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Davy's Forest Planting Scheme! (Patreon)

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2022-02-24 00:38:48
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PATREON: Davy's Forest Planting Scheme!

A very special thank you to all of you who have become Patrons of the Chateau de Lalande. You have made The Chateau Diaries one of the top 400 Patreon accounts in the world, and have transformed not only our lives here, but the future of this beautiful chateau! I’m overwhelmed by your kindness and generosity. On behalf of this beautiful chateau that will continue to survive and flourish because of you, thank you!!!

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Anonymous

Can’t wait to watch.

Anonymous

I am watching right now and wondered about trees that you can grow truffles under?

Anonymous

Do you need your wellies?

Anonymous

What a wonderfully informative vlog! I’m keeping it for future reference!

Anonymous

Loved this!! Davey's plan is gorgeous. Stephanie, I also don't like grasses!! Lots of people do, but nope!!

Anonymous

You might consider sourcing rhododendrons that have been grafted onto a lime tolerant root stock. You can then choose a full sized variety- but it will do better in your high PH soils with out so many soil amendments. “Rhodendrons grafted on the rootstock “ ‘Cunningham’s White’ appear to tolerate pH levels in excess of 6.0. This cultivar has been used subsequently to develop the Inkarho rootstock. Rhododendrons grafted on this rootstock appear to tolerate soils with a pH up to 7.5.”

Anonymous

I absolutely love the plant choices that Davy has come up with! I can imagine how lovely each of these will look in place. I do have a suggestion that more autumn and winter color be incorporated. The oak leaf hydrangea has stunning autumn color, but how about adding others? I suggest the red and yellow twig dogwoods for winter interest and they would give added structural interest to the garden. I also like both the autumn and winter blooming witch hazels. Of course, there are so many plants to choose from, but these were the first that came to mind. Again, lovely choices, and I can’t wait to see the progress!

Anonymous
>>78510544

Usually oaks or chestnut. Truffles require alkaline soil.

Anonymous

When someone has a passion for the work they like to do, the result is always amazing. It is very apparent that Davy has that passion and has put much thought into these wonderful plans. The result will be astounding for everyone who will get to enjoy the wonders of the plan in place.

Anonymous

I love green hedges, never find them boring. What about the trees that your father loved Stephanie? I don't remember the name, but there was a border of them in one of the gardens you visited? They were beautiful. If not in your English garden, could you not use them in the front, by the moat, instead of another hedge there? Lastly, I keep thinking that it's too bad you can't put some flagstones along the French doors at the front of the chateau. If you hadn't planted those trees in the front, a small decorative hedge, something, could have been used to border them. I think a walkway would just unify and perhaps put some focus on the main entrance, without changing the chateau itself. Sorry to hear that Matt is leaving, I think he was LaLande

Anonymous

budget's best friend!

Anonymous

What a fabulous project for LaLande! Davey’s presentation was so interesting with such variety in the plantings. I am sure some of the gardeners watching were getting ideas (on a much smaller scale of course) for our own gardens. Thank you both for this vlog!

Anonymous

Davy is a star, so much information and interesting facts about plants! Thank you both, (Oliver too!) Everything will look spectacular! Bacci!

Anonymous

Aww. Why so much forsythia hate? ;)

Anonymous

I love Davy’s plant selections! The sheer variety will add so much interest to the English garden. I especially love his choice of the Hydrangea quercifolia, which is native to my region. They are very hardy plants. I wish that there was room somewhere for a Magnolia grandiflora in your gardens. The evergreen leaves have a velvety underside and I think that you would love the flowers, which are creamy white and can be up to a foot wide on mature specimens. They have a lemony scent. The trees do eventually get quite large though, unlike most of their Asian cousins.

Anonymous

Here in Western WA state (a wet climate) we have low and tall Oregon Grape shrubs (blooms bright yellow, leaves looks just like holly.) Don't know if it would work at Lalande. I confess that in our wet dark climate, I have banned any and all dark red/maroon plants/shrubs/trees. I prefer contrasting greens over dark maroon/purple plants.

Anonymous

if Lily of the Valley and hydrangea grow there you would have more color and fragrance....not sure if they are right for an English garden, but my English mother loved both...

Anonymous

To defeat weeds, we place 4-6 layers of cardboard down, then 6+ inches of untreated cedar chips. Works so well. Looks tidy. organic, critter friendly.

Anonymous

Stephanie / Dan has never said why "everyone" Stephanie knows is in Venice. Does anyone know why? Was their an English / French YouTube Conference in Venice this week???

Anonymous

Great choices Davy …can’t wait to see all your work come to fruition

Anonymous

Davy is fantastic. He’s developed a beautiful plan

Anonymous

Davey is a true artist with the right palette to paint a beautiful landscape! Helpful hint: The rhododendrons love, love, love coffee grinds. Just drop used grinds around the base. It's a good source of nitrogen.

Anonymous

Wonderful presentation. Looking forward to this coming together and maybe one day I will be able to walk in the gardens.

