Making a Difference with Landscape Choices | Volunteer Gardener
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Providing a sustainable habitat for wildlife begins with plant selection, and continues with natural gardening practices. Rita Venable introduces us to a native plant enthusiast who is maximizing his efforts by installing garden beds from the front curb all the way to the rear property line.
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Wonderful plant diversity here! Yay native plants!
Hooray for native plants!!!
What a lovely native garden! I could have listened to a two hour video showcasing it. Hope y’all will return here again in a few more years to update the progress as it matures. ❤
It was hard to condense all the information into just these 19 minutes! Paul is a great communicator and so willing to share all he knows with everyone. A return in a few years is a good idea. -RV
Keep watching, as we'll have another residential garden whose homeowners are participating in a 'Healthy Yards' initiative in Montgomery County TN.
Beautiful, and the perfect nature enhancing philosophy. If it's happy there, and native, let it be. ❤
Paul likes to let things spread as they will. I think he figures that the plants know where they want to be. -RV
@@juniperhairstreak It requires less effort. Half the plants in my garden were planted by the birds.
He's doing something good, and more people should follow suit. I've recently planted Carex pensylvanica under an oak tree and it's holding on. Barely, but better than I'd hoped. I've mostly got my natives living in pots on the porch so I can learn about them and see how I like them. Making up the beds has taken priority over planting things, but I do have the Carex under the oak and a pair of Panicum virgatum 'Cheyenne Sky' by the signpost up at the road. Future plans include putting in a whole bunch more Carex if I can afford it. As a lawn substitute, you just can't go wrong with the stuff. Tall grasses would be nice, but my focus will be on ground covers that make it harder for weeds and non-natives to grow. With as many invasive plants as I have to deal with right now, I need all the help I can get!
Love this! So much great and important info here! Thank you for sharing! 💚
Glad to share - Paul has a living landscape for sure. -RV
That’s a leaf footed bug
You are correct. -RV
The bees and beetles are certainly loving my "choice" of ignoring my grass (I hate grass, very allergic) and letting it convert to unmowed catsear in the front yard and various clover and mint species in the back.
I'm thinking about sowing Lotus unifoliatus seeds (native to the west and middle united states), since those seem to be doing their thing during the summer. There are actually a bunch of difference native species available that are potentially interesting to have. Thanks to the "A Garden for Birds" channel, I'm looking into plants that can host the insects that birds really need to do well.
For the front, maybe a "pocket prairie" minus the grasses?
Start with the simple things like Carex pensylvanica and Carex woodii. They both make great lawn substitutes and only grow to a max height of about 10". Throw in some Wild Ginger, Alleghany Spurge, Packera auree, and other low-lying ground-cover plans, and you'll have a doozy of a yard without even trying. I found some nice Aster that only grows about 2' tall and it's proven to be semi-evergreen in my area so I'm thinking about using it for a low-hedge since it looks very formal like a boxwood.
Yes, that book really changed how I think & saw landscaping...why plant something that doesn't benefit our native birds, butterflies, moths, bees & other insects that need to eat ir pollinate our plants?
Most nurseries carry non native plants: burning bush, privet, barberry, butterfly bush, boxwood, etc!