EASY WAY To HELP INSECTS In YOUR GARDEN This Year -
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2024
- In this video we take a walk through an English Garden Meadow in Spring and see why we should ALL be adopting a #NoMowSummer.
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Love it! An ambition of mine is to rewild farmland into wildflower meadow and woodland.
I hope you realise your ambition John, it's a vital one! Thank you for the support - best wishes, Joel
@WildYourGardenWithJoelAshton thank you, for the kind reply.
We are going down this route with our garden. We allow the grass to grow, our mow route is avoiding plants, trying to mow grass only routes. We are also encouraging yellow rattle and other wildflowers. We have installed bird boxes, blue tit, robin, woodpecker. Also bat boxes and mouse boxes. We also will install a pond. Today we got delivery of 5 fruit trees, 2 apples (eating and cooking), cherry, plum and pear to put along the garden wall. We have three compost heaps in different parts of the garden. We will get some logs and stack them and also rocks in another. Every house no matter how big or small should have bird and bat boxes.
Perfection 🤗🌿. What a magical place - imagine how wonderful it would be for a child (big kids too 😁) running along those winding grassy paths, discovering where they lead, surrounded by bees and butterflies. Bliss. I could spend hours in such a place
Sadly even a few square meters l do not have (as l'm sure so many people don't) but l don't best with what l have. My hedgehog is happy, and my frog/toad with his barrel pond, so are all my birds so that is my little contribution ...
Every little bit helps. :)
Window box? :)
Hi Joel, this is so pretty. I left a strip at the bottom of the backyard last summer and I may do more this year, like creating paths as in your video. There has been a lot of damage in the countryside around this late winter and so far there are fewer birds in the garden 😢. Hope you are well.
Just reading your fantastic book 'wild your garden' Joel, a treat I got for myself to help with creating my meadow and pond in my dublin suburb. A great birthday present for friends too. Congratulations and well done on an excellently researched and enjoyable book that is truly inspiring. 👏
Mary, thank you so much for this. What a wonderful message to read and I'm very grateful for your encouragement and support. I really appreciate it, best wishes - Joel
Such a most beautiful place, looks perfectly cloaked with nature's grace💚 Must be full of our most wonderful wildlife throughout the seasons. How can you not fall in love with such a perfect place. No matter the space we have, it can be filled with beautiful things to give wildlife the helping hand it so needs. I love doing things for wildlife🥰
Thank you for sharing.
Until next time🌻
We are lucky enough to have 0.66 of an acre and this will be our second year of re-wilding a third or possibly more of the garden. Its so relaxing wandering through a mowed strip path, glancing at the changes and the wildlife. We are considering a pond, but it would be situated near a Laburnum and really torn between its removal and enjoying the wildlife a pond will bring to the garden.
That's a difficult one. Laburnum as you no doubt have seen is brilliant for bees, however it can be not only harmful to fish but other pond life too. If you wanted some guidance about where else a pond could be situated in the 0.66 acres I'm happy to help of course - you can always drop me a line at enquiries@hazelwoodlandscapes.com. Ponds don't need to be huge to make a difference :) Best wishes, Joel
That garden is so beautiful! I hope you can revisit and so we can see what wildlife can be found there, butterflies and bees and all!
Since I only have a balcony I can't do NoMowSummer, but I can happily inform that in my parents' garden they've kept about half the garden as a meadow since they moved in there. And my grandparents did the same when they owned it before that. I can't say what any older generation did, but it's still been a beautiful meadow for a very long time. Its scythed usually in August and when I was a child and had rabbits as pets, the rabbits went crazy for that hay. They found it way more delicious than the hay we bought in pet stores and I really understood why, it smells amazing!
Hello from another Ashton ❤️
Beautiful curved natural pathway ❤
Save time and money while helping wildlife... BRILLIANT!
Hey Joel! That's my idea of a perfect garden! Didn't mow the middle of the front lawn last year and won't be again this year. We had grasshoppers, moths, voles and lots of beetles. Amazing the difference that leaving things alone make. Best wishes.
1 acre house/garden we've just bought and this style path will feature heavily for at least the first few years until the coppiced mini-woodland and orchard I'm planting cuts off the light to areas. Reaaaally looking forward to seeing what grows and enjoys the space, besides me :)
I hate mowing, so I absolutely love the "excuse". Haven't mowed my front lawn in 3 years. I just cut the tufty bits by hand in late autumn. Unfortunately, although some of my neighbours love my wild garden, not many have copied, and most get the mower out at the first sign of a daisy or dandelion flower. I tried responding to a council tree planting scheme and purchased 5 trees, but had complaints so could only get 1 planted in the end. But we did get 1 semi-mature (3m) hawthorn out of it, so it's better than nothing. At the moment my rosemary is flowering and it's covered in bees!❤
Wild and beautifull too,gorgeous summer meadow for widlife and us too perfect ❤
Beautiful view look like garden .nice plant
Someday Joel all gardens will be like this 🐞🌱🐸🌿🌳🦔🐝🪺🦊
Wouldn't that be amazing!
