Hi, good morning and happy New Year it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose farm and I have something
special for you today I've compiled a list of your favorite Garden YouTubers ranked both by their
views and by subscribers and these guys cover the wide range of topics all the way from General
gardening to orchids and tropicals cannabis cultivation ponds you name it they're on this list
so let's get right into it I thought I'd start out with the top five channels ranked by a number of
views I thought that was the best measure of popularity there's a little difference in the
way they line up by subscribers but I'll get into that in a minute so number one by ranked by views
is Garden Answer main presenter on that channel of course we're all familiar with Laura from
Garden Answer and they do a wide range of topics all the way from ornamental to Veggie gardening
a lot of crafty type stuff too Vlog style stuff I mean there's just not much they do wrong it's
all very high quality and have a very very loyal viewership second on this list so Garden answer
had 373 million views change day by day so that'll be outdated very quickly next one up
is Epic Gardening with 207 million views currently epic gardening their main presenter is Kevin this
is out of San Diego California and again wide range of topics I would say that topic videos
is the Mainstay of this channel does a little bit on the home steady or self-sufficiency end as well
but really focused on the veggie gardening and other General gardening topics number three on
the list it might be a surprise for some of you this is a channel called growwithjessie now the
reason why this is brand new to YouTube is because YouTube just brought over the short format video
sort of copying over from Tick Tock and grow with Jessie's channel is from Tick Tock so this is going
to be an interesting test tons of views and we're going to find out pretty quickly whether that can
translate into long-form content success so but so far it's already yielded her huge amounts
of views on on YouTube shorts and a good number of subscribers as well so I guess we'll have to
keep our eyes on that number four on this list is Self Sufficient Me and this is Mark from Australia
and it's good to get some representation from the southern hemisphere into the top five again
this guy really goes deep into this sort of self-sufficiency and homesteady and you will
find as we go further down the list that there are a number of big homesteading channels that
are represented here just based on the strength of their gardening content I'll talk a little
more about how I selected which homesteaders fit on this list and which ones didn't next one up and
rounding out the top five is a channel called Urban Gardening and this is Mohit from India
and he also has another channel in Hindi and I would say that the Indian Garden channels feature
very strongly in the top 25 I think there might be up to four of them that are from India and I
only selected channels here that were English because I just don't have the capabilities of
screening and searching for channels in other languages but India has a very strong contingent
of channels that are presented in English as well so they're they're he's the first that shows up on
this list but not the last moving on to the next page here number six through ten and I'm going
to stop giving so many biographical information unless I have something interesting to say about
the YouTuber because otherwise it's going to take me forever to get through this list next up in the
number six spot is MI Gardener from Michigan a very popular YouTube channel the next one up is
Simple Living Alaska now this is the first of the true homesteading channels and I mentioned that I
had a little trouble uh trying to screening out where should the homesteading channels fit on
this and what I sort of basically ended up doing is looking at their most popular videos and if
somewhere in the top 25 of their most popular videos there's a good amount of straight up
gardening topics I included them on this list if it was more about animals and buildings and
preserving then I didn't do the homesteading channel on on this list I know it's kind of an
editorial decision but I wanted to keep this focused on gardening but simple living Alaska
definitely has a good amount of gardening content next one up is Growing Your Greens this is John
has an energetic presentation so everybody knows knows that Channel or seen it one way or another
next one up is interesting this is plantarina and this is the first house plant and tropical related
and maybe a little bit of Home Decor related channel that features on this list but once
again it's certainly not the last throughout the whole list of channels that I collected and in the
top 10 rounding out the top 10 is Gary Pilarchik and he's been around for a long time this is uh
he's also known as The Rusted Garden and again just classic choice for a general gardening
Channel moving right along here number 11 has Living Traditions Homestead which is another home
full-on homesteading Channel with a lot of good gardening content following that is the gardening
Channel with James Prigioni another high energy presenter I would say then there's Garden up and
this one is out of Mumbai India and also following that Gardening is My Passion is also out of India
so there's another two of India in the top 15 say and then there's California Gardening and
of course this is an established Channel out of California in number 16 roots and refuge
farm and other homesteading Channel with a lot of good gardening information then Daisy Creek
Farms with Jag Singh followed by the Lawn Care Nut that's the first lawn related or Lawn Care related
Channel and I will put a note in here as to say that one thing I didn't include in this is those
lawn mowing or pressure washing video channels that more or less just do time lapses or you
know I mowed this old ladies lawn and almost got arrested by the police kind of videos which seemed
