just be honest and admit that you are a garden fairy

You are so right! My Grandad said a cottage garden is about the growth of the gardener, not the plants. He tended the same garden for 50 years. When my Nana had a stroke he kept it beautifully just so she could look at it. That garden was about a marriage, not just pretty flowers.

Can I just say that you're the first person that I've ever watched that has tastefully broken up the video with an ad? "Right after this commercial" actually made me feel like I should watch both ads to earn the next part of the video. Super off-topic but it was well done. Anyway, what an inspiring video! I live in an apartment with literally no yard for gardening. I watch these kind of videos to live through someone elses passion. I always loved the cottage garden style without even knowing what that was. Just seeing photos in children's books as a kid and in random movie scenes; like Miss Honey's cottage from 'Matilda' or the wild garden from 'The Secret Garden'. I can't wait to see how your garden takes shape!

"A true cottage garden is as much about growing plants as it is about cultivating a gardener." Wow, such a great way of thinking about gardening. Thank you!

I love deadheading all my flowers. Im out in my garden everyday once the spring comes. I see something new everyday. My Irises are so tall and colorful. I love my cottage gardens. My grandfather was entering his flowers in the community flower shows and at the age of 87 won 14 first prizes. My parents were amazing gardeners also..I guess I was watching.

I would love a video about your garden art and birdhouses. I love them.

I can only hope to have a garden as full as yours one day. I know it takes years and work, but I'm willing to do the work to acahive such beauty.

We are so happy to have found your channel again. We really love your videos. You're literally like the only person or one of the only people who actually go step-by-step in the small area they have and grow in abundance of yummy and beautiful looking plants. Not to mention the home cottage like feel it really warms our heart. Thank you so much for your videos.

I don’t think I have seen you not once without overalls, I mean it suits you very well, You have become one with the overalls

My hollyhocks succumbed to rust this year. So many neighbors commented on missing my hollyhocks....apparently I am not the only one who feels they are a show stopper. I don’t have ground hogs but I do have bunnies. I use this small chicken wire plastic coated in green. I make rings to protect some things through the seedling stages. You can hardly see it among the other plants. Just a thought to foil your nemesis....and get a few hollyhocks to enjoy.

I had a family of seven groundhogs take up residence under my deck one year. I thought they were very cute, but they ate all my flowers, and then the mama groundhog strong armed my tiny dog. I paid a fortune to have them relocated, not exterminated. One tip I learned from that experience is that groundhogs hate mint and will avoid it, so it’s good to throw it into the landscape, although, of course, mint can be invasive. Now I have raccoons that live under my shed and they like to take one bite from each tomato growing on my plants. Your beautiful garden is an inspiration, happy to have stumbled across your channel! 🌱🌱🌱🌸

I'm English and was about to turn off, thinking what does this American know about our traditional gardens... but you nailed it. Lovely garden. Subbed. 👍

Beutiful. I agree with your philosophy. Plants would make communities more livable. Just touching plants and soil makes me immediately relaxed and I forget the daily troubles.

You say you’re an artist, but you, Sir, are a wizard. I adore this. Kudos!

Hollyhocks aren't annuals. Here in the UK most varieties take a year or more before they throw up flower spikes. I have planted loads over the last year and a half and I'm just seeing my first spike, which I'm excitedly waiting to blossom. They seem to take even longer than echinacea. Worth the wait tho!

Wow. First KZfaq video ever that made the commercial cut in the middle tasteful. I liked this video, you made me realize that yes, I have to plant more perennials so that I have trusty plants that return and to have some extra annuals for the bare spots (hello zinnias). Nice video. Will be back for more.

I wish you were my niehbor so we can swap plants, I don't get enough gardening and can't wait for the next day there's always something new to do but it's a labor of love. Thanks to my beautiful 93 yr mom I inherited her Green Thumb!

Thank you for your videos. I love cottage gardens.

It's wonderful view of cottage garden, travel as nature! Thanks lot for sharing 🌹 Stay safe my dear friend 🌷 Have a nice day 💐👍👍👍👍👍

You are a poet gardener!

You know what? I keep getting this vid back every once in a while but I still watch it agiain very enjoyable to watch. Thanks for your time. By the way, in England, we use Hollyhocks to dry out damp walls because they take up so much water...

beautiful garden and there is a lot of info for beginers.i am long time gardener whos disabled and really enjoy garden tours i can watch confortably. i do know there being IN the gaden is the best.i have a cottage garden in pots of herbs flowers and fruit

Will sneak a cottage garden in my parents home 😂 I already took over the sidewalk area for wildflowers last year and took over a section in the community garden for flowers. More areas to place my flowers ❤️ spread them around.

I love your description of a cottage garden 🌺

Beautiful garden ❤️

Very pretty.

