What a wonderful tour! I really enjoyed hearing about all your roses and other plants as well. It's amazing how much you have fit into your garden. Do you find you have to do a lot of pruning to keep everything in check, or do things stay mannerly?

I am looking forward to see all your climbing roses as the season progresses. I hope you post more videos!

So lovely, one of the best layouts I have seen that guides the eye for restful order. You are doing a tremendous job Darren, it will be an enchanting realm in bloom.

The lions are wonderful, at some point I need to find guard lions for my garden entrance.

Thanks for posting your exquisite tour.

That was delightful, Darren! I really enjoyed the tour, and love hearing your voice. Hearing those David Austin’s in your English accent gives this rose lovers heart a little thrill:) It’s especially interesting for me to see such a detailed view of a garden that’s just beginning to wake up. Not much really goes dormant in my garden. Hurray for showing Louise Odier! I can’t wait to see another video in the future. The garden in bloom will be incredible. Well done, Darren. Lisa

What a beautiful garden, nice layout! Your new rambler might eat up all the roses nearby though. :-) Lovely statuses! It looks like you have a pretty sweater on. We want to see your outfit too! Lol

I found myself wanting to see the rest of the sweater too, Summers! Lisa

Lol, glad I am not the only one! Please show us the sweater with a fashion walk in your lovely garden! :-)

I am working in a rental house to tear down some wallpaper right now, waiting for the streamer to heat up. The garden YouTube is lovely to watch while waiting. :-)

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Absolutely fabulous garden!

I'm interested in your rose pruning - I generally don't do much pruning until the rose is a couple years old, on the advice of some people here in the US who know a lot more about roses than I do. But I think their advice was mainly for OGRs, not necessarily applicable to modern roses like Austins.

In contrast i see you've pruned all your roses pretty heavily, even the babies. It looks like the results are very good, judging by the shapeliness of the more mature bushes.

It is lovely to see such an immaculately planned and maintained garden! Looking forward to updates!

I love your garden! Thank you for showing us around!

Thank you for the tour Darren, you have a wondrous garden! Giving us who are still in winter's grip a taste of spring, can't wait!

Wow, your ground is so, so flat, and the grass so obedient! Joking aside, it looks good, and I appreciate a tour of a rose garden when the roses aren't in bloom. The gardens I like best are the ones where there's generally something going on that's worth looking at, and in which the gardener is interested in progress, and not just the finished product.

Very nice! Looking forward to seeing the garden again later in the season. We're several weeks behind you it seems. I just have snowdrops blooming and crocuses about to start. Your garden reminds me of Marlorena's in a lot of ways. Would you say it's common in English gardens to plant roses so densely, or is it just a response to both of you working with limited space and an unquenching desire for more roses?

-Chris

Thank you so much for all your words of kindness and encouragement. Really means a lot to me.

I promise to post video up-dates and especially when all the flowers are in bloom 😊

I cut back my roses hard every year to avoid tall leggy shrubs. Compact and full of blooms look much better. Yeah I do plant quite close to one another for a quicker more full appearance. And it’s surprising how well they thrive alongside one another. If you look at David Austin’s rose garden, they plant their roses very close to each other too. As long as you feed them twice during the growing season there are no problems. And make sure they’re well watered especially during hot weather.

Ohh 🙈I rarely go in front of the camera. My plants are much more interesting haha. I was wearing a thick wool sweater.... life saver during the horrid cold winter.

Well I very much look forward to seeing all your gardens this summer. Pls do keep me posted!

Lots of love and thanks.

Darren. XO

I cant wait to see it when all is blooming!

Be sure to update us and thank you for sharing your garden.

Beautiful picture, Kathy.

Thanks for your lovely kind words ❤️

All my rose beds are planted directly into the ground.

I just did a further garden up-date :

Video up-date: https://youtu.be/0ukueRTbwX4

Much love everyone... stay safe!

thanks @Darren Harwood, I should have been more clear, I meant how wide are those beds. Very curious because of how you have the spacing of the Austins. I have narrow beds and am wondering if I can do something different with some of them.