I’m 76 and still gardening. I don’t plan to give up my passion as long as I can get around. Gardening gives me joy and brightens my world. Flowers are natures jewelry.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Well said! I love that idea of flowers being nature's jewelry. So clever.

@kasturiswami784

9 ай бұрын

I am 77 ,from India,have a small garden full of flowers,and butterflies!

Last winter, as my husband's health began to get worse, I thought about selling our small farm in upstate NY. When we bought the property, there was nothing here but two chicken coops, a barn and a neglected four square house. We've been here forty years. Now there are orchards and gardens. A lot of sweat equity. But I decided that I'd rather stay and keep it up myself. It's home. Someday, my son will retire and I'll leave it to him. If Gertrude could do it with a little help, so can I.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

I love this story! You most definitely can do it!

@marianfrances4959

9 ай бұрын

Awesome choice!! 👍😎🇨🇦

@julegate

9 ай бұрын

A wonderful choice!

My mother gardened until she was 95 and lost the use of her hands. (Even then though, her mind was always on her garden and she planned for “next spring”.!) Gardening is an activity of faith, hope, and love for sure. When her arthritis was bad she would crawl if necessary, just to be outside with her flowers. It was an activity that kept her mind, body, and spirit healthy , and gave all passersby the gift of abundant blooms. I plan to follow my mom’s example.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

What a fantastic story. Thanks for sharing that. So inspiring. You are right. Gardening is an activity of faith, hope, and love.

@margaretsmith7712

9 ай бұрын

I do too.....Amen...xx

@amenmolier2416

9 ай бұрын

Wow how beautiful, I have the same love for gardens and plants like ur mom, I wake up to check on the garden and fall asleep full of thoughts around the garden....

@rareandwonderfull

9 ай бұрын

🧡🧡🧡 80+ percent of people who had a near death experience found themselves in gardens of flowers and trees that were indescribably beautiful. Jesus said to the penitent malefactor "Today you shall e with me in paradise." Paradise is a pleasure garden. People who gave no thought to flowers and gardens in the earthly life, found themselves in radiant gardens. The gardens to not cease when we leave this life, after that, the gardens have only just begun. Your mom is a picture of what we all should be, the world would be a far better place if it were so. Thank you for sharing that.

@user-th5pm1wg5r

5 ай бұрын

Truth , well written.

Love this & love Gertrude. I'm 72 years old & I'll be gardening on my riverside hill today. Pruning, weed whipping, pulling veg & replanting. It's good for my soul.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

It is good for the soul. I couldn't agree more. Happy gardening!

@constancewhite6906

10 ай бұрын

So good to hear! I’m 71, putting in a new garden and learning as I go!

@nanapoppi3

10 ай бұрын

I'm 74, and put in a 50 ft. Long "no dig" pollinator friendly garden.. It has brought me nothing but joy and I'm delighted to be helping out our pollinator buddies. So my motto is keep carrying on and be open to new things no matter what your age.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

@@nanapoppi3 That is a fantastic motto!

@hylandgundy2698

10 ай бұрын

@@nanapoppi3 you go girl!

In one of the garden groups on Facebook I often visit, it was a member, in her fourties’ that commented on a suggestion I made,” it was too time consuming” and “ thinking about scaling down”. Well, I’m 58 and created 6248 square feet garden beds in 2 years and working with 7186 square feet right now. I have a small backyard nursery and a cut flower garden, a hoop house and a big raised bed kitchen garden. I built it all by myself, dig almost everything by hand made a sunken seating area with stone walls. I plant seeds, take cuttings, sell plants, harvest seeds, sell seeds also in winter time. So, no - I learn new things every day, by experience and by watching KZread videos. No - I am not to old. 😊

@cejanuary9378

10 ай бұрын

You sound amazing yourself! These are also my goals in older age!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Holy smokes! It sounds to me like you can start writing your own books. Your garden sounds incredible!

@constancewhite6906

10 ай бұрын

This is so encouraging and isn’t KZread a great resource to gather in needed info!

