When I need some peace in my life I watch your videos. Your garden is lovely and you have a kind voice. Thank you for sharing.

Jeri, Thank you so much for this lesson in seed gathering. I learned a lot 🌸 I enjoy all of your beautiful gardens and recipes. ❤️

Wow that poppy was amazing! Just beautiful. A flower declares the glory of God! I never cease to be amazed at all the interesting sounds in the background of your videos. Today it sounded like music with all the birds singing. Thanks for sharing Jeri!

Thanks so much for being so real. It is encouraging to know that other Gardeners experience frustrations as well. For me it’s been difficult to grow zinnias and cosmos. Everyone says they’re so easy...well not for me😆 however... foxgloves & sweet peas grow like weeds in my garden! I agree to never give up...but it’s also good to embrace and celebrate what works. You have done both & I admire you all the more for it. Hoping to save more seeds again this year to continue growing my garden with the least bit of cash possible. God’s creation is beyond amazing...it’s such a joy to be a gardener isn’t it? Keep up the good work Jeri...your videos are such a blessing for us all.💕

I love how poppies disperse their seeds! God is so creative😊

Hello Jeri you’re so sweet ,lovely the best ever channel you make my day your gorgeous garden so peaceful and paradise. Thank a millions.God bless and peace 🦋🦋💕🌸🌲🌱

I never knew a Poppy had that many seeds. Amazing.

I consider this very educational. I am an avid gardner but still learned from u. Thank u so much.

I too enjoy watching & learning so much from you. I knit socks while I watch & listen, your very inspiring. God bless you & please keep sharing💞🙏👼💖

I love your videos. Now I use small glass containers to hold my collected seeds and seed pods. I have an old step back cabinet and I just love looking at them. They look so interesting grouped together with my dishes. They remind me of summers to come and a great feeling of faith and hope! Bless you!!

Thanks Jeri, this video encouraged me. I thought I was the only one who had failures!!! Not really, but this was a great thing for you to do. I appreciate it.

I enjoyed this video , Sunflowers have always been a favorite of mine to grow. I love to watch the birds eating from the heads that are so heavy with seeds that they have to eat them upside down , comical to watch . It's been a good day here cloudy and cold but enjoyable because I got to spend some time watching your video's . Tea with Jeri today , listening to the wonderful sounds of nature . Thank you , God Bless you always in all ways .

Really appreciate you sharing your "fails". I have had similar problems and it is nice to hear that I am not the only one. Love your style and content.

I so enjoyed this! I especially enjoyed watching you share about the seeds. It's after 10 P.M. here in Spring Valley, CA and the comment by Sarah Dawson is right on... With so much turmoil around these days, your "kind voice" is a real blessing as you share your garden. Thank You again. It's been a very different Easter but we have so much to be grateful for.

Yup I needed that encouragement I’ll still try it. And keep those seed again. Thanks

It's worth planting two days before full moon, it really works! Love your channel ! x Crystal Green Scotland x

I just discovered your channel about a week ago and have been enjoying your videos so much! I’m a beginner gardener but have found that I enjoy it so much! My mother is a true gardener and I’ve shared your channel with her as well. She enjoys watching your relaxing and informative videos as I do. Thank you so much.

Simply beautiful! This gives me so much hope. I'm dealing with some bad weeds and I'm giving up trying to pull them all 😖

Oh how lovely is your garden! The sights, the sounds and the scents too I imagine. I've just moved to the mountains of BC after living in the UK. I visited many beautiful gardens while there, old walled gardens, full of sound and scent. Oh how I miss that! I shall follow along with you and enjoy yours. 🌺

After watching one of your videos about your zinnia cutting garden I decided to try them from seed. I was encouraged by what you were able to get from one pack of seeds. Tried to find zinnia seeds but every place was out of the seed. Tripped across them at dollar general. Thought they might be duds but 50% off and .25 a pack, thought I'd give them a try. Like many disappointments in gardening, seeds have a way of washing away when unexpected rain shows up or the birds or my chickens decide to check it out. However, I sewed a row in cinderbocks to see if they would grow and and by the 5th day, I had sprouting. I was impressed. Cinder blocks are ugly but I needed to see them sprout with weeds. Weeds often look like a flower sprouting that it gets confusing. I think I prefer to sew in degradable pots in my potting shed to drop in the ground. It eliminates the weeds. I sprouted about 50 seeds of butterfly weed within 3 days by putting a Ziploc bag over it after I had them in soil and damp. It worked great for me. Thanks for sharing and being so transparent about your experiences. I have been discouraged with some of the plants this year. Lost 3 lavender plants and my 4th one seems to be stressing now. Too much rain and humidity I guess. I know they done like a lot of water. I'm not going to give up on lavender but I might take it to a container since our soil is clay and when it rains, the clay holds the water.

