What a bit of luck, to find this video by accident ! My first attempt to create a garden (on my plot) was complete rubbish. I have been slowly researching and learning about all the ideas you mention - and then modifying my garden accordingly. But you have condensed all these ideas into one place and provided an incredibly useful 'guide'. I am very grateful that you have shared this knowledge. Thank you.

Hi - I just watched this on a flier - I generally don't watch short "DIY" garden clips because they tend to be too rambling and the gardens less than convincing - but your video here is absolutely excellent in my opinion. I am in America and I greatly appreciated your comments about "yard" versus "garden" (and was not remotely offended in any way). The word "yard" is so unfortunate for us because within it there is no sense of expectation that one should improve it somehow...in other words "yard" does not suggest potential the way "garden" does. "Garden" demands participation and improvement. I also think your 11 points are extremely good advice - you may be an 'amateur', but you clearly have talent in this area - and very good tastes. I really enjoy seeing how your garden has evolved, the way you started with not much more than space and ambition, made a few 'mistakes', and then had the determination to correct them (who hasn't experienced this?). I have been doing a very similar exercise here in north Texas USA for about 8 years. We stumbled upon an old house with a walled garden (extremely rare here) with excellent structure (think Lutyens) and some good old plants still intact - but the place was suffering from lack of TLC and help - se we got the spades out ourselves. So just wanted to say very well done on the video and the beautiful garden you have created. I suspect within another 5 to 7 years it will convincingly look like it's been there for centuries. Best of luck for the future!!!

I really enjoyed this video, thanks for putting together such a thorough list. I have a large grass backyard in the USA that I am starting to slowly transform it into smaller areas to create the feelings of rooms. Sometimes it’s tough to know which direction to take certain projects and these tips are incredibly helpful. The explanation of immersive planting and secret gardens where you feel smaller/ magical and almost childlike really resonates and is a goal of mine. I am glad I found your channel to pick up some great inspiration.

You have presented the best and most concise overview of garden planning design and elements I have ever seen. I just watched again with my hubby. We too have created and deconstructed our gardens over the past 20 years together. The principles you outline are excellent and we can implement some of them to our layering and fine finishing in the borders. Thank you. I’m so glad I found your channel. Wishing fine gardening was more important to people in the US.

I almost never comment on videos but this is truly one of the best garden design videos I have seen. You summarized the elements wonderfully and have given me so many ideas for my own garden. I am now binge watching the rest of your videos. Love them. Thank you!!!!

Wow Lovely Garden ^^ Like it My friend, thank you for good sharing

Im very happy to have found your channel. Good points on landscaping to make our gardens interesting. 🌳🌸

What a great episode, Jenny! The entire video was full of useful design tips and I just love the attention to detail included in each presentation. I learn something new each time I watch your channel! 👏👏🪴

Thank you for this video. My garden, with very little grass, had been developed over the past thirty years and was well established. But, simultaneously, two large trees in the back had to come down, rendering shade gardens into sun, and the house next to us was sadly demolished. We bought the now empty lot and our garden will triple in size. It's both exciting and daunting to be planning again. This has been very helpful.

What an incredibly useful and informative video. I've watched many such films on garden design and this one is by far the best. I really appreciate your analysis and breakdown of the various elements. One thing I thought of, that I know you already practice and will likely cover in the video you mentioned, is the seasonal aspect of gardens. My garden is in its second year, and I realise that I need to retrospectively add even more evergreens, so that the perpetual structure adds winter interest and softens the often dreary vistas, we spend months looking at. Thank you so much for this amazing video Jenny - we all really appreciate you.

Absolutely love your videos. Thank you very much indeed.

I enjoyed that thank you especially for your narrative, clear and descriptive. Ive been building my own little idyll on the shores of strangfrod lough. Daunting, is a word that I understand in finding my way round this project. Youve got a very open aspect beyond your garden as do I, but that can be ‘daunting’. We get severe summer winds a few times a year and prolonged wet winds in autumn and winter. Thankfully the front of the house takes the brunt of the weather and to some extent shelters the garden but even with that it only takes one or two days for the wind to shred my plants. So it does mean that all plans and desires are continually re-designed just to work out where I can keep them alive 😂. My passion if for flowers and fragrance so roses are my main feature. its an ongoing battle between my expectations and what the weather will allow me to grow.

What a great video. Thank you for putting together the list.

