Is This Really a “WEED”?
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2023
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Converted my garden several years ago to become a garden for wildlife. I no longer have ‘weeds’ just lots of self -seeded wildflowers with purchases of plants which are recommended for nectar for pollinating insects.There has been a huge increase in the numbers of insects - bumble bees sp., moths and butterflies. So exciting to experience this. Dig a pond, have some log piles and leave nettles in a corner - so rewarding.
Love this comment, it's so true.
We are doing exactly that. We are just starting our no mow project our home is new to us. Lots of preparation work was needed concrete/ gravel removal. Our excitement of the fist tiny nettle in the whole garden was spotted today😂 we were considering a transplant from the local park
@@chrisb4504 it really is so exciting to do this. It’s magical to see a toad sitting in a damp spot in amongst vegetation ( where do they come from🤣) or several bumble bees sleeping in a flower or to listen to House Sparrows chattering in a dense thicket you’ve created in a corner of the garden. Totally absorbing 😊
I have a garden plaque...All the' weeds ' in my garden are actually wild flowers....and they are all beautiful and our wild life need them...I really do try to convince folk....🙄 my garden has been a food platter all summer long..and still is...🦋🐝🐜🐞🌾really enjoy your knowledge and streams ty❤
I love your sentiments
This week i visited for first time a doctors surgery car park.
I got out of car. I was parked close to a dark small leafed ivy in flower it seemed.
I thought 'oh there must be a small power station behind the high ivy hedge' But no, i looked closer, ive never seen so many different types of Bees. Wasps too and some butterflies, and so many different spiders there too.
Best specific insect and bee visiting place I've ever seen, so many generating the loud hum like a local small power station in south Birmingham! I stood for ages watching this magnificent wildlife display.
Hi Joel,
It was a while ago when I responded to a video of yours.
But I have always been watching every single video with great joy.
Our move to a bigger house with bigger garden has now been almost 6 months ago.
The garden isn't nearly completed the way I would like to, but we are getting there, one step at a time.
I had dandelions and sow thistle growing in my garden so far, and some plants and flowers I brought with me from the previous garden.
Next to our property is a big field with a forest area and a chicken coop.
Hawthorn, elderberry, blackthorn and other tree species has been growing there with much profusion.
There is also a lot of native bramble bush and nettle growing there, just as ivy.
You can imagine how much wildlife that attracts already.
Lots of butterflies, including holly blues, speckled wood and several 'cabbage' whites.
I also spotted my first brimstone butterflies in this garden.
I'm also enjoying seeing the dragon flies patrol over the area and occassionally hunt and fight with eachother.
There is also a lot of territorial behaviour from the speckled wood, chasing off the Whites.
In the spring there were lots of house sparrows and black birds.
But we had a sweep of bird flue coming through this season.
So I haven't seen many smaller birds in the high season.
But my top 3 best visiting wildlife is without a doubt:
1: frogs 😍
2: newts 😯
3: hedgehog 🤯
I'm currently building it's home for the upcoming fall and winter.
He chose our half rotten deck to live under.
So I covered the area with big container bags and stones as a make shift roof.
Our wildlife pond is also coming along nicely, my husband regurarly digs the deeper end for me.
I wouldn't be able to do this without his help.
We are confident in finishing the pond in november💪
This was a long message so far, I hope you enjoyed reading it😃
Best regards, Titia🌸
Have created a no mow area from 2020 and only cut down in early September. I leave my hedges to grow, leave nettles in an area of the garden, leave most dandelions, have introduced a small pond, lots of log piles, a dead hedge. I have totally changed the way I garden and it looks far better for it
My wildflowers have all gone over now, I’ve noticed grass is moving in again. I’m leaving it as it is til Spring hopefully will self seed, and also provide food for birds etc. I’ll make a decision in Spring whether it needs clearing of grass so it doesn’t crowd out my wild flowers. Very much a practical learning experience for me. Will be interesting to see if it looks as good next year as this year .
And what a fantastic "weed" it is. Enjoying that at the moment our council isn't spraying the weeds growing along the kerb and wall edges of the paths in our area. Also a bit of land opposite our house owned by a housing trust hasn't cut it at all this spring or summer. It's looked great and we've had meadow crickets visiting our garden again. I put this down to having this little meadow opposite us at the moment. Hope they Continue with this next year too. Its normally cut regularly. Cuckoo flower was in abundance this spring along with many summer wildflowers. 😊
I’ve been seeing lots of butterflies and moths still, especially white ones. I’m in the New Forest, we’ve had a really hot spell and everything still flowering. My verbena b is huge this year!
I live in sheltered housing, very big communal garden that only I am interested in working in. What you said about mowing round places to look purposeful…we got to no mow May, the lawns hadn’t been cut at all this year (management issues) so I kept a big circle kind of central and a triangular area in a corner. I picked a place I could see ox eye daisies coming up! Last year we kept about a third of the lawn and residents kept asking why the gardener had missed a bit 🙄
This year they didn’t complain, admired the daisies, I put a slab in the centre with a bird bath and planter and have kept it uncut. So that is definitely a good strategy! I’ve got a big log pile tucked away behind an ash tree (we’ve lots of mature trees and shrubs) and a shady corner I’m letting go wild. Hypericum self seeding, foxgloves, iris foetidissima, nettles, clematis…
I’m making a new border which is just about all pollinator friendly, David Austin roses, verbena, Erysimum, sedum, golden rod etc etc…bird and insect drinkers scattered round. I’m banned from feeding the birds due to rat issues 🙁 But stealth rewilding 😂
Dandelions are such a beautiful plant. Im sure if they were really hard to grow then everyone would want them.