I've loved watching your garden presentation, now, in Feb! I can't wait to plant this spring! I live in TN, too! Hugs!

I put my seeds in white envelopes and if they are not completely dry they can continue to dry in the air-permeable envelope. Once they are fully dry they can be put in little spice jars and put on my wall hanging rack. I really enjoyed this video. An interesting fact about foxglove is an old name for them is dead men bell's because of the number of men gardener there was in the past and they didn't wear gloves and died in the garden next to the plant from cardiac arrest. Foxglove is a glycoside cardiac also known as digitalis. As you said Jeri always wear gloves!

There is a lavender farm five miles east of us. It is so lovely! Your flower gardens are beautiful!!

Hi ms. Jeri. I'm so glad to know the meaning of the flowers as well as how to collect seeds. I collect 4 o 'clock seeds every year; it seems like a compulsion.

Thank You for all the information and encouragement for the gardener. I love seeing your beautiful garden with the wonderfull shrill call of the peacock in the background.

That’s amazing about the poppy seeds. My aunt gave me the big poppy seeds couldn’t get them to come up. You’ve inspired me o buy some an try again. Loved our o on drying seeds.

I must get The Rose of Sharon and Rubekia for my garden this coming season. The Sunflower is my favorite. I'm a country girl! Your garden still looks absolutely gorgeous. I love your videos. Yes, I have experienced the "volunteer" zinnia all over my garden - I actually had to pull some out. But my granddaughter actually picked some and took them to my mom (her great grandma) in a bouquet. It was lovely Jeri!!! you have inspired me to collect the seeds from the pods. Oh I can hardly wait! I learned so much with this video. thank you! Till next time, God Bless you, Bertha from TEXAS

I love the sounds in your garden. It sounds so lush and magical. I am in the west Texas high plains in America and it’s so drought ridden and windy here, we really have a hard time creating a space that is anything like this. Thank you for sharing!

Had to chuckle at the snapdragon, but your videos is spot on. Gardening can often times frustrating.

When I was a child, my parents had a country house. The back yard was full of poppies and mint. In Buenos Aires the soil is excellent. This year I've started growing vegs, so I love your videos.

Hi Jeri, this is how I manage good sweet peas every year, not sure if it will work for you and I apologise in advance if you have tried this. But I always sew them the day after christmas and grow them on the windowsill indoors till its safe for them to go out in spring. I also pinch out the tops when they get about 6 inches high, that encourages vigarous growth, and then when I plant them out, I encourage them to lay flat, around the obelisk which seems to encourage alot of flowers. Thank you for your videos, my friend Jeanne recomended I watch them and I love them, so love and thanks to you both xxx

Thanks for the tips on the foxgloves

You crack me up. I have not been able to grow a cosmos but I keep trying. You’re right a Gardner never gives up. Love your gardens.

You inspire me to never give up! Learning so much from you! Thank you!🌾🤗

Seed saving is so important, thanks for sharing your process.

Just beautiful u have a merry Christmas and it wont be long for flowers to come back up

Thanks for the inspiration to collect seeds! I have been saying I need to collect my seeds and making excuses , but you gave me inspiration!

Preciosas flores y jardín 🤩

Your videos bless my heart so much .I get so happy when you post a new video ,and I look forward to curling up and enjoying each moment !

My great grandmother taught my mother to make hollyhock fairy dolls. You probably have them somewhere in your videos. I made hollyhock fairies for my daughter and then for my grand daughters. 6 generations of hollyhock dolls. Mrs CB Ohio

When I was a young girl. A lady lived in our neighborhood she grew dahlias. Oh I wish I could grow beautiful flowers like that. 20 years ago I'm growing dahlias I have 40 different dahlias

Thank you so much for talking about your fails. I am a good gardener but had trouble with cosmos and zinnia this year. They are supposed to be so easy!!! Your garden tours are a joy to me. True cottage charm.