Yes a woman who can explain and be understood

Been mooching about for ages for some help... nothing useful. Then found this, great work!

I L❤VE you “ realistic” idea of gardening. You do an amazing job explaining gardening. On that note: You gardens are magical. Thank you for all your videos

Great Video!!! You can host easily gardeners world. Some professionals couldn’t do the garden like you. And no shame for copy - if Theresias a very good idea, why not adapt it for the own garden. I liked and subscribed 😁🌳🌷🌾

I have watched your video several times because it is jam packed with points with accompanying photos to learn from. It reminded me of an Alexandra/ Middle Sized garden and Bunny Guinness presentation. Thank you so much!

Great content! These pointers are exactly the magic sauce all we intermediate gardeners yearn for to get that English garden feel. Important to note that if you are in lower zones things will take longer. We have a short growing season here in 5b so what might take a decade to achieve in 7b or higher zones for example seems to take an eternity to accomplish in this zone bc there’s not much growth from year to year and there are often die backs.

Just discovered this video. Love all the wonderful ideas that can be implemented in anyone’s garden, no matter what the size. Thank you for sharing.

Old Wollerton is one of my favorites. We began a new garden 3 years ago and everything you said is spot on. Wish I would have heard this 4 years ago😊

Really inspiring and easy to follow video.

Thank you for this I’m in the process of creating these type of spaces at my home. I am in the US and typically have referred to this space as my yard :-) but I am now interested in creating something more formal that we would consider a flower garden.

Lovely video, I very much enjoyed it. Will definitely implement the tips you shared.

Great video. "A garden is all about the feel." Lovely inspirational invitation. The word "Paradise" means "walled garden." Thanks for all the energy and love put into this presentation. A host of inspiration and ideas flow from this video

This is THE best garden design video that have seen. Excellent!

Very observant and well explained. Though one has to point out that Gardening and Landscaping is a ‘very’ expensive and labour intensive hobby. Many people don’t see return on investment on these things, so its only ever useful if you just do it as a hobby.

I’m nearly at the point of creating the garden in my new build. I am blessed to have great views so I’m going to do a horizon thing . And doing different zones your ambition is inspiring thanks so much for sharing. Great points you have given us all. You should be very proud of yourself you’ve all done brilliantly.

What an inspiring video, thank you for sharing what you have learned!

Thank you. Loved this. Very informative

Good video - I have taken notes. Thank you

Madame your garden is rather small but lovely none the less.

Thank you for the tips and hacks .

So much great information . My much younger self could have used a lot of these tips . In Canada the back yard is usually the place we’re you have the most privacy from the road, where the kids play or you bbq, have a pool . Does everyone there have beautiful gardens like you ?

What a wonderful and informative video ! Thank you for all the great info !

Wonderful, thank you!❤

This video was so enjoyable and beautiful!

Thank you for your video. It is evident that you put a great deal of thought into each and every point. Touching on visual examples really helps us visual learners. Although my very small garden in a very hot and cold and dry climate couldn't be more different, your points are still very appropriate, and transferable to an entirely different style garden as well. Thank you so much from western Canada.

Thank you for sharing your experiences and what you have learned with us. I sincerely appreciate your videos.

Great points… amazing progress! You have made your dreams come true!

This was so helpful!!!❤. Thank you so much.

New Subscriber here. Enjoyed and learned so much from this video. I will be a regular watcher. We have 1 1/2 acres. Except for the house, that's a lot of grass. I like the way you applied what you learned at Wollerton Old Hall to your own property. I've got a lot of new ideas now.

Love your videos! Inspirational as we are redoing our front yard!

So much inspiration 😊 thanks for sharing

Beautiful ❤

Perfect vídeo !

Lots of good information and pictures given thank you for sharing.

very good advice and beautiful photos

Wollerton Old Hall garden is beautiful and so is your’s. Thank you for raising those valuable points for designing a garden because that is exactly what I’m not sure of. I love to include lots of my favourite ideas and certain features in a garden but don’t know how to bring them together. After watching your video of a comprehensive breakdown really helps me.

This was amazingly helpful. Thank you so much. It helped me refine my plan for my gardens. It looks so much better thanks to you.

This is brilliant

Thank you for this really interesting and helpfully insightful video.

Wonderful. This was very well thought out and a pleasure to watch.

This is a really thoughtful video, well put together and full of interesting points that are all well illustrated. It’s probably one to watch again at some point. Meantime I’ll be checking out your other videos. Thank you for this 🙏. Now subscribed!