Anonymous

I just have to say that I loooove moss! I'm not sure how they grow in France but, in North America I have to plant certain types to create a plush carpet that I can walk on... 🤔😘💋❤

Anonymous

My mom had a huge Rhodo garden, and planted a couple oak trees as the leaves help the soil for the Rhodos.

Anonymous

Looks fabulous! Can't wait.

Anonymous
>>78512521

Yessss dog wood and hazel !!!!! Also there are some super early blooming magnolias.

Anonymous
>>78515039

It's Venice carnival time. Steph and Olivier are filming for their new channel. I think Dan was there to help with the filming. Various Chateau owners linked to Steph are there in full period costumes. I imagine it's a good excuse for everyone to get together.

Anonymous

What a lovely array. Looking forward to seeing it in 5 years. Davie is so knowledgeable.

Anonymous

Love Daveys planting choices it will be fabulous once done and includes a lot of my favs - I have a Victorian garden and full of foxgloves that seem to appear from nowhere I always thought Just the leaves poisonous will take now now and deadhead - my garden also has an abundance of ferns some are huge and I’ve been cutting them for 20 years and I’m still here I must research more ! Some hydrangeas would be stunning another fav of mine - thank you for sharing xxx

Anonymous

Stephanie and Davy: there’s a white forsythia !!! Another shrub for cutting is flowering quince. Davy…we need a cutting shrub garden!!!!!

Anonymous

Love the variety. It will be beautiful. A walk through the garden will bring such enjoyment. Davy’s knowledge always amazes me…even if he doesn’t like statues! Lol!

Anonymous

Hi there from Boston, MA USA. I love the plan and agree that gardens need a mixture of scents, colors, textures, and heights. I was wondering a few things: 1) Do any of these plants support bee or butterfly pollination? 2) I don’t know if this grows well where you are but I love the smell, texture, and assorted colors of lilacs. Would a plant like that work? 3) Is there anyway to embed moss into any of the garden projects? Take care!

Anonymous

For fragrance how about letting a jasmine grow up through a tree or large shrub. Also Daphne which has a powerful smell early in the year.

Anonymous

Davy's knowledge and plans always amaze me! This is the garden area I am most looking forward to seeing come together. I have to say that I'm not a fan of forsythia either. I have never seen it bloom repeatedly. My neighbor has a hedge of it that almost never blooms at all, and I have to agree with Davy that it's a boring specimen when it's not in bloom. I have one remaining spirea japonica in my New York garden that was installed as a builder's special to take up space some few years before I arrived and redesigned the landscaping, and removed all but this last plant. Every branch that touches the ground sends out runners that take root and are quite difficult to remove if you don't stay on top of it every single year. It also dies on the interior of the plant, which is an invitation to weeds, so pruning well is a must. They are commonly planted at shop parking lots in this area, and I almost never see them looking well kept three or four years after installation. They either look partially dead, or have weeds sprouting up out of the interior, or both. I would never ever put one in my garden again, because it is a pain to maintain, much less a bank of them. Perhaps Davy knows more than I do about how to maintain them, but unless there's some way to make them less labor intensive, I would not recommend them at all, given the existing (and ever growing!) workload of the gardeners. For scent, witch hazel is a small shrub that has a delicate pale yellow flower that is one of the earliest spring blossoms, and it has an equally delicate scent, much nicer than than witch hazel astringent preparations for skin care. Daphne, especially the variety Carol Mackie, has a rich sweet fragrance, and does well in shade. It can be difficult to establish, and has specific water and drainage needs, but its fragrance is amazing! Korean spice viburnum is another shrub that is suitable for a woodland border that has a fragrance. Maybe it would mix well with the vibernum variety Davy mentioned? If Davy is willing to give rhododendron a chance, perhaps camellia is another possibility, although I think it has some tolerance for slightly less acidic soil, so might do okay. There are some fragrant varieties of camellias. Lily of the valley has a wonderful fragrance. I will admit that I do not care for pachysandra myself. I greatly prefer periwinkle, which has such a pretty flower that I cannot imagine putting in anything else for a groundcover except creeping phlox, my other favorite. Creeping phlox would be spectacular for a few weeks in spring toward the front/short edge of the border if you have an area that gets some sun. It tolerates part shade, but not full shade. Two other shade species I would recommend are Solomon's Seal and Bleeding Heart. They are both so beautiful when they are in bloom. My favorite varieties are the variegated variety of Solomon's Seal where each leaf looks like it has been painted by hand, and the pink Bleeding Heart with white drops.

Anonymous
>>78515627

I planted Irish moss in my mediation corner so I’d have some place soft to sit. I love it!

Anonymous

What a charming conversation! I would love to see a little tiny mammoth statue near the ferns just for laughs 😅💕🌿🌼🌳🌸

Anonymous

Love the plant selections. It’s going to be like a walk through the secret garden to the forest. ❤️🇨🇦

Anonymous

In Utah we have Columbian Mammoth fossils. Larger than wooly mammoths, and less fuzzy. And since Utah was a lake, they were very possibly fern-frolicking animals! Is stock a native flower that would be appropriate to add? They smell SO good! Stock and lilac are my two favorite scented flowers.