I certainly understand about the frustrations, but a garden is so worth the trouble. Your garden is so pretty Jeri, I really enjoyed the little tour. Thanks for sharing the seed collection info, it was very helpful. Kim

This was a very informative and enjoyable walk through your gardens.

Your garden reality is 20 times better than mine. Loved your bouquet of flowers with the white feathers in it. So pretty. Last year I saved seeds from a piece of homegrown watermelon my neighbor gave me, so far so good. Two days ago I rescued hollyhock seed pods from someone's green waste bin. Thanks for the lovely video. 😊

Thank you for all of your encouraging information, the poppy seed had tons of seed😍 that is a wonderful bounty. Always a wonderful trip through hopalong hollow 🙏💖

I love all of your videos, your voice is so gentle, the sounds of birds in the background...just sp peaceful. I'm enjoying trying new flowers just because of you! Just planted coneflowers, phlox, and zinnias. The joy in my heart is big!!!

Sitting here waiting on my covid test while Bing watching your channel and I busted out laughing when you said, "where did all my seeds go?". 😂 Made my day

Such an inspiring and motivational video. I love that big poppy pod and recognised it from years ago when I made a few dried flower wreaths. I had no idea what they were called (neither did the girl selling them) but if you shook them they made a rattling sound. Nothing ever came out of them and my mom and I always wondered if they were real of fake. Now I finally know.😊

This video made me feel so much better...we have had such wierd weather here in Michigan. I have had a lot of fails this year.

I know this is last year’s video but I absolutely love it. I find it offers hope to try again. So I watch again when I plan my trip to purchase plants (I’ve slowed down on trying seeds)The only thing I have great success with ,no matter what I try, are geraniums (pelargonium), morning glory, and marigolds. It’s such a good thing I love geraniums and marigolds. I’ve stopped planting Heavenly Blue morning glories for which Appalachian Power is grateful.

Jeri, as I was re watching this, I thought she needs one of those embossing/glitter trays used in stamping. It would be great to catch the seed and it has a pour spout on it. I would get the pink one or light colored one. Hobby lobby or Michaels should have them.

I collect seeds from my garden also, especially my larkspur ~ so many colors of them to scatter about! Always love seeing your gardens.

Can’t wait to collect some of seed.

Hello there I am a new subscriber, Siloé Oliviera from suburban homestead mentioned you in one of his videos. I'm surprised to find out you're not far away from me here in Oak Ridge. Bless you and thank you for sharing your amazing work and knowledge.

Thank you for sharing that it still happens to me some things are successful and some not but I love gardening so I keep on.

All the seed pods are amazing aren’t they. No one has ever shown me how to collect seeds. Thank you for sharing. Always a great video, Jeri. 👍💗☺️ Take care and God Bless, Chris-Raleigh NC

Hi Jeri, I love your videos. Blessings Lisa from NY

I love those Poppy seed heads! I didn't get any planted in time, but they are definitely going in next spring. I'm in zone 7 and I plant my peas in January or February. Mine did so well this year and I was still picking at the beginning of June! They are very cool season plants, so I was amazed they lasted that long, but we had a lot of spring rains so that must have kept them going. Try early planting and I'm sure you will have success. I have several failures in my potager this year, but many things are doing well also so I can't complain too badly☺️ Another very lovely video!

Everyone seems to have trouble with sweet peas! I have not tried them yet but I may give them a whirl next spring.

I love your videos so much, you are so right about the frustrations that come along with gardening, but I always learn from them, it is so rewarding and satisfying to me, your gardens are amazing, thank you for sharing your gardens with us and your knowledge :)

Propagate your sweet peas indoors and don't plant outside til after end of May/beginning of June when the frost has stopped. They love full sunshine. I grow them every year and they become a beautiful hedge along my picket fence. Hope they work out for you next year. 🌸

