Although this video is from months ago, I can relate to the feeling of being overwhelmed and also having to be careful due to previous injuries. Everything will come together in due time. You are young, there is nothing but time. Don’t rush yourself. Enjoy this time for it will never come again. My Husband is my better half. ❤ The joy of becoming older is looking back at our hard work and all we have accomplished together. Edited to add.... When I gardened, I used a lot of perennials (gardening friends gave me perennial cuttings) mixed in with annuals. I never make New Years resolutions. Instead I wrote in a simple notebook the accomplishments I/we wish to achieve for the year. Keeping in mind the time and finances to achieve. I have saved all of the lists and look back on them reminiscing. It’s a wonderful feeling to look back. I still write the accomplishment list every New Year. It has gotten shorter. As will yours.

As a gardener myself I know how hard and tricky keeping a good one is. And its constant work, but is so rewarding and calming. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Making a plan takes the overwhelming Ickys away. It will turn out beautifully, like everything else you touch.

I have just found you and I am so happy I did. Your vlogs are beautiful visually and musically. I enjoy the peace and quiet that they exude. I am in Nova Scotia, Canada, living on what was once a small 4 acre hobby farm but we have no animals and only a few raised garden beds covered in wired frames to protect them from the wild animals. The deer are plentiful in our area and graze on the vegetation so I am needing to protect my vegetables and plant flowers and shrubs that they do not like to eat. We had two beautiful, large old apple trees behind our house which we loved, but hurricane Fiona brought them both down this fall, sadly. I must think about what can replace them. The Dutch peoole who emigrated to Nova Scotia after World War ll are successful gardeners and farmers, and are very hardworking as well. It is no wonder they planted such beautiful gardens on your property. I can relate to your feelings of overwhelm in regard to your landscape chores. It is a job with all there is to do on a property, but it will be worth it when the good weather returns to be out in the fresh air and in time you will be enjoying the fruits of your labour. On the plus side, you have many established plants that you can divide and place elsewhere. On another note, my father was French Acadian and my paternal ancestors came to North America from Saint- Gatien-des -Bois, Normandy in the 1600s. The Acadians were excellent farmers and dyked the low marshlands beside the oceans here in Nova Scotia for their crop lands and their orchards. I would love to go to the French countryside one day to see the place where the first Samson brothers left to settle in the New World. There is a plaque commemorating their departure on the side of a small church in the community. Ma mère était Anglophone. Son père venait d'Angleterre. On ne parlait pas le français à la maison cars ce n'était pas la langue maternelle chez nous. Je suis le seule membre de ma famille de sept enfants qui est capable à parler, écrire et lire en français aujourd'hui. Je suis tellement fière de mes racines françaises! I would love to visit your part of the world one day. I think it would resonate deeply with my soul. Your vlog is beautiful, honest, and so calming. I am drawn to its quiet simplicity. I look forward to following your journey! Bonne journée et bonne chance!

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your personal story and welcome to the channel!

We've grown cut flowers for years and ended up establishing more perennials like the hydrangeas, lavender, echinacea and other flowering bushes so they become the structure of your garden and come up every year and then add some annuals here and there for pops of color like (zinnias, marigolds, calendula, cosmos....) If you can do raised bed planters it would help the plants get better established as you could put some good soil in the beds and the flowers don't get mixed in with the grass. It will come together, often in the winter nothing looks great but in the spring when the leaves come back it starts to fill in the empty spots. You'll have beautiful gardens, you have a lovely place! (:

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! The raised beds might be a good idea indeed!

I am not at all surprised that you have two separate people who want to help you. How perfectly wonderful to stay in that adorable cottage with the hot tub to soothe sore muscles at the end of the day. Regarding your garden, keep in mind you live in the countryside. Country gardens are simple. Repeat plants that do well such as the hydrangeas and lavender, herbs, wild flowers (they take care of themselves). Low maintenance….. good luck, it will be so fun to watch the progress! 🙏😊

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

They are not staying in the cabin though (because that’s booked) but in a guest room. And yes I really appreciate the help! ❤

quel bonheur de voir ce ciel si étoilé ...nous n'avons plus ce loisir avec la pollution lumineuse qui nous cache la beauté de la nature ....