Hello, new subscriber to you channel. Very much enjoyed your beautiful garden. I am 80 years old so can’t do as much as I would like, however, I still try. I liked how you show the failures along with the wins, it helps new gardeners not to give up. Thank you.

The poppies mixed with purple iris looks amazing.

I’ll be dividing my dark purple bearded irises this year. I spoke to my neighbor and she said she would love some! It’s good to share!

Beautiful garden

I haven't said it enough. You have wonderful videos. Your explanation of cottage garden was poetic and highly effective.

This makes me very grateful to live in a country with few garden mammal invaders! We have rabbits and the Australian possum in NZ, but neither really bother with suburban gardens. The only things I content with are birds pulling out my seedlings from time to time, easily deterred with cheap netting and more than welcome anyway since they eat the snails.

I love this video and your garden. Gardening helps you to be patient. It helps you to realize that hard work pays off in the fruits it provides.

Somehow your description gardening made it poetic, thoroughly enjoyed watching the video, thanks for sharing

I love the beautiful way you narrate your videos. The wording is so lovely!

I live in the PNW and I just have had no luck with Hollyhocks, they get powdery mildew here and also aphids love them. I do have a nice mallow plant but the rabbits liked it too, LOL.

you are magical in your words and story telling, just like your beautiful cottage garden,

Have I missed your blog??? You’re so great with camera work, beauty and information❣️❣️❣️

I love cottage garden plants here in Sydney Australia it takes two years for my Hollyhocks to flower. Siloe Hollyhocks grows well in pots.

Your channel is the absolute best! Thank you to the youtube algorithm for leading me to you!

Very beautiful and relaxing video...I totally agree with your perspective that a cottage garden cannot be created overnight and that it is more about cultivating the gardener :). sorry about the flowers you lost to the groundhog, your garden is still stunning!

Wow gorgeous garden, and amazing editing, shots, and narration! I felt like I was watching a PBS documentary. Loved it.

Excellent video on cottage gardens!

Beautiful garden and instructive video. Your advice on slowly constructing a beautiful garden, not just rushing to buy all the plants at a nursery, rings very true. Thank you for sharing.

Beautiful flowers! I think we should all plant more flowers also ,they beaufy where you put them , I plant more and more each yr mostly perennial types, you can never have too many flowers

I just wanted to say I really appreciate your channel I can tell you’ve put so much care and effort into what you do your gardens are truly an expression of your heart

This is my favourite cottage garden video on youtube. I just watch it over and over again when I need garden inspiration :)

I liked this guy as soon as I saw he had a garden cottage and suspenders, but the classy video and ad intri put him on a whole new level

Bearded iris are beautiful, but I dug all mine up and gave them away last fall because I'm moving more towards plants that stay in bloom longer. They're not so nice to look at all the months they aren't blooming.

This was a very encouraging video!! We've had our house for only a year, and I'm dreaming of having a cottage garden! I need to take your advise and be patient, add lots of perennials and just wait and see what they do. Thank you!!!

One of the parts I love abt this channel is the ad break bit before and after the ad. Whatever that’s called lol

I love all your content. They are all interesting and packed with ideas. I have learned a lot just by binging in your videos. Before, I just want a garden but you made it clear that a cottage garden is the way to do gardening( for me)

Snapdragons do come back from seed each year, the hollyhocks are bi-annual. I planted my hollyhock in 2 different beds so one of the beds will always be in bloom .,one year after the other alternating years. My favourite of all time is honeysuckle! The fragrance is remarkable and I love the yellow and white flowers. While on countryside gardens ,one wouldn’t be complete with out foxglove.

A groundhog ate all my hollyhocks in the backyard but didn't touch the ones in the front of the house. You might just want to relocate them. I have made a very groundhog unfriendly but beautiful backyard flower bed now, with just one or two plants which I saved for the groundhog to distract him from all the goodies in the front yard.

Beautiful garden love cottage gardens.

'Showy, finicky protagonists ' love that description.

I love your cottage garden.I have been nurturing my cottage garden for the last 7 years using seeda that have germinated naturally.I started planting vegetable aroynd my perenials too.enjoy it so much.happy gardening.

Taking my garden seriously, finally. Your view of gardening is I realize my view. So thank you for giving me some validation! Beautiful garden by the way. Don't think I'm willing to work as hard as you, but watching you helps me greatly.

I live in Indiana, I grew Hollyhocks from sees this year and at about 6" I planted them...the groundhog(s) uprooted them, dragged them around the yard and ate parts of them...I tried to save them..no luck

Love your garden you should try repeat flowering flag Iris . They are new but look like traditional flag Iris they will flower for me again before cool down of fall . I love them .

Beautiful. I like your regard and vision. Thank you. 🐦🌱

Suburban Homestead: you are so inspiring. Thank you for the video. 🥰

Thank you! Great video

Gorgeous video! You're eloquent and relaxing to listen to

Love this thankyou for showing the beauty of cottage garden flowers.