like a different genre to me don't really have informational content but more just sort of like
zone out and watching content following that one was uh uh Cali Kim 29 garden and home DIY which
has been around for a long time I run into her Channel a lot and rounding out the top 20 was Miss
Orchid Girl which is the first Orchid specialty channel on this list following that Bonsai Empire
so again that's uh that's Bonsai related pretty self-explanatory followed by Huw Richards which
is I'm going to call him like the Justin Bieber of garden YouTubers he started this thing when he was
like I don't know 14 years old his channel goes back 11 years and if you pull back uh
really far back you'll see those early videos of this charming Welsh kid presenting gardening
information so good on him next one up is Summer Rayne Oakes which also has a second channel so this
is sort of the urban Homestead Channel and then she also has Flock Finger Lakes Channel
which is much further down the list followed by Ryan Knorr lawn care so that's also makes an
the top 25 on lawn care and the final one in the top 25 is called plant abundance and that's sort
of again self-sufficiency related so you can see the self-sufficiency in homesteading channels are
very well represented in the Top Gardening YouTube channels In fairness to everybody I wanted to
say that this list may not be complete and what I had to do because there is no centralized list of
gardening channels on YouTube is I had to search out different topic areas in English which is of
course my language and that's why I didn't really get into for instance the French language there's
a good permaculture Channel there there's a bunch of Korean channels a bunch of Hindi channels but
I just felt poorly prepared to search out those topic areas somebody else could do those lists
even amongst the English language I think there's some chance that within the top 25 that there's
a channel in a topic area I didn't think of or didn't search closely enough that should be in
that top 25 and if you are one of those channels or if you know of one of those channels they're
one of your favorites drop me a note in the comments and I will update the listing in the
description of the video as well as in the pinned comment I know it doesn't do that much good but
at least it will be there for people to find out the other thing I wanted to say is that if one
of your guys didn't make the top 25 and you want to know where they are on my grand list because I
collected about 350 also drop me a note in the comments and I'll let you know generally where
they land on the list and who they're above and who they're below all right the other thing I
wanted to say is that the interesting channels on this list didn't stop at 25 and there's a whole
bunch of topic areas further down I was just very impressed by the diversity of channels that are
on here down at number 34 I had Lex Blazer doing cannabis cultivation down at number 47 I had the
Kiwi Grower doing a bunch of kiwis and tropicals and and more of the Exotic type fruit down at 53
I had Greg Wittstock the pond guy so that again you know all of the all of the main topics within
gardening are represented somewhere on this list and you have to go all the way down to 68 before
you find a specialty Rose Channel but I'll see if I can do something about that now let's talk about
subscribers because I've just resorted my list on my computer here to talk about where the rankings
are by subscribers and although the top five p people on the list haven't changed their order has
changed a little bit so in the top five now epic gardening has the most subscribers self-sufficient
me has number two Garden answer is at number three Urban gardening is at number four and garden up is
at number five now out of the top 25 there are a few new faces that make the top 25 once you rank
them by subscribers and let me give you a page of those there's all there's Next Level gardening
which is at number 11. there's Charles Dowding that's the the no dig guy from England and he's
at number 17. there's off grid with Curtis Stone again homesteading but on the strength of his
previous gardening videos from early on when he was the Urban Farmer Curtis Stone he's sitting
at number 19. Project Diaries is at number 20. GrowVeg is at number 22 and Hollis and Nancy's
Homestead is at number 25 rounding the whole thing out well I guess I'm just about ready to wrap up
here as I mentioned if I think if you think I've missed somebody that should have been on this list
definitely feel free to drop into the comments and let me know uh where I should be looking for
those channels there are some people that I left out intentionally and uh maybe I'll just wrap up
by saying that if it was a large-scale farming like uh planting corn and wheat and harvesting
that I left that out just didn't seem to be too applicable to the home Gardener uh except for I
said veggie boys and farmer Dre because they have strong elements of gardening knowledge or know-how
in those channels if they were homesteading channels that didn't have strong elements of
gardening in it I left those out that's kind of a judgment policy if you think there's somebody that
should have been included I can definitely have a look at that I left out aquarium plants because I
just didn't think that felt within the definition of core gardening I left out people like Blossom
and Brightside and five minute crafts and other similar Garden hack type videos so uh certainly
all of the scammy fake propagation videos got left out as well I just didn't think they belonged
within this topic area I didn't do the non-english videos for reasons that I mentioned earlier so if
they didn't have some informational presentation in the English language I just didn't go there
draw the line right at the edge there and anything that is robo-voiced or other recycled footage set
to music I left that out as well so aside from those ones definitely feel free to point me in
the right direction thanks so much for watching today happy New Year and see you again soon