@asaliden4584

10 ай бұрын

@@constancewhite6906 “I make plans, and 10 other things happen “. Well, welcome to countryside! 😆 When I get a large pile of compost, I feel RICH. When seeds are germinating, I feel RICH. When I can cut flowers, I feel RICH. When tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and other veggies grow, again , you guessed right, I feel rich. I think it’s the hard work, body and soul we put in the work of our gardens and the happiness in little things that makes us happier, more satisfied with muscles and dirt up to our ears. We sleep better, dreaming of walking down beautiful garden paths. We watch KZread videos when it’s too dark to be outside and we learn more, discover new things and plants, succeed or fail and all of it makes us better gardeners. And our knowledge is ours to keep, always and that my friend is our wealth. 🌸👩🏼‍🌾 // Swedish gardener at 58 and 40yrs of trial and error, still curious and still learning. ❤️

@kbeetles

10 ай бұрын

In my old age (70 now!) I am getting more passionate about plants and gardening - I live in a flat now but adopted a tiny garden by one of the churches and looking ahead to some daunting(!) garden project at another church with excitement and trepidation..... hope this will keep me young(er) as well......!?

I will be 55 in 6 weeks. Boy did I need to hear this. Thank you.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

You are not alone friend!

I loved this video! I’m 80 and continue to garden. My mother was my teacher and I have passed the love of gardening on to my children. I don’t do as much in one day as I did before but it still gets done. This video has many wise messages.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. I love gardening too and wish I could talk to my grandma to get tips. I was looking at old photos and realized she had quite a wonderful flower garden. I was too young to appreciate it at the time. Thanks for your note.

@user-xw8jr2dr3t

10 ай бұрын

I love that you are continuing to garden. You sound like a very young 80 year old.

Gardening for me has been a life long, continual learning experience, with no end in sight, thinking back to my earliest days learning beside my grandma, onto the small projects still living with my parents, next gardening in my first home, I’m now in my third home after downsizing and I still find myself deeply in love with gardening, learning and working with the spaces I have and what else is there yet to learn.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for your note. Gardening is such a blessing. I totally agree.

I visited a garden designed by G.Jekyll in July. When the current owners bought the garden and the house in the 1980s, there was practically no garden at all. Almost everything she had designed disappeared over the following decades due to neglect. That's a lesson too. No garden can surive without a gardener.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

You bring up such an important point. It's incredible how quickly a garden fades when the gardener is gone. I think there is a lesson there. I read the book about the restoration of the Jekyll garden at Upton Grey and the story was incredible.

@dustyflats3832

10 ай бұрын

I’ve experienced that myself with past homes we owned. They took out trees and shrubs and butchered what was left. I haven’t been able to go past my childhood home since my folks past because I’m not ready to see changes if any were made. Some people that own homes hate to garden and the make a yard a blank slate.

@englishwithanerudite

10 ай бұрын

@@GardenMoxie It was exactly the garden at Upton Grey which I visited in July. The owner is an incredible person and the brochure she has prepared for her visitors is a gem to be treasured!

@englishwithanerudite

10 ай бұрын

@@dustyflats3832 I am really sorry about your situation. I think my garden is not going to survive my absence. I have come to terms with that fact, sort of at least.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

@@englishwithanerudite How lucky you are to visit that garden. It is on my wish list to see. I have seen photos and it looks stunning. In her book it was incredible to see how the garden disappeared before it was restored. It's a wonderful book.

Thanks so much for the enlightening video. Amen to its never too late.. After gardening for 30 years (and an empty-nester), at 50 I designed and installed gardens for others. My references were by word of mouth, and it was a one-woman show unless clients wanted to dig in alongside me (excuse the pun). It was a wonderful experience. I've since only been able to keep up my own garden, but still love to help others with their designs. Share what you've learned, keep learning, and never throw in the trowel!🌿

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Wonderful! How inspiring.

I discovered Miss Jekyll decades ago. Thanks for helping revive an interest in her work. I am 77 and just bought a house because of its huge yard…. a blank canvas for me to turn into the garden I’ve always dreamed of. Thoughts of it help me get up every morning, and the work keeps me young

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Wow. It sounds like you have an awesome project planned. How exciting.

@patl.4170

9 ай бұрын

Oh my gosh that’s wonderful! Here’s to many many more years of gardening!

Beautiful video. I’ve just retired at 65 and am starting a small vegetable garden. I don’t feel too old to start a whole new phase of my life and do new things, and it’s nice to have that reinforced. Lovely.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Sounds great! I want to find a spot for a veggie garden too. There's nothing like home grown food.

Who knew garden videos could produce such emotion as Sue's? Thanks for sharing your lovely outlook on life and gardening.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Ahh..thank you.