Haha love this!
They are popular in asia where they are seen as symbolising the sun, moon and stars.
All of your videos are such a joy and so educational, thank you. Inspired by your example, I have started trying to create a wildlife garden around my house since winter. And yes, have many of these whites enjoying the flowers (mostly marigolds) and also red admirals, commas and speckled woods enjoying the ripe plums on one of my fruit trees. Thank you so much for all your passion and inspiring so many people.
❤❤❤U Dr Harrod!!! Lots of weeds in Louisiana
Thank you for a very interesting and informative video channel. Just watched the video about wild flowers. They are not weeds, just flowers in the wrong place. A great video and a very lnportant subject. I live in Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
We've had the goldfinches in the garden this last couple of weeks stripping the seeds from the Ragwort. great to watch them
Hi Joel I live in ft Lauderdale Florida we have monarch butterflies all year round our monarch butterflies never leave Florida I love your videos I've learned a lot from your videos thanks so much.
Hi Joel, some of the butterflies I have seen have been congregating around wild flower patches. Agree this is so important for them 😊
Brilliant explanation towards the end Joel of why this habitat creation is so important in the wider landscapes around us. I’ve recently been to a butterfly conservation day and picked up some promotional cards highlighting the same which I hope to pass to my neighbors 🙂
I think the idea of cutting different areas of a meadow or different meadows at different times sounds great. We are planning more areas for meadows so will try that! As my meadow by the stream is supposed to be cut in August and that is a tad early I think! Love your videos they spark so much energy to get going in the garden.
Hey Joel! Great info as usual especially about the cabbage whites in the garden not actually being cabbage whites. I always wondered why some were smaller than others! I had no idea that these plants were called sow weed I always thought they were related to dandelions. I leave mine be and they pop up all over and they never seem to takeover which I now know it's because the finches eat the seeds. So many people comment now on how leaving things alone is bringing so many visitors to their gardens. No wonder it's been a great year for butterfly's. Best wishes.
I’ve got a primrose and foxglove that have started flowering this month. I think the cold wet August has tricked them into thinking that it’s Spring.
I always plant several different colours of Nasturtiums. The butterflies love laying their eggs on them. I've had loads of caterpillars munching away on the leaves and totally ignoring everything else.👍👍
That's my favourite of the dandelion mimics, it's very tall in my garden, nearly 1.5m high, covered in carder bees and hoverflies too. After listening to you always recommend Verbena, I tried it this season, amazing plant, 2m high covered in butterflies.
My garden flowers all year round, in the last 2 days I've planted 100 Muscari armenicum with 50 crocuses interwoven through them for that late winter/early spring nectar source.
Brilliant video as always joel thanks for sharing 🐸💚🐸🦋
If you plant Nasturtium 🌼around your veggies the cabbage whites will happily lay eggs on that and eat that instead. And then if you find them on your veggies you can just move them to the Nasturtium plants. 🦋🥦✅ So the birds and wasps can enjoy them. 😊
Ive still not cut my front lawn in fact im introducing some knapweed hawkweed (orange)and foxgloves
I also planted wood anemone roots x 50 along the edges
I have recorded about 12 native species already present
I'm not familiar with sow thistle, in my mothers small front lawn we have dandelions, but also one of the hawkbit family, slender stems topped by yellow flowers, with a flat rosette of leaves at ground level.
Other than that our ox eye daisies are doing well.👍
That garden is a lovely little oasis, surrounded by all that intensive agriculture, Brussel sprouts as far as the eye can see,what a thought.
Love dandelions.I'm the founder and sole member of the Dandelion Preservation Society ;)
Beautiful video. I love all these wild kinda flowers. And i'm always so happy to let them pop up in my garden. How can something so pretty and so beneficial to wildlife be called a weed anyway. That's just criminal...
And I loved seeing those adorable grasshoppers. I've made friends with my grasshoppers this summer. They have become happy to climb on my hand, and up my arm. I go talk to them every single day at some point. Always makes me smile and guaranteed to make my day💚
Thank you for sharing, until next time🌻
My dad, a passionate gardener who cares for the local environment as his job of the last 3 decades, now corrects himself when he says 'weed'. Progress is happening.
Thanks
I just saw the first spring honeybee on the snowdrops in my garden 2nd feb.
Wow, and it shows how vital these early flowering wild plants are - thanks for doing your very important bit! Best wishes, Joel
I miss summer already Joel!
I love your videos and thank you very much for your educational work!
But what about invasive species? For example, we have awfully agressive Heracleum sosnowskyi in our parts. It attracts lots of insects, all right, but it suffocates local plants and extremely dangerous for people.
a no mow summer hasn't worked in my garden as there is too much shade from my trees for summer flowering wild flowers, so next year I'll cut once the spring flowering species set seeds. i do have one "weed", many years ago i bought a three cornered leak bulb from a plant fair and it's done really well, smothering everything and spreading into next doors gardens and along nearby roadside verges. sorry Joel, it is a weed.
I must ask. What would you call the invasive plants if not weeds? I found some from Swedens’ list in my stream and I weeded them out stright away! They were easy as they were just a few and now I know they can not seed and go downstreem or be many more next year.
I don't think I consider anything a weed anymore ❤
Just don't ask that question about ragwort on wildlife forums - it seems to be an explosive subject 😂
A weed is something in the wrong place?