Who else loves these types of videos!?? Moving things, creating new spaces, re tooling old spaces. Love it!

I think a pond with a bridge would be amazing! Even the pondless waterfall with a tiny bridge crossing it would be really fun.

Go for the pond! I think you'd benefit hugely from having one on the property and you'd use that space so much more. I've got a tiny postage stamp garden and put in a small pond this year and I've never spent more time just sat in the garden drinking my morning coffee, listening to the trickle of water and watching the wildlife. In just the few months it's been there we've had frogs, dragonflies and a host of other insect life. We've had so many birds and even hedgehogs visiting. It feels like it's brought life to my garden and it's a lovely restful spot to spend time in.

The first video I saw of GA was when you and Aaron accidentally dropped the urn. I was scrolling through YT feed, saw the title and said to myself: Well let’s see what trouble these people got themselves into haha AND I was hooked. That was back in 2018 and I was in mourning of losing my Grandma. I haven’t missed a video since. My Grandma loved plants and loved to be in the garden. I have fond memories of helping her weed and water. It never felt like a chore because she always made it seem so pleasant. I truly think my Grandma had something to do with me coming across the fountain video that day. Your videos have become a pleasant part of my weekly routine. Between then and a few years ago, I had gone back to the early videos of this home. Watching the evolution of your garden brings me so much joy. Thank you for sharing the gardening, the antiquing, the family, the smallest of detail. It is very much appreciated. God Bless 💖

Good morning from MI. My partner and I have been growing and learning with Garden Answer for a few years now. We take what we learn from/with Laura and Aaron, and we share it with those who shop in the garden centers we work in. We widely spread awareness of your channel to beginner and expert gardeners in our area. I cannot wait to see your fall container ideas; they’re always my favorite. 🤗 Happy planting.

The difference in the whole garden in just a year's time is just astonishing! I love your idea for a pond and can see maybe a bench or a table and chairs placed so you can sit and enjoy the sounds. Keep going! It's beautiful!

Laura I like where you guys placed the urns, this space just keeps getting better & better! I am excited to watch what happens to the “North” garden now! I like watching the infrastructure videos.. when things are being dug up and moved or being built! Small pond with a bridge.. is my vote. 😜

Laura you mention wanting a "statement piece" of art or something for view from the Hartley...you have wind. Think about a kinetic sculpture to move in your wind. A fellow you tuber Anthony Howe makes statement pieces, did the 2016 Olympics and I believe is in Washington state. No watering, has longevity, will create a view that is one of a kind and moves in wind or breezes. Just a suggestion.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!! I can’t tell you how grateful I am for your teaching me that if I don’t love it…get rid of it. It has been a game changer for me and the love of my garden. Why are we ok to spend $75-$100 on dinner and a movie for one night, but we won’t throw away a $30 plant after months and months of disliking it? Changing the way I think about this has helped me love my space even more and I owe that to you. ❤️❤️❤️

Watching you move those heavy urns and pillars reminded me of my self in my younger years. I am regretting it now that’s for sure. I know your back probably doesn’t bother you now, but take care Ms. Laura. I too felt I was in fallible and I am now paying the price. 🌺💚🙃

Who else loves to hear Laura say “oh I have room to plant something in front there!” Or “I think I have room to tuck something in right here!” 😂 and the excitement in her voice makes me smile! That’s why we love your videos! This transformation has been phenomenal! Very inspiring!!

Oh my gosh! I remember that video when you dropped the urn. I couldn't believe that you two looked at each other and started laughing. I would have been in tears. I love where you put the urns. Everything in your garden looks amazing. Thank you for making these videos. I have learned so much over the years.💗

Aaron must be thrilled! 😂 I think a pond with perhaps a small fountain in the middle of it would look fabulous! Thank you for bringing so much inspiration to all of us! 🦋🌸🌿

Your consistent uploading schedule has made it so much easier for me to wake up and get going in the morning! Just a suggestion for a name for this garden! The Vista Garden :)

I absolutely love the sound of your vision for a pond there but I just couldn't do it if I where you. I think you are in this amazing position where you have a ton of land, a big beautiful garden and two nature loving babies you can just send out the back door to roam, which is something so valuable that is missing for most families these days, and a pond on the property would turn me straight into a helicopter which just wouldn't end up being worth it to me.

