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A Wild Approach
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My name is Macey and welcome to the channel. Here at A Wild Approach, we are working to create habitat for all wildlife that wants to come to our .25 acre city property. Our main focus is providing food and shelter for the local wildlife, and that means planting native plants. I still have many non-native plants, and I'm not a purist. I'm not here to judge you or anything of the sort, if you have non-native plants. This is about sharing information. When I moved into this house in 2013, I was not a gardener. I barely got out to be honest. I was more into crafting indoors and doing my art. Well, since then, it's all changed. My mom gave me some seeds years ago, and ever since, I've wanted to learn how to create a butterfly garden. I looked out at my empty boring lawn, wondering "where are all the butterflies?" Research after research later, and here I am, learning and sharing about native plants. :) I'm in Knoxville, TN • Ridge and Valley
✿ Creating a Courtyard Garden from Scratch ✿ Part 1
I decided I wanted to create a Courtyard Garden. In this video, you get to see it from the start, when we had to dig a ditch to get water out of our basement. Why let water puddle up in our basement floor when we could instead direct it to the front garden, watering much beloved native trees and shrubs? Why pay someone thousands of dollars when their "solution" wasn't even what I wanted in the first place? It was time to get my shovel and get to work. Yes, it was tough on my body, but I needed this type of project at the time. I dug a ditch all the way from behind my house to the front of my house, and ended it with a rain garden, where the stormwater could nourish my plants. At the time,...
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The Eastern Chipmunk
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Today is a sweet little video of two different Eastern Chipmunks that live in or near my garden and who have their favorite foraging spots. They love my retaining wall in my backyard, the Virginia Creeper vine for cover, the Silky Dogwoods, my gutter downspouts, weedy plants they can eat the seeds of, and areas underneath the shrubs and vines of the garden. Chipmunks are one of my favorite crit...
Refreshing an Old Garden by Adding Native Plants
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In today's video, I show some work I've been doing in the garden to make it better. I was getting a little tired of certain areas and how they looked. I also wanted to add more wildlife value to the garden, and so it was a win win to add more native plants. Plants featured in the video: Rudbeckia triloba - Brown Eyed Susan Phlox paniculata - Fall Phlox Salvia lyrata - Lyreleaf Sage Salvia lyrat...
The Dragonfly : A Gardener's Fierce Best Friend
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Dragonflies are fierce predators, but pretty harmless toward humans. They love water and they love eating insects all day long. Do you have any dragonflies in your neighborhood? Leave a comment down below with any dragonfly stories you may have. Thanks for watching! Ways to support the channel, other than subscribing and liking the video of course!: Merch: www.bonfire.com/store/a-wild-approach/...
Beautiful Butterflies of Tennesee
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This is a video that shows what butterflies I filmed in late July and early August. I didn't do much of a voiceover, so enjoy the natural sounds of the garden in addition to the different species of butterflies you can watch. Stay through to the end to see a butterfly actively laying eggs on a vine I have growing. Comment down below which butterflies you can identify and what the timestamp is. ...
How to Create a Native Cottage Garden || VOICEOVER
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In this video, I do a garden tour. Remember that I film several weeks ahead, so this is footage from late July. The voiceover was recorded early August. I talk about how I got the garden the way it is now and what it used to be like. I talk about reducing the lawn, adding native plants, and getting rid of invasive plants. I have created a version with no voiceover, so if you prefer hearing only...
Native Cottage Garden Tour || NO VOICEOVER
Просмотров 10814 дней назад
This is a NO VOICEOVER version of a garden tour I recently filmed. The footage is from late July 2024. Not every single plant in this garden is native, but most are native. I'm located in East Tennessee. This version of the video is for those who prefer to hear the outdoor sounds rather than listen to a voiceover. For the voiceover version, go to my channel and look for a video called "How to C...
New Native Plantings Front Garden || Summer 2024
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I planted Common Wood Sedge, Flowering Dogwood, Wild Senna, Golden Alexander, Side Oats Grama, and Paw Paw. I feel it's part of my purpose to just keep planting more native plants and fill my garden as tightly as I can with them. Let's get rid of all this lawn and replace it with what should be growing here. Let's help our butterflies, bees, and other wildlife, too. Thanks for watching! Ways to...