@gardencali-arkansasstyle6995

9 ай бұрын

Very true🌻

So true. I’m 86 and still gardening after a fashion but do what I can manage. There are a few stategically placed chairs to collapse into after 5 minutes or 30 or whenever the need presents itself. Whenever jobs are left undone, the plants sort themselves out, often with surprising results but always ending up beautifully. This is when one can relax in the sun lounger and enjoy it all.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

I love that notion of the plants sorting themselves out. That is so true. And as you mentioned, the results always end up beautifully. Thanks for your note.

@brookhousehnb

10 ай бұрын

@@GardenMoxie 🇬🇧💕🥰

How inspiring Sue! Having just celebrated my 66th birthday it is a great reminder that we are never too old! Off to my garden I go! 💚🌸🤓

In a few days, I’m leaving my beloved garden behind and moving to a new place. And I barely slept a wink last night thinking of how I’m going to create my new garden. This morning your beautiful, inspiring video was in my feed. I guess it was just meant to be!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

It will be exciting to build a new garden, won't it? So many choices to make. I always find that the hardest part. Deciding on the final plans. I would love to hear how it goes. Happy gardening to you!

@lindavernon8051

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. I’m having a ball so far. The garden was quite dry when I got here as the home had been vacant for a month in the hot weather. Now I’m watering everything to see what can be brought back to life. Once I get an idea I’ll design around what’s there. So that helps with the planning.@@GardenMoxie

@lindavernon8051

9 ай бұрын

I’m having fun! Thanks for asking.@WilliamsSmith-444

Gardening is healing, on all levels, at all ages. Because of her painter's eye and experience, Jekyll invested herself in the composition of plants next to one another and that is a great wisdom. Thank you for reminding me of this and the beauty she created.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind note.

Thank you fir this inspiration to keep on keeping on! I am almost 70 and worry I'd I'll be able to be gardening in another ten years. By the grace of God I will!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

By God's grace we all will. Thanks for watching.

This gives me hope and drive to keep on keeping up. At 72 I have to hire help with some heavy lifting but still love getting it done. Very encouraging…thank you!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Hiring heavy work out is smart. I am starting to do the same. Thanks for watching.

This was a delightful video to watch, insightful & emotionally intelligent. I can see Jekyll's influence in your own garden. She really was a master gardener, one we all seem to look up to. Lovely. 💚🌱

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

I’m 69 and starting a new rather large garden. 🌺💚🙃

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Way to go!

I'm 60 and each day i make sure i touch the soil and greet afew plants.I got that desire to live alongside plants and animals.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

That is great advice.

I’m so enjoying reading all these comments after your wonderful video; it makes me feel no so alone at 71 beginning a new garden. I feel encouraged as I prep out 2, possibly 3 new planting beds. I’m in zone 10, sunny So CA and am sharing this garden with a stand of 6 mature Oak trees.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

That sounds fantastic. I have been enjoying the comments too. It is always awesome to be in the company of gardeners.

This video was the motivation I needed! I just turned 50 on Saturday and have been dealing with menopause and feeling lethargic and blue for about a year, with no energy for the garden. I’m sure you ladies dealing with this time of life know what I’m talking about 😂 In any case, I planted some cuttings today. It was a small gesture to my neglected yard, somewhat of a piece offering. It made me feel so happy and hopeful, and tonight I found your channel and this amazing video about this dynamic author that I will now be researching. Thank you for this lovely reminder, I’m now off to binge watch your videos and make some exciting gardening plans 🙏✨👩‍🌾

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Hang in there friend and thanks for watching. We can all get some much needed motivation from Gertrude Jekyll's example. Happy birthday!

You don't need to paint to be an artist and Gertrude was sure that !!! How wonderful to see her garden and walk around it.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Amen! Her artistic skills definitely raised her gardening to a fine art. So inspiring.

So enjoyed this as I do all of your videos. You are a natural teacher, Sue. You teach gardening and life, hand in hand. I am 59 years old, 60 right around Thanksgiving. I retired after teaching elementary school for 30 years. I am busier than ever and work physically hard most days on our small farm and in my garden. It is the best kind of tired. I thank God daily just for being born here, where I am able to be outside in His world doing what I love. Many blessings.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

You sound like my kind of gardener Peggy. There is nothing better than getting outside in the soil and working hard. Thanks so much for your kind note.

