Lover's Leap Cottage & Garden Tour
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Lover's Leap has so much history on Mackinac Island!! In this episode, I do a garden tour of the newly installed landscape as well as tell a little bit of history on Lover's Leap.
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It’s a privilege to get these “tutorials” from an expert of your caliber.......thank you SO much for sharing your skills with the world, we’re so lucky!
The design and craftsmanship of the hardscaping (including that railing) and landscaping are stunning!
Thanks!!
My wife and I were on the island yesterday to celebrate her birthday and walked by several of Jack’s landscape masterpieces! I even saw Jack downtown on his bike, pulling a trailer and working hard as usual! Thanks for the great videos and inspiring “dream-scapes “.
So beautiful. Old roses are hard to beat.
Love what you did in the back, and that meadow that you throw wildflower seeds into is a treasure!
I thoroughly enjoy these tours with Jack. The way he plays with the plants and shows their features is wonderful. I always learn something. The drone work was amazing too. 👏
The drone picked such a beauty view of the planter box and the creeping thyme in bloom ,So lovely to see from above .Jose from Melbourne Australia
Jack…I live here in Michigan, have my entire life and NEVER tire of the beauty of our great state. My Hunny and I used to trek to the north every summer but after 3 back surgeries no longer is travel an option. Your vlogs bring back so many wonderful memories for us of our island ventures and I thank you so much for bringing our states beauty to so many who don’t live here in the mitten. Being a master gardener that can barely keep up her own beds, the flora and fauna are only part of my love for you vlogs because I also enjoy when you give us a peek in on the boys as you live your summer life on the island. Always look forward to being enlightened and entertained by your talent and love of all things Mackinac Island!!!:):):)
Jack, Mackinack is lucky to have you around working your magic. I agree, rugosa's can't be beat. So tough, prolific and gorgeous scent. 🙂🙂
Oh wanted to say that the curved railing... is stunning! Good job little brother!!
Stunning cottage & gardens. Your videography is top notch.
My Husband live in Indiana and We soooo Enjoy Mackinac island.. Never tire of it ! ..Great idea to let it be…in a problem area … I love that ! I have a small spot !
The new video style with the drone footage and soundtracks is EVERYTHING... Slow clap...
(And the gardens... dreamy.)
What a beautiful job you did on the restoration of the walkway, terrace steps and landing. The creeping plants are such a bonus to an already beautiful area. The editing and drone footage was amazing, congratulations to the editor of this fantastic video.
Jack... you live in paradise.... so beautiful.... amazing life...
Jack is the best. We love his videos.
Wow, the new camera work is awesome!
Beautiful! Thank you and the owner for sharing this home!
Five star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ video as usual, it’s always a sad day when you’re favorite pair of boots need replacement 😉
What a lovely "cottage" 💕. I might sooner agree with mansion ☺️. At my cottage in Ontario Canada, I have just mowed paths on our front yard through the wildflowers! The idea of keeping it natural for our birds, bugs and butterflies is so important to me. And so much less maintenance. Wish I could send a picture. It is a wash of daisies 🌼🌼🌼🌼
We love walking past this cottage whenever we are on Mackinac Island. The owner is usually outside gardening. The area that Jack Barnwell renovated is on the private side of the cottage so it's nice for the homeowner to have a secret spot.
So glad you let the meadow grow!!!With loss of habits, this is what we all need to do.Awesome
Jack we just visited, I asked everyone if they knew you or where I could find you… no luck. We celebrated my mother making it thru COVID. We learned about your work and the island from the partnership with Laura from Garden Answer tours. We appreciate your work. Maybe someday we will meet.
Hi Jack...Your sensibilities and taste are outstanding...so attuned to the environments you work in...such extraordinary results. Thank you for the tour.
I love how every corner of the island is given 100% attention and more
Love the new videography and editing - so great!
Outstanding stone staircase and railing was just incredible. This cottage is beautiful and I appreciate the tour. Thank you for sharing with us! I am from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario (zone 4B), about a 45 minute drive away and I really enjoy getting ideas and have been trying some of your favourites such as Astilbe and Sweet Woodroffe. I am definitely getting some of that creeping thyme! I cannot wait to go for a tour on the island again some day so that I could really appreciate seeing these beautiful gardens in person. Thank you to Jack and the owner! 🇨🇦
Keep them coming Jack…. Love these tours.
Really appreciate your advice on letting an area go wild. Living in the foothills of CO, at 7300' elevation, high desert, most people in our area let their home landscape grow wild. Being a MI girl I struggle with wanting at least a little portion looking like the manicured MI lawns I grew up with, but it's difficult to achieve with our dry & steep land. Working to blend in flowers & ground cover that thrive with the natural bent of the land here! Many thanks to the cottage owners for their willingness to allow footage of your beautiful work on their properties!
GREAT camera work! I loved being able to see more of the view as Jack narrated. Well done and it’s all just beautiful!
I never cease to be amazed at your work. Wonderful garden, thanks for sharing.
Jack this is pure magic!!! 💚💚💚love your creations! And your brothers railing. Wow speechless. Absolutely breath taking. Ok im off to get some creeping thyme! Lol
Wooooow. the lighter rosa rugosa rose is the most perfect shade of pink that exists.