Anonymous

Sounds like a beautiful plan! Can't wait to see it come to life!!!

Anonymous

Loved this. What is the name of the dark red shrub used for a border, the first red one he showed?

Anonymous

I love the large leaves under tall trees as well. What a great diversity of plantings. Davy is a genius. Colour for most of the year. I would love to walk there, and it seems like it is going to be quite similar to a lot of the wooded walks we have in southern BC. Have you thought of a red maple or two for amazing fall leaf colours? Either way it will be amazing.

Anonymous

Love the garden plans. As a possible compromise between statues and grasses Steph could you have planted water bowls interspersed throughout the borders? They would be great for birds and insects and possibly frogs as well as attractive. And perhaps a statue of a water bird or creature or of Narcissus or Ophelia or a figurative bowl might pass muster with Dave. 😌

Anonymous

It's going to be stunning!

Anonymous

Sarcococca (sweet box) is a very fragrant early spring or winter blooming shrub that works well in shade or well-watered sun. It stays low, about waist high. There is also a low growing variety that spreads. Very attractive plant, delicate hanging hard-to-see flowers. Does prefer acidic to neutral soil. A surprising pleasure in depths of winter.

Anonymous

so exiting to see it starting so soon!

Anonymous

Forsythia can be made into roundish topiary shapes, so they are pretty in bloom and pretty when green. I see it clipped that way in gardens here in the Northeast. Clipping also makes them grow more densely, so they lose that scraggly look. What about bougainvillea? And lilacs would be lovely. French pink lilacs, which are the most fragrant. Totally agree with you about grasses, Stephanie! Meh. More statues; less grasses. ;-)

Anonymous

Davy is amazing- great garden plan

Anonymous

America is very different in many many ways not just cultural. We do in Australia, heshan is a natural fibre

Anonymous

It was -29 degrees C here in Winnipeg this morning so you can imagine how nice it was to be imagining spring plantings. I have to agree with some of Julie Camp's comments for woodland plantings, I have a spectacular Solomon Seal in my (much smaller) woodland garden. It is not variegated, but it stands almost a meter high and arches beautifully over the hostas around it and has lovely rows of small white bells hanging underneath the leaves. It is a showpiece.

Anonymous

I particularly like a perennial called Pulmonaria because it has pink and blue flowers on one plant and it has gorgeous spotted leaves. It is a small plant so it can be tucked in where you need something quietly beautiful.

Anonymous

As for spring scented trees and shrubs, what about lilac and for a little later mock orange. The latter has lovely arching branches covered with white scented flowers. I can smell the intoxicating scent from 30 feet away.

Anonymous

WOW! Davey you really don't like that shrub! HAHA

Anonymous

Carol again I love ferns too so I just spray the backs with Hair spray to make sure nothing wafts off.

Anonymous

I'm with you Stephanie when it comes to forsythia. In Winnipeg our winter is long, November to April. If we're lucky the forsythia bursts forth in late April and puts a smile on everyone's face as it is the first colour we've seen since October. I have to concede that the shape can get out of hand, but I find if I cut our any branches growing across the plant or through the centre it can look quite acceptable.🇨🇦

Anonymous

I think Belgians are known specifically for looking down on small hedges. It must be an inherent national trait and Davey has just confirmed that unusual prejudice. Oh well, I think that Belgians have far more generous and engaging qualities like masterful gardening and landscape designing that greatly overpower the small hedge quirk. So thank you, Davey, for proving that Belgians are loaded with valuable talent in making chateaux and the world-at-large a more beautiful and serene place to live. I think Chateau de Lalande is going to be breathtaking inside and out, upstairs and down, from lake to loo.

Anonymous

Great plans Davey! The spores of some ferns like braken ferns contain toxins which cause poisoning through ingestion. Cut ferns are usually of polystchum stiferum, asplenium x lucrosum and dryopteris wallichiana varieties

Anonymous

Ferns are fine.. never heard that before in the US but in Australia.. never heard that before for any ferns

Anonymous

News out of Ukraine changes perspective on everything tonight. 🙏🏻

Anonymous

love grasses yes contrast DAvey..

Anonymous

What an amazing amount of thought and work has gone into this by Davy. It will all be spectacular in a natural way I’m sure. Loving all the variety and colours of the flowers which I love but sorry Davy, I’m with Stephanie as to the grasses! 😅👏💖

Anonymous

What a beautiful planting scheme Davy! Very much looking forward to seeing the end result! If Stephanie would like more scent, how about Christmas Box or Winter Honeysuckle? Both beautifully fragrant.

Anonymous

Splendid plan. Do flowering dogwood trees grow in France? I love seeing them like lace inserts in our forest. Love Davie!

Anonymous

I know that you love yellow Stephanie so take a look at autumn crocuses. I have them naturalized in my Dordogne garden and each autumn they bring joy when we suddenly have yellow carpets of them. I know you will love them.

Anonymous

Wow. I can't wait to see Davy's plan realized! Is the moon garden still happening? I always loved that idea.