@dustyflats3832

10 ай бұрын

@@GardenMoxieI do the same, but this climate concerns me. We are under abnormal heat watch this week in WI. Our microclimate is hotter and colder than other areas around us and we may be hitting 100*F+ Wednesday and Thursday and then the air quality issues 🙄. It can make a person dizzy. I use shade fabric and will design a way to hang it soon so I can pull it like a curtain. I’m getting older and need to incorporate these things now. The heat is too much and they say hotter next year.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

@@dustyflats3832 I appreciate what you are saying. I am not a fan of gardening in the heat anymore either. It never bothered me when I was younger, but it is tough now. The shade fabric is a great idea.

I'm 74 years young and a very active gardener. I have several herbaceous borders and they keep me happy and healthy. Always inspired by great stories such as this.

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story. I love stories like this too.

I absolutely love this. It speaks to me that what I plant today might exist for a long time after I am gone.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

I started taking an interest in gardening as a child, took it up as a career at 18 (and made for myself an impressive CV), unfortunately had an accident which ended that career at 26, but still garden at home to the best of my ability (I just have to take it easy, no heavy lifting, and don't spend 'all' day working). 57 now and currently transforming my 2 acre garden from an ornamental one to a part-permaculture/part-rewilding garden, which will make it easier on my back and joints in the future. Interesting that Gertrude Jekyll was an artist first. I was the same until my eyesight started to weaken. I also did a bit of (horticultural) journalism and photography for a while, so we seem to have some similarities.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experiences. You most definitely share many similarities with Jekyll. That's awesome.

Good introduction to Gertrude Jekyll’s writing and photography. She became the gold standard for gardening practices and design - giving her readers permission to fella develop their own style!

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

She was quite a remarkable person, wasn't she?

This video brought me to tears! I’m 64 and am passionate about how my garden looks and mostly how it makes you feel! I do get a bit frustrated when I can’t lift a field stone, but it’s in the dreaming of what it could be that I savor 🙏

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Gardens are the best places to be, aren't they? The dreaming is the best.

Sue, thanks so much for this video. She was an incredible person, it really showed how much love and effort she put into her gardens. I can just imagine how amazing it must have been to be touring her gardens. It must have been spectacular!! You are absolutely right, you are never to old to accomplish anything in this life. She is a testament to that.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

You are right! I find her life incredibly inspiring. Her home was unbelievable. And the National Trust just purchased the home to renovate. I can't wait to return someday to view the garden again.

@jenniferhooks2454

10 ай бұрын

After watching this video, I want to read her books. I'll be 70 in November, and I plan to putter around in my yard until I am unable to move. Can I do as much in a day as I used to do? No. Do I need help with heavy jobs? Yes. I develop compensation strategies to get things done without hurting myself. My grandmother worked in her yard until she was 86. It must have nourished Gertrude Jekyl's soul to be out in her garden. I know it nourishes mine. Thanks for this inspirational video.

2and a half years ago my husband and I moved from Bloomington Indiana to Albania. We're in our 70's Our house sold in 3'days for 2 and and a half more than we had bought it for. We bought a house here and for the first time in my life I'm gardening and loving it.. Thanks for this KZread ❤

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Wow! What a great story you have. Congratulations and thanks for sharing your inspiring story. Happy gardening friend!

Love the video and whole heart fully agree with your never too old. Thanks for sharing.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for checking out the video and thank you for your note. I totally agree!

Oh my goodness! You are so right. She was a force to be reckoned with. Thanks Sue. The garden and the gardeners hold so many life lessons. Thanks for the inspiration. ❤

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. I'm glad you liked the video. Jekyll is one of my absolute favorites.

cadvoka I greatly appreciated this video. I had never hear of Gertrude Jekyll, but now that I am in my 70's, and having scaled down to a courtyard, from a large lawn, I found much inspiration from her story.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for your note. I think she is a very inspiring person too.

This was a great video for anyone who appreciates gardening. I was feeling at my age 70 years that I was too old to garden. Not only was this video inspiring but it also made me feel that I too could accomplish a garden.

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Yay! I am glad the video was a good reminder that there is still much gardening to do.

Kindred Spirits with Miss. Gertrude. ❤

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Me too.