Beautiful sight. Unfortunately, although it's still wild, my garden is only a drop in the ocean compared to this one.
Hey Alfie - honestly, when you see vast green acres in the wild it's usually barren due to human intervention, farming etc. Your small space may not be the size of this garden but compared to some vast acres it's a refuge and haven for so many creatures already. You're doing your part and your garden is a vital space :) Best wishes, Joel
@@WildYourGardenWithJoelAshton This is a very encouraging and important message Joel, and one I hope you will keep repeating through your lovely videos of larger projects. Because it’s so easy to become depressed in the scheme of things and think I don’t have enough space to make an impact etc. I know I have. Best wishes 💙
Love the idea, and if I could, I would. What I can do is let my very small back yard lawn grow, but I am planning on digging up the small patch of grass in my front yard to put in more flowering shrubs and perennials. Most of my small property is already mostly native plants, trees and shrubs and my fishpond. Last year I put out a lot of wildflower seeds in the non-used areas, and after the birds got their share, a few still survived, lol! I plan on doing the same in my small PNW spot again this year. I love my gardens!
Love this. We're trying to 're-wild' areas of our work site. Hoping to get something similar to this round the back of the office blocks!
Hey Samantha, so glad this was helpful, lots of tips on the channel but well done on concentrating on the work site areas. I do offer consultations/site visits in the UK if you needed any help with what do do and when. You can drop me an email, anytime to enquiries@hazelwoodlandscapes.com - best wishes, Joel
Thanks Joel, I'll be in touch. It would be great to get some ideas on how to improve what we already have (woodland area and a pond - currently not very nature friendly with steep sides but having watched a lot of your videos we're trying to resolve that).
@@samanthamacfarlane5528 Here when you need me Samantha - keep on keeping on.
Lovely.
Inspiring! you are a genius.
Wunder Schön
Vielen Dank! Joel
Amazing 🐸💚🐸
for the garden which is quite small i already have bonariensis in but i plan on putting in meadow clary and betony, i also managed to secure a small field sized bit of land where i'm building an apiary, it's greatly overgrown with bramble, most of the bramble will be staying, just clearing enough space for the hives a few fruit trees and am hoping in the future to put in a wildlife pond in a particularly boggy patch of mud we get golden ringed dragonflies up here amongst others, other thoughts are to put in a few guelder rose some more salvia pretensis and since i know there's a lot of goldfinches in the area we often get around 30 on the feeders in the garden a good patch of teasel , perhaps a mixed hedgerow at some point and once i can clear a small path, put up some bird boxes on one or two of the trees., the landowner bought the old farmhouse there and has a no. of disused fields which are full of wildflowers and plants ect, often hear grasshopper warblers in the summer, cuckoos. lots of birds of prey up here too, kites buzzards ect, it's a wonderful area.
Hi 👋 my Mum wants to encourage as much wildlife into her garden as possible but she also has a cat who's a very good hunter and manages to break free from every collar. Could you please make a video with advice for those of us cohabiting with little tigers? Particularly about protecting pond life
Thanks
#nomowsummer, so much better than #nomowmay ! Great job Joel
Hi Joel, another great vid as usual. I am in the middle of clearing out an overgrown area that i hope will end up looking like that. I have a lot of briars that need to removed, can you suggest the best way to do this. I know the recommended way is to dig up the roots, but is there another method or even another plant that will compete and eventual overtake the briars. Thanks...
Hello I love the work you do. We have gradually been wilding our garden. We have left the grass to grow long for the last few years. We have struggled to get much of interest into the grass though. Much of it hasn't even grown particularly long. We planted a set of plugs last year but not many of them took. What do you think we should be looking to to get a more diverse meadow?
Hi Richard, thanks so much, I really appreciate it. Seeds and indeed plugs can struggle, but I have a solution for you - would it be possible to drop me a line at enquiries@wildyourgarden.com and I can then ask for photos of the area etc so I can advise and recommend the best and most cost-effective way forward. Look forward to hearing from you, best wishes - Joel
This is a great idea but there are too many people sticking to no mow may which is completely pointless, I’ve started to discuss with new and existing clients why it’s important to do no mow summer and my customers are stating to understand the importance etc. so please anyone thinking of doing this it’s not just May it has to be for the summer otherwise your defeating all the hard work.
Totally agree!