Thank you so much! Newly subcsribed here as there are already quite a few points learned although mine is a tropical one since I am living in the tropics. Will apply them definitely!

Very well thought out content and video editing of pictures. English gardens are so inspiring for me and I’ve tried to incorporate these principles over the 7 years I’ve cultivated my gardens. You guys are amazing at gardening and your love of them I believe I’ve inherited genetically! It’s an obsession really. Keep up the great work.

I very much loved this video. Thank you for such a masterful lesson in garden design. I am obsessed with English gardens. I am in the early stages of creating my own garden, going into my second spring season of home ownership. You have so nicely outlined some key principles in creating that magical space I am after. This is the first video I have seen of yours and I have subscribed and look forward to many more! Thank you ☺

nice work

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Excellent video. I’m slowly learning all of these principals as I grow as a gardener. I find now I focus less on specific plants that I want and I’m far more interested in what view I want and then finding things that will help accomplish that view. I also think far more about texture and foliage color than I ever did when I started because I realized that if the foliage looks lovely and compliments or contrasts with the surroundings in the way I want, then my garden will always look lovely and I’m not waiting on specific showy blooms to make the garden shine. The frustration comes, as you alluded to, with getting it “wrong” and needing to reassess. I feel like as I continue to learn, I am always changing my mind and wanting to add or move things around. But I guess that’s part of it: there’s no “done” garden, really.

Most in the States have gardens along the edges of their property and mostly lawn. The vast majority are not natives and require synthetic fertilizers and herbicides. In fact most yards are very similar since the plants come from big box stores and they pay someone to do their yard work. Most yards are devoid of bee varieties and butterflies. Uniformity and conformity rule the day.

Love this video! What are the low round bushes? Boxwoods?

Great video! Just subscribed! Plz do a video on hardscape, did you do all of it yourself? Looks amazing! Any tips on how to achieve such beautiful Belgian paver look? Is that wet or dry mortar? Also would love a video on edging. What brand is that metal edging and is it hard to install and bend?

Thank you , for all the elements in this video . I’ll be applying this to my garden , we’re working in our property trying to put Plants and flowers , we have a lot to cover and this video has alot of information. I’ll be subscribing for sure , I don’t know how I never came across with your channel before 🤔😊

Depending on your lawn situation, I can highly recommend a robot lawn mower. Cost effective, almost no effort Once set up, and just mulches the grass as it goes. 😊

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The English use the English language more appropriately than we do in America. A "yard" indeed. It may have come into usage because so many immigrants to America (yes, Magas, your ancestors were immigrants!) from the UK were of the lower classes and had the "yard" reference in their lexicon, rather than the later, more accurate, "garden". Word usage was easily passed from emigrating generations on down to us, later. A "back yard" or "front yard" in America really describes a back or front garden rather than yard.

You talked around it, but never came out and used the key word. A Garden must create MYSTERY. That is why you have divisions and walls and fences. That is what draws you in, because you are curious about what is around the corner. You can even have a section of overgrown brush, but if you see a clean path that leads around it to something you can't see, you are drawn in because of the mystery. And I'm also curious what is it about grass that takes so long to maintain? I have 1.5 acres of grass and only spend two hours a week on it. I'm the guy who is afraid to turn it into a garden because I don't have time to maintain it. Grass is easy to mow. Truthfully, I am here because I have a large unused pasture, but I love the English garden look. Right now it has a very relaxed farmish look. I'm try to figure out how to have a happy marriage between the two and not ruin the relaxed, slightly unkept farm feel, but add the things I like about the English garden. Can't figure that out.

The tall yew trees you show in your garden that are tied round, are you going to turn them into pyramids? This is what I want to try next to add some height in my garden but am not sure how to go about it. I also have the perfect spot for an umbrella shaped Portuguese laurel so need to see how to shape/ grow these too. I’m inspired by your channel and will be watching closely, thank you for sharing 🪴

3:53 what are those tall fluffy green trees called?

weeds are flowers too, they increase pollination and pest control, healthy plants in the right soil and location are resistant to invasion of weeds, the odd seeded dandelion is natural and expected in any garden, experienced gardeners use patience and tolerance and rarely turn the task into a promotion blog

In my opimion, too much talk with the speakers image snd jer DOG. Add commentary to the garden images and let the visual beauty speak to the viewer. Gardens,not dogs. They only pollute the surroundings