What a beautiful home and gardens! I loved the history story too!
Wow, what a stunning home! Lucky person who gets to live amongst such beauty.
Thanks for sharing the history of this home/garden as well as the update on it since last year. The work you and your team do is always on point :)
I can see why Laura from Garden Answer respects you so much Jack!
The 2 of you truly speak alike!
I live in Oregon, just like them and I hope to, some day, to come to the Garden Show there on your island and hopefully see Aaron and Laura there too!
Loved the tour you gave Jack! You ARE a true artist!!
Thanks so much Jennifer~ we’d love to see you on the island~
Loved the tour Jack. I keep checking for the video of you planting up your Grandmother's garden. I hope it will be posted soon.
Soon….
Just lovely! You have inspired my husband and I to visit your beautiful island!
Thank you for sharing, loved seeing the moss and thyme combo in the pavers. Beautiful!
It will fill in beautifully~~~
Love love love this video. The camera work and editing was magnificent!
The garden is stunning and so compliment the beautiful home. Keep these type of tours coming. I learned so much and got many ideas for my 3 acre garden in New Baltimore Mi.
You are an inspiration and truly blessed with a wonderful gift of making magic in the garden!!
That is the flagstone walkway of my dreams! So magical
Jack love your videos, watching them transports me to Mackinac Island where every place is just stunning 😍
Had a great time. But that’s not a cottage that I grew up with in Massachusetts 😂 we call that a mansion. Beautiful 🤩
Hahaha! From the day I came up to work on Mackinac Island (Forty Years ago now!) that expression Summer Cottage for these beautiful homes always made my husband and I smile. It's just a customary term they use, I don't think anyone in Michigan would dispute you that the first word coming to mind is mansion. I never have tired of riding, walking, or taking a carriage ride past these impressive homes, but it is stellar to see them more personally with Jack Barnwell and crew.
Hahahaha…my thoughts exactly! Love that it’s called a “cottage”, and it’s definitely not. ☺️. LOVE the idea of spreading wildflower seeds in a hard to grow area! I’m trying that this year!!!
What a beautiful garden and home! I loved it when you gave the owner the okay to leave some of the garden natural. My husband and I live on one acre in South Texas and we have finally let some of our property go natural. We have a lot of native wildflowers in the spring and through out the summer in that area and it is so pretty! Our native Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrush in the spring and now that summer is here we have a blanket of yellow daisies. Thanks for the okay!
I love hearing that!!!
Beautiful home and stunning gardens, wow.
Another beautiful tour love to see the the flowers and rose bushes thank you Jack
Best part of the video? Talking to the bee, lol! Good to know I'm not the only one. ;)
Wow!! What a fantastic ride! Great Intro...feels like we're in the drone. Really a joy to see such beautiful gardens, glad the owner was brave enough to take your advice and leave that one area to grow wild... it looks magical. The gorgeous rose hedge, we could hear the bees lol! bet the fragrance is heavenly! Thanks so much for sharing this! Cheers!
Thank you Jack...I really needed this beautiful video at this time!
Thank you for showcasing Lover’s Leap Cottage. My mother was a caretaker there for ten years during the summers. Your work is beautiful and it’s always a treat to see that wonderful historic property.
Love your videos Jack! Such a beautiful, charming and breathtaking cottage! Thank you for the tour. ❤️😊
Rewatched a year old video when Jack showed this part of the garden - reclaimed and newly developed. It looked beautiful even then. But now!!! with all plants filling in and blooming, old benches and matching container full of colour...Delightful!!!
Thank you a great tour gives great plant ideas for living in ontario across from Port Huron Michigan between You And Laura at Garden Answer my yard has improved over the passed years small only 50 by 100 square feet but has been fun to plan more changes already for 2022 Happy July 4 and Canada day July 1 😀
I love everything about this house and gardens! Wow! So beautiful! ❤️
from the Philippines, yes i recall how it was before and see the beauty of it's transformation now.
We have a Door County property and stopped mowing most of the land. Thanks for suggesting the wildflower seed! Love your work!
Thanks
I truly enjoy your videos. Gorgeous landscape design and installations. I hope to visit Mackinac someday.
Jack Lovers Leap Cottage is just stunning. You are such a gifted landscaper. I can't wait to get there in August. It's a dream come true.
I love the way you love natural beauty, and are of it completely.
What a stunning property! Love the individual styles you bring to the gardens to enhance the cottages! Very talented! I so enjoy watching each one.
Hope to be able to visit one day!
Oh Wow Jack! Such a stunning place. Would love to see the inside of these beautiful mansions. Visiting the island would be a dream come true. The landscape fits perfectly. Your team is amazing. Thanks! 💕☀️🐝🦋🪴
Amazing. Your imagined space is so magical. The path of ground covers and other beauties are happily placed. Such a lot of careful work. Loving the plant varieties and low maintenance. The Lovers are watching for sure. You are the best, Jack and team!!!!!
Just beautiful flower Video of cottege gardens.
Wow what a beautiful place. Someday I will visit this magnificent place.
