I've found some of her videos informative, but she's also compensated/sponsored by Proven Winners, and almost exclusively features their patented plant varieties (that they provide to her.)
For that reason, I think some (if not all) of what she promotes as far as plant selection should be taken with a grain of salt.
So, I just stumbled upon "The Impatient Gardener." She's like the opposite of Laura from Garden Answer--after struggling to pry out a dead tree, there she is sweating with her hair all over the place, swatting at mosquitos--keeping it REAL, for sure! Very down-to-earth and easy to watch. Check her out, if you get a chance. I still like them both although, unfortunately, Garden Answer is featuring way too much distraction lately, compared to actual garden advice--like footage of her son toddling around the yard or her chickens pecking around the hen house. PS - I think it's kind of funny that some comments are about how perfect and expensive Laura's yard looks. That reminds me of a garden tour I went on once--there were lots of great gardens with great ideas and inspiration and then there were a couple of yards with nothing but a patch of impatiens and a couple of hanging baskets. So my question is: Would you rather look at a garden that looks like it took ten dollars and ten minutes or a great garden that you can get ideas from? As a frugal gardener, I see something that might have been installed at a high cost and I try to figure out a way to do something similar on the cheap--that's part of the fun of gardening!
I've found some of her videos informative, but she's also compensated/sponsored by Proven Winners, and almost exclusively features their patented plant varieties (that they provide to her.)
For that reason, I think some (if not all) of what she promotes as far as plant selection should be taken with a grain of salt.
So, I just stumbled upon "The Impatient Gardener." She's like the opposite of Laura from Garden Answer--after struggling to pry out a dead tree, there she is sweating with her hair all over the place, swatting at mosquitos--keeping it REAL, for sure! Very down-to-earth and easy to watch. Check her out, if you get a chance. I still like them both although, unfortunately, Garden Answer is featuring way too much distraction lately, compared to actual garden advice--like footage of her son toddling around the yard or her chickens pecking around the hen house. PS - I think it's kind of funny that some comments are about how perfect and expensive Laura's yard looks. That reminds me of a garden tour I went on once--there were lots of great gardens with great ideas and inspiration and then there were a couple of yards with nothing but a patch of impatiens and a couple of hanging baskets. So my question is: Would you rather look at a garden that looks like it took ten dollars and ten minutes or a great garden that you can get ideas from? As a frugal gardener, I see something that might have been installed at a high cost and I try to figure out a way to do something similar on the cheap--that's part of the fun of gardening!