Don't give up on your green house plants. Many times when things like that happen. They come back when it warms up.

I love your vlogs so much. They are always so beautiful and very peaceful to watch. The delicious dishes you make are so inspiring, and I plan to try cooking one myself soon. I also rarely follow recipes, but get inspiration from them and create my own version. Please keep sharing your healthy and yummy creations. 😊

@FrenchCountryLife

11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Can tell you are overwhelmed. Take deep breaths!!

You have a great memory. You remembered applying vinegar will kill weeds by drastically changing the soil PH. Salt kills things too.

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

I have heard though that it does harm others vegetation because the soil changes so not sure how to deal with that…

I love your channel, and your honesty about the garden and weeding. There are weed blocking fabrics you can put down and then put the gravel on top of it. It's worth looking into. It does help quite a bit with preventing weeds . Good luck with everything.

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes we put that underneath but the seeds fall in the gravel and then still grow into weeds. Fortunately they can’t root so they’re fairly easy to remove.

Your garden has the potential to be lovely. I'm sure you'll make it so

The dried Hydrangea heads are nice for flower arrangements as well.

I understand that you are overwhelmed by your garden and I know what you are feeling. I myself bought a house seven months ago with a garden too Big for me and although I love gardening I was feeling overwhelmed with the work to be done. So I started a flower bed which I was very pleased with and can't wait for the results but I finally hired a gardener to help me which I haven't regretted. So we do have to Ask for help sometimes but I know your garden will be beautiful this summer. I Hope one day I could rent your tiny home and see how beautiful your garden has grown.

What a beautiful sweet reminder that I much needed, to "look up." Thank you!

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

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It is interesting to see the tree in your garden that you trimmed to head-height a few years ago and now it is growing many stems from the cut surface. I don’t know if you know what I’m going to teach you about it, but in English, this technique for woodland management is called pollarding. It is an ancient technique for growing new, supple branches to be used for weaving fences and walls. This woven fencing is called wattle. In the old days, and in the old places, wattle was a very common building material, either by itself for fences and enclosures, but also, when plastered with a mixture of mud, straw and dung, called daub, it made walls for barns, sheds and even houses. People needed lots of fresh, supple branches every year. Pollarding was done carefully, and on a strict schedule so as to make best use of the trees to grow the stems that could be harvested without ever killing the trees. Pollarding is the technique for cutting head-height. When the forester cut the trees lower down, nearer the roots, it was for the same purpose, but is called coppicing. He would pollard the trees in areas where grazing animals would have eaten the new saplings. He could coppice in sheltered areas where no animals grazed. It is the origin of the English word copse, which denotes an area of dense tree growth. You have pollarded your tree which is probably a very French thing. Your native farming neighbors can probably tell you all about it. You should be proud of your pollarded tree. You just need to clean it up a little. Just like the rest of your garden. Everything will flourish in time, it just needs to be cleaned up a little. Best wishes.

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this information!

@lynndixonsilva9961

Жыл бұрын

I love wattle fencing .... very quaint and charming :)

@didierjacob250

10 ай бұрын

@@FrenchCountryLife Il est dommage que la fosse septique soit au centre du jardin, ne pouviez vous pas l' installer ailleurs ....des colonnes de récupérations d' eau, oui, aux descentes des gouttières

@FrenchCountryLife

10 ай бұрын

@@didierjacob250 oui c’était les normes malheureusement et la dame du spanc était très rigide… ca prend tout notre jardin. Pour récuperer les eaux de pluie nous avons une autre solution sur laquelle nous travaillons.