Thank you for this video! I have loved and read Miss Jekyll’s books. I’m 74 years old and we’ve just moved in to a condo with no gardens. I left a our home after 40 years of gardening so will definitely have gardens here.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. It is sad to leave your old garden, but exciting to be able to start a new one. And like Jekyll said, the size of a garden has nothing to do with its merit. I'd love to hear how things go.

@sallyday8182

10 ай бұрын

I’ll keep in touch. I’m your neighbor in Ohio 🦋

Such a timely video for me. I started working in my garden when I retired at 64. I, too am dealing with losing eyesight and this brings me such joy to work in the garden. Gertrude may be my new hero. Thank you for sharing!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad the video was helpful. I find Jekyll incredibly inspiring.

I am a new gardener in my mid 50's, living where my parents built many lovely gardens around their home. Having to upkeep it. And by deciding to buy some 9 roses in lots of 3 to plant In honour of my Father and Mother, each rose expressing the best of both persons! This was only in July this year 2023, one year exactly to the death of both parents1 year and 9 years apart. Yes both my parents by divine providence died upon the same date and the roses arrived bare root the late afternoon before that date 1 year after my mother's passing. The foliage is just budding the first roses peeping up each head so tiny for now. Thankyou for sharing about Gutrude. She was a very passionate woman. Easy goes it, one step at a time. Garden design hit me when the 9 roses arrived!! 😅❤

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Roses sound like a beautiful way to honor your parents.

At 64 I’m moving to a new property to start a new garden 🪴 all over again. For sure, your never too old.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Awesome! Happy gardening to you!

Resonate with you completely..creating and being able to keep opening up more adventures with a community garden ..sharing with so many who discover this secret garden..giving them joy and me even more..73yrs young.🌳

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Yay to gardening!! Thanks for watching.

Wonderful video! I agree 100% with this great woman: I bought a house this year - I'm 52 years old - and my family is about to start creating a great garden that also has a well. Never too old to start!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

That sounds fantastic. Happy gardening!

Sue what a treat this video was, you may not know it, but I look forward with anticipation for every video. It is always teaching something new not only about myself but about a garden! As you said one is never too old to learn something new….Thank you!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Bernadette. I appreciate you being here.

I love the partnership of Gertrude Jekyll and Edmund Lutyens! Two great minds! I remember being 29, puttering through the nursery in the rain on my birthday, looking at bare root roses. I encountered an elderly gentleman and we talked about plants for half an hour. Just imagine if Gertrude's photos were in color! I'm really enjoying your series about gardeners from the past. You can learn something from anyone, but years of experience should not be wasted. Seeing Monty Don on various BBC garden shows over the years is also inspiring. I think gardening (and learning) keep us young and healthy, and really, to pass away sitting in a chair in the garden sounds just fine.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

I completely agree. Thanks for your note.

Lessons for Gertrude J. are timeless and so relevant.. love her designs and gardens so much! Thank you for these beautiful reminders! ❤

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Her lessons are timeless, aren't they? Such an incredible woman.

My interest in Gertude Jekyll and her personality never fade. She was an admirable, hard working woman. What a more beautiful world that we would have if everyone would have the work ethic and mind of Gertrude. Thank you for sharing.

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for your note. She is one of my favorites too.

Just came across your channel. I really appreciate the contents in this video. I'm 77 years old and love to be outside gardening and enjoying the spaces I've created. I have recently decided to remove some old azalea bushes and plant some new bushes and add flowering plants. A gardener is never done with their dreams. ❤

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. So true. Gardening is the best.

Boy I needed to hear your voice echoing Gertrude J. Thank you.

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked the video. Thanks for being here.

Good morning, Sue, from Windermere, Florida 9b ❤ What an excellent video on Gertrude and you ❤ At 73, I agree with you...I'm just getting my "second wind"! ❤Peggy❤

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thank you. Let's hear it for that second wind. I am right there with you!

I'm 67 and plan on gardening full time once I retire, my learning has been trial and error plus watching youtube garden videos everyday

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

That sounds like a great plan. I've learned my best lessons from trail and error too.

Many thanks for this thoughtful and inspiring video! I'm 72 now, and first 'met' Miss Jekyll in the mid-1970s, in a used book store in Gainesville, Florida, where I was finishing an eight year, three major undergraduate career, headed for a degree in Ornamental Horticulture. I bought everything they had by her, and cherish those volumes to this day. I'm grateful to have had the KZread algorithm recommend your work to me, and to get to look at myself and the world I live in reinterpreted, yet again, in such a lovely way!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your kind note.