Hoary Mountain Mint || Native Plant Profile
Просмотров 29921 день назад
Hoary Mountain Mint is one of my favorite herbaceous native plants. It attracts so so many important pollinators and critters. I love its beauty, its scent, and its usefulness in the home garden. Thanks for watching! Ways to support the channel, other than subscribing and liking the video of course!: Merch: www.bonfire.com/store/a-wild-approach/ Art: maceylou.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/maceylou
Intense Storm Knocked Down My Plants
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Ironweed plants down!! I will figure out what to do. Last year, I think I did the chelsea chop on these. Looks like I should have done that this year, too, but I did not. I like seeing how tall they can get. I also should have planted them in a slightly different spot years ago when I added them to the garden or put tall things around it to help it stay up. I was so worried I was going to lose ...
American Elderberry || Native Plant Profile
Просмотров 592Месяц назад
American Black Elderberry, Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis OR Sambucus canadensis, is a fantastic native shrub that is hard to ignore. It adds so much value to the landscape! Flowers, fruits, foliage...what is not to love? It will attract birds. Berries are useful for making pies and jams. Do not eat raw, though! It may cause stomach issues. I forgot to mention inside the video, but it's also ...
What you need to know to create a bird garden at home
Просмотров 394Месяц назад
In this episode, we explore ways to attract birds to the home garden and promote their thriving! We will discuss plants, water sources, and baby birds! Let me know in the comments what your favorite bird is. Thanks for watching! Ways to support the channel, other than subscribing and liking the video of course!: Merch: www.bonfire.com/store/a-wild-approach/ Art: maceylou.com/ Patreon: www.patre...
Garden Walkabout // Mostly Native Plants // A Wild Approach
Просмотров 515Месяц назад
In this video, I chat with you while I take a walk around my front garden, mostly full of native plants. I talk about things I'd like to add to the garden, and I ask for any tips you may have to accomplish those goals. This video was filmed in the morning light, so I apologize if the shadows are strange. Filming here can be tricky as it's usually very bright and sunny and that can easily blow o...
Butterflies Found in the Native Plant Garden
Просмотров 246Месяц назад
I put together a short video of some butterflies we saw in the garden lately. I hope you enjoy this one. The next video will be a front garden tour. Happy gardening! Thanks for watching! Ways to support the channel, other than subscribing and liking the video of course!: Merch: www.bonfire.com/store/a-wild-approach/ Art: maceylou.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/maceylou
June Native Wildlife Garden Highlights
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Thanks for watching! Ways to support the channel, other than subscribing and liking the video of course!: Merch: www.bonfire.com/store/a-wild-approach/ Art: maceylou.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/maceylou
Small Native Shrubs for the Home Garden
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Small Native Shrubs for the Home Garden
We started a new garden! || Native Plantings
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We started a new garden! || Native Plantings
Create a Wildlife Garden from Scratch
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Create a Wildlife Garden from Scratch
Invasive vs Prolific || What's the difference?
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Invasive vs Prolific || What's the difference?
Mostly Native Garden Walkabout ✿ May 22 2024
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Mostly Native Garden Walkabout ✿ May 22 2024
Budget-Friendly Arbor for the Garden
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Budget-Friendly Arbor for the Garden
What they don't tell you about butterfly gardening
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What they don't tell you about butterfly gardening
Black Cherry Tree ✿ Prunus serotina
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Black Cherry Tree ✿ Prunus serotina
Transforming Our Backyard Garden || Spring 2024 Update
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Transforming Our Backyard Garden || Spring 2024 Update
Early Spring Garden Tour ✿ Walkabout ✿ Part 1
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Early Spring Garden Tour ✿ Walkabout ✿ Part 1
Would love to see more about your planning process! Love that you showed sketches. And yes, I do think you would get the weeds in your path overtime with the weed barrier. Since it's a stone path you could get away with using a blow touch instead of weeding. Saw the impatient Gardner do a "tutorial" on it. 🤣 She literally like "I'm not the police, don't be stupid, wear shoes." She so funny about it.