Hi! I live in the SE US. We have nurseries that sell plants and trees and offer advice on when to do what, and have people to hire for help. Maybe you have similar nurseries? If you have a small hand clipper, you can cut the suckers that are growing out of the base of the lilacs, and trim the clumps of grasses. Go ahead and mix your vinegar, soap and salt but only spot treat the weeds because it will change the ph of the soil under the gravel and can hurt the trees and shrubs there. Pull weeds after a rain when the soil is wet and soft. Maybe your plants in the greenhouse will come back and may only need a light pruning of dead wood and leaves. I would start now, do a little each day you can, leave the hard, heavy work for your helpers. Maybe move the dining set onto the gravel and move a few pots onto the wood deck… just my thoughts! I wish i could come give you a hand! I look forward to seeing your progress! And i love your suggestion of looking up to the sky and how the vastness minimizes our problems. Beautiful!!

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 💜

Your home is amazing! You are overwhelmed because you are trying to do so many things together, stop! Breath, the first thing, is get rid of the grass border, for veg or flowers raised beds , better for your back, better for the veg/ flowers, compost as much as you can, this will give you so much good mulch fir the garden, most of all relax, pase yourself, you are doing a great job.❤🎉😊

@ailishadoyle4660

Жыл бұрын

Pace yourself! Gremlins in my phone!😂

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

thank you 🙏

Someone once gave me a notepad with a “to do” list. Numbers one and two were already filled out for the day. They read 1. Breathe in, 2. Breathe out. You are doing the right thing; all will work out this year. You have already accomplished so much and with the help you will be getting, i know it will be beautiful.

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

thanks for the reminder 💞

Beautiful countryside! It's good that you have help coming to rejuvenate your property...it will be a project but eventually it will look heavenly. Thanks for the recipe. Regards from Wisconsin, USA

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Even een reactie in nederlands: kies vooral onderhoudsarme planten. Er zijn er zo veel die zo mooi zijn en ook die bloeien. De tuin van de vorige bewoners was prachtig maar dat krijg je vooral voor elkaar als je graag en heel veel in de tuin werkt. Bij mij werkt onderhoudsarme planten, ook planten die mooi zijn in de winter, bloemen die makkelijk uitzaaien of zichzelf uitzaaien. Elke dag even een momentje van ca. 30 minuten door de tuin indien mogelijk (is ook mijn voornemen maar lukt zeker niet altijd) dan hou je het bij en wordt het werk niet zo enorm. Goed idee om mensen uit te nodigen tegen kost en inwoning om het grote werk te doen! Succes en ben benieuwd hoe het eruit ziet in de lente 😊

@marjannevr5650

Жыл бұрын

Oh ja en niet te vergeten: bodembedekkers en/ of houtsnippers tussen de planten, scheelt veel onkruid en planten doen het heel goed, want houdt vocht vast en warmte tegen en geeft voeding

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Dank je wel! Ja je hebt gelijk. We hebben veel planten weg gehaald omdat we de septic tank moesten aanleggen maar ook omdat we zagen dat we dat gewoon niet bij konden houden. De vorige bewoners werkten uren in de tuin elke dag! Wij maken de tuin stap voor stap behapbaarder. Dank voor je tips!

Keeping a garden takes patience and time. Work in small areas and that way you see results. Your place is beautiful.

I love your channel. Your garden will be beautiful.

Just gorgeous! Only the French can make cooking seem glamorous! In love with your home. Thank you for sharing your charming home 🏡 ❤ 😊

Beautiful landscape and so serene

I cook just like you haha 1 thing here in the states we have is a liquid vanilla not the lil packets... I made a batch that will last years and thought you might like to make some too!!! I bought a bottle of spiced rum and vanilla beans I ordered online 10 of them, split them in half scraping the vanilla seeds into the liquid along with the beans , put them in a large lidded glass jar in the cubbord for like 6 months shaking them every so often, now I have a lot of natural vanilla I put in a pretty bottle to use : ) cindy

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing that! They sell liquid vanille here in France as well. I also use fresh vanilla sometimes but didn’t know you could make the liquid yourself.

