These YouTube home garden tours showcase everything from compact kitchen gardens to overflowing flower beds full of color and texture. Have a look, see what speaks to you, and borrow a few ideas for your own growing space.
If you are a beginner, be sure to check out the Grow section for helpful tips to get you started.
Gathering Garden Ideas
I’d always wanted to be a gardener and have a little growing space of my own, but it wasn’t until I went on a local home garden tour that I completely fell in love with gardening.
Visiting gardens created by real people—just like you and me—is one of the best ways to see what’s actually possible in your growing zone. I try to attend as many tours as I can each spring and summer.
The challenge here in Ontario is our short peak season. We pack a lot of living into those warm months, which means most garden tours are squeezed into a brief six-week window. Many of them fall on the same days, often too far apart to attend more than one. Choosing between them honestly breaks my heart.
If I were Empress of the World, there would be a tour every other day so I could see them all. But since I’m still limited to overseeing dirt—and not much else—I go to the ones I can and enjoy every minute.
Video Ideas
Another easy way to get a dose of garden inspiration is through videos. I only wish there were more of them. Creating a good, engaging garden video takes real time and skill, and it shows.
The YouTube playlist below includes seventeen (and counting) home garden videos. A few gardens appear more than once, filmed at different times. If you garden yourself, you know why—no two months or years are ever the same. Gardens are always changing, growing, and evolving.
I’ve deliberately included gardens of different sizes, budgets, and themes, from several countries, though most are in the United States. I hope you’ll find ideas you can borrow—or, at the very least, enjoy spending some time soaking in the beauty.
Home Garden Video Tours
1. Chrissie D’Esopo | Avon, Connecticut, USA
Flower garden with containers, evergreens, and chartreuse and burgundy accents
Formal kitchen garden with four quadrants
If you’d like to watch more, go to this playlist on YouTube where I gathered some old favorites. Youtube no longer allows embedding playlists so this is the option for now.
2. Home garden contest winners | Oklahoma, USA
3. Tasha Tudor | Vermont, USA (narrated in Japanese)
4. Empress of Dirt | Ontario, Canada
5. Chrissie D’Esopo | Avon, Connecticut, USA (2013) – footage is a bit jumpy but you get to see the gorgeous pops of colour
6. Calikim | California, USA
Veggies, flowers, sloped landscape
7. Coley Cooks | USA
Veggie kitchen garden
8. Troy Marden | USA
Garden designer shows large suburban lot with gorgeous hydrangeas and hostas.
9. Dennis Hundscheidt | Sunnybank, Brisbane, Australia
Topical style garden. Audio is low. Intriguing look at plants we do not have in Canada.
10. Erin Harrison | Keeper of the Homestead | USA
Huge veggie garden
11. Christine Kobzeff | Succulent garden tour
Lots of succulents in outdoor containers.
12. Natasha’s Kitchen | Natasha’s parent’s garden
Greenhouse and veggie garden
13. Tasha Tudor | Home and garden | Vermont, USA
Narration in Japanese, some audio in English.
14. 15. 16. Helen Dillon | Dublin, Ireland
17. Helen Dillon and other Irish gardens | Ireland
If you can, do find out about garden tours in your area and go. It’s such a great way to learn what works in your climate and conditions. Plus, gardeners are the best for sharing information and encouraging newbies.
~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