Absolutely this - on Friday last week I declared this very same thing on Twitter, as I did last year "Choose your path… Very soon, many people will start mowing their lawns. NOW is the time to plan your mown paths so that our precious insects stand a chance. Don’t put the mower away for one month, instead adopt a #NoMowSummer and help our flora & fauna all summer long" - here's the link, you'll see that a fair few people engaged and are doing their bit:
twitter.com/_JoelAshton/status/1763473119581204933
But yes, re the "No Mow May" fad, they are starting to adjust this message by then adding "JuneIsTooSoon" and "KneeHighInJuly" - anything it seems but the hashtag #NoMowSummer - but thank you for doing your part and spreading this message too.
Best wishes, Joel
@@WildYourGardenWithJoelAshton thanks Joel I think if I can at least get five people to do the right thing and they in turn can get five people they know to do the same eventually the insects will get all the help they need 😊
I'm devastated as the council have just put up new LED street lighting on my road. I live in a UNESCO bioshere and a National Park on a rural road so it really is outrageous. We have at least 6 species of UK bat that live here, a huge array of moths, a healthy otter population(we live next to a river) and evidence of dormice on our land. I am currently battling to get them to at least fit filters or change the bulbs to warmer tones as the blue light that is currently emitted is so damaging to wildlife,to dim them and ideally turn them off later in the night as hardly anyone even uses the road after 9pm
Well done on fighting this! If you need any help I have a fairly large social media following and I often name the councils that seem to find money for verge mowing, modern lighting, tree felling etc but not for the services that are needed more - just doing nothing or doing less damaging "management" can make a difference to not only nature but the councils' purses too! You can reach me at enquiries@hazelwoodlandscapes.com if you wanted me to help at all. Very best wishes, Joel
@@WildYourGardenWithJoelAshton Thank you so much
How wide are you setting the mown path? 60cm? When I had a wildflower meadow in my old garden it would get quite tall and fall over the path, I'm just looking for maintenance tips.
I would be helpful if you would provide the name of some machinery that we could use to cut our meadows, when left until late summer. Scythes are fine, but it becomes a bit much when your meadow is large. Any guidance on this would I imagine be gratefully received by your subscribers.
Luke
It has rained so much over the last six weeks that my garden is utterly sodden. The soil is heavy Thames Valley clay and It;s so bad that just walking down the garden to feed the birds is treacherously slippy. The grass gets torn out whenever a foot slides! - I've never seen so much standing water in mine and my neighbours gardens. I worry that the wildflower seeds I sowed in late autumn will have rotted and "drowned" and that the ground is still too boggy to oversow - I'm fed up becasue I've been trying to establish a wildflwer meadow since before lockdown and nothing seems to able to establish itself besides brambles and nettles. 😞
This is the same with boymth my back and front gardens Dorset clay
Ive done my best introducing different plant species
Just be interested to see what pops up this Summer
I'm no expert, in fact I'm trying to establish my own since sowing in Autumn, but have you considered using a wildflower mix designed for a body of water's edge (pond, river, etc? They are available and may fare better in such wet conditions. Just an idea from someone that is still learning. Good luck!
Please could you offer advice for the stage after adopting the 'no mow summer'? I have had a no mow policy with my front lawn for two years now. When the long grasses die back, I pull them out and pile them.up for hedgehog nesting material. B ut otherwise, I don't touch it. How can I go from this to ensuring that I have a good selcetion of plants for my local wildlife? I have scattered wild flower seeds in the past but nothing came of them. I'd love to know how to step my wild meadow up a notch now. Thank you!
Hi there, if you search "meadow" on the channel there are a couple of videos that might be of help to you. The only trouble with scattering seeds into an existing lawn is that they have to compete with the stronger grass roots, the shade that the grasses provide etc and rarely do well. The best way is to plant a 9cm pot or similar directly into the lawn to ensure that the wildflower has an established root system and a fighting chance. It might seem more expensive in the short term, but the money that can be wasted by scattering seeds direct into a lawn soon outweighs the initial cost of a 9cm pot. If you're in the UK we sell the same wildflowers that I use in all my projects, from UK native stock and if you wanted to send a few photos of your lawn to me at enquiries@wildyourgarden.com then I'm always happy to take time out and offer free advice to our customers. There's a short video here demonstrating how to plant directly into a lawn:
ruclips.net/video/MpCyG8SgjwM/видео.html
I hope that this helps - best wishes, Joel
@@WildYourGardenWithJoelAshton Thank you! Will definately look into the other 'meadow' videos. Now I understand the competition of grass roots and sunlight, I realise that I don't need to kill off all my long grass (which the grass hoppers love),I can increase the flower coverage over time. I shall no doubt be in touch Abbot purchasing native seeds and maximising my wildlife space. Thanks again!