Anonymous

Clearly you will require a STATUE OF DAVY.

Anonymous

Where possible, I try to buy all,plants with a scent, tad sad to see there is so little inclusion of the heady beauties such as Daphne, Mexican orange blossom etc, otherwise, great choices

Anonymous
>>78522846

It was -24 C here in Edmonton this morning Susan. The joys of the Canadian prairies. 😅😂 I love my Solomon Seal as well! I'm not so fond of the variegated ones, but the regular variety is beautiful! Plus they are great in flower arrangements. 😊

Anonymous

Perhaps Davy would tolerate a statue of a wooly mammoth among the ferns.💕

Anonymous

Stephanie, have you seen Timothy Corrigan's recent Instagram post where he talks about the "roughly 2500 new plantings in the park of the château"?!

Anonymous

Watching this video had me excited for spring! Can't wait to see how Davy's plans turn out! I'm surprised you don't have any peonies around the chateau. Do they not do well in your area? Columbine are nice flowers that would look good in an English garden.

Anonymous

How about a Laburnum to replace Stephanie's Forsythia? And Lilacs! Where are the Lilacs?! The best scent ever...

Anonymous

Bracken fern are weeds and carcinogenic to humans & livestock (think sheep): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracken https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11945131/ Fern are about 350m years old, predating flowering/seeded plants by about 200m years. Woolly mammoth were only around for about 5m years of the past 350m years. But actually, it looks like wetter weather caused forests to replace grasslands, which starved them out for good about 4,000 years ago. See: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211020135914.htm#:~:text=a%20mammoth%20bone.-,For%20five%20million%20years%2C%20woolly%20mammoths%20roamed%20the%20earth%20until,scientists%20have%20finally%20proved%20why.

Anonymous

The scented Daphne would be beautiful in Spring.

Anonymous

I so love Davy! He's so gentleman ! My favourite tree is Plumeria rubra in white color . I don't know if it can be planted in France . Do look for it , it smells so magical and it 's a beautiful tree !

Anonymous

Days plan looks great, a good mix of taller trees , mid sized shrubs and perennials. No garden is maintenance free and in a few years this will be true of this garden. The perennials can be divided to create more plants . I understand Davys comment about foxgloves but if the flower spikes are cut immediately after flowering so they don't set seed how will the plants regenerate for future years? Foxgloves also germinate but don't flower until the following year ,it's just the way they spread and create more plants to flower in subsequent years. Very excited to see this all happening.☘🌱🌺🌿🌷🌸

Anonymous

Looks amazing, great work Davy! What a lot of gorgeous plants! I'm really curious to know where the second fountain, that your father bought you, is going to go? I can't recall seeing it in the plans...

Anonymous
>>78522253

Have a look at the work of Piet Oudolf for prairie planting with grasses. Nit really suitable fir a woodland garden at Lalande though more suited to another area of the garden maybe with the lake as background.

Anonymous
>>78516541

Deadhead the foxgloves after some seed has dropped or they will not grow in subsequent years.

Anonymous
>>78512341

Check out the work of Piet Oudolf and prairie planting, spectacular.

Anonymous

Davy your plan looks spectacular and the variety is outstanding, a twisted Hazel is also fabulous, since it is so Architectural and stands out, January you are awarded with beautiful Catkins ( lambs tails ) February tiny buds are stating to spring into leaf, cut in a vase with tulips for Easter is a wow, I have a vase sat beside me this very minute ! Solomon steel are an absolute must and they love the shade ! all this planning and now I have to concentrate on living long enough to see the fruits of all the work, that and the lake ! Congrats Davy ! you chose well.

Anonymous

Davy In Heuchera there is a variety called Lime Marmalade which is a vibrant Lime Green, I bought 4 recently and they are magnificent ground cover plant and great for cutting off odd leaves for flower arranging ! Stephanie please insist since it is wonderful.x

Anonymous

A mammoth statue !! It's going to look fantastic well done Davey x

Anonymous

Love, love love all the ideas. It will be sooooo beautiful!!! Question: will Davey keep the square shaping of garden in front of the Chapel? I do love your 'Moon Garden' (as I think you call it) shape --- which is circular. With keeping it rounded, it could be a gentle change going from the more formal planted gardens to the looser shape of the English Garden. Just a thought. xoxo

Anonymous

Hi Stephanie may I suggest bulbs throughout the area and the woodland to give scent and colour xxx

Anonymous

Always very interesting to listen to Davy. Is he a landscape architect or a landscape engineer? In Sweden it's different things but I have no idea how it works in Belgium.

Anonymous

Lilac would be good for scent, and the variety of colours available could make a spectacular show. Also buddleia for the bees and butterflies?

Anonymous

the plan looks great i would love to sea it IRL in a year or two when everything has settled a little

Anonymous

We love your new planting scheme! Thanks for sharing!