This is my favorite video of 2023 so far

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. I am glad to hear you liked the video.

I am 56 and just started gardening this year. It’s the most peaceful satisfying time of my life. Thank you for this video. It was lovely.

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. Gardening is the best! Welcome to the fun world of gardening.

Great philosophy! I turn 60 in a couple weeks and still trying to wrap my head around what it means to be ‘retired.’ I see gardening as a new beginning-and even though I’m now a Master Gardener, I look forward to learning something new every day. Especially from watching KZread channels like yours! Kudos, my green-thumb/ever-young friend!

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Happy 60th birthday! I know exactly how you feel. Thanks for your inspiring note. I appreciate it.

I am 75 years old, living in Cape Town and have her and George S Elgoods, 1904 tome, to sell . So beautiful, and must go to a fanatical gardener! I am placing it on Market place tomorr. No good packed away, needs to be open on display. How wonderful to find your post about Gertrude and her picture. Thankyou soo much!💐

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Wonderful! I guess I am still a young sprout at 61! Glad to hear it because I still have so much to do.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Indeed! She can serve as inspiration for us all.

What a lovely way to start a Sunday morning before I head out to garden. Thank for the inspiration!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much.

I worked at this beautiful home for a while and loved every minute of it. One special treat was after tea sitting in the garden with the owners of the property. Munsted Wood has recently passed into the hands of the National Trust and I look forward to visiting again. I live ten minutes down the road in a 500 year old cottage with gardens that my partner and I are creating. I’m in my 60s and he his 70s.

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

That is fantastic. You live in a beautiful place. Thanks for sharing your story. I am also looking forward to visiting Munstead Wood again.

What an inspiring lesson you just gave! I'm about to have my 75th birthday and I needed that shot in the arm. Thank you!❤

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Well a happy birthday to you!

Makes me want to look for books written by Gertrude Jekyll. Her home and garden at Munsted Wood is beautiful and serene.

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

I've enjoyed learning about this incredible gardener and artist.

Thank You for sharing this with us Sue 🍃🌸🍃

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.

Oh how I enjoyed that short presentation. I appreciated the that published the book. God bless her soul.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked the video. I love reading her books.

Really interesting video - amazing how much of the original Jekyll garden remains!

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. It is utterly amazing the influence this woman had on the gardening world. So inspiring.

Hello from Spain. I am Carmen. I have just found your channel and I have felt fascinated for your videos. Thank you for sharing what inspires you. Thanks to you I have had the opportunity to know Gertrude Jekyll too. You are absolutely right, we are never too old to learn something new.. Blessings, Carmen

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

Oh my goodness I never knew about Gertrude Jekyll before: thank you so much for introducing her to us and her incredibly productive output of work. I TOTALLY agree with her message and your message and am inspired by her life and what you have shared here. Thank you.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching.

What a wonderful video indeed! Thank you for reminding us that it’s certainly never to late to create and be creative. My garden is my canvas, the flowers, plants and herbs are my paints. With Gods blessings in my heart, together we create a new masterpiece that gets better with each season that passes. At 67 soon, I celebrate those seasons along with my life’s own and am so very grateful for reminders like this one, how very blessed I am. Many thanks again.✨🌿🖌️🎨👒🌿✨

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your beautiful thoughts on gardening. It is never too late to be creative indeed.

@kathryncross4506

9 ай бұрын

@@GardenMoxie ❤️

I love your animation of Gertie strolling down the garden path! :)

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Ha ha...I had fun with that one. It made me laugh too. Thanks for watching.

Oh! I’m so glad I happened upon your video! This is such a breath of fresh air for me today. I am so happy to learn about this extraordinary gardener and artist… thank you! I can’t wait to check out more of your videos

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Thank you. I am glad that you liked the video.

I love this. I'm 52 and changing paths into gardening and teaching others to garden. Ive often wondered if im too old to start a new venture, you and Gertrude say that im not. 😊 I needed to hear this. Thank you for posting!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thank you and congratulations on starting a new adventure. That's awesome!

I just love this! I just bought my first 2 Gertrude Jekyl roses by David Austin. I was wondering. Who she was - am now.. OMG ❤ I have a little of her in my garden. How wonderful.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Awesome! As you now know...she was pretty amazing.

