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I got one from a native nursery but I think I unfortunately killed mine 😔 it was already 4ft tall and I believe I ripped too many feeder roots trying to untangle the roots. I have similar soil, do you have any advice that I should do differently cause I'm not giving up and Im gonna buy a 2nd chinquapin oak

so when do you deadhead the blooms to get more flowers? When there are no more little flowers at all? Thx

Watering needs?

Thanks!

Another fabulous video - love the taste test at the end. I want to have a lovely lush bee balm, but mine tends to be a bit spindly and sparse! Maybe in time it'll fill out! 🤞🏼

buy mulch?! i get truck loads of arborist wood-chips delivered free. i have changed the soil of my entire little orchard with it. doing the work with sedges would have taken hundreds of years. sedges are great but if you need serious soil amendment ask your area arborist for chips and age them for a few years. you can wipe out all the weeds, and you would not believe how it changes your soil. the level of life and diversity i have in my soil makes me not have to water as much or buy fertilizer which is another thing i never buy. i also never have to water my mature fruit trees and still get insane amount of very high quality fruit. i am in mountain north west mind you so summers are hot and dry. last year we got no rain for 5 months. good info on sedges 🙂

not medium moisture, it like dry. here in n. idaho, i never water it at all just like catnip. they are perfect for outside garden borders. gold finches do love them very much. i did not have any at the orchard until i put in the anise hyssop. another great thing about having them along with catnip on the perimeter of the garden is that they attract pollinators and repulse many of the problem pests. if you are going to do cuttings, it is best to use mashed willow paste which will speed up rooting considerably. i grow all the mint family around my orchard. they are great flavoring for my stew providing many health benefits. i also make a bug spray for myself that is much better than deet and acts like a force field when i am working in my little orchard / food forest / garden 🙂

Great video…. However, the white rabbit is not a wild bunny. I rescue and rehabilitate Eastern cottontails and Snowshoe Hares. I also rescue and live with domestic rabbits. Seeing a domestic bunny outside means that they have been dumped (or not well-cared for, if they have a family) Thank you for the excellent bee balm info.

Learned a lot from your video. Thanks so much! 👍

So many great tips! Thank you! Adding your video to my "check these creators out playlist" - you have such great info and a fun and engaging way of sharing it! Keep up the amazing work 💚

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Can you please help me? Something eats up my BES every year. When they develop buds, they get eaten and chewed looking. They never even get to thrive. Something is eating them a few weeks before developing a flower bud. What could that be. I’m in N. E. Georgia.

A good friend of mine absolutely loved the black eyed Susan! Unfortunately, he died a few yrs ago, so I figured I would grow 'em from seed, and leave his favorite flower on his grave... I miss you, Kevin😢

Let's try a google monarda tea recipe. Smiles.

I have tropical milkweed

The grasses here in the PNW don’t need sun. lol. But it sucks trying to keep them alive in the summer.

Lisa could you do a video on how to plant Milk Weed plants from seed

I think this is the first video i have truly enjoyed listening to. Honestly, I promise you'll enjoy her voice, consistency, and overall education.

In Arizona, no mulch would mean get your veggies at the store.

Mulch is the most important thing you can do to support soil health. It mimics the natural process of soil formation that should dominant the forest ecosystems across north America. Do not follow this, it is not based on science.

I live in Oxford, once the gravel capital of the US. Don’t wanna hear it. 😊

Thank you! I wondered why after putting in a new plant where all the weeds came from. No grass for me. No more kids - no more grass. My front yard is all river rock with many plants. My backyard is beds all the way around with a 3' stone walkway in the middle. I use pine bark in the back, but love your idea of planting closer and no mulch.

Can I take cuttings now and plant them along the fence? Or do I need to put them in sand for a year and then transplant? I want to make an eco friendly privacy fence😊

Am in zone 4. I simply put some seeds in a couple of pots and put in right beside the window in early March. It was cold enough by the window that it seemed to work. By 3rd week in May its safe to transplant outdoors, the plants were already a good 8-15" high. They began flowering in the first week of June! It's the solstice now, they are already beginning to fill in with flowers.

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I stopped 25 years ago...I cut and drop and leave all leaves.....great soil....great rare seedlings show.

Excellent presentation.

No mulch = jungle

Fianlly!!! I have been looking at videos but they were never about plants in Northern Illinois. My ears perked up when you mentioned the Morton Arboretum! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expierence.

