and I'm glad you like the bird song. I LOVE IT TOO!

Thanks for the visit; it is warming up; Here we go again!

Thanks for visiting!

Ah....... You must have a pet bird. I'm glad he enjoyed it!

Thank you for the visit. The birds are going wild right now. They are as glad as I am to see spring. I'm working on the yard now getting ready too mulch.

I love garden sounds too. It has started again in my area. I get up at dawn, go feed the birds, perk my coffee and then me and the dog listen to the bird singing while we wait on everyone else to get up.

Thank you Julia; I'm glad you could visit my garden!

I loved your garden so much I subscribed just wanted you to know 😊

Thank you. My husband and I are working on 20 c yards of mulch right now to get ready for this season. If all goes well I will have a new video this fall!

Nice can’t wait to see it🌺🌸🌼

I am so glad the garden let you escape at least in your mind for a few minutes. I do that too! Spring is coming soon I think.

Thank you!

Thank you for visiting my garden!

Thanks Jean. I like the birds and wildlife as much as the flowers. They are a comfort to watch.

Thanks for the visit!!!!

Thanks Grandma Sandy! I'm glad you took a tour.

Thank you!

Thank you for the kind words and for visiting my cottage garden!

Thank you Jan; I'm so glad you like it!

Thank you for visiting!

Obrigado! ❤😊❤

Thank you for the compliment and for visiting my garden.

Thank you VERY much!!!!!

Thank you for your visit!!!

Thank you. My husband and I do it all and by the end of the summer we are looking forward to the break!

I don't know what we did before youtube. You can escape to another world. Thank you for your visit to my garden.

Thank you. We are mulching right now; a two or three week process at our age. Glad to see it warm up.

Marie Brown 😁I was very busy yesterday with American Currants (Ribes). Some parts of our garden get so overgrown 😲

Thank you; glad you liked them.

I hope your holidays were good in Germany. Thank you for visiting my garden!

Thank you for the visit!

Thank you. I put most of my annuals in pots which makes it easier to find them to water during dry times which we have a lot of here.

Thank you for visiting my garden. It sounds like your garden is very relaxing too.

Thank you!

Thank you for the visit!

Thanks for the visit!

Thank you for visiting my cottage garden!

Gracias por su visita

Yes, I live in the southeast US. Thank you very much for the visit and kind comments.

I have many squirrels and chipmunks and raccoons and possums. Thank you for visiting my garden.

@@MarieBrownCottageGarden Nice. Enjoy them

I am glad you enjoyed it Carrline!

They are hosta which bloom about mid summer. They are a bee magnet so I am very thankful to have them. Thank you for your visit to my garden,

@@MarieBrownCottageGarden Thank you so much for the reply, I really appreciate it. Sending you much love and safety from Australia!

I think you are talking about the Caladiums. I buy them at Sam's Club in bulk. Thank you for visiting my garden.

I'm in Zone 6 but I can usually get by with Zone 5 in certain spots of the yard. Thanks for taking the tour!

Hi Irene, Thanks for the visit. It is called Cross Vine. It grows wild in my yard, but this one is not. I bought it from a nursery. The ones from the nursery get bigger blooms. I love it. Mine does not lose it leaves in the winter since it is native here. You can read about it here: www.monrovia.com/plant-catalog/plants/358/tangerine-beauty-crossvine/

Thanks Marie, I will check it out and see if it can be bought here in Oz. Apart from your beautiful garden I love all the birdsong and critters.

Thanks. I find myself thinking more of how to attract the birds and critters with my plants than I do the plants themselves. I've started buying viburnums and beauty bush and roses that have the red hips and anything that produces food to make them want to come here. Many birds don't use feeders. I have 3 native mulberry trees in my yard and I bought two cherry trees this year that I hope made it. It was so dry for a long time.

Me too! I try and plant for bird, bees, butterflies. Have planted 9 x Rugosa Roses for the rosehips. The only milkweed I can source here is the Swan Plant (Asclepias Fruticosa). I have definitely overplanted but that is better rather than having a few sparse plants about the place, you can always thin out. We have just recently installed a Microbat Nest Box which hopefully will attract the microbats as we have enough mosquitoes to feed a battalion! Have been watching videos of Carolyn Puckett, Marleen Manos Jones and Margaret Roach. Re dryness: I have to do a lot of hand watering (lugging a watering can) as apart from the hose not reaching way down the back of the plot, a lot of trees: olives, citrus, fig, apples, etc etc (I told you I overplanted!) need a deep watering rather than just hosed. Sorry, that all must be like 'teaching my grandmother to suck eggs' .Hopefully you are familiar with that saying! I think we are about the same age (60s) so I am not inferring you could be my grandmother! You could teach me! The most frustrating thing for me is that at my age (67) and just starting to establish a garden I will never see it to fruition. Just as well I like digging holes and plonking plants in!

I checked your Google page earlier to see if you has posted anymore video(s). I'll be watching for them. I grew up on this property and got my 1.5 acres from my Dad when I was in my 20's and moved on it when I was 38. Time flew by! I've seen plots that were 5 years old that looked better than things much older. You are doing it right. I could tell from your video you took some time to design your dream! My grandfather bought 80 acres if I remember right here in the 30's and he only had two children and now his children's children and his grandchildren and great grandchildren own homes here. The property was so beautiful with the lake, the woods, and the farmland that no one wants to leave it I guess. I hope your garden grows in very fast and may you live to see it!

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Thanks for watching Diego. How sad for the birds to leave! I've read that they also are drawn to bird baths. I'd say it would take quite some time to build them back up. If you had a covered feeder where the feed will stay fresh and not go bad, then you would have feed out just in case. Maybe you need to just find you a cute little new spot. Something like this: Audubon Bird's Delight Squirrel Resistant Bird Feeder Model 7511i

I've never had anything else and I'm going to be 70 next year. I learned it from my own Mom growing up. Thank you for visiting my garden.

Salamat sa pagbisita sa aking hardin.

I am glad you enjoyed the garden! Thanks for the visit.