Thank you for sharing your videos!
Absolutely stunning!! Love the beautiful purple creeping thyme amid the flagstone.
Please thank the owner for the joy of this tour 🙂💕
Gorgeous property. Thanks so much Jack for the tour.
Loved this one! Gorgeous property! Thank You for the tour!
Oh my!
That is just gorgeous.
That was spectacular. Such a beautiful description of the story of the origin of the Chief's daughter and her lover. You honoured and respected its history. Love the drone footage as it really showcases the aspect of the cottage 'mansion' and especially the beautiful purple thyme. Thank you for explaining how to cut and replant it. You and your brother must have received a pleasant surprise when you cut back all the dense bushes and discovered the second landing/tier of garden scape. Are you able to tell us if anyone lives in that cute red cottage at the beginning of the video? Love form sunny Sydney, Australia.
LOVE the shots included in the intro! The redevelopment of that area of the cottage is fabulously imagined! In love with the ground covers as per usual. I must say though Jack when I saw you wobble that planter box I saw a potential disaster, especially with children or adults too. Why not consider placing a fence reminiscent of the materials used already for the railings behind (on the cliff side) the planter box to give it more secure stability? Anything would be helpful in that situation.
Gorgeous place! Great job with the stairs, beautiful mahogany rail Jack and brother! Thanks for sharing, have a blessed Independence holiday!🤗🤗
Stunning property and plantings!
Lovely, and wonderful design!
Wow! I love the ground covers with the rocks! And the wildflower area! Amazing! And that is a mansion not a cottage:)!!
That’s what I was thinking….. at was size does a house stop being a cottage if this can still be called that lol
Even us locals kind of laugh at using the word cottage. I'm sure we both agree that when thinking of a cottage, it's a quaint little home tucked in the woods. It's just a historical local word adaptations for these "Summer Homes" ... I suppose the very wealthy people who had them first built picked it because literally everyone who could afford a summer cottage up north had one. Since they aren't used year around, maybe they considered them cottages to be less pretentious.
Some are only used 10 days of the year and of course last year, many went unoccupied.
Many of the people who own them think of themselves as caretakers of important historical structures. It probably costs more than I make in a year or two just for the upkeep, not counting staff. It's really cool that the woman actually mows her own lawn, eh?
But it's just a local term, so far as I can tell. I first came up here when I was 22 years old, forty years ago, to work Grand Hotel Security for college. I was the same as you. When my soon-to-be husband said cottage, I thought I'd choke. Ha ha ha.
@@yougrowgail2535 Kinda makes you wonder what their "REAL" year around homes look like, doesn't it? ;)
@@kimberlydianehagen4512 thanks for your info. I loved Mackinac Island when I visited one time!
Such a lovely sharing 👍👍👍
Awe Jack, did your shoe blow out?? Lol. You work way too hard!😊 amazing as always! 🌾🌻🥀
It did!! But~~ I have since got a new pair of boots! :)
Love it! Another beautiful tour as usual! Love the new intro plus the editing and drone footage didn't go unnoticed! :)
I just love your vision and wonderful advice to let parts of the garden go-great for increasing diversity and habitat. Let go of this need for perfection at all times, it’s just not sustainable.
Just beautiful! It was a treat.
As always just stunning ❤️
You and I share the same enthusiasm about plants. I am in zone 7B. I would love to share my cottage design and landscape with you one day. Love watching your videos. Keep them coming!
Love looking at this beautiful house and especially the garden. Love your work
Beautiful design Jack. Your boots must be very comfy 😜 You must hate breaking in new boots as much as I do!
Indeed…. But I did just get a new pair, and I’m fighting through the first couple months!
Love your channel. Very addictive.
Love your videos! 💞💞
I adore this "cottage" and this is so inspiring to see how you've made this over for the owner. If I ever become a multi-millionaire, I'm hiring you to make over my property. 😉 Thank you! XOXO Heidi
Thanks for all the good tips and ideas.
Love this beautiful video and you did a beautiful job I loved all the beautiful homes and all the beautiful grounds it is a gorgeous place this is on my bucket list of a place I’d love to go
Lovely 💚💚💚
Beautiful!
Thanks for sharing !!!!
1# fan from Pittsburgh 🌻
Jack! Great idea! I have a small area that’s in the back corner of my yard- hard to reach + too bumpy to cut. I have seeds I’ve collected in other parts of my yard. I’ll throw them back there!!! … tomorrow, why not ?!?!
Why not!!!
Jack, as always, your tours are much appreciated especially when we go back to a project and see how it is coming along with new growth. Looks like you might want to replace that boot on your right foot...looks like it has seen better days ;-)
Ok, whatever you say handsome. Love yr garden or design or work too. Hihihih.
Rosa rugosa..is considered an invasive where I live. It is also native to Asia, so we avoid it in our mission to restore our habitats to native plants. It is rugged and nearly foolproof, so was planted freely. Getting rid of it is not easy.
That drop off looks dangerous 😗
I love your designs and can't wait until I get to Mackinac! Seems to be a "lover's leap" in every town we tour...how can that be?
Beautiful