I can very much relate to this video. For the longest time, I was afraid to even try to grow anything because there was too much to know. How could I, a beginner, even dare to hope to have a perfect garden like those well seasoned green thumbs. Well, I'm older now and know better; gardening is a constant state of change. Every year there will be one or two plants that simply won't do well one year but will be prolific the next. No rhyme, no reason. Just the nature of … well, nature! I learned that those "perfect" gardens were really just lessons in going with the flow. As for those sweet peas, mine look exactly the same as yours but with one less flower (I have all vine, what vine there is to speak of, and no flowers yet)! Last year where I only saw one or two slugs, this year I had a population of them who helped themselves to most of my flowers (baby's breath and sunflowers). I have exactly one tomato the size of a marble right now, out of two plants. But the squashes and cucumbers are doing fine and it was an exercise of plant and plant again for the bean vines to even amount to much. I did harvest some new potatoes and some garlic today and that made me smile. I'll carry on. Because even one flower or fruit or crop from my own soil is well with my soul :-)

hahahaha that peacock cracks me up. Yes never give up !!! Thanks for being real !!!

Your garden is so lovely and gives me hope. My sweet peas are doing wonderfully though. They thrill me to my toes. My pansies and violas still like beautiful, although once the really warm weather comes it will be hard to keep them looking nice. Thanks for inspiring me. I live in zone 8b. Blessings 💗

Amazing, even with the failures, because it does lets us know that an amazing garden could be attained in spite of failures if they also happen to the best gardeners. I just LOVE the sounds of your garden!! I have bee balm growing for the first time, no flowers just foliage so far, your looks so beautiful. My goodness those bees/bumblebees looked huge though, right? I'm still loving you potting table your hubby put up for you. 😉 Poppy seed, (salt shaker pod). God's creations, right? How every flower/plant /tree is so different. This is a wonderful video for new gardeners Jeri, for so many reasons but the seed collection part is great thing to learn. How to save seeds, and the savings when you do. ☺️Thank you and God bless!

Do you enjoy feverfew. I do. Never ending below my rose garden. The seeds are fun.

Rose of Sharon is in the mallow family. It is edible. You can dehydrate or naturally dry the flowers. You could use them also for tea.

I have the same problems with Cosmos and Snapdragons. It’s discouraging, but I always try next year. I couldn’t get cone flower to grow so last year I bought the plant and it has put on a show this year. Love Zinnias. They never fail. My Coreopsis did beautifully this year. I also did Petunias from seed and they are thriving. Oh look at the bees. I’ve hardly seen any this year.

My Perennial sweet peas bloom like crazy their hooked on composted cow manure,They don't liked to be fussed over, they bloom from late spring until the first hard frost we have. I don't cut them back until I see new growth in the spring. I love your gardens.

Hi Jeri I don't feel so bad on having a few failures in the garden, those sweet peas are so finicky. I started mine during winter and still got small lanky plants!! Regarding the cosmos those loved my soil or environment they're growing like weeds... LOL 😍❤️❤️😍!!! Anyway I really enjoyed your beautiful and relaxing video thanks 🌺🌸

Really enjoyed this video and the collecting of seeds. I was thinking of adding Foxgloves to my garden, but I'm not so sure because my granddaughter helps me a lot and sometimes we don't always wear our gloves, although it is rare but she is a touchy-feely little girl. I have a few that are poisonous already like the Hydrangeas that are so pretty. The Foxgloves I read are extremely poisonous, so thank you so much for this super informational video! Have a blessed week! Peaches

My favorite flowes I grew this year from saved seed are scented nicotiana. It was pretty hard to let them go to seed. The spent blooms are so unattractive, and the thought that I was lessening the blooming from not dead heading was hard. They smell divine and I love them. I actually had 2 plants over winter and are now about 6 feet tall. Odd since I'm in the pacific northwest and they aren't meant to survive here.

I had several snap dragons come back this year and they do every year. I let the seeds stay on the stalk and naturally fall to the ground. These are the prettiest ones and huge rocket snaps, tall and bushy. I find that once the leaves fall and cover up this area that is sheltered against the house then come spring I can see them poking out. I still do not remove the leaves until they get pretty big. I stake mine too. I have a deep round tub that I plant some in and they always come back too. I just let the weeds grow with them and shelter them until they get some growth on them. This is out in the open area and they do well there too. They really don’t like a lot of sun but can take some once they have some growth and are established. Hope this might help you with yours.🌿🌺

I love your videos, Jeri. Every single one. I also have my struggles with seeds not germinating at times or underwhelming me with the end result which makes the triumphs all the more glorious. Same thing can happen with purchased plants, depending. I have a new rose I planted that is nothing like the picture. Your pink phlox is a lovely shade. I am weary from battling voracious Japanese Beetles which are bad this year. I haven't heard you mention them. Are you escaping the plague of beetles?

Bergamot is so easy to start from seed. I just scatter them into a tray of potting soil and leave in an east window until they are about 2 inches high. Then I plant them into the garden. I have never had grat success with baby's breath or cosmos. And this year I only have 1 zinnia out of 2 packets of seed. Failure just means you tried! Great video and happy gardening Take care - Marcie

I had more black eyed Susie’s this year, tall and big bushy, not sure why. It’s fun that we don’t ever know what we’re getting. My Rose of Sharon was beautiful too.

I love everything in your garden and specially the fun flowers 🙃

Thank you for this video. I learned a lot about my garden.

Thank you for sharing your frustrations in the garden. This spring, I tried foxglove, coneflower and blue none of the seeds came up. Zinnias and cosmos did but were attacked by bugs. The day lily was the best in show in my garden this year. Zone 8b myself..

We gardeners need to apply for less rain for next spring ! LOL nothing looks very good for me this year , except the weeds are having a spectacular season.

I always learn from you. Thank you.

Great advice! I had trouble with germination this year. I'm starting more indoors and moving out as seed I put in the ground outdoors don't come up. Same trouble in veg garden too. Wish I could grow lavender - won't survive winter here. Can't seem to grow poppies either - keep trying! Those peaboys are funny!

Your garden is so beautiful.

Very interesting ‼️😊

I was so amused by the zinnia bud! I took pictures of all stages of the pink giant!! I'm still amused by how it looks every year 😁

I’m going to try this! Thanks for sharing!

Your garden is still beautiful either way but it makes me feel better to know you have problems too. My entire garden was eaten to stubs by deer this year, I doubt it will come back in time :( oh well, maybe next year....

Good Morning Jeri Great video* I always learn so much* I love that you show you have struggles sometimes with your garden. I always just see a beautiful garden in your videos. Maybe the seeds didn't start to grow because they were old? that has happened to me also. I am waiting and waiting for my flowers to start growing and then nothing* I really enjoyed you showing us how to get the seeds from the flowers. I do that also. Enjoy your weekend deezie

I watched this and as you mentioned a plant that has disappointed you this year, I nodded in agreement. My garden disappointments are pretty much on parallel with yours. Maybe it's just the year? My sweet peas are barely a foot tall, and yet filled with blossoms. My Zinnias and Cosmos seeds disappeared to some unknown source. Every one of my well established Brown eyed Susan's did not come back this year! And on and on.... But like you say, next year it could be different, so we carry on. I am wondering If a of Rose of Sharon would grow in Zone 2. Thanks for sharing your lovely gardens... Dale

The Mexican Sunflowers do great for me in Texas.

Fox gloves Must always be grown from seed. The Fae makes its home in the Fox Glove flowers and so you cant take them from somewhere else and expect them to live in yours. Just a fun bit of whimsey.

P.S. My Mom told me I was named for The Rose Of Sharon bush.!

Interesting video. The problems i have had is with the slugs and snails eating the seedlings this year. Have tried to grow the chocolate cosmos this year for the first time but its not doing very well but i will try again next year.

Would you ever consider sharing some of your seeds?? I would love to have any , that you might want to share . 💕💕 Please let me know

Watched one of your planning videos and ran out and grabbed a graph paper pad at the store. Would LOVE to see you sketch out your gardens and see how you journal! (If you're looking for more video ideas! wink, wink) :)

Do you put a top over your nursery boxes? That's a great idea. I've been looking at winter sowing but I think it would work better in your containers if I can combine the two methods.

Your videos always help me relax. Your garden is beautiful!!! How do you store your bulbs? Thanks for sharing!!!

Thank you for sharing your video’s. Just love your garden and your home 😍. Why don’t you have Aquilegia in your garden. It would fit perfect in your garden? I think you love aquilegia.

Hi Jeri- I love your videos- I’m a long time gardener and get such inspiration from your videos! I have been reading and watching some seed growers talking about zinnia seed saving. Many are saying you can pull the seeds when they are green- as long as they are not white the seed is viable. Have you found this to be true?