Anonymous

Davy’s plan is great! Please keep in the grasses as they do add character & have a place in the biodiversity of the garden 😊💯

Anonymous

Wow Sir Davy must be so happy to have such a scale of project and available budget, a gardeners dream! I might have added a few tree peonies and maybe some cornus red twig dogwood for it's amazing bright colours. Maybe some heathers. In my old garden I planted over 100 silver birch, 30 cms high bare root not expecting much and they grew really well and quickly, much more so that those planted from pots. My current garden is carpeted in cyclamen and violets with some wild orchids and hopefully next year a few hundred daffodils. Growing up in my village in Scotland we had a field of daffodils behind the old manor house, it was incredible, I would take enormous bunches home for mum. What a lovely magical place this is going to be. xoxoxo

Anonymous

Maybe some blaeberries for casual fruit picking and wild raspberries, I spent my youth in the woods getting blue tongue and feasting on wild rasps. We used to pick as a family and swap half the rasps for sugar from the local butcher. Wild rasps taste so much sweeter and blaeberries, well you have to try them to know ! xo

Anonymous

I love all the planting options, even the grasses, though they have to be put in the exact spot, as to my eye they do not look native, but somewhere maybe along the water's edge, it might soften the banks. I cannot wait to see this all come to life, i'm a gardener, so I'm very excited!

Anonymous
>>78528743

There are a couple of peonies by the terrace steps. More would be good, though.

Anonymous

While it may happen, I have never seen anything other than the root ball system Davy is describing used in the planting of trees here in the US. Among other things it protects the roots from drying out, which would be very detrimental. Trees planted that way usually thrive, assuming they were healthy to begin with and are properly watered after planting.

Anonymous

Fabulous specimens that Davy has picked....the gardens are going to look absolutely amazing!! Well done Davy!

Anonymous

Sounds glorious! Would love to be there to give a hand in the planting process! And yes to lots of daffodils and tulips.

Anonymous

I can’t wait to see it. Everything sounds wonderful. I am a horticulturalist by trade and I could not fault anything. Just wonder if you would use more Acers (maples). One with very fine foliage. Maybe a Ceanothus Papillosus “Blue Pacific” California lilac. Viburnum opulus Sterile Snow ball tree. For sent Daphne odora, winter daphne. Gardenia augusta Magnifica.

Anonymous

I’m afraid I disagree with Davy! Forsythia can be shaped with a lovely crown and makes a lovely eye catching splash of bright yellow in the spring! My grandmother had a beautiful one. The birds love hopping around in it if you put bird feeders in your garden.

Anonymous

Ferns can be poisonous if the spores are ingested…just don’t eat them.

Anonymous

Ooo! Great plan! Looking forward seeing the plants going in to the ground 🌱🌾🌼🌳🥳

Anonymous

Oh how exciting! Hope one of these years I could visit the chateau ♥️

Anonymous

Was glad to see Rhododendrons/azaleas in the plantings. Wonderful colors. Hoystas too. People have mentioned daffodils and scented lilacs. Might think about lily of the valley too. A scented type of tree might be black or honey locust. Stick to your guns with beautiful forsythia. We say it differently in in USA.

Anonymous

Yes gardenias wouldn’t grow there. Forgot about the snow there. To bad they are pretty.

Anonymous

Amazing how much knowledge Davy has. My suggestion would be a bit more color if possible. And an area in the forest set aside for really large ferns. They’re very dramatic.

Anonymous

Wow! What a spread. A veritable feast!

Anonymous

One more word on forsythia. I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. My father had planted a gorgeous forsythia in the garden and everyone there pronounced it with a hard "I". FORS"EYE"THIA. As an adult I have lived in Quebec City, Ottawa and now for the last 30 years Winnipeg. In all these cities forsythia is pronounced with a soft "I". I don't know where this pronunciation came from but I have made it my business to correct peoples pronunciation for the last 60 years!! The English influence on Canada is clearly alive and well in British Columbia gardens!🇨🇦

Anonymous

It was so exciting to see the woodland garden plans! And I agree with both of you about the grasses. I don’t like them on their own but I agree with Davey that they are necessary for contrast. I’m not a huge fan of statues I prefer fountains and other architectural artifacts or sculpture. But I do agree that at least one statue needs to be in the garden so that you can dress it up on special occasions🤣❤️💕

Anonymous

Hello Stephanie & Davy. Thank you for sharing the grand scheme for the La Lande gardens and forest. I enjoy learning about the evolution of such a large scale project. Davy would be such an interesting person to speak with. It will be fascinating to see the planting and progression over the coming years. Love from BC Canada ❤️

Anonymous

Great, great plans. When I heard Davy say that he didn't to plant a forsythia I immediately thought "Oh no he won't want a magnolia either !" Phew ! What about peonies, hollyhocks & lavender (especially the latter as that will add the missing odorous element. Btw if ever Davy gets fed up of his lush black velvet jacket he can throw it in my direction. ; )

Anonymous

😍MOCK ORANGE!! Blooms in May, the sweet scent is heavenly, even from a distance!💖💖

Anonymous

fabulous plan, can't wait to see it

Anonymous

Absolutely lovely! I can’t wait to see all this go in. Thank you so much for sharing!

