While walking the dog around the village I make a 'shopping list' of what looks good and where I can easily get it. Snap a twig off here and there, grab some seed pods when the time is right. Free plants and so very satisfying to grow them yourself.

I have a group of gardening friends, and at the beginning and end of our growing season (when they are cleaning up and reworking their gardens) we always let each other know if we have "extras" that aren't needed, wanted, or have overgrown the garden. An example is when irises and lilys have overgrown their patch, they are dug up and divided, and are offered free to any friend who can use them. Sometimes a plant or bush has crowded out others in the garden and they are dug up for a place in a new home garden. I have many plants from my friends and the my garden not only looks great (at no cost) but it also reminds me of my generous friends. Also, your lilac will send up suckers from its roots. They are super hardy and you can dig them up and plant them anywhere you would like another lilac to grow. Your garden looks great! How about doing a few things to attract more birds to your yard......feeders, bird baths, etc. ?

What an absolutely fantastic and impressive project. We wish you many happy and joyfull years in your new and beautiful home. Kindest regards from Switzerland Urs and Marie-Therese

Yay garden video ☺️. Two videos in one week what a treat 🤣

16:10 break off the old blossoms to give the rhododenrorododendron more strength. Each has 3-4 predertemined breaking points. Looks a bit dry too. Garden looks great so far. Well done.

Hi Andy, My mum used to walk around the neighbourhood and if she saw something she liked she would knock on the door or start a conversation if they were in the garden and ask if she could take a cutting or two, I know we live in the north east and people are more friendly then the south but she never came away without some cuttings and she also gave away cutting to the people who gave her cuttings and a lot of them remained friends for live.

Andy i am just over (or should I say ower' 😁) the water from you. I learned my lesson a while back with newly planted Hydrangea , Azalea and Rhododendron. In their first year especially they need to be watered a few times a week... even in our climate🙈🤣. Their roots tend to be shallow until established....they also seem to like full sun at some part of the day. Garden looks incredible...given what you had to fight with originally. 💕🥰 PS. In Feb cut your raspberry canes down by about a foot...in this way you get a lot more raspberries to pick.

For colour and easy to grow, may I suggest a Photinia x Fraserii ( Red Robin ) for glossy evergreen leaves that produce eye catching new vivid red ones all summer. And Skimmia - another evergreen which has lime green or dark green leaves all year. Some varieties have scented little flowers in spring, others bright red berries. Autumn is the best time to buy them at nurseries, if you're going shrub shopping soon !

The proximity of that rhododendron to the river is giving me a heart attack - rhododendron is a schedule 9 invasive species (like knotweed) so you need to be careful it doesn't spread down the river! It will also eventually outshade the bluebells and other ancient woodland plants that will be growing in that soil down by the river. Otherwise garden looks great!

When I had my retirement house built, my first sources of shrubs and trees were (1) from my old house and (2) from my neighbors when they reworked their gardens and divided plants. They're always happy to give some away to good homes. (If you rave about their beautiful day lilies they'll surely share them.) I also rescued mountain laurel from a nearby road widening project. Local nurseries can't usually winter over all of their stock, so make offers in the fall. Even during the summer I made offers for pathetic plants that just needed a little love. They'd rather make a couple of dollars than nothing at all for a plant destined for the compost pile. Encourage some of the native "wild" plants that may sprout up by weeding out the things you don't want. Along my brook I now have at least five different varieties of ferns, and I have cardinal flowers and patches of mayflowers and sedum and checkerberry. I also have a thriving black locust tree, the seed apparently brought by a bird from over a mile away.

Move the cherry further from the fence while you still can. Keep an eye on the lilac, it puts out suckers everywhere! Great job 👍

B&Q always have a clearance rack, basically plants which they forgot to water! I’ve have acers for £1 and perennials for pence! Garden looking good!

I had a lilac bush I made it into a tree it was gorgeous. All I did was remove all the lower branches. I’ve just checked out the hedge place ☺️ Brilliantly put together your footage editing etc.

I've been waiting for this one. Love the garden or as we say "yard". I enjoyed your your tour a great deal.

Haven't seen greenery like that in weeks. You even have leaves on trees. Southern England currently resembles the Australian outback.

Couldn’t agree more Just bought 10 fascia’s for £5 5 x good sized laurels for £20 And 5 x privets for £20 5 trays of autumn pansys for £5 ( 30 plants ) From my local independent garden centre

Very inspiring!

Thanks for the video Andy,the garden is coming on a treat.👍👍

Great gardening that anyone can do! England is amazing for what it can grow. I simply stuck rose prunings in the ground one spring and they struck. You are also spot on about driving out unwanted things in your grass by keeping it cut. I look forward to seeing it in the spring! (When you get down toward the stream and into the shade, check out jewel weed (NOT a weed!) but an annual with a bright flower that can grow to about five feet.

Andy, I've become a fan of acers in recent years and although ours have suffered in the drought (in Wiltshire) they are coming back and we're sure they'll survive. Our grass is truly brown though. Our drought lasted 7 weeks and many days over 30 degrees made it worse. It rained today and we should be ok. The grass will regrow. Cheers, Love the channel.