Yup. One plant in front of another...and then... Beautiful gardens are formed! 👏👍🎉I'm honored to come along for the ride!

Good morning everyone. Love drinking my morning coffee and learning with Laura as teacher🐝🐝🐝🌸🌸🌸

I love your “plop and plant” method. I read a decorating article once, years ago. Best advice ever: “Buy what you love and it will all go together!”

Yes for the pond! That would be amazing all tucked in to a secret garden!

Thank you for your frequent encouragement to remove plants that don't move you. This video perfectly illustrated my recent blowout in one of my gardens. I have a small backyard nursery and 5 years ago I plated several large shrubs that I needed to propagate from. Now those plants are out of vogue, and I am not loving the overgrown shrubs. My husband and I ripped out about 12 different shrubs in the last week, and I'm working on retooling the area. The Grand Garden Tour in Mackinac Island was an inspiration as are your weekly planting videos. I watch these every morning and they really inspire me to do something different in my gardens. Really excited to see what I can make of this space and also to see what you are going to do with the "North" garden!

I'm sad for the boxwoods but equally excited to see the change.

Thank you so much for what you share with the world. Your family is a beautiful example of how to enjoy life. 💙

A water feature would look wonderful! I would suggest a style like you had before, only much bigger, with water running over rocks where Benjamin and Samantha could step on the stones, and you could incorporate plants. I think the sound of the water running over the rocks would add a lot of character to that area and could make it more interactive for your family, while remaining safe and minimizing a lot of maintenance. It could become its own self-sustaining ecosystem, just like The Pond Guy envisioned in your original design, on a larger scale!! Can't wait to see what you create. Whatever it is, it will be beautiful!!

You two work so hard. I love spending the day in my garden and getting dirty. Makes me feel like I’ve really accomplished something. Laura always look great even when digging in the dirt. ☺️

The boxwoods have finally met their end people! "There going to go!" Personally super excited for this makeover. 🙌

How about using the two urns as your entryway instead of an arch. You could even plant tall skinny arborvitaes in the urn and eventually bring them together to form an arch. The fountain and the third urn could be used as your focal point that you were talking about at the beginning. It could become a planter. It would also be very unique if you ever get a pawn to have that suspended at the water surface like a floating island fountain no one would ever see the damaged area.

Speaking as a kid who grew up on a farm with a big fish pond, I think adding a pond to your garden is *such* a great idea. Your kids will have so much fun playing in and around it as they grow, especially if you plant that area secret garden-style. Every garden should have a few whimsical nooks and crannies where kids can fully immerse themselves in their imaginations and pretend to be somewhere else for a while. ♥️

Love the urn, I agree with you and love the patina. Love how you and Aaron work together to beautify your property. Love your videos - my hubby has started watching them with me while we sip our morning coffee. Thanks 🙏🏻

Yes!!! Pond with bridge, Laura. That would be awesome. Plus, I love your commitment on trying to get your pond still - but you know, smaller.

Go ahead and do the bridge and the pond! You've been wanting it for so long, finally found the perfect spot, and if that turns into a secret garden what a wonderful beautiful surprise would that be? Standing on a bridge and overlooking such beautiful plants would be amazing. I love your gardens!

The pond idea with the bridge is awesome! love to watch your video there is always something to do in your garden.

Yes to the pond! If there’s a good spot for one it’s that one 👍

"I want this be an encouragement to you guys. If there is something in your garden, even if it's not sick or diseased, it's a plant. If you don't enjoy it. If it's messing up the flow of your garden and keeping you from using your space, just take it out and make the space the way that you want to have it." Best advice ever. Love it, and on that note, I just dug up and killed three Black Pearl Heuchera that has been struggling for months and part of last year. I had enough of them! Life is too short. Thanks GA!

Having a pond become the destination in your secret garden would be so special! Bridge or no bridge, it’s such a peaceful spot back there. Go for it! Y’all work so hard, you deserve it! And it will be such fun for us to watch it all come together!

Dearest Laura we are mourning the loss of our beloved Queen who like you loved her David Austin roses, of which I have many varieties . These flowers are an enduring reminder of her strength and resiliance just like your garden and the best of Britain. God bless the Queen

As always, love everything in your garden. You continue to inspire me. I'm encouraged to throw away plants that look awful and make my space my sanctuary 😊😊😊💜

Oh if I had a vote I’d say yes to the pond & a bridge over it. The boxwood edges could lead the way to that area if planted in a different way also. But no one asked me 😄 I’m so happy I found this channel. Laura can do no wrong in my book.

I love the pond and bridge idea! That would be AMAZING. I can see a bench near it too, where you and your mom can sit while watching Benjamin and Samantha look for frogs and watch the dragonflies!!

You rock, literally, jumping on those cement foundations! I say pond, koi, water plants! The kiddos will love it!

A pond! Yes!!! Great idea the kids will love it!!

I love the freedom you guys have in saying "nope, this isn't working for us" and just totally reimagining the design. Once I've got something in, I just can't imagine it any other way (even areas/ plants that aren't working for me) how much fun it must be to have such imagination with spaces!

Well at least you never have to spend money on a gym membership! 😂 Those pieces looked HEAVY, especially the concrete pad. Laura, I think you and I are very similar....there are projects/jobs that would definitely be easier if I asked my husband or son to help. However, I feel it's empowering to do them myself. I'm always so proud when I'm finished with a big or heavy job and I've done it all myself 💪🏼 😃. I know Aaron was along to help, but seeing your tiny self turn and lift those pieces, wow! Great job!

A magical hedge maze would be AMAZING in the North Garden.

It's videos like this that really shows the foundation of your relationship with each other. Laura you're moving big heavy pieces of concrete and Aaron not feeling threatened by it and if you needed help Aaron would happily help you! Both of you are so respectful of each other. Both of you don't let your ego get in the way, I admire that! #relationship goals

Schreiner's Gardens out of Salem breeds and grows amazing irises. (Floret sources their irises there, which says a lot.) They're wrapping up their ordering season over the next few days.

My tip on ponds: place them very close to seating areas, porches, rooms near your house, never far away or someplace you have "to walk to". Ponds are a lot of work and become just a chore unless you can enjoy them with proximity, often. Exceptions are when you create a true "destination" on your property with a major seating area, a view, etc. that draws you to the pond site often.

I vote YES on pond and also make it large enough to have a bridge. I'm getting Monet's garden vibes from the idea of it, it'd be breath-taking. I always think you should go as big with a pond as you can as once it's filled you shrinks, lol, and it will look more 'natural' if it's larger with a bridge. I'm so excited! I Love that we get to have the excitement for our own gardens as well as the joy of watching yours grow and develop. I'm on board with the boxwood removal now as well (tho I'd have saved them and used them in a fun way on your new 'rough' bit of land. Just a long hedge to be a starting point for something, even if it just flanks future parking.

That’s a great idea! The bridge going over the water will be pretty. I can’t wait to see it unfurl.

Laura your pond & bridge sounds Enchanting! Do it!😊 love the rose garden Vibe😍 garden looking amazing .

The movement and placement of the urns…perfection! 👌🏻 just something so simple as separating them, is what I love about you…thinking outside the box! Addition of new plants is always a thrill to see! My asters (planted last year) are not doing too well, hoping they rebound!

I love the shots with the talking arm and hand. Always makes me giggle a little bit. I really enjoy your videos. It's now part of my morning routine

I'm glad you are finally doing something with that area. However, I've mentioned a few times before that I thought a beautiful sunken garden would be perfect back there. With a couple of water features, follies etc. Claus Dalby had even commented that he would enjoy working with you on that lol.

Imagine a pondless waterfall river.... Wish I had that kind of space!

Aaron,s grass pathways look BEAUTIFUL!!!

Very impressive Aaron on that tractor manipulating everything without smashing plants. I’m also very impressed with that Yucca. What an indestructible plant. And I must point out the obvious Laura, you are extremely strong moving those concrete pieces like they’re nothing. 💪🏼

So smart to have a pond w no overhanging trees or shrubs that will shed during wind or their season change. We’re out skimming constantly to remove leaves/needles/cones. Love having pond goldfish. Kids would love it.

Your planfor the garden changes sounds glorious! ✨️ 😀

Good morning, Laura ☕️ Regading the condition of the urns, you can always mix a little concrete super thin and paint it on. 🤷‍♀️ I’ve watched KZfaq people do it to make projects. Those rose’s look like they were meant to go there. Can’t wait to see the North Garden with the boxwoods gone 🙌🏻 Have a Blessed Day 😊🐈

The name of the little statue is “”Laura””. Great placement of the urns. Love the planting. Fantastic.💯💯💯🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

oh Russell, I got such a chuckle seeing him in today's video.

what would we do without our tractors haha. Fun to watch as always! 😊😊

I'm so enjoying hearing of your landscaping ideas! We are only limited to our imaginations!😃

Yes to the pond! It would be such a great feature area and you could put a fountain perhaps 😍

Looking forward to seeing your plans for the north garden! I think you need to have Greg come out to design you a pond with a waterfall/stream from the tree area(s)! So I gotta ask - how many more “hold-overs” do you have from spring that you haven’t planted yet? 🤣

Yes put the pond in. I have been waiting for the pond. With all that you are doing with the property, you need a pond or two. Maybe a large one and a smaller one somewhere else

I love the idea of a pond with a bridge back there. It would be a great location & have a fountain going in it so you could hear it from the Hartley! I can just picture the kids sitting on the bridge with their feet dangling in the water. We had a creek in the woods behind our neighborhood & as kids, we LOVED hanging out there & playing in the creek.

Yaaasss! A pond! I absolutely love water features, they only add to the area, and help beneficials as well.

Love the idea of a water feature with a bridge over it - that would be so charming! Have you considered reinstalling the pondless waterfall (and putting the bridge over that) or getting a larger one? That way you have the effect of it without the maintenance. Thanks for all your amazing inspiration!

I did the cardboard method in our front new bed this year and it’s works out awesome for us! Thank you for the idea because it was a fair bit of grass to have to pull up so it saved a tremendous amount of time and effort :)

Watching you guys work together reminds me of my husband and I doing this on our farm.

Laura you are in beast mode moving that concrete 💪

You guys make it look so easy! Such a great team! Like a well oiled machine. Makes me so happy to see! 😊😊

Yes Pond!

I think the pond sounds wonderful. But Aaron has a gut feeling re: a pond right now. I would honor that, and wait until the kids are a little older.

👋🌞Good morning and Happy Friday Eve, Laura! 👋Hi Aaron! I enjoyed the little "while we're waiting" garden bed tour! The urns look spectacular where you placed each of them! The second urn, does look wonderful tucked in behind the birch tree.👏👏 Excellent call, Laura! At 24:37, cute to see Cheddar chilling/grooming by the urn. 👋🐈Hi Cheddar! I hope you 4 enjoyed whatever you made for dinner the day you filmed this video. With your family's adventure for new recipes and different flavors, I'm certain you made a delicious and healthy meal! Have a Blessed and Beautiful day/night 🌞/🌜✨️⭐️🌟⭐️✨️ 🌐 everyone! Kimberley F in Avondale, Arizona USA 🇺🇸 (Zone 9b) 🌞🌵💞