Brilliantly done, love it! The mulch beds with only three random shrubs are definitely lonely! 😂 And packing with plants gives more opportunity for more plant diversity and diversity of bloom times, as you’re showing. Your garden definitely proves a native garden doesn’t have to be a messy garden! 💓

GREAT and very helpful video. What do you think about using cardboard first before (under) the mulch you do place down?

planting more plants close together helps, i think it also helps planting bigger and agressive plants in the right situation to help fill things out and crowd out weeds and grass. Grass is growing right through my 6 inch ground cover (creeping phlox, carnation, selfheal) but they are more easily crowded out by my shrubs, yarrow, bee balm, roses, flax, etc.

My woodland is loaded with sedges ;) Almost anything is better than store bought mulch :(

I have been leaf mulching for years it definitely gives you something better to look at before my perennials come in and it’s great about controlling the weeds Love the idea of adding sedges I’ve even thought of doing some cover crops where I have more annuals

Good thing I want a cottage garden! Thanks for showing this side of the process :) :)

That’ll stick! The seed bank!

Hello Lisa, This video and YOU saved my daughter's life - literally! Just an FYI, My daughter is a P.A. in an E.R., Now, for the quicky story! About 3 days before I saw your video, I was in her Denver, Co. backyard wildflower garden (planted from seeds) over the past 4 years. It is a rocky area that does retain some moisture from heavy snow and rain. I was admiring all of her sprouting flowers when I saw this crazy huge and lacy plant. I told her I didn't think it was Queen Annes Lace and I wasn't familiar with Wild Carrot, but maybe that is what it was. Because there were easily 25+ big and small types of this plant that were shading out everything, I said she should get rid of the big ones until we could figure out what type of flowering plant it was. Fast forward to Friday night and I was loving watching your video until you got to min. 12:17. I was seriously scared because I knew that was the plant in her yard. Worse yet, I believe it came from one of the many wildflower mixes we had put in that area. Since I knew she had been on shift for the last two days and her shifts are very long, I was going to tell her the next morning to not touch that plant until we could figure out how to dispose of it. At about 4 in the morning on Sat. I got a text telling me that she was not going to be able to go into work that morning because she had some sort of awful stomach virus. At about 9am, I was talking to her, and she kept saying this was the worst stomach virus she had ever had due to the chronic vomiting, diarrhea and the weird burning sensation she had in her intestines. That's when I asked her if she had been in that rock bed at all since, we had talked about the "weird" looking plant. She said she had been out there prior to her shift on Friday and had lopped off the tops of all of the really big ones and threw them in the trash. She had been wearing gloves, but no eye protection and yes, was wearing her work scrubs. It was one of those "oh, I have an extra 15 minutes before work, let me do this" type of thing. When I told her about your video and that I had then started looking at oodles of poison Hemlock videos, I asked her if the stem had the purple striations and hollow center. She sent me a quick pic, and yes indeed, it in fact was poison Hemlock! I have been gardening for years and had never, ever heard of this plant. At the point that she and I had figured out this was the culprit, she was feeling somewhat better. We think she may have had some residue on her scrubs, as she did wash her hands thoroughly before she left her house. In addition to that, the wildflower patch is not far from her bedroom window, which was open all day and when she slept, and we are suspecting that maybe some vapors from the cut/open stems may have been airborne. What I wanted to say was, had I not seen your video, chances are she and I would have been out there together, lopping away at these deadly plants not ever knowing how sick or even deadly they could have been. Both of us, but her in particular. As I mentioned, she has been an ER P.A. for 10 years and had never heard of this plant. Believe me when I say, we were so covered in protective gear with googles, dishwashing gloves and eye protection while removing those plants, very early in the morning several days later, we looked like to hazmat workers. We covered each plant with a large garbage bag, pulled it out by its carrot like root, and moved onto to the next. We also reluctantly got an herbicide to help kill off any newbies that try and pop up, but also now know what protection is needed if we do have to pull them out. Oddly enough, a few days later, guess what pops up on our local news and news feeds..."invasive poison Hemlock in Denver". So, while I love your content overall and truly look forward to your videos, I wanted you to know how that single comment about poison hemlock may have truly saved her life and maybe mine. Who knew???? You did! Now we do! And more importantly, now as an ER provider, she will have that knowledge should someone come in with these very unusual and violent symptoms. She can ask, have you been gardening today? Thank you, thank you, thank you! Catherine🥰

stopped mulching years ago. it's a scam. when you do need to amend soil or dig up plants or weed, you have mulch to deal with. our gardens werent meant to be forest floors.

I started gardening for food with vegetables and such, and over the years have upgraded to trees and many other plants. And, Im a professional gardener now, and I personally have NEVER really recommended mulch, and I dont use it myself. Pull tall weeds, let low lying plants grow as a living mulch, IMO, this is the by and far superior method. In my experience, mulch is just the perfect medium for new weeds and other unwanted plants to root in, essentially doing absolutely nothing its supposed to.