Oh my gosh.... I've watched you for a few years and I can tell where your standing as in reference to your house.. I can tell your driveway is behind you and that's the old blue spruce that just fell down a few weeks ago..... PLUS! your new addition to your property.. Oh my .... SUCH A DIFFERENCE!! You and Aaron have done some awesome work...

I’m watching this 3 years later and can’t believe how different your garden looked! Especially the new property in the background-just a field! You are so much more comfortable in front of the camera too. I think I will use some soil conditioner as mulch to improve my clay soil over time. Great video 😊

Me: *going through the older videos after having watched the new videos.* sees blue spruce in background* oh no! Laura! You're gonna lose that in 3 years from now to a windstorm! But I can't warn you! Oh well. It's super neat to see how much has changed over the year! The process is super cool 😎

I love that G&B Soil Building Conditioner. I use it as top mulch too, and I use it to put on grass after seasonal thatching and reseeding. It's really great stuff. Our yard started as sand, but after using this in all of our beds for 5+ years, the character of the soil has really changed. Our plants are super happy and we rarely get weeds (with zero spraying or chemicals of any kind.)

I love the summary of mulch. Woukd love a summary of feeding plamts. What to use for annuals and perennials. When and how to feed.

I’m getting hooked on gardening. My only problem is it’s expensive having it as a hobby. Plants are so expensive. Soil, mulch, fertilizer and tools can drain your bank account. So I’m doing it gradually. Thank you for all your bright ideas. Stay safe.

Oh I love that you explained the mulch you use! I was searching all over your videos to find. You guys are so organized with your videos but finding your basic tools and supplies can be hard. I love your videos... yes they are inspiring! Would love to meet you someday. Thank you for making so many videos!

Always enjoy your vids and knowledge with wisdom you share. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain in simple terms. 🍃🌹🍃

Very cool. Can't wait to see a shot down on the Garden from above. I love balanced gardens.

I'm with you on the bagged mulch, I do the same I'm to old, time is important to me at this stage of my life. Always look forward to your videos.

We like using the bags ourselves, so much easier! Thanks so much Laura, we are learning SOOOOOOO much from your channel! Keep up the good work!

Hello there, your garden is always so beautiful that I really like to have an aereal look to it and be able to appreciate your design.

Garden Lady and Mister Aaron, we're inundated with the active anger, hate, vicious confrontations across the planet. Coming here this morning, I could feel stress leaving me, and replaced with positivity, peace, harmony. So mucho mucho gracias to you both, or you three, LOL! And.....thank you to Garden Answer's many, many fans, who share their knowledge and expertise!!! 🌲🌳🌴🌿🍃🍀🍂🍁🌺🌼🐞😻😻

REALLY excited to see how that planting comes together in the Versailles garden.

What a great channel! Thanks so much for sharing your experience, and great projects,, and your beautiful property with us!

thanks for explaining your different mulches lots of great ideas for my future garden! I absolutely love watching your videos! And I have learned so much... 😊

Adorable as always. Great idea with the compost. Got new beds this year so going to try this. Thanks

I’m so glad I found this. I asked you today in another video about what mulch you use later on this showed up in the feed lol. I absolutely love your videos.

Your channel is so amazing! I just found it this week and you seem to answer every question I have!

Thanks for sharing! I enjoy your videos so much!

I would also love to know the differences between Espoma's various Plant-Tones and Osmacote's versions as slow-release fertilizer.

i use the soil conditioner too and I really love it.

Soooo awesome a terrific teacher, with a smart video man!

People who r around greenery and plants will never have bad eye sight unless it is age related and will always b young at heart.

your garden is awesome, and your house is beautiful!

Totally agree with using bagged mulch. The Scott's EarthGro is great!

Very glad that I searched and found this topic! I had been wanting to know. Sorry I asked on a more recent video before I found this helpful explanation.

Very informative, as usual. Love all of your videos and never tire of them. I especially loved the sneak of #theseones in this one :)

A tri-coloured beech would be gorgeous in that triangle and would contrast the blue spruce really well

So thankful for this explanation!!!

I agree that bags are easier, I order and have it delivered. Some unusual trees would look fantastic in that space. Something with interesting bark or a pretty color leaf or even a multi trunk. You and Aaron do such a wonderful job on the yard, whatever you pick will look great.

Hi been watching you for about a month I've been inspired, educated and in awe. My question you have so many gorgeous fountains/statues where can I locate something similar?

I also agree about bag vs. bulk mulch or soil. It is a tremendous amount of work to shovel/move/shovel...... I've found the quality of the soil/mulch is usually also better than the big load- you don't always get 'what you looked at'! Gorgeous shot of the house at the end. It reminds me of where I spent summers when I was young.