@surfincincindy1185

Жыл бұрын

@@FrenchCountryLife yup so easy too

I am so pleased to have discovered French Country Life! I'm stuck in a Northern, very cold climate right now and seeing even the inkling of green in winter herbs makes me envious. I find your images, music and narration oh so relaxing! And I love your honesty! Making that yummy-looking butternut squash tart very soon!

Once the ladies are in the garden they will be able to help. If you putter in the garden, doing a little trimming, whatever, just remember one hour better, 10 minutes better… It helps get me going doing little tasks in the winter and I think about relaxing more in the summer! Going with your feelings in the garden is helpful too, I think. I plan inside and when I go outside I feel completely different. No garden mistakes, just experiments! Good luck!

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the encouragement!

Hi from Australia, I love your vlogs and your cooking. Do you have a recipe book coming out? I would love the recipe for your risotto and those two beautiful tarts 😋don’t worry the garden will come back when you have time to devote to it. Good luck and thanks for sharing your lovely home 😊

Love your cat

I admire your patience. But it's coming together.

I remember when I first had a garden 🪴 I was clueless.. if it lived I killed it ! Lol 😂 .. it’s a huge learning curve and it’s hard to stay motivated.. plant more in pots simple mixed seeds it rarely fails and it will give you colour while you sort the garden out it took me 18 years .. I really miss my garden .. that apple pie looked yummy ( lecker?) .. you’re doing good Marloes ❤

Not following a recipe is great. It shows you want to add your own twist which is probably better. Cheers from California 😎

So beautiful!!!

You are doing a great job ❤

Nature really is so powerful and I’m sure your garden will come out lovely, excited to see the progress. Also the opening of this video was absolutely stunning.❄️

You need a nice picture above the fireplace with a little colour. 😊

Love your place and surroundings and the pie looks good

and then you help Olav and left your fingers under the stairs when setting the stairs down...ouch! Olav was smart not to chuckle.

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

I know 😂😂 “Put your hands here babe so your fingers don’t get stuck” Me: Ok! Me 20 seconds later 😩 The blocks were larger than I thought and I was pretty stressed when he said: “whatever you do make sure it doesn’t slide as it will crush me” 😮 I don’t have a lot of strength in my hands because of a car accident I was in and I sometimes lose all strength out of the blue and drop things… I even dropped one of our boys when they were a baby, luckily I managed to have him land on our very soft and large couch… Olav knows this so imagine the trust he put in me for holding those stairs 😂

@rickgreen9936

Жыл бұрын

@@FrenchCountryLife wow, that could have been a disaster, glad the stairs are in and all is well

Like you said all will be back to beautiful....Thank-you for sharing your amazing home and future plans✨

I always look up to the clouds 😊

You have a beautiful garden area and when helps comes it will come together. ❤

Greetings from Greece!

It will look wonderful in summer - just you wait and see!

Your garden will be beautiful..Marloes🤩😍🦋🌻🌺⚘🌱🌲🌿🍀..So nice to have some talented help coming .Im in Wyoming USA and can't get lavender to grow here ..nor roses ..herbs are ok 👌 I made your Tarte recipe tonight ..it was so yummy ...Needed that after our very cold and snowy month we have had here ..Many Thanks Marloes for sharing ..😋🤩😍

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for being here!

I do that with recipes Marloes .. then the next time I can’t remember what else I added to make it so tasty 😆 My garden is the same. It always looks so tatty & unkept as this time of the year. I’m glad you’ve got help coming .. it will all be beautiful again ☺️

One step at a time. It will all come together. Enjoy the process!

I like the drone shots of everything in the area.😊

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

All credits for those go to my husband!

The herbs can be saved! You have so much potential!

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Yes I know, they’ll be back!

It’s going to be fantastic! You envision such wonderful things and they are all coming in fruition. It seems like a real daunting task for us to begin our garden adventure, I was telling Justin that we really need a lawn mower with tool that helps upturn soil. That’s the hard part I feel.