Anonymous

All Chateaus should have Knights. Please look up Knight Gnomes for the gardens! They can be found on Etsy or cheaper at Walmart (if they ship to France).

Anonymous

Well Davy, well done on all this planning. Such varied and beautiful plants for La Lande. It will take a few years for everything to be established but it will look wonderful. Stephanie, when its all grown, it will be a fantastic evening stroll behind the Chapel. I cannot wait to see it all planted. Thank you Stephanie and Davy for such an interesting update. Lots of love from the Dordogne xx

Anonymous

I named son Rowan bc it is the tree of life!! I’m so happy y’all will have some at LaLande!

Anonymous

Is there anything Davey doesn't know! He is my guru, but about the Forsythia I live in the frozen tundra of Mn. USA and in January I can go out and snap off some branches put in water about 2 or 3 days later voici A beautiful yellow harbinger of Spring. We know how much you love yellow. Please consider the Chartreuse Japanese Carax it pops on the garden with such grace. I love their soft presence in the garden.

Anonymous

I always tuck the Forsythia behind the house where only I can see it, itisn't pretty but you have so much land!

Anonymous

Yes Forsythia is pretty, Davy! It has a fountain shape if left completely alone and not pruned, just plant it in the right place where it will not require pruning.

Anonymous
>>78548047

It would be too cold for them in the winter I believe, also not some thing that you would normally typically find in an English Garden.

Anonymous

Love the plan! I am with Davey! I love the grasses! Especially well placed. Hehe!

Andi_ish

The before and after shots of the Chateau are already completely different, but I am just imagining the before and afters with these additions. Holy moly 🤩 The forsythia at my house growing up always bloomed around my birthday, so I was quite partial to it. I have one now tucked away at the back corner of the house. I do agree that that they are pretty unsightly the rest of the year 😅

Anonymous

Go Davy! It all sounds wonderful & the hours of work will pay off. We are coming to stay in June so can’t wait to see how far things have come along then. Your Father will be looking down proudly Stephanie 💕xx

Anonymous

Love the selection of shade plants that Davy shared with you. Growing up in UK and now living in the Pacific Northwest USA, I am familiar with his lovely choices. Fragrance can be delightful, try daphne odora; many azaleas are fragrant, (but a few smell like skunk); and clerodendrum (peanut butter tree) has jasmine scented blossoms in mid summer. Spring bulbs will naturalize and spread beauty, color and fragrance. The carex grasses judiciously used offer the chartreuse neutral that makes for a visually lovely garden. Do look at TerraNovaNurseries.com website, as they have hybridized many spectacular plants suited for LaLande, and they are licensing to grow in UK, and Europe. (Full disclosure, Dan Heims is a family friend and an international award winning plantsman). Excited to watch this lovely garden come into being. LaLande is transforming in such a beautiful way.

Anonymous

How beautiful everything will look.

Anonymous

Here's a good article about bracken ferns and carcinogens: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/06/the-bracken-fern-a-natural-born-killer/241271/

Katie Roberts Art
>>78532842

I agree! I find the moon garden to be a beautiful idea and much more feminine. I think there should be a place for that. I think otherwise everything is too masculine and square. I can see that works with the chateau structure but feel there needs to be a balance with the feminine too. The moon garden was such a lovely idea and original to Stephanie. I’d hate to see that go. 💕💖🌸

Anonymous

Like you Stephanie I have many wild deer that roam my property. I love Hosta plants and had many beautiful ones growing at the entrance to my woods. The deer think that I planted a salad buffet just for them and they have kept these Hosta plants trimmed right down to the ground. Just wondering if Davey thinks this will be a problem at La Lande?

Anonymous

What lovely choices of plants for this area of the garden - I can’t wait to see them in situ. I would second the suggestion of lilac and daphne for gorgeous scent. And for colour and a very pretty structure you could consider an Indigofera? They come in different varieties - I have Silk Road in my garden and the flowers are beautiful with a nice leaf colour in autumn and pretty leaves in the summer https://www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/indigofera-himalayensis-silk-road/classid.2000036285/?gclid=CjwKCAiA9tyQBhAIEiwA6tdCrPATiSU4tJtwFL6Spc6nWWErLtJpxtUdDvfi4rF1sRetURk2usefeBoCCYQQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Anonymous

Love Davy’s plans! Here in Indiana, US, when business parks are built and the grounds are having huge landscaping done very quickly, you see very mature trees being planted and their large root ball appears to be covered in a type of burlap sack-type material, and all of it is planted together. (Not sure if there’s a wire mesh). The pale birch trees with their peeling trunks are fairly common around here as well … they are very pretty and stand out with such a light bark. So tempting for children to try and peel it off! An unusual tree to consider is a Monkey Puzzle Tree which you see around in Ireland (where I was born and grew up). It’s a very ancient tree but stays green all year round and definitely is a conversational piece if you have and odd spot for a unique looking tree.

Anonymous

I think you will have to make a “Davy” garden…….statues surrounded by forsythia! I think grasses can look good in a border as they give movement even in the slightest breeze, and a lovely gentle sound as they move.

Anonymous

Thank you so much for sharing. I am ecstatic for all of this horticultural enthusiasm right now!! Cannot wait to see what is to come in the woodlands and Jardin de Englaise! I love all of the plants mentioned, especially hydrangeas, hostas (even the grasses) Hope that you guys can get a start on things soon. This has spurred me on to get my voluntary application in as gardening is one of the main things I can offer! Lots of love to you all!

Anonymous

I just love listening to all the landscaping talk❤️

Anonymous

One of my favorite trees is a Saucer Magnolia and I think it would be lovely at Lalande! Big beautiful flowers that are a pink/purple color at the tips and white at the base. They almost have a tulip shape when they fist start to open. I don’t know what climate they do best in, but they are definitely work looking into!

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I love the idea of lavender. I have it by my pool and I love it so much. Very calming to smell and stays so long.

Anonymous

Have you considered Witchazel?It has very pretty spring flowers and fragrance.

Anonymous

Please tell me Davy is being paid for this. He has put so much time and effort into the gardens at Lalonde and is doing such great work!

Anonymous

Please be careful planting birch as very bad for allergic people (I think Philip and myself and a lots of others).

Anonymous

Do fragrant climbers grow in your climate, for instance Chinese Star Jasmine?

Anonymous

Lovely! Thank you for sharing!

Anonymous

I had to watch the Chateau Diaries re the Lake restoration and see a snip-it of the plans to understand where Davie's planting scheme is going. The term border to me and not landscape was confusing when some of the trees will be quite tall and would obstruct any views unless on the path itself. Sounds very exciting and I'm glad the Lake work is going ahead.

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Here in France, Lily of the Valley grows wild in the woods so it would indeed be a great idea to plant some near to the bluebell spot. ; )

Anonymous

I would love to see a big hedge with a door cut out. Like the one In the background on the photo at the time stamp : 28.32 Also i am wondering If the trees chosen will survive If there is a big storm? Some of them seems very top heavy, with thin stems/trunks. 🏰❤️🏰

Anonymous

Have you considered Australian Wattle? I believe in the UK it is called Mimosa. I don't know if it would work in the French climate, but if they are a possibility, they would be wonderful! The English author Beverley Nichols had chalky soil and apparently he had a huge pit dug, lined with concrete and filled in with good quality soil suitable for rodadendrens. That would have cost a fortune, but if the money is there and it is technically feasible, it might be worth it. Wonderful plans! Thank you for the video! Have a wonderful week!

Anonymous

Stephanie, trust Davy with the grasses. At one time I didn't like them either, but once you see what a value they are you will love them. They soften, add movement and sound to a garden. Certain types of grasses after a rain look like diamonds sparkling in the sun. They add interest in the winter covered in frost. I have started adding more and more grasses and it completes the garden.

Anonymous

first time I have heard ferns are carcinogenic[will google it], Bec back home we eat the young top part of the leaves as salad... we called it Paco Salad

Anonymous

Bracken ferns are toxic...

Anonymous

grasses are beautiful when the wind blows and they swish

Anonymous

I live in a prairie state and have a deep appreciation for grasses, lately the variegated citron colored Japanese varieties- they can be quite stunning 🌾

Anonymous

Can't believe how much the French countryside reminds me of Kansas when we are 'green'. LOL

Anonymous

Wow how exciting ... New Zealand forests are very dense with great ferns and huge natives totara and kauri which are 1000s of year old. Although our kauri are being threatened by disease.

Anonymous

I love so much this project. I go for some statues. Regards from México.

Anonymous

What a massive project and absolutely a no- brainer to get a professional in. I would highly recommend to all to visit the Highgrove estate of Prince Charles. They do garden tours in the summer with afternoon tea. I wanted to see what money and planning can do and it did not disappoint- well worth the £85. The nearby Hare and Hound hotel is lovely as well. Also, what about a collection of Japanese acers for stunning colour in the Autumn- Highgrove has an impressive collection.

Anonymous

I've been playing a game recently called Assassins Creed Odyssey which is set in Ancient Greece and all the statues make me swoon! I think a few would make the aesthetic of the garden so much more. Especially nestled in the ground cover. I think it all sounds like a dream. Also is Davy really 40 or is my math off because I could have sworn he was in his 20s!

Anonymous

Fight for the forsythia! 😊 It will be a great shrub that can blend in the background after it blooms. But those early yellow blooms are so unique and beautiful and bring great joy in the early spring garden. Forsythia blooms can be an announcement for certain spring chores such as "it is time to prune the roses!" Speaking of roses… perhaps roses could be added to the plant list. 💗 Reblooming varieties would bloom in the spring and in the summer.

Anonymous

We had forsythias on the sides of my driveway and even though they were not in blossom all the time, just seeing them gave me hope for the next year. I could always visualize them in bloom at any season. I hope Davey will allow it!

Anonymous

Davy is THE best! 🙂

Anonymous

Stephanie this is off subject. Did you say we were having a Patron party at Lalane in September? When will we know dates/times? We do we stay? Is the a costume party? Can we bring guest? Price of tickets?

Anonymous

Hi everyone! I absolutely adore any videos with Davy because it makes me feel great about all the future changes! Cannot wait for the planting :))) <3 have a lovely day dear patreons and Lalanders

Anonymous

Forsythia, I agree with both of you, Steph, plant four in the walled garden for cutting. It will allow generous bouquets without spoiling the landscape, problem solved!

Anonymous

If Davy doesn't mind having a few more planting pockets for rhododendrons can I recommend the highly fragrant Azalea Luteum, it is a soft yellow and the smell is fabulous they could sit just beyond the new garden in the edge of the woodland and the waft of perfume will enchant.

Anonymous

One more fragrance! how about adding Lily of the Valley, they will naturalize.

Anonymous

Bracken is polluting water supplies worldwide - and causing cancer.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/sep/09/research.science

Anonymous

It would be lovely to consider as many native trees and shrubs as possible and likely Davy has done so already.

Anonymous

Great, informative and fascinating vlog! My sister and brother-in-law are horticulturists so I’m lucky to be able to ask about planting and growing. I think it’s will all be glorious! I’m in agreement with you, Stephanie, about grasses. We had what is known as saw grass. It wasn’t beautiful in a breeze or wind but it has a literal saw edge and if you brush past it, it will grab at you and possibly give you a scrape or cut. Smaller grasses are lovely. We have several with burgundy leaves and fuzzy feathery blooms. Need to ask my sister the name. Some grasses will take over a garden. I hope Davy isn’t considering Calla. It’s like some bamboos in its ability to root and take over huge areas. It’s very exciting and I wish you years of joy with your future English woodland garden. Thank you as we will be enjoying it all too!

Anonymous

Wonderful post!! I'm so excited to see this plan put into action. Well done, Davie! I'm not a fan of grasses either, but there are some really beautiful tall pink grasses that are quite extraordinary. Would anything like that work in this part of Davie's plans? Some of the names of these pink ones are really fun. Pink Flamingo, Regal Mist, Cotton Candy, Bunny Tails, and Rose Fountain Grass. They are very reminiscent of the big frilly costumes or formal wear of the late 1700's. Anyway, I hope you all had a marvelous time in Venice.

Anonymous

Davy is so lovely. I love the teasing about the statues & grasses. 😊💛

Anonymous

To tie in with your Irish heritage, why not plant some evergreen Irish Yew trees (Taxus baccata "fastigiata"). All Irish yew trees descend from the cuttings of one tree found in County Fermanagh in the 1700's. They are unique in the fact that their branches grow vertically. They can grow up to 7m tall and can live for hundreds of years. It's berries are a source of food for birds during the winter months. The Yew tree is most often associated with churchyards. Yew trees were used as symbols of immortality, but also seen as omens of doom. Yew timber is incredibly strong and durable and was used to make long bows. One of the worlds oldest surviving wooden artefacts is a yew spear head estimated to be around 450,000 years old!

Anonymous

Weeping willow would be lovely

Anonymous

My husband is a Licensed Landscape Architect here in the USA, and yes, they do plant “balled and burlap” trees with the biodegradable burlap fabric still on the root ball, they might slice it up a bit, but as you said, it breaks down and doesn’t prevent tree growth. When I’ve seen my husband plant trees, he usually takes the metal cage off the root ball, but I can see that would break down in the soil, too.

Anonymous

I don’t see the comment anymore that I thought I put in. I was sugesting to plant some dogwood and especially Cornus Florida Rainbow. In early spring it’s a see of 4 cm big white flowers. Then comes the varigated leave , yellowish green with white, that is very pretty and in autumn the leaves turne a beautiful red. So this reasonably small tree or scrub( about 3 m high) is beautiful all year round. I have it in my garden in Belgium for more dan 10 years and I absolutely adore it! I bet you would love it too!

Anonymous

Funny fact, Forsythia is called "golden rain" in my native Hungary :) and I love it too, first sign of the real Spring arriving!

Anonymous

Please can you plant some forget-me-nots in the opening areas around the trees, plus snow drops, bluebells ,

Anonymous

Stephanie the grasses have wonderful movement and they give interest in the winter

Anonymous

SPRINKLE THOSE STATUES, STEPHANIE!!! =) (That's how I prefer it, as well.)

Anonymous

Forsythia are beautiful - they have my vote.

Anonymous

Star jasmine is one of my favorites. The flowers smell incredible. Mine blooms end of May/early June.

Anonymous

Dogwood trees are spectacular

Anonymous

I still hoping that you go back to the round garden shape in front of the church. I don't think a square garden will fit well with the church.

Anonymous

Saddened that there are no banks of daffodils as that can be so spectacular. I planted 1200 bulbs on two banks and every year they looked sensational. It was hard work but I see daffodil trumpets as the heralds of spring, to not include clumps of daffies in the forest and garden anglais would be a missed opportunity.

Anonymous

Davy is amazingly talented and I am looking forward to every stage he has planned.