I love her! Haha! I haven't seen that video yet. It's hard to know how to explain my planning process for the ditch, because a lot of it was just in my head in addition to a couple sketches, which I didn't put in the video because I don't know what book I sketched them in. :) But I mostly followed the hillside. I'm lucky in that I'm up on a hill, so I dug from the backyard down to the front, which was conveniently all downhill, with some flat areas here and there. Hopefully I'll film more of the next steps rather than just having photos. :)
Sorry for your loss. Great job fixing that drainage problem by yourself. That will be a wonderful area that you hopefully enjoy!
Thank you so much. I am finding it is a nice little spot already, but haven't had much time to sit in it just yet. I think I will this weekend or as the weather cools off more and I slow down some. :) My husband helped big time with the gravel path part of the project. I'm finding that he and I are more capable than I thought when it comes to doing paths, which is really nice! I hope anyone who reads this and wants to try to build any type of path tries it! It could be easier than one expects. Digging the ditch was tough work, but pretty straight forward in what I needed to do. It helps that I live on a hillside, so I could guide the ditch down hill. I cut it curvy to attempt to make it look more natural. Over time, I plan to add more plants to its edges. Native asters and violets have already started growing in and next to it. :) Hope you have a great Friday and weekend coming up!
@@awildapproach * thanks! I think your flow design for the water looks very natural! I'll bet it'll become a special place for you to relax and watch all of that beautiful wildlife!
I've found it's best to key on species that are colonial in nature for the most fun. I still grow plenty for the rest of the plants for other species but the colonial species tend to hang round the garden all day. In my region that means gulf fritillary, cabbage white, hayhurst's scallopwing, common sootywing, grass skippers, phaon crescent, silvery checkerspot, little blue, grey hairstreak, and zebra swallowtail among others in flower gardens. These are just great as once you get them if you provide the host and nectar plants they like they will stay all season long and return the next season except for the migratory gulf fritillary which has to recolonize every year.
I'm going to look into that word "colonial." I don't remember hearing about that and it is something I want to learn more about. I was noticing here that there are certain butterflies that definitely seem to "live" here day to day, while others just visit. That's fascinating to me and I definitely want to learn more about it. :) Thanks so much for bringing to my attention!
@@awildapproach Basically they form colonies where you can observe all stages of life.
That’s definitely what I see with the gulf fritillaries! I have been trying to achieve it with swallowtails.🦋🩷
I don't thin mildew can kill perennial plant. I don't worry about it, I just accept is as a part of the cycle. I don't think it is possible not to get it in the end of the season. Beautiful Vernonia. I planted it from seed this year so it is doing nothing yet. Do they handle some shade or should they be in the full sun? I am in colder zone than you so it also might be different. I am trying to figure out where I can squeeze it.
I find that they prefer full sun, but can handle partial shade. :) Mine get tallest in the full sun and more moist areas. Note that my garden is moist / wet in winter and spring, but it's very dry in August and September. It's crispy out there right now, and the ironweed is doing very well for the most part, but I do have many of them. Some of them fell, and the ones that fell died. But that was a wind that knocked them over in a storm. Most of the others look good. I think some of my ironweeds die off as new ones come up. So, either my dry summers kills a few of them, or they simply don't live a super long time...but I find that I get more than enough volunteers since I let them reseed. :) Birds love to eat the seeds over fall and winter.
It is pretty I like it but it will out compete your garden plants. Give it room.
Unfortunately in my garden, I actually have less this year than I did before. Some of it died off. Others came up much smaller than before. I must have less moisture than you or something. Mine definitely does not take over the other plants here.
Omg so adorable! ❤ Hope your having a great day and remember you have the #AbilityToBeAwesome
I'll be editing a new video soon about my new courtyard garden space, so stay tuned! Thanks for watching and taking time to leave a lovely comment. Happy Tuesday! :)
Once upon a time there was a chipmunk cute as cute can be. It lived happily in a native sustainable beautiful garden.
