They Call It “My Country Resort”… Wait Until You See the Garden!

Hello garden friends and welcome to another fabulous garden tour. This is Angela. So Angela and I just met and we met because she has a garden like no other. It is actually called my country resort. Her country resort. Gardens I believe are meant to be shared and so she's not only sharing it with her family but she shares it for events. So we do weddings, bridal showers, we had the yoga event. We've had a proposal last week. A surprise. It was a surprise proposal. She didn't know. Yeah it was very beautiful. It could be any event. Any event. Okay so she's gonna walk us through her garden and let's bring you along. Let's go. So this is the front of her house and isn't that cute? One thing that's catching my attention is the pillars. How pretty that is. Oh yeah with the fig. The creeping fig. Yes it's beautiful and the bench. It's beautiful. All right but let's go see the back. Let's go. Welcome to my garden. Oh my gosh I love the stone. Oh my gosh look at this. I heard the water. That's my favorite. Oh I love the sound of water. Look at the Japanese maples. So darling. Oh so beautiful. So Angela how big is this place? One and a half acres. One and a half acres. That includes 1.56 but includes the guest house as well. Okay beautiful. It looks like your husband's out there talking to some folks already trying to book some things. Yes. So fun and you have people come from everywhere. Yes so this couple is from San Francisco. We had someone from Oakland last week and again a lot of people from the valley. Oh my gosh this wisteria. Wow and how long have you guys lived here? Five years. Five years. Wow and so when you moved here was this already like landscaped this way? Yeah most of it was already here. There was a little bit of weeds. A lot of older. I did add a couple of these ferns. Extra ferns. We added. I love foxtail ferns. Yeah that's one of my favorites. Yeah we added a few things but not much. Really? It was already beautiful like this. The lady loved it and she was loved anything garden. Love that and so do you maintain this or you have a gardener? We have a gardener comes every Friday. Okay all right. Yeah otherwise will be too much work for us. It's a lot yes and I understand you work full-time and so yeah I totally get that it's a lot. Okay can we talk about this wisteria? Oh my goodness look at that. These yeah. Does this bloom? Oh yeah. Oh yeah there's some actual. It doesn't have a lot because we trimmed a lot this year but usually this fills up. Wow that's got to be. But you know how messy it is this. I don't know ours has never bloomed. No. Oh my mom has one it's never bloomed. It blooms every year and it blooms like twice. Blooms now. I think there's two trees here so one blooms now and one blooms later. Oh that's awesome. Look at that. Yeah we trimmed it all the way back because it was all the way here. That's got to be just beautiful and it's all in bloom. Oh my goodness. Okay shall we start over here? Yes. Do they bloom? Yeah they get like orange reddish flowers. Oh my gosh that's beautiful. I think it's more towards the end of the year. Oh and the bird of paradise. Oh look and it blooms too. Oh yeah. Oh my gosh. Except now they're all dead. That's beautiful. I bought we went to Santa Barbara for a week and I bought three manzanitas. And I plant them on the this pot and two more there because I want you know how they they grow and this part is like red. Yes. So I cannot wait to have a red. It'll be beautiful. Yes. Yes that's a beautiful bark. Let's see. Oh my gosh. Look at the little fire pit. Now this is a huge fire pit area. So is this part of like when people come here to use the event they can use this as well? Yeah they can use everything on the venue. The whole thing. Beautiful. How fun. Can you imagine the conversations happening here? I know and we turn on the fire pit and we do marshmallows and it is so nice. A night is really nice. So peaceful. You'll come back at night one of these days. Okay. Not to record. Just to hang out. Yeah. Just I love it. Okay. I love it. We're already friends. I love that. Oh my gosh. This. Okay so I don't know what this is called. It doesn't produce. It doesn't? Actually this year it has two little ones but it I think they take seven years to produce it and this must have been the seventh year because when we moved here it was small. I'm trying to think of what it's called in English. I don't know. And it's evergreen. It's green all year. It's loquat. Yeah loquat. Okay so we figured it out. It's loquat and I love that it's green. I love the shape of the leaves and this is so deep and it's multi-branch. The way that you've got they've got it limbed up. I love that. Oh ginkgo I think. Turns yellow in the fall. Beautiful yellow. That's a beautiful fall. Oh and there's a rose right here. I know in this year they didn't produce but they're usually so beautiful. Oh the light's just turned on. This at night has got to be magical. Automatic at six and they turn off at ten. Beautiful. I love all the foxtail ferns you have. Yeah they they make it pretty. I added these last year. I don't even know what they're called but I love the purple and I had nothing here so I did these a few of these. That's my other manzanita tree. Bush. Let's hope it gets big and beautiful. Then I can plant it where I want. I'm trying to see where it likes to be. Gorgeous. Look at that open space. And this is where everybody does the yoga and all the wellness things. Yoga in the lawn here. This is where also people put tables for events like weddings. We've had a sweet 16 here with about 100 people. That's where the tables went. The owner of the place said her daughter got married under the willow tree. Wow. Many years ago. Did you know the owner? Yeah. We didn't. We met him and we became friends but I didn't know them before. Okay. Wow. This is a beautiful angle from here. Look at that. How gorgeous that is. Look at that angle with the sun on that maple. Beautiful. I also added these. They weren't here. The tree was the Japanese maple. Japanese maple was but all those lilies. Water lily. I don't know. But they're called lilies. I added those and more ferns. So cute. And this vine. This is another. Another wisteria? Yes. Believe it or not. Wow. That's incredible. That's incredible. And it still has blooms on it. It is happy. Look how pretty that is. How did you guys get into the event planning thing? It just happened. We had a few parties here. People kept saying oh this would be beautiful for an event. This would be beautiful for an event. And then my sister-in-law asked me to use the place for her daughter's sweet 16. And then everyone's like oh this would be beautiful for events. And we like okay let's give it a try. And we just posted a few months and maybe three months ago. That's awesome. Not that long. That's awesome. That looks like a very comfortable spot. It is. I sit there every every afternoon reading my book every single day. You know I love it when people actually use their garden. Right? Yes. And I usually ask like where's your favorite spot? This is my favorite spot.