Beautiful garden 😍❤️

I think fruit trees would be great in that open space you showed us! Pretty and functional:)

I am getting so brave with planting because of you all ! THank you for sharing your knowledge with us ! I am so excited to do winter planters for the first time ever !! You are amazing

Excited for the new project!!!!

Looks great!

I agree with you about bag mulch as opposed to bulk mulch. Infinitely easier in bags. However with almost 5 acres of garden and I find that bag mulch is just to expensive so I, as you say, get it delivered and dumped in our driveway and then shovel it into the wheel barrow and move it to where I need it, usually up hill, then shovel it out onto the beds. I normally get 10 cubic meters of the stuff. I'm not looking forward to doing that again in a few weeks. PS love the Versailles Garden specially now that you have made it symmetrical can't wait to see the finished plantings.

At one time I didn't believe in mulch, I do now as long as I make sure that I leave some space around my plants. Last few years the weeds have become out of hand and mulch helps. I have a dolly to move the bags, I'm a senior without any help. Thank you.

I use compost as a mulch too, but I would reeeeeally love a video showing what to compost versus what to trash and how to "trash" the weeds and such w/o cluttering up the landfill.

Amen to using bags of mulch vs bulk! So much easier! :)

LOVED this one. At Walmart, I found a new product: It's a thick brown paper mulch infused with fertilizer. It's kind of between a brown paper and a cardboard and comes in a roll. They must have heard about all of us who use newspaper or cardboard as mulch! Anyway, I purchased a roll and am anxious to try it. I'm with you on the bag vs. bulk mulch. I used to get bulk, back when I was younger and could hop into the truck and unload it into piles around my gardens. Those days appear to be over! So now I purchase EVERY time there is a sale, and I keep it in the garage. If I notice a bare spot, it's easy to retrieve a bag and get it out there. I like the triple shred the best. It gives a refined look with no big chucks in it.

Perfect explanations! I also prefer to use bagged mulches for the same reasons. Much easier!

Thanks for this video!

As always great show. BEN

Excellent!!!

I never knew about the planting compost or the soil building conditioner! I am stopping the use of straight mulch because it is way too "barky" and it takes a long time to break down. Although we may not be able to find the G&B brands here in Canada, I am sure we have these products. Such a helpful channel!

Sadly my white birches started dying. I realised too late that the pine mulch we were using over the years created (great for weeds) but a shocking barrier and the ground underneath was sooo dead dry. Even with huge amounts of rain. Some hanging on since I’ve resolved, and others holding on to as the trunks still look nice during the winter. BUT ordering new bare root semi advanced trees and will completely replant come July. We get borer in our birch here and if you want white trunks you just have to always consider a 7 year renovation if you want birch trees.

Thank you so much , i glad that i find another dedicated gardner , my is 18 years old in NJ , sandy soli , no deers , but rubits , this year Gopheres , all lilies gone , big 100’s collection can you tell us How to deal with rhodents , and others deers rabits ets., thank you

I agree with you regarding buying mulch in bulk. I have a large yard and use the bags. My husband lugs the bags and deposits them where I need them. Also, one year we received three yards of contaminated mulch. Never again! Bags are easier and safer. Your gardens look fantastic! Have you ever considered doing a book on your gardening designs and tips?

Thank you 😊

Laura how often are you applying the planting compost/conditioner? Just annually?

Amazing.

Hi...firstly congratulations to both of u. I watch ur each and every video. I am wondering if u can add a rose garden tour in ur monthly garden tour. Or may b can u plz make a video on a rose exhibition or something? Ur rose garden is really beautiful. I would like to see more of it. Thanks and Regards. :-)

I was trying to find out if it is okay to use compost as mulch! So glad to see that you do it too! After buying compost and plants, I don't have budget to buy mulch almost every season. So this is good to know! (:

How I wish I had watched this before I bought mulch yesterday. I should have known to come to you first! Needless to say, I am shoveling bulk mulch out of the bed of my truck today. Oh joy:(

Can u show how to make hydreangea bloom etc trimming process, ferterlize and the result.

I was wondering if you do something special in the winter for your drip lines to keep them from freezing

I try to avoid bags of mulch because of all the plastic.

Where can you find the g&b mulch. I can’t find. Also how often do you add or replace the mulch?

Great video! Hope the morning sickness is getting better. Have a great week & God Bless. 🌺😻🌼 How is the Guara doing?

Oh my goodness.. I love your garden!! And your home!! You should do a home tour!!:) puhhhlease!!

How far apart do you plant your Sprinter Boxwood and how tall and wide will you sheer your hedge? How often do you anticipate having to sheer? Thank you, Love your videos!