Awesome video! I can listen to you all day you got such a great voice. I'm 51 and a die hard Gardener. I have converted a whole acre into nothing but a piece of paradise. People who come and see it says it's the garden of Eden lol. But anyway I've always quetioned myself if I could manage it when I get older, well you just answered my question👍. thanks so much as I felt this video was for me

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. It sounds like you have built an incredible garden. Spaces like that make a big difference in the world. I'm so glad you liked the video.

Thank you for this video. First time I have seen your channel. I am retired during Covid ( unexpectedly) and have taken up a certificate in garden design at Melbourne uni but at my age i think it’s a bit late, however you and Gertrude have just reminded me that it isn’t so

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Wonderful! It's never too late.

I am actually at a loss for words. Thank you for sharing about Gertrude Jekyll! I appreciate these videos immensely. Your videos always give me pause to think, not only of my garden, but also my lifestyle choices. I have been holding back a lot of garden projects or crossing them off my list because I know I will get to a place where I “can’t” or I’m “too old.” That’s no way to garden! That’s really no way to live! (I found the words after a little thought.😆)

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing that. I agree completely. Happy gardening and thanks for watching the video.

Perfect timing! As a 55 year old who just caught the bug to create something rather than of just plant things, this video is truly an inspiration.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Yay to creating things!

This was wonderful to discover! I’m 58 and a first-time ever gardener and homeowner. Lived in apartments in/around NYC my whole life and all of it is new to me. I was quietly reading gardening books and mags in the background, but physically getting myself in the dirt has been life-changing and soul-nourishing. My body was a wreck the first week, but I’ve gradually developed muscle memory and learned to pace myself with certain tasks. Initially I was a bit sad, thinking how I’d only have a short window of life to enjoy this wonderful pursuit. But I already find myself excited about and planning next season. Gardening makes time stand still in some ways, so the “deadline anxiety” really falls to the margins, and you revel in each moment. I figure if I just keep sustaining those moments, I’ll get to grow old with my garden and yet the work (and some helpful tools) will help keep me young 😊

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your insights. Brilliant way to look at your new garden.

Love this! Your never to old to learn, so inspiring.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Amen friend! That is the truth.

Thanks for the encouragement! At 76 I'm having to make some adjustments, but I i love my garden even when I get stiff and sore!

@GardenMoxie

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the note. I find Gertrude Jekyll to be incredibly inspiring! I'm glad you liked the video.

Every time I watch your videos I am both inspired and envious. Why inspired is obvious, but, envious not because you can hire folks to come with a back hoe and have them dig holes and put in your large shrubs and trees (I have had to dig my own holes, hauling out large rocks and boulders), but envious because you can do what I can no longer due to severe arthritis in both knees. I do what I can for as long as I can bear the pain...smelling the garden's sweet breath, feeling the earth in my hands, and loving all of the glorious growing things (I do mainly veg) I was actually in my hoop house this morning; watering and deciding what fall winter seeds to plant for my four season harvests. I am reluctant to stop, to hobble back through the gravel path and garden door to our small cottage home...so I stay a bit longer then I should. It is a price I am willing to pay for just one more moment while I can.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

I am sorry to hear about your arthritis and hope you are always able to be in your beautiful garden.

Being an avid gardener of 75 years, I can agree whole heartedly with Miss Jekyll! Sounds like my kind'a gal!!! Thanks for sharing...would have loved to see more of her garden. Will search and see if there's more available...❤🌺🌻🌸

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

I am glad you enjoyed the video. I love Jekyll.

Very interesting! I'm glad I found your channel.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard!

I love when you make videos like this! So inspiring and easy listening/viewing!!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

I'm so glad to hear you liked the video. Thanks for your note.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful artist, writer and story with us. Fascinating that you got to see her gardens in person.

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked the video. Visiting her home was a dream come true. I find her story inspiring.

In the midst of the worst drought I've ever experienced, this summer of 2023, this was a most encouraging video to come across. Jekyll didnt have to contend with climate change, as we do, but I'm sure she would have found ways to cope.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

I'm glad you liked the video. What is really interesting is reading about how poor the soil on her site was when she first started gardening. She definitely has so many lessons to teach. Even today.

How interesting! Thanks for sharing about Gertrude Jekyll. I am heartened that she began gardening in mid-life. We can all do it!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Indeed! Thanks for your note.

