Your excitement and speechlessness is contagious! Love, love the secret garden! And Nate says you need some aliums! ❤️

Thank you Jes and Nate for the tour and letting me hang out with you on your outing on this beautiful Island, you and Nate have really nice smiles, and I see you have you very own special camera man, your Husband is so helpful, always there for you, weather it’s lifting a heavy rock or holding a small camera, what a sweet couple, have a wonderful blessed day 🙏🏻😇🦋🌺🌼🌹🌸🌞

These gardens are more beautiful every time I see them, just gorgeous. Thanks for showing us them.

Your Nate is very agreeable to assist you while you give your viewers a truer aspect of what your walking through. Amazing! Thank you Nate!

You gave the best tour I have seen of the island. Loved the river of flowers. That was unreal! Thank your hubby for filming. It did help to get the feel of how cool it is there. So glad your getting more views. Well deserved!

Great video! Thanks Jes and Nate. Love to hear your music in your videos, makes it very special. Thank you so much!

Hi, I'm from Toronto, Canada. Love watching your videos. Your enthusiasm is the best. I don't think I would be able to contain all my excitement!! Keep up the great videos

Thanks for sharing this beautiful island with us. That river of blooms would have had me screaming with excitement! Could totally relate to how you were feeling! ❤

One of my favorite movies "Somewhere In Time" with Christopher Reeves was filmed there and I fell in love with that place. I lived near a lake that had an old hotel that reminds me of a scaled down version. Alas, it had a fire and closed most of the hotel. I was hoping for it to be sold, but they eventually tore it down after they closed up that last part of it. It was Beautiful in its day. Wow to that horse carriage!! That was a beautiful tour=thank you so much. 💖💖🎶🎶

Thanks for taking us along, beautiful. Beautiful sing too.

I appreciate you taking me through the beautiful gardens on your vacation!

Thank you, Jes and Nate for taking us along on your vaca.

The landscape is absolutely stunning! thanks for the walk through,

Everything so gorgeous ❤thank you for posting I will revisit time and time again! God Bless!

Hi Jes 🌺what abeautiful flowers and plants and trees they looks wonderful also the secret garden . I lovet . The plant that you didn't know it's name it is fothergilla blue shadow . Have awonderful day. 🦋🌺🦋

Thank you two so much for sharing the beautiful garden movie.

Jes .. your voice was exceptional in the song on your video.. love the pic of you and Nate.. much love to you both.. God bless❤

Thanks for the tour. So beautiful. Thanks Nate for helping . 😊

Gotta tell ya Nate how Sweet and Patience you are! It takes a special kind of guy to hang out with his wife (and invisible..lol) friends Ewing and Ahhing over these amazing plants and flowers! Your a trooper Nate Thanks so Much✨🤍👏

That secret garden is soooo gorgeous!!!

Thanks Jes and Nate for the tour. So beautiful as always but what made it super beautiful was hearing you sing your beautiful songs. What a treat. ❤ Thank you for taking us along . God's blessings 😊❤

Always something just gorgeous around every corner. I believe that shrub by the tennis court, may be a chaste tree. I have one in a huge planter til I can get it in the ground come autumn. I noticed last autumn it was looking really bad in it's store container, I sat it in this planter, no holes yet and half full of rain. Forgot about it, it completely froze last winter, it's looking plenty happy now, I thought for sure it was a goner.

Nate u r ROCKING that camera; GREAT job; very enjoyable!

Hi guys. Thanks for taking us along. Love watching your excitement Jes. ❤

That was so much fun😍🌳🌺🏵 . Thank you Jes and Natey for sharing you break away with us . Just stunning plantings, what a great tour ! Natey so patient and helpful ...he's a keeper 😅

I want a smoke bush. Lol. Omg. I love it and I’ve never heard of it. Where’s it been my whole life?!

It's so beautiful! Nate is a good sport! LOL

So beautiful. I don't think there's ever a season when it isn't perfect. And Nate did a great job filming you as you walked in the the spectacular secret garden. One garden bed was prettier than the next. Thanks for letting us tag along on your mini vacation.

The blue shrub is a fothergilla, maybe “Blue Mist” or “Blue Shadow”. I have been keeping my eyes out for one here in my zone 5 WI, but haven’t found one yet. I love the thought of a middle height blue layer.

Hi Jes & Nate.. Thank you for being the cameraman Nate.. you have a wonderful wife that loves to share her passion and it’s great to see you being a part of it. It was great to hear your perspective too.. Have a wonderful time there enjoying the beauty.. I guess you know one of Jes’s Christmas presents.. Big purple Alium.. hint hint.. ❤🌸🌸

Beautiful. Thank you for the tour!