I like your jet black mulch 🤗

Hi I absolutely L❤️VE your videos!! I have quick question... I want to plant cedars as hedge and than birch trees in front. I’m like you I like the look of mass planting.. and behind our houses we want all the privacy we can get . Can you recommend the spacing between? Ty and thank you for ur videos I’m a fan 🙏🏼💖❤️

You really need a small Kubota tractor. So useful for a property your size! Helps in lifting pots, carrying around mulch, gravel and digging smaller shrubs. I love mine, I have 2 acres.

#theseones 🤣🤣 i love that you guys poke fun at each other.

Hello, I was wanting to know what spray you use to kill your weeds/vine weeds. I am currently digging up my flower bed and completely redoing it and I would like to tackle the weeds before I plant the new flowers.

Thank you for the great information about mulching and linking them in the description. Also, anyone else see the new ring Laura's sporting? It's also gorgeous.

I rarely use landscaping fabric plus mulch around plants anymore because it is a hassle to remove to amend the soil. Still, there are times when it's very helpful, especially as a temporary measure somewhere or with long rows of certain plants (like Laura's row of boxwoods). When I do, I use bulk mulch rather than put more plastic bags into the environment.

How does the compost or soil conditioner work for weed suppression? Here in Oklahoma any bare 'soil' is ripe for spurge, crab grass, and tons of other weeds to take over super fast. I love the look of the planting compost used as mulch but worry I'd lose my plants among a sea of weeds.

I would like suggestions for landscaping at a new house. We are in zone 7. I love azaleas, hydrangeas, crepe myrtles and would like something new and different. Thank you

I know this is an older video but could you touch more on dealing with bind weed? I'm on my third year of battling this nuisance, I am determined to get control of it this year! (Doesn't help that my neighbours let it run rampant 😡). Thank you!

Great explanation regarding mulch preferences . I think you may have asthma? Allergies? Can cause asthma like symptoms. Or performance anxiety? You have great information and present it in an energetic interesting manor. Relax and enjoy it

I have learned so much from you, thank you. My husband was the gardener but now that task has been left to me.. For a number of years I let things go, to afraid to try things and waste money so====now I am very interested. Where can I buy G&B products - I live in Fuquay Varina, NC just south of Raleigh.

Can you tell us about your gravel for the driveway and walkways. What type and size.

Love you & you videos! I have been using bagged hardwood mulch for years. If I want to switch to the G&B product do I need to remove the remnants of the old mulch (wood chunks) before spreading the new material? Also, will it float away during a heavy rain, especially on mounded beds? If so, what is the best mulch for that application?

I’m in Indiana and would love to know of comparable alternatives to the G&B soil conditioner that are more easily available in my area? Thank you for the informative video!! 😊 @GardenAnswer

Another question - I am getting older and would like to know how to use stone or gravel over a portion of my yard. Does that make sense over sod? I have hard clay soil.

For your spot that you talked about putting trees in at the front of your driveway? Tri- colored Beech? I have one and its a-mazing!!

I can't find G & B soil conditioner in Connecticut! I love the look of it in your gardens, always looks so nice!

Your time is definitely worth money. You've got to weigh it out, in the end if bagged makes more sense go for it. I'm definitely use the compressed brick in my upcoming projects.

if you need to add amendment to your soil will it go through the landscape material and reach the roots of your plants?

Hi Laura,j ust curious do you compost, you must have a lot of compostable material from a large garden

Is using drip tubing more effective than using soaker hoses?

How about crape myrtle for that spot?

Completely agree with your bagged mulch reasoning. I made the executive decision a few years ago. My husband freaked regarding the cost. He’s a numbers guy and actually found in our area it was cheaper.......and soooooo much easier.

How do you feel about Hazelnut shell mulch?

How did you get the names for each garden? Were they previous names or based on your statutes?

Where do you purchase the composts. Can’t find it on Amazon

After you have those hoses installed how does it get turned on every day? Do you have a timer installed that turn all the water on automatically?

Linda Just started watching your videos & have a question: what would be the easiest groundcover for a small space?

Laura, I luv luv your videos and so excited about the baby. I am a bit curious though about the purpose of your greenhouse. You always have it stocked so full of beautiful plants. So .... do you as a business sell these plants to customers who come there to buy (like a garden center) or are the plants only for your use in your garden? Just trying to understand the basic premise of why you moved from your already gorgeous house and garden onto such a large property that needed so much work. Guessing it was to expand your business in many ways ... but I have never heard you talk about it. Just curious about what all you offer from there and what are your dreams and ultimate plans for it all. Huugggs from Ohio

What do you use for edging? That is my biggest nightmare.

Thank you for this information. What is the name of this garden that Laura is saying? Anyone?

You should try a tri-color beech tree

Any good suggestions for soil conditioners in Illinois

I don't use very woody mulches due to triggering nitrogen depletion in the soil.

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