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Yes you do! Your garden is so much bigger than ours! We paid someone from the next village to come with a tool to upturn the soil after we put in the septic tank and before we put in the grass seeds and other plants. And there are so many rocks in the soil! It drove me crazy! One step at a time!

nice

I just made your apple tart last night for my family (made mine with Splenda) . It was delicious and a hit with them! I added a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. Can’t wait for the book!! Can we pre-order?

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Adding ice cream, such a wonderful idea!! I will self publish on Amazon so pre-ordering would be a bit complicated. However, I could put you on my list of people that are interested, with your email and I’ll send an email once it’s finished! I mostly just need to take more pictures to add to the recipes as I haven’t done that yet. If you’d like to be updated, please send your details to bonjour@lasourcebourgogne.fr Happy to hear your family liked it!

@AmySmith-hh5yn

Жыл бұрын

@@FrenchCountryLife Wonderful, I’ve just sent you an email. I am sure that it will all go smoothly and I am so excited for this next “chapter” for you- pun intended 😉

Can’t wait for your book to come out. I adore your style and the recipes that you’ve shared so far are simply wonderful. Will it be available to ship to the U.S.?

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Yes it will! I am self publishing on Amazon so it’s easily available worldwide! My video for next week is a cooking video with 3 easy vegetarian meals. Hope you’ll like that!

@AmySmith-hh5yn

Жыл бұрын

@@FrenchCountryLife so excited! I’ll be ordering it as soon as it’s available and yes, can’t wait for the upcoming recipe video.

[haai-dreen-djaaz] zo spreek je Hortensia's uit 🙂 Fijn dat je hulp krijgt! Jammer dat ik het niet wist, ik had je dolgraag geholpen. Je wordt wereldberoemd, Marloes, als ik zie uit welke landen je allemaal berichtjes krijgt ;-) Succes en laat je niet gek maken door de hoeveelheid werk. Doe afgepaste stukken, anders word je dol. Ik weet uit ervaring dat het lastig is om te stoppen als je eenmaal bezig bent in de tuin. "Komt goed, zeggen ze hier in Brabant'.

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Ja precies, ik weet dat als ik er eenmaal aan begin het wel weer te doen is, maar het is super fijn dat mensen die er meer verstand van hebben me helpen. Samen doen is sowieso motiverend vind ik! Ga er maar vanuit dat ik elk jaar hulp inroep vanaf nu ;) dus mocht je volgend jaar willen komen, heel graag!

@annemiekvandorp4457

Жыл бұрын

@@FrenchCountryLife Oh dat is leuk! Ik had je van de week al een mail gestuurd met een foto van mijn eetbare herfststuk, maar ik vermoed dat die niet is aangekomen. Hoe bereik ik jou? Ik heb geen FaceBook, wel mail.

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

@@annemiekvandorp4457 Jawel hij is wel aangekomen! Dank je wel! Nog geen moment gehad om erop te reageren!

@annemiekvandorp4457

Жыл бұрын

@@FrenchCountryLife Geen haast. Ik weet nu dat ik het juiste adres heb. Fijn weekend!

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Hi! Didyou say you were concern with the Oleaders plants that you have in your green house? If so do not worry these plants are very hardy. Iam not a fan of Oleanders mainly for their foul oder,and are very poisonous,and are great for nesting cockroaches' I really enjoy your viedos.Happy gardening .from California!

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Is there any cook book coming out ? I would like to purchase one that has all your recipes !

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Yes I plan to somewhere around summer!

@paivitiitta1884

Жыл бұрын

@@FrenchCountryLife 🥰🥰🥰

Did the snow melt overnight? it was snow covered in the beginning, then next morning, grass was green and no snow??

@FrenchCountryLife

Жыл бұрын

Yes it did, it never stays long here…

Since the previous owners were spending hours every day maintaining the garden, perhaps it's best that you had to destroy it. You can replace it with plants native to your region for low maintenance ... better for you, better for your environment and native wildlife. 👍