I love that! :)
Watching them bounce around in the garden is one of the many joys gardening. I also wonder what grass it was munching on at 2:50 🤔
Great question! I’ve been trying to figure that out. It comes up on its own, but trouble is that I can’t tell if it’s a native Paspalum or an invasive one. There are some that look very similar.😕
They are nice alright. The background piano music is also nice. Out of curiosity do you have white cabbage butterflies where you live?
Thanks! Yes, I do have those butterflies. Do you have them, too?
@@awildapproach Yes, I planted nasturtiums for them this summer, but I am planning on some winter cabbage that will be there for them when they finish hibernation/diapause/whatever they do during the winter.
@@dmnos6824I want to try out some natives in the mustard family like American yellow rocket. We also have a native Cardamine species in my area too, but it's hard to get seed for that because no one grows it on purpose! I have some other things related to mustards too like native Erysimum and Limnanthes but I haven't seen the white butterflies visiting those so I don't think those are hosts... But yeah I think it's worth looking at native brassicas bc a lot of them have really good nectar flowers too.
@@Hayley-sl9lm The nasturtiums have great nectar flowers and they look good too, you have to keep deadheading them to stop them from going to seed too soon. Grown on poor soil they produce more flowers, but grown on rich soil they produce a lot of greenery and fewer flowers. I was lucky and some wild mustard thing grew a raised bed that I had let go wild for the summer, the cabbage white butterflys did like it and laid some eggs on it............
I have several passionflower vines and I saw 2 caterpillars. I had no idea it was a host plant.
What a nice surprise you had! :) I have been really enjoying watching them fly around my garden this year. I think I have the most this year than I've ever had.
@@awildapproach i am in Nashville
Loving the nature! Thanks for sharing friend! Hope you are well!
I’m so glad you love it. Thanks for leaving the kind comment. I’m doing great!❤
Pearly everlasting is awesome 👍 , manages to survive our crazy dry summers in the West and it's medicinal and painted ladies are supposed to like it I think? Aw, that snail is pretty cute 😊.
Thank you so much. We just got a huge heat wave among a long drought, so I've been having to water more than I'd like these new plants. I mulched with pine needles and I watered again today, because they were looking droopy (both the pearly everlasting and the rudbeckia)! I stuck my finger in the ground...dry as a bone. So I watered today. This is why I try to only plant things in fall, winter, and spring....summer is so brutal on plants. I laughed and said "these pearlies are supposed to be able to take the drought!" LOL
@@awildapproach Right, the thing is they take it *once established* 😩. Hats off to you for trying, I basically don't plant anything after May because it's too hard to keep them alive. But I was at the coast a couple of weeks ago and I saw these literally growing out of sand dunes. It's not as hot there and more humid than where I am but if they can live in a hostile environment like a dune they've got to have some fight in them. I also found one growing in an abandoned lot near my house in full sun so don't give up!
@@Hayley-sl9lm I refuse to give up! That said, some plants just die, and I'm ok with it as long as some live! haha! In the meantime, I am keeping an eye on them.
Might just want to wait to plan that last dogwood. It would be easier to plant as a dormant bare root so it can acclimate itself easier. Also try to minimize the shade and maximize the air flow to lower the chance of powdery mildew.
Fantastic tips! Thank you! Unfortunately, it's in a huge pot but with lots of other plants, so that could contribute to the mildew, it seems. Should I risk moving it to its own pot?? It's bouncing back compared to the ones in ground that seem to have died...I'm tempted to leave it in the big pot and see what happens...
Everything is looking wonderful. Don’t stress over the non natives so much. I too have a huge crepe myrtle, two actually… 😅 I noticed that the birds enjoy to shelter in them so they’re good for that and then they’re also pretty. Happy growing! 🙏
Thank you so much for watching and taking time to comment. Happy gardening!!