Wonderful video, Sue. I've been a fan of Gertrude Jekyll for years and her influence on me of color in the garden has lasted for 35 years! How amazing that you were able to tour Munstead Woods. I was lucky enough to visit the garden that she and Lutyens designed at Hestercombe, that was an amazing lesson in the value of the interplay of garden structure and planting. I love your beautiful garden videos, thank you for sharing your garden and your ideas.

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. I have Hestercombe on my wish list of gardens to visit. I bet it was stunning.

@lynnpurse

9 ай бұрын

I loved her plantings but loved Lutyens structural designs just as much. Moving through and sitting in the garden was an enlightening experience as the proportions of his paths, seats, arbors, etc. fit into the garden in a way that felt completely natural. It was the perfect complement to Jekyll's plantings. You will love it, I think 🥰

Thank you for new shots ))) My Summer Garden is in full bloom and we're excited to share it with you as we take you on a virtual tour of flower garden! A lot of health :)))

I loved this video! At 77 I wonder what I can do for the rest of my life!!😊❤️😊❤️ Thank you. I subscribed!

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. I appreciate you being here.

I love this! Thank you! I’m 58, soon to see 59 this winter. I’m starting a flower farm and backyard nursery and have wondered if I’m too old to begin this venture. Evidently not!

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

How exciting to be starting a flower farm and backyard nursery. That sounds like a great plan.

Thankyou , I have three of the pink roses named after her in a large turquoise pot. Now i will think of the person when i enjoy them. A hundred years later in Arizona!

@GardenMoxie

19 күн бұрын

Isn't that cool? Gertrude Jekyll is an inspiring person for sure.

It’s unfortunate we don’t have full color photographs in her books but getting to see her home in real life renders it all in full glory.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Indeed. I am very excited that the National Trust plans to restore the garden. I imagine it will be incredible to visit.

Lovely video. Thanks for sharing this information.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Loveliest video I've seen on KZread....thank you for introducing us to Gertrude Jekyll. She's amazing. I will look for her writings. And, I subscribed. I'm 65 living in California. The drought ravaged my yard. I need to take it back... I subscribed..🙋

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for subscribing. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the video. Take care.

Hi Sue, wow this was a fabulous video! First of all I love the way you speak on on your videos (using correct grammar ) and being so concise! This video was a perfect way to start my Sunday as I look at my recent efforts in my ongoing rearrangement of my perennials to make the colours flow! As I “discover “ the success of gardening , it is so true that the expression of one’s artistry as a gardener is so rewarding! Thank you ❤🌸🇨🇦

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Ahhh...thanks so much for your kind words of encouragement. I am so glad you liked the video. Gardening is such a great hobby, isn't it?

Oh my, how dull my life would be if I never wanted to try something new! Very beautiful video. Thank you. Peace-

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

Indeed. Thanks for your note.

I thank you so much for making this video, it brought me to tears because it resounded so deeply inside me. That advice is the very one advice I needed to ear in this particular life moment. Two months from now I will be a 43 years old woman and I feel so lost because it's like I'm starting my life from the beginning...once again. Gardening, garden design and nursery are what I aim to do in my life and I'm trying to gather all the courage I can find inside to believe I can finally be what I've always wanted to be.

@GardenMoxie

9 ай бұрын

As Aristotle said, "Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there is your vocation." You can do it!! 43 is a Spring chicken friend.

@DanielaIMP24

9 ай бұрын

@@GardenMoxie ❤

I've dreamed of seeing her master.pieces. yes, she is truly an inspiration to us gardeners novice or master alike. Thank you for sharing your experience.

@GardenMoxie

10 ай бұрын

It was incredible to see the actual house that I read about for so long. So inspiring. I am glad to hear you liked the video. Thanks for your note.

Thanks! Loved learning about GJ and her life. Will buy her book. Your lessons resound with this 79 year old gareniista, giardiniera who gardens in Cheshire CT zone 6. Your reply to the comment about Mary’s statue was spot on. Focus is on gardening and the peace it brings. May we all receive that peace. Watched videos over and over. Thanks! 7:03

@GardenMoxie

6 ай бұрын

Wow! Thanks for your note of encouragement. You made my day! Gertrude Jekyll is definitely my garden hero.

Hmm. Gardening Illustrated. This will be my first rabbit trail of th3 day. Thankyou!

@GardenMoxie

21 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching.