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I would say Yes! to the keyhole garden. Can’t imagine someone cutting through my garden

Hi Danielle, I’m volunteering at Morris Arboretum this year in the rose garden and they do have salvia planted in the rose beds. For Japanese beetles, I asked the lead horticulturist and she said they handpick them and feed them to the fish in the swan pond. She said that there isn’t really anything you can spray that won’t kill everything else. The beetles are only there for a couple of weeks and if the roses are well established, they should recover. Hope that helps!

Gosh, people cutting through the property would bother me. If going for the keyhole design might help solve that problem, I say go for it!

I think that your keyhole garden is such a great idea. I planted a yew hedge behind some hydrangeas about 3 years ago, and this year I am just seeing the tips above them. I love the combination of yew with hydrangeas, and yours will be so beautiful together. I loved that sweet rose garden. What a lovely way to remember much loved gardeners.

I think the keyhole garden would be really cool❤️

So beautiful rose garden!!🤩

I tried planting Geraniums under my roses and something about them wards off the pests. 🌸✨

The thought of you being in a new property and no longer watching over these gardens we've been watching you build 😢 That will come for me too someday and it'll be interesting to say the least. In my first home for 4 years and have built gardens from a blank slate following your lead!

Regarding the hydrangea keyhole garden: if it involves adding more hydrangeas to your life then DO IT!!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍

I bought my first ever rose bush this weekend! I'm in zone 5 so I needed something winter hardy, I went with "Prairie Princess". The most beautiful shade of pink! I'm really excited to have a rose bush but also apprehensive about pests and fungal issues 😅 hopefully I get lucky.

I have a rose called “Over the Moon” It has huge blooms and smells so wonderful! It was here at my house when I bought it. The place it’s planted is not the best area for it but it looks really old and I don’t think it would survive being moved..

Hi Danielle! I highly recommend Olga Carmody’s channel. She gardens in Connecticut and grows lots of roses, and has many videos outlining how she keeps them pest and disease free. I am also planting salvias around all of my roses based on Sara Raven discussing that on her podcast!

Hi Danielle, I think that white rose with the pink center is Earth Angel, the purple one is Novilis and that large peachy one is Mother of Pearl. The best way to avoid black spots is to get roses disease resistant varities.Japanese bettles usually appear at the end of the 1st flush of blooms, so if you cut the roses back when the bettles appear they should go into their 2nd flush after the bettles leave.

Hi Danielle, Gardening is a constantly evolving process and I think it is the joy of the journey. I don't think that a move should influence the decisions you make today. I think if the keyhole design excites and inspires you, Do it!

Your big leaf hydrangea at 7:32 is beautiful!

Hi Danielle, I had never heard of a keyhole garden before this video! I looked it up and find it all very interesting! So my encouragement would be to go for it and show us all how you plan to make it and take us along for the journey! Another beautiful video! I love roses and just planted my first 2 climbing roses on an arch at one opening to my garden! There are 2 that came with the property that I try to keep under control! They do always add a beautiful spot of color and fragrance in an area of the garden I still have not done to much with as we maintain about 1 of the 1.9 acres we have owned for almost 20 years! Retirement has helped with time but not the energy! ☺️

Your mom is correct about cleaning her pruners after pruning each rose bush. I had Italian Ice and it is an awesome rose with light fragrance. The colors vary with the weather. I think using mint compost rather than mulch helps with blackspot and other issues. Nepeta and hyssop works better for me than salvia. I think the salvia tends to attract Japanese Beatles to my plants. Neem oil and neem oil mixture in sprays early in the spring is great for protecting roses from insects and diseases. I have replaced all of my tea roses with David Austin ones. Some of them can handle some shade also. I live in Michigan, zone 6a.

I can't believe people cut through your flower garden... I love all your garden beds and your ideas!

When my husband and I had a lot of old fashioned roses we found that giving them lots of full sun and open breezes helped reduce pest disease pressure. If you have those conditions in your driveway garden perhaps that is where you can add roses. We typically gave the roses lots of space (no crowding) so they got lots of air circulation. Not inside a heavily planted garden. Kind of like the beds you saw in that rose garden tour. Also raised up with excellent drainage - very loamy soil.