With the water for butterflies: They really like mud and moist dirt, which is easy to have if you've got the typical clay heavy soil of east TN. What I do is simply leave small patches of dirt open and weeded so that, when I water, they moisten up. Butterflies usually swarm them WHILE I'm watering, so I have to be careful where I point my hose. They tend to stay moist throughout the day because of the clay. Chunky landscaping rocks in the patches are places the butterflies like to land to keep their feet dry while they drink. I also have a clay drainage base for pots that I use as a pebble filled puddle, and because those are porous it can help keep surrounding soil moist if I keep up with it. That is, if you're worried about them being in your driveway. With the patches of clear soil, I've never seen butterflies choose to drink from the pavement, where before I had them they did often. To make it easier, you could keep the open patch nearby where ever it is you have your hose hooked up to the house, that way there's very little effort you have to put in to keeping it moist. The butterflies will find it.
@@jellodrake4112 I LOVE these tips!! Thank you.☺️✨Thanks for taking time to share them with me.🙂
Enjoyed this, about dragonflies. I also read that they were really good hunters.
Great information. I think I may be preaching to the choir -- but have you all watched Dr. Doug Tallamy's videos on RUclips? He ties together the connection between host plants, caterpillars and birds. Native plants are the basis of our biodiversity.
So true! Yes, I have watched him. You will probably enjoy my other videos, if you like Dr. Doug Tallamy's content. This channel is all about gardening for wildlife and moving to mostly native plantings. :)
Yesterday I saw a dragonfly attack a butterfly. A bit sad but nature be nature! My best memory of dragonflies is them landing on my fishing quill bobbing in the water.
Yes, it really is the circle of life. :) Love that memory of the fishing quill.
This video is awesome, absolutely killer footage and so informative!
Awww thank you!!! I'm glad you like it. When I saw the dragonfly moving its head like it does, I thought it looked very alien-like. 👽
@@awildapproach I thought the same thing!
I have a small wildlife pond that I installed a few years ago. Just that little addition has been enough to attract a noticeable amount of dragonflies.
I'd love to add one to my garden. I bought a pond kit, but waiting on cooler weather before starting to dig the hole for it. I'm also having trouble picking between two different areas to put it! Do you have to refill yours with water (top it off) often? I get very dry Augusts and Septembers here, so I imagine if my pond is too small, it could completely evaporate. We will see what happens.
You absolutely should! Hope weather clears up for you soon. I put mine in full shade because it offered a good view from the window and with it next to a bush I notice the birds like that it offers quick cover. Last year was very hot and dry for us, so I did need to top off the pond every two weeks or so. But this year has been very wet for us and it’s almost overflowed. My biggest tip is don’t skimp on plants! I underestimated both the cost and the importance of aquatic plants and how they clean the water.
@@limitlessends Oh yes, I will definitely keep all of that in mind. I really appreciate your tips! I'm super lucky that my area has several locations to buy native plants from trusted nurseries, and two of them have water loving plants!
I live in Madisonville Louisiana this spring was my first year planting flowers and perennial plants for the Hummingbirds But butterflies showed up first … it’s been so amazing learning about them and then dragonflies appeared hundreds of dragonflies in my yard constantly … We had a severe drought last year, so maybe this could contribute to the large amounts of the dragonflies in our area ! loving all your videos ❤
Wow! That's amazing. I bet it was a sight to see! Thank you so much for watching, and also thank you for gardening for the wildlife. :)
Thanks for the great info. Very helpful:-)
You're very welcome! I'm so glad you found it useful. Happy gardening! :)
Dragonflies are THE coolest insect in the garden IMO. They are amazing hunters and their flying ability is truly amazing! I currently don't live by any water, but I've had more dragonflies in the garden this year than in any year past. I don't know where they're all coming from. I used to catch them and play with them and also the smaller damsel flies when I was young. I could watch them for hours.
They truly are special. Some of them lay eggs in mud, so maybe even if you don't have ponds or rivers around you, maybe there are some low-lying muddy places or temporary wet spots. Very fascinating! I've seen a lot of dragonflies this year, in general, even in parking lots and places I wouldn't expect! I could watch them for hours, too, and I did as a part of capturing this footage. ;) Thanks for watching and for leaving a comment about your childhood memories, too. Damsel flies are amazing insects, too, and if I can ever get enough footage of them, I'll do a video on those as well. There are some that live in a park nearby, but I don't see them in my own garden yet.