Great video (as usual)! Was up in the north east last week (Whitley Bay) helping my son with his house extension. Couldn't help but notice the green rather than brown countryside! So much great information , please keep it up!

Hi Andy, the garden's looking fantastic and I'm really impressed with the home sewn lawn. It looks so healthy. So glad you kept as much as you could. Where we live, we have to catch the water for all of our needs, so use water tanks with filtered drinking water. Consequently, we never leave taps running and NEVER hose down the driveway!

Interesting as always Andy. Keep up the good work and thank you for sharing 🌞

This is a beautiful garden. Really inspiring.

Saw a twitter thread the other day where someone was suggesting (from some basic research) that hardly any new reservoirs have been built since water privatisation, hmm!

Beautiful, Mr & Mrs Mac! ♡ x

A hint for your dog rose, tie to the fence/trellis with soft bits, like soft rubber tree ties or straps. As long as the Sycamore is kept in hand, this will be a nice combo for the garden. Also, the extension and house overall has been a treat to watch from beginning to current. Your site helped me get through the pandemic, and then I just stuck around for hints and yeah, the wonder of seeing the transformation of this property. Thanks to you and to Mrs Mac!

Looks brilliant Andy. Free plants are the best ones.

What a great video!

Bellísimo trabajo 👊 💯

One thing that I do is take a couple of photos from the same perspective every week throughout the year. That way I have a shifting perspective of how the gardens look throughout the year and maybe what needs to be done. My goal was color throughout all season and found out where color was missing and where the winter winds were blowing through the gardens by the snowdrifts.

Mon the brambles!

I love laurel its quick growing, evergreen and not a nuisance like leylandii is. And it's cheap!

People need to put rainwater tanks into their landscapes. We live without being on mains water using water tanks that have 55,000 litres of capacity. During our last summer we went without rain for nearly 5 months and We watered the vegetable garden every day and the lawn goto a watering every other day using a targeted irrigation system. We did not run out, averaging about 200 to 250 litres per day.

Good talk through of the garden. Cheers. With all these new builds its about time that rain water harvesting was made mandatory. Even a couple of thousand litres would help.

I winced seeing that Horses Tail. Trying to get rid of it from the house I bought last year

I use pine bark mulch around my rhododendrons.Regular mulch for everything else.

Trade between neighbors and friends and family. I'm always giving away flowers that outgrow their space.

For garden bargains: 1 Buy herbaceous perennials. They can be split up into several new plants. I bought 1 shasta daisy (crazy daisy) in September by june this year I had 12 flowering in my garden. 2 Morrisons do some bargains but limited supplies. 3 Facebook people sell split plants cheaply. 4 Join Suttons mail list. They send bargains out like all seeds for £1 each, and at the end of the season they sell off plants cheap. I got 15 Penstemon Electric blue for £6.

Is this to be your forever home? That garden and what you've done to the house would convince me

Hello Andy.....you couldn't pay me to plant even one laurel....but, the rest of the garden is coming back to life. Moreover, split the lavender and take cuttings of the fuschias.....always nice shrubs at the end of the season.

Hey I'm a new subscriber love these vids and this whole series is there more to come for the inside of the house can't wait to see more so hope so thanks for this awesome content

Fine areas for croquet.

Thanks for the video, Andy. Did the sycamore removal have any effect on how you had to spec the footings for the studio?

Aaaargh; the dreaded horse/mare’s tail - good luck!

Hi, what's in the square container in front of the studio please? The wild cherry might be a problem down the line, I found a 2m long thick root giving up shoots, no idea where the actual tree was or if it was an old root from previous tenant

Slab it don't deck it, your have rats and mice for every more. It's a animals delight as food falls through all the gaps in decking

i knew morrisons would be a bargain find ;) we reduced big plants down to a stupid price just because half the leaves went brown

Love the garden. One thing - rhododendrons are an invasive species and kill off native plants etc. So not the best for your nature bit.

for a minute there I thought this was going to be a video about the other garden you tranformed in the previous property (not sure about which property it was) which looked like a mini-tropical paradise. I even commented on that video saying the same thing and got a response from you saying you might get round to making a vid on it but I guess that video didn't leave the production floor. In any case, can't wait to see what your current garden looks like in a years time! =)

@16:03 if thats a mini rhododendron then the reason its dying its because they like acidic soil. I know this from experience.

Hi, what are bare root plants please?

I've been afraid to chop my lilacs even though everyone says that they'll grow back with a vengeance!

When are we going to see your new kitchen!

If you want the blueberry to fruit you'll need a two plants

I admire your knowledge in the garden 🪴 👌🏼. Just one thing , get a coat of paint on the fence while you can 🎨🧱👍🏽

Looks awesome for the money you spent, be careful though if you have badges near by, they destroyed my new lawn in one night ☹️

Our local Homer Depot puts leftover trees and shrubs and perennials at 50%-75% off.

Our local garden greenhouses can't compete with the big box stores.

Just overheard rag n bone brown and Charlie Diyte saying they could take you in a scrap.

So how much have you spent up to now on the garden and renovation?

Is that a fig tree i c.

wow, a lot of those are way to close to each other

Don’t give up your day job ….. think monty will be shaking in his boots…. Lol