Very informative. A lot of gardening for me is by trial, some things work others don't. Time and patience is the key. In April I had a lot of colour with spring bulbs, now in June that has all died back so this Autumn I am looking for bulbs that have later flowering season and other plants to fill in the gaps and continue the colour throughout the summer and beyond. I am also awful for buying too many seeds/ bulbs and not getting them planted so am trying to be more organised with that now. We get so much joy pulling up to our house now and find ourselves lingering more absorbing what we have slowly developed. We have also noticed other people lingering when out on their walks. I look forward to see what each new day has bought to our ever changing garden.

What a lovely cottage garden you have. Your video is like velvet...soft and pretty. I enjoyed the tour very much.

Your poppies are stunning!! Love your channel. New sub

Those darned critters ate almost all of two varieties of echinacea. So far, my total catch is 8 groundhogs, two chipmunks, and one baby skunks! I have wonderful memories of my grandmother's little garden. Yes, she had hollyhocks.

Hi, first time to view your garden, it's a beauty. Thanks for sharing. Also, I am plagued by the little ground hogs, moles, voles, squirrels,chipmunks, etc. I get a lot of relief from them by surrounding my plants, especially bulbs and roses with hair. Any kind of hair. my daughter brings her dog hair, and I go to the salon and beg hair from there, my husband contributes his whisker shavings. It seems the little critters don't like to get hair in their mouths! Ha, ha, to them, big success for me and my plantings.

How lovely...thanks so much for sharing

For ground hacks try to grow castor bean. Beautiful plant and repel rottens.

Your video had a real ASMR feel about it!

What a beautiful garden.

I so enjoy the content of your videos!!💕🌸🌺 but i must say you have such a wonderful style about yourself as well 😍. You have an old soul that feels rich with knowledge. Keep up the great work you do! Thank you 😊

We try to save plants by spraying with neem oil suspension, Chilli powder solutions, neem powder solutions, garlic solutions and sometimes a combination of these....they do work

Siloé that's a most informative video showing some secrets of growing a cottage garden. Regards Patrick

That garden is so very beautiful!! (sigh..hedgehogs just keep killing)but if you hadn't shown us we wouldn't have seen a bare patch. You have the best attitude.

Lovely video. Hadn’t watched this one yet for some reason. Nice to see. And I do love the idea of growing flowers around the garden. My neighbor had a massive collection of different flowers and they’re just lovely. I’ve been adding a bit here and there to mine as well. Got some yarrow out front that’s spread a bit and I’m happy to see that. Also lavender and creeping rosemary. I’m currently loving the wild speedwell spreading in my semi-shade spots. It has these beautiful tiny purple flowers that look a little like miniature pansies, and a nice carpet of green leaves to counteract the grass.

Here in south eastern Victoria, Australia I have all kinds of critters to contend with. Some mornings on my garden patrol I discover devastation! What to do? Just keep on gardening. Being high on a hill, strong winds/gales tend to be the most destructive and I could never have hollyhocks.

Best video on cottage garden style. Thanks. Here in Kansas I grow hollyhocks in abundance! There are blooms every year now although it is a biennial plant. So sorry you cant't enjoy them but your garden looks lovely without them. Thank you for a great video and good thoughts.

Your gorgeous artistry in the garden is so inspiring!

Please bring back the cottage garden :3 miss these videos so much!

What a beautiful garden you have.

Beautiful.. I'm starting my journey this year starting on my cottage gardens...

This was my first video of yours. It was lovely. Thank you for sharing your beautiful home. Subbed💕✨

Love your video. Thank you!!! I have a cottage garden in Oregon. And I have a woodland garden too and it’s so fun to have booth.

Beautiful garden! It’s an inspiration to those of us aspiring for such beauty in our own yards. 🌷

We think a lot alike. I loved your video, your gardens and plant choices. Thank you for sharing. Happy Gardening in 2021

Wow! Beautiful!

Poor guy! After years of watching your videos, I'm starting to develop an unhealthy resentment towards those groundhogs.

I’m going to look for them again I moved and want a cover they great flowers ♥️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Thanks for the tip on the irises. I have many leaves and few flowers. You are very inspiring!

I completely understand your disappointment & frustration, I also struggle to grow a lot of plants because of the groundhog family that live under my shed, and eat EVERYTHING! Smh 🤦‍♀️

I could listen to you talk all day.

Wildlife gardening, or, more specifically, gardening for wildlife, is the way forward for a healthy life on this beautiful Earth!

Beautiful soil

Thank-you for the inspiration. Your garden and personal approach are lovely.

Another beautiful video from you, Siloe! Love the rustic beauty of a cottage garden, the colours in your garden look lovely!

I loved all the background history you gave here! Just lovely! Thanks for all the encouragement.