Loved when my Grandmother would take a few minutes out of her day and we'd take our cane poles to the small pond. We'd fish for red-ear blue gill and watch the dragonflies. I've never researched the species here in southern Indiana. Great vid by the way.
That sounds like wonderful memories! They are fascinating creatures, huh. Fun times with Grandma are extra special. :) Thanks so much for watching and for sharing your sweet memories with us. Happy wildlife watching! ;)
Awesome insects! And kudos to your neighbors with the pond with frogs. I would say your beautiful native garden complements with their water feature. I wish you were my neighbor! :-) cheers.
Thank you so much! They are wonderful people and I'm so thankful they have a pond, and a garden, too! :D
Once I stopped mowing and planting natives, these awesome creatures showed up. Reap the rewards people !
Exactly right! Thanks so much for watching. Happy native plant gardening! :D
@@awildapproach Thanks for your inspiration and knowledge, I always enjoy and learn something by watching your videos. ❤
@@joanfrellburg4901 Aww thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear that. ☺
Answers: 0:16 Pearl Crescent 0:27 Silver-Spotted Skipper 0:36 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 0:48 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1:12 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 1:52 Gulf Fritillary 4:36 Spicebush Swallowtail 5:01 Spicebush Swallowtail 5:10 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 9:00 Some type of small skipper - I'm not sure which one 9:24 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 10:45 Gulf Fritillary 14:11 Silver-spotted skipper 14:18 Some other type of small skipper Thanks for watching the video.
@11:12 frittilary
@9:12 a Skipper, but don't know their names
@5:00 Pipevine Swallowtail?
Answers will be given in a pinned comment in a few days, so stay tuned. :) Thanks for commenting!
@2:00 Metalmark????
Answers are now available in the pinned comment. Thanks so much for playing and for being here! :)
@1:00 Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail ❤
I've posted the answers in a pinned comment above.
Oh fun! 0:47 giant swallowtail butterfly 1:49 white spotted brown butterfly 4:45 eastern swallowtail butterfly 5:58 tiger swallowtail butterfly 9:07 a skipper (idk what kind 😅)
You're close ;) I'll post answers (to the ones I actually know) after a few days. :D
I've posted the answers in a pinned comment above.
@@awildapproach This was fun. Would love something like that again. Recently saw a hover fly in my native garden and it was super cool. Only seen them in books before.
@@limitlessends I'm so glad you liked it! I'll make a note of that. Hover flies are some of my favorites. They will often land on my dirty gloves as I'm wearing them. 😆 They are adorable and fun to watch. Love that they are a mimic.
Garden looks great! I came in from mine and threw this on while I cooked dinner. Im sure the voice over is good too but I enjoyed the nature sounds this time. ✌️
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for leaving a comment.
My property is rather small and I found out that some of the native shrubs are simply too big. I have to prune really hard if I want to have more diversity. Some are too vigorous for small gardens. And they grow much larger in the garden situation, even without fertilizers or soil amendments. I have neighbours from 3 sides and I have to be really careful that plants do not cross the fence. I cannot plant everything that I wish. I know that some nativars are not the best choice but often their size is much better suited for smaller gardens.
All I did is kill flowers and plants when I got into gardening. Overwatering was a huge problem for me also. What changed everything wax when I found Jim P. on RUclips here. Everything else failed, so I started using his way of working on the soil instead of the plants. Every time we till or dig up the yard it brings up hundreds of thousands of weed seeds so I only did it once to get started. I tilled in tons of high quality compost into the topsoil and mulched up the leaves every fall and spread them around the entire area. Year 2 I was getting some results. Year 3 though, I had 6 inches of nice black perfect dirt and darn near anything I planted thrived like crazy. I always use a triple shredded mulch twice a year too. So after the soil became so good, any plant I wanted grows great now. Of course once in awhile there's a stubborn plant that doesn't like it's 1st home so I move it. If in the 3rd try, if something won't grow, into the trash it goes. 99 percent of any plants I have grow like mad and I only keep the soil good. The only fertilizer I put out in early March (zone6a) is a light shot of plantone. I don't use anything else ever and my good soil keeps any plant growing like mad into December sometimes. I never cut the old stalks of flowers down until March either. With good soil, 4hrs of hot sun should be enough. Maybe it's time for a reset? I like all of the natural plants and the look of your gardens!