Just fyi, the ‘Alnwick’ Rose is pronounced ‘Annick’ as it’s named after Alnwick in Northumberland, England, where Alnwick Castle is. Alnwick Castle has the most amazing gardens and is well worth a visit if you’re ever in the area. 🌹

The urns look lovely, just placed casually as they are! Totally works in south garden’s more cottage-garden vibe!! Agree with Aaron: replace the yuccas 👍🏻 And north garden is perfect for a pond, no bridge though (keep it more *natural*) 💕 A pond surrounded by rocks and stones, with a few “sitting stones” 🪨

It’s looking so pretty. Can’t wait to see the north garden come to life.

Laura, you're a beast! Love watching all the things you do, both together and all by yourself! Get it!

Pond! That was what I was thinking . . . perfect area and feature!

All those gorgeous allium bulbs within the boxwood formation...💚💚💚 The endless opportunities... The urns are beautiful!

I am so excited for this area and the idea of the pond sounds amazing 🙂

I like the idea for a pond very much. It will make your garden more interesting and attraks wildlife.

Yes to placement of Urns! Water feature in the back would be a great attraction especially for the kids! I always like looking at your designs on paper , it helped me when I did my backyard!!

Oh, Laura, those urns look great in the south garden. I hope you’re going to plant the yuccas in the ground out there. They will be beautiful. They obviously love your climate and they have a good root system already. I think they’ll be magnificent out there….interesting foliage and beautiful tall blooms…..and no maintenance!😊🦋💖🕊

you are one strong woman, wow! concrete and yuccas are heavy!! 😁i love where you placed the urns... so many exciting things happening all the time... so fun to hear your plans and watch the changes... love those roses, too... and a bridge, definitely a bridge - the kids would love it and it would look fabulous!!! ❤❤ y'all move at lightning speed getting things done even though i know it doesn't feel that way to you, but the amount of work happening in the last couple of years is amazing!! 🥰❤thanks for the video!! 🥰❤

Have you ever thought of creating a circular labyrinth that both you, Aaron and the children could enjoy? Having one could add another layer of interest to the garden.

Did anyone else notice, Aaron sat on the tractor while Laura moved/placed the urns? This just ain't no helpless little lady! Love this!

The new North Garden is going to be beautiful.

To get that “tucked in” look you just about have to have that “perched” look for a couple of seasons. I think that will look simply beautiful . Very good eye 👍🏼

Seeing the beautiful rose you showed us makes me realize how much I have missed seeing a video of you doing a floral arrangement. I don’t think you have done one this summer. Love your videos

I think you guys for sure need a wildlife pond in that corner. Maybe even with some koi. Nice and deep for wintering over. Beautiful bridge going over it and allowing you to be above the fish! Gorgeous! Highly recommend!

Hi Laura! I was Team Aaron on removing the boxwoods, so yay! I think it would be awesome if you could consult with Jack Barnwell on what to do with the north garden once it is cleared out. That would be a great show to watch! Not saying you wouldn't make it amazing, but the two of you designing a space would be epic!

I love those urns. Still in great shape.

Yes, a pond would look great there with a fountain in the middle that lights up different colors!

So inspiring the way Laura does what it takes to get the job done. With Aaron's help of course.

Hi Laura, I agree. If there is something in the garden not working, rip it off like a bandaid.

A pond is a great idea. You don’t have one anywhere else and it is the only thing missing.

You are so right about taking out something that is just not working in the garden. We inherited a prostrate conifer with the house, four years later I am sick of trying to keep it under control and get to some brambles growing though it. So out it came and Iowa have a nice large space to fill with drought tolerant plants that will thrive.😍😎🇫🇷

I like the idea of the pathway going past a pond.