Mistakes To Avoid When Starting A Wildflower Meadow | Gardening Tips For Native Lawn Alternatives
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- Опубликовано: 1 сен 2021
- In this video I'll show you how to start a Native Plant Meadow and the mistakes to avoid making along the way.
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I love your slogan. “Earth is my Planet “🙌🏼🥰
You are learning a valuable lesson you will go on to create a wonderful place
Boy gonna have the Garden Of Eden in his backyard in no time
The streets needed this one
So helpful to get the lessons learned! Made me cry when you mowed her down, but I see the big picture! Peace!
The honest feedback is the most impressive type of video. I appreciate what you are doing here. Keep that wildlife going my dude. Earth is my plaanet.
4:00 most wildflowers are rather tall! 3' is typical. If you want something short choose the more expensive dwarf mix of plants like dwarf cosmos or dwarf Blanket Flower (Gallardia), creepign phlox, ice plants, etc.
You should lay heavy corrugated cardboard then 4 inches mulch. Mix wildflowers in a bucket by adding sand - the sand acts as a delivery system and you can see where you cast seeds.
I do no dig gardening everything i plant - even veggie mounds. Thanks for sharing 😉
When you know better, you do better. Love this content!
I’ve seen so many gardening channels, never before have I come across a bro-gardener. Love it!
I made all these same mistakes, G. The first year was so 🔥 but I neglected it for 2 seasons and grasses took tf over. Midwest Prarie vibe over here so I have some pretty decent clumps of P. Coneflower, Blackeyed Susan's and lots of re-seeding Sweet Williams. I've been working on it like a mad man this season. I've basically been crawling around in it after every rain ripping out crab grasses and weeds. Good luck my dude, if you keep up with it they're very rewarding. *I always chuck some handfuls of Zinnia in for fast color.*
Brooo the pond is gonna be sooo lit
Hey I think you’re on the right track, maybe just add a walkway around the meadow and separate the back bed and you’re good until you decide to put the pond in. 🙏
You could throw some sunflowers along the fence that gets sunshine, then cosmos infront of that, also walker's low catmint and oregano bloom and the pollinators love them. Also I started growing lavender varieties and my yard was a pollination party. Dude, go find those catmints and oregano and thyme plants on clearance.
I like the way You learn and your yard looks beautiful keep the videos coming
Can't wait to see what u do with the area. Gardening is always a work in progress. 🌼🏵🐛🐝
So nice to FINALLY see a Houston gardener! There is very little content for our area. I wish I had the space (and sun) to grow a meadow. I am north facing and only have a small bed in the front yard that receives sun from April to September. It's really tricky finding the right plants because they must tolerate bright light most of the year AND Houston's sun and heat in the summer.
I did plant some Canyon Creek abelias. They bloom all summer and the pollinators love them, but I paid a fortune for them at Cornelius. So far, though, they've done well in the described conditions.
Love your channel. Thanks for your honesty and information.
I'm a huge faaaann..... earth is my plonet🌎❤️😂
Yards are for playing in. Mow, no mow…make it fun and I’m in. This summer was my first time putting free transplant flowers in and I definitely noticed more dragonflies and butterflies this summer. I’m also zone like 2b so grass for barefoot yard is a must
Discovered your channel recently and enjoying going over everything. I have been gardening for more decades than I care to remember and I will say the hardest thing to do is to create something and make it look like it happened on it's own. You may have thought of this but how about keeping the peanut shape and continuing the path all the way around it separating it from the back bed. I have found over trial and error you can make a wild area look good if confined with a crisp edge. This area seems like the perfect spot to create a natural small wildlife pond in it., just a thought. -enjoying your garden energy - and the recycling!!!
Thank you! 🌱
Man, I love your videos, and this one is probably the most helpful one I've seen.
Cant wait to see the pond and then the self sustaining eco system you create!
Bomb vid bro . Can't wait to see what's coming . I'm redoing my back yard it's that time
Plant milkweed ! Save the monarchs 🦋 ... plant in full sun
Thank you Dr. Plantu you’re great 👍
Your videos are SO helpful!! For mistake number one we had… chickens! :D we own 8 girls and had them free roaming for 6 months on the patch that will now be (hopefully) the meadow. Those little dinosaurs eat the bare sod to its bones! 😂 cleanest patch I’ve ever seen (and it used to be soooo weedy). If u can get a few of these wonderful animals that give us so much for so little! 🥰
Enjoyed learning about your experience! Have you thought about a shade garden for those areas that do not get much sun? I too have the same issue and have Enjoyed using shade plants in my garden.... I have learned over time that since most shade plants are tropical , they may need to be covered during the really cold weather! Enjoy your visitors!
Great, informative video!
Thank you!!!! So helpful!!!
I want to add a meadow to my hill. My husband is no longer able to maintain it so I think meadow it is.. I appreciate all the advice from your video, great info for me. I'm off to kill off the grass on the hill and I'll start in the fall. (the best piece of advice). Diana
Also, mine is smaller, because I have wee paths going through, and around the meadow…..you could have done that w it all grown, just weed whack, and mow path ways, maintain that way, or remove and add mulch path, or step stones….anyway, good luck on your adventure…I turned my parkway into a perennial garden, agin w paths, to be inside the garden but also maintain
Thanks for the mistakes not to make.
I think you're doing a great job on this channel! There's not a right way or a wrong way with trying to grow plants. You just have to get the feel on how the plant is going to do where you plant it or put it. They are like our children....some are stubborn and some are easy! But we love them all the same. We live and learn, just like everything else. Can't wait to see what you come up with next!! Going to home depot this weekend to get a few plants. The heat has been brutal on my plants! Don't want to water them to much. It feels good to watch what you plant and see it grow into something beautiful! Keep up the good work! Much love from Galveston! Stay safe and God bless! 🙏❤️🌍🌻🌿🌺🌴
#greenthumb 👍
Cover it with tarps for about two weeks kills the grass real quick.
Love this channel! How are your patio plants doing??
Do you guys have a texas native milkweed to help the monarchs?
Hope all the haters were happy at the 6 min. mark, sad but glad to see another chapter to the backyard
I just love your gardening adventures! Will you be putting some turtles in your future pond?
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Zoysia grass is not as bad, doesn’t get real big, I just planted natives into it, I mow 3-4 x year, all comes back, looks groovy….Implanted quarts, not seed. But now the plants re seeding out in the grass
So just throwing seeds into an area of grass the flowers will not grow?
They will grow but if tall/non native grasses are left they’ll largely deprive the area of light and outcompete the seedlings
You say you need to cut down and reseed. Do you mean buy more seed and drop? The flowered plants should have developed their own seeds and dropped seed into the soil for next seaons. Also when cutting the meadow collect the cutting to keep fertility low. High fertility with mulched plants means other species that thrive in high fertility such as grasses dominate and do not let more delicate wild flowers germinate or get beyond seedling stage. Keep the soil fertility low (removing the topsoil turf is a great start)
Somehow some Bermuda grass took hold on the area so I just restarted the process removing all the turf grass.
Dude, plant banana Musa ice cream in place with full sun. Fruits taste like vanilla ice. Peace!
Pineapple express!
Oh and...... Big tip... Manure(not fertiliser) kills weeds
Put some koi fish ponds
Was that a fake bug lol
You’re so cute lol
Wildflower mix on Amazon 🤮
That hat is out of control
You can put your wildflower garden in a ny section of those beds. I like the green grass better than the weedy meadow. It's hard to plant wildflowers when many just look like a weed. Again , the grass actually shows off your nice beds! 💪🟢💚🕊️
st augustine grass? where are you? florida?