I watch him sometimes, too. I like his channel. The thing about soil amending is that it depends on what you are growing. He grows some native plants, but he also grows non-native plants. When you grow native plants, it's best to use the native soil you already have, rather than adding a bunch of amendments. Compost on top is ok, but I would not till anything in. I've learned from the mistakes of putting compost in a clay hole, too. Not good. :( This can create a "bowl" effect and rot your plant roots. I prefer green mulch when I can do so, but if I have to mulch, I like similar to what you use. And for fertilizer, I only use it in my pots and it's very low numbers and always organic. :) I don't find that I need any fertilizer in ground for natives, but I do need a tad for the pots! I grow some natives from seed and do lots of winter sowing. Thanks for visiting, and if you're into the natural type of garden, you'll love this channel. :D
@@awildapproach * I sectioned out my property into several beds. I am now about 80 percent native. Your channel is great!
@@HoosierDaddy_ Thank you so much! I appreciate your comments and what you're doing in your garden. Keep up the great work!!! :)
Butterflies are the best. 🦋
My favorite! :)
awesome. thank you
You're welcome! Thank you for watching and leaving a comment.☺️
I found one on my door step this morning! Thought he was dead!! I tapped him with a little leaf and he moved a little, so I have been researching what to feed him, I gave him some butterfly weed and watermelon. He stumbled right on over to the butterfly weed and has been seeming to get the nectar out of it for a couple mins now. Great video I hope my butterfly recharges and flies away! Y’all there is always hope!!!
I’m so glad you got to see one of these amazing creatures! Thanks for helping him!😊
@@awildapproach I placed him under a butterfly weed bush right before I left for church and I just came back and he’s gone! He must have flown away!
You lost us at spraying "round up", which is cancer in a jug for humans, bugs, birds, streams, waterways & aquifers. Wildly bad idea, unless your goal is to make a Fortune 100 Company even richer while they destroy the planet one cancer victim at a time.
I do not spray roundup. Used to before I knew better. I only use roundup in very limited situations now, and never spray it. I only brush it on with a foam brush and on invasive plants immediately after cutting them. It's called the cut stump method. This is sometimes necessary for getting rid of very large invasive plants. For example, I had huge invasive Chinese privets I needed rid of. At the time, the only method I knew of was to use Roundup and did so with the foam brush. No spraying. Yes, we need to limit its use as much as possible in my opinion, but not all wildlife gardeners do. I do not judge them for that. Everyone has a different way of doing things. I will say, though, that we should always use PPE when applying any herbicide. I use goggles, a mask, and gloves, as well as a long sleeve shirt. Even though I'm not spraying and I just brush it on. Thank you for caring for our wild areas. I care about them, too. Like I said, I sprayed the stuff before I knew what they could do. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment.
Wow! That pair of natives look gorgeous together and they must be a feast for pollinators.
They truly are! I need to stake them up better. The bergamot has fallen over onto the mountain mint. I tried by adding a new stake several months ago, but even though it was large, it wasn't nearly large enough. It's time for me to divide the bergamot for sure. :)
Happy gardening!
Thank you! Happy gardening to you, too. :)
I have been trying to figure out what a good replacement for my non-native weed spearmint would be in the Pacific NW, sadly mountain mint is not on my side of the US! In the west we have Salvias, coyote mints (Monardella), and Agastache urticafolia, though none of these are native to my county -- I was thinking just Mentha arvensis could work? Hardly anyone sells it though 😢, I get the sense that it's not super ornamental. I have to get something, bc my bees and wasps really love mint flowers and I need to have something to give them if I take those away.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with what is native on that side of the country. You could try checking out a wild ones chapter that is as close to you as possible: wildones.org/chapters/ And look for local native plant nurseries that grow local native plants. Talk to the owners and see if they carry any native mints.
Beautiful combination
Thanks for watching!