I have never seen such a more beautiful place. Your video is so well done. Thank you so much!

Fothergilla shrub in secret garden, maybe, not sure ...mine is green not blue but maybe it is a blue variety...TFS

Beautiful video !! So many breathtaking areas. Thank you for taking us along with you and Nate. He's a wonderful husband.

Just beautiful! Thank you for sharing!😊

Jess those Hostas ❤are as huge as yours thanks for the video’s I’m so interested in going there.

Beautiful place, definitely on my bucket list. I’m wondering if the blue plant at the beginning of your “movie” 😉 is Blue Mist Fothergill. They have large ones at the Atlanta Botanical gardens. I was breathless when I when there for the first time last May. It’s a beautiful garden.

Hi Jes, I love how you demonstrated “ breathless” and “speechless” in that secret garden with the alliums and flow of colours under the bridge ! 🌸❤️🇨🇦

The secret garden is stunningly beautiful. Thanks for taking us around The Grand Hotel. The porch is just beautiful with the red and white and this year with the cannas added. Just loved this tour.

Thank you both for the tour😊

You guys need a fountain in your gully garden... and a secret path 🌿❤

I agree on the red geraniums! Just WOW! ThanK you so much for giving us the tour.

What a cute little outfit you have on Jes❤

Magnificent! Nate did a great job filming. So glad you could both get away to the island! Now I want a secret garden.

Wow. What a treat Jes. Around each & every corner a riot of color. And then rivers of flowers just flowing. Stunning. Your so blessed to go every year, & I'm so happy for you. In your element. Nice job filming ❤

I haven’t seen the beautiful walkways like that before. It appears that some of those bicycles may be motorized lol. They drive fast.

Thanks for sharing!

Breath taking

Hello 👋 and thank you Jes (and Nate) for sharing your trip to Mackinac Island. I would LOVE to make it an annual road-trip. Last year in the middle of June was (my) very first visit there as my Husband and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary ❤️ It truly is a special place. I did however feel that the Grand Hotel needed to hire Jack Barnwell to work on that slope going down to the grassy area as pretty as it was he could turn it into something more worthy of such a historic hotel. And somehow I completely missed the walk through the secret garden 🤦‍♀️ I’m sure I would’ve reacted the same Jes 😂💕 It’s also on my bucket list to go back and stay at the Iroquois as well so very cool to see that view included in your movie 😊 Glad you guys were able to get away and enjoy yourselves. And thank you Nate for being such a sweet and supportive husband to Jes. You guys are a sweet couple. Thanks again for sharing … and P.S. I now feel like I need a couple carved tree stumps to use for tables in our fire pit (that was originally where our pool was) … and also a rock to plant in 😂❤ Safe travels home 😊

The Hotel & grounds remind of the movie “Somewhere in Time” starring Christopher Reeves & Jane Seymore. If you haven’t seen it Jes , it’s a must see !

The part where you went speechless, 😶 well, that whole section made me think of a candy store with crazy big purple suckers and Willie Wonka😂

Hi Jess, I believe that's a blue fothergilla or bottlebrush. It blooms in late spring or early summer.

A lovely movie "Somewhere in Time" was filmed at The Grand Hotel. Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour were the stars😊

WOW WOW WOW!!!

What a great place to spend some time. Great that Nate is such a supportive husband. Your music is beautiful. I believe you said you also write songs. At minute 20:23 a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier named Barbara Frietchie came to my mind. I could almost picture her leaning out of one of those windows. I was wondering if you could put the poem (a portion, paraphrased, or in whole) to music and record it.

I need to see if one of my girls want to go there!!!

Thanks Jes and Nate!

Ilove it

Gorgeous flowers there! Is the unknown plant a eucalyptus?

So so beautiful!!! It’s a bucket list trip that my sister and I would like to take together!! If you had to choose the very best summer month to go for the ultimate experience (probably a trip we could only take once), what month would you choose?

I think the blue leafed plant is fothergilla.

Great tour though you all need to focus better so we could get a good view.

Blue Shadow Fothergilla, maybe? Not 100% sure....just a guess.

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@ 12.37-12.51 i think is Gunnera

Oh wow! I wonder how much it costs to stay at the Grand Hotel?

Does Nate not share you enthusiasm for plants? 😊

Hi Jes, have you ever recorded your music?🎸🎼

Old fashioned Smokebush ....Upshoot

My husband and I have made a deal. We can come here for me if we go to wherever the Edmond Fitzgerald is.

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Could that shrub by the tennis court be a Fothergilla?

Hosta....Ice Age Trail, Rare Breed or Dorothy Benedict.

The Mac island doesn't look as good as it did when Jack was over it