That was a rough one, wasn't it? Surprisingly, my singular Ironweed was the one thing that held fast through that patch of storms. I think it might've had something to do with my soil being absolute junk in combination with the garden being young; poor plants didn't have much time to grip into the soil that I was left with. My biggest casualty was an eight-foot-tall mystery Sunflower (supposed to be False Sunflower - not my first surprise from NPRS 😅) that got whipped so hard back and forth over those days I'm surprised it didn't just pop out of the ground. I staked up so many plants in the hopes that they'll have time to recover before winter - fingers crossed we don't get more storms like that!
Right?!! It was wild. That wind was so strong!! I'm glad your ironweed held fast. So sorry about your false sunflower. :( Yeah, hopefully we won't have that strong of wind for a while....In the meantime, I'm trying to decide how to prevent the ironweed falling in the future. The area is on a slope, and it fell down the slope, so I'm thinking of adding trellises or a native shrub on that right side of the ironweed patch to help them stay up next year or maybe years after that, depending on how long it takes the shrub to grow...maybe a patch of lattice trellising would be more reliable... :)
@@awildapproach Hmm, you might be right about a structure being the approach - maybe you can even go about it as an extension of your arbor? Assuming we're talking about the first spot by the walkway, that is. Alternatively, maybe Clethra alnifolia would work in that spot if it's not dry (another assumption, since the Ironweed is there). It's pretty columnar for a shrub and I think the flowers smell great and would make sense being next to a walkway.
@@embrustzwei OooOoooh! Thank you for that suggestion! I will look into that. Yeah, this spot is a little more moist than a lot of my other garden areas. I think it's because it's just a few feet from the gutter and downhill from the east end of the garden, too. :) Yeah, I actually meant to extend the arbor by a bit when I built it, but didn't get the chance before everything grew in. I'm going to look at that shrub, as it sounds like a great possibility.
Shoot! It's a wonderful plant, but in my area it needs a shady spot. This spot next to the ironweed is intense full full sun. I'd say 8 hours of sun maybe...at least 6.
@@awildapproach If the spot's as moist as you say due to roof runoff, it'd probably be fine - Clethra alnifolia is adaptable to full sun, it just does lives its best life with some shade. Mergoat (don't know if you're familiar with them) actually sited it for me when they designed my landscape in a spot that gets absolutely cooked all day and was really surprised - in the end I opted for a Viburnum, but I trust their judgment. Additionally, if you get young plants, they'll most likely be shaded and will work themselves up to all that sun over time. Might be worth an experiment! I'm not familiar with many other shrubs that naturally don't get very wide.
Unfortunately my wife lost her sunflowers to a similar storm that passed through Eastern NC.. We had some really tall 9ft+ ones at the bottom of the driveway that the bumbles and finches loved.. Blew them right over and almost out of the ground. 😢
So so sorry to hear that! :( It's sad to see plants go...especially when we just saw wildlife using them! But we keep on planting! Gotta keep on going and try to replace what we lose, when we can.
Scary! Glad everything worked out and even the plants themselves weren’t a loss. Just not looking their best.
Me, too! I was ready to hunker down!! LOL Thanks for watching and commenting. :)
So glad you kept safe!!! I know those sudden and strong storms can be so scary. We had a "micro burst" here once. It lasted only a very short time but when it was done it looked like a war zone on my street. Downed trees, almost leafless trees, and even dead birds every where. Probably lots of dead pollinators too, Your garden held up pretty good and I'm thankful. I am gardening vicariously through yours.
OH MY!! That sounds terrifying and awful!!! This was no where near that level. I was just afraid I had missed a tornado warning or something, because I usually follow the weather pretty closely, but that day I hadn't. And I saw the wind and was very nervous about it. It can get pretty windy here on this hill, but it looked bad. I'm so glad you survived those bursts of storms. That's no joke. Thanks for watching and for commenting. :)
Great tutorial. I'm adding purple passion to the side yard just for it's tendency 2 pop up everywhere! Thanks for the detail, it makes a huge difference!
You're welcome! Thanks for taking time to leave that comment. Happy gardening to you, in your side yard!