Rethink Pretty -- Front Yard Lawn to Prairie Garden Conversion
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Take a quick journey through the transformation of a high-maintenance suburban front yard into a low-maintenance, sustainable, native plant habitat that's beautiful for both people and wildlife.
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(music -- San Andreas, "Vendredi")
Now just imagine how beautiful your community would be if EVERYONE did this. Well done!
Isn't that the truth. I was the first in my suburban neighbourhood to do this same thing and everyone was aghast. The next year it had already grown in beautifully and many neighbours sought advice in doing the same. The neighbourhood over the years starting taking on a whole new feel and it was so lovely to see.
And we tore up all the asphalt and concrete and had dirt roads And replaced call our roofs with thatch ✌🏼
@@DanPfeiffenberger I mean... Maybe that would get people to drive slower😂 but maybe a bit of a stretch
Electricity bahhh I get up with the sun and go to bed when it goes down ... Indoor plumbing overrated ... Outhouse preferably with the door facing your neighbor is the way to go ... Just compost it!!!
Before I get my head chewed off obviously this is sarcasm ...
I don't think your idea is too bad 🦉@@karlsenula9495
Love how this was over a 5 year period and not a single neighbor copied you, even the neighbor next door just cut his grass right up to your native lawn. What a sad human to see all the beauty and respond with just cutting their grass year after year, wee after week.
Fantastic. Love it! Especially in suburbia. It takes big cajones to do that. I converted about 70 percent of my property back to prairie on 1.25 acres years ago. It's so gratifying
We moved to the country from a Northern Virginia suburb outside DC. We now have 5 acres including wild buffer space with a stream and a scrub - wasteland area with dead trees and pasture grass and who knows what else. It's beautiful and it has butterflies and deer. My new neighbors have tried to encroach numerous times to take it over and make it their own and to turn it into part of their rapidly expanding boring lawn. I've taken it firmly back and have planted native understory trees and am now doing what I call "intentional mowing." Pathways, areas around the new trees and so on. The neighbors are kind of stewing about it but we have no HOA. I think they are starting to become intrigued.
this needs to be come the norm. scorching the earth with vanilla lawns is a crime.
Grass lawns need to be banned in favor of wildflower meadows. No more mowing, better for the environment, and native wildlife such as honey bees, butterflies, and the like!
You did a beautiful job and the wildlife thanks you!! I am doing much the same with my newly-purchased neglected meadow. It’s county right of way and all they care about is “no trees” occluding their power lines, so I am free to reclaim my stretch of land to replace my neighbor’s rogue grass seedlings blowing over here with native prairie plants and its been a fantastic journey! Micro-meadows are the way to go!!
Love your garden! Looks like you're a pioneer in your neighbourhood. How courageous of you. Butterfly and bee have. Enjoy.🙏
Very beautiful. I did the very same thing as you. Lots of birds , butterfly's and bees come naturally by just letting it be. 🙂👍
Fantastic!! 👏👏👏
Our house is the only one with color in November. I have two Sumac one at each corner. They are beautiful in fall. You start with plants and mulch but after a few years, the mulch is gone. The areas are wall to wall plants. Native plants are an investment; non-natives are weeds.
Any tips on Sumac care? I planted a smooth sumac last year, and it developed a huge hole about halfway up its spindly little trunk.
This video is extremely well-done especially for beginners. I absolutely love the thought process & effort behind it. The caterpillar pic is my fav!! Thank you for sharing your journey with us!
Beautiful! Noticing the subtle changes takes a willingness to be still. Very Zen.
Absolutely beautiful! What a lush paradise you’ve created for yourself and for the wild ones. 😍🌿🦎🦋🐝
Thanks for showing the changes from year to year . Helped a lot :)
Nice video Ben, keep up the good work!
Just beautiful 👍🏼
Nice!
Awesome pictures!
Lve this thank you for sharing!
Well done 💚🦋🐛
Gorgeous! Crazy how beautiful and full of life your yard is compared to your neighbor's sterile lawns. What aspect is your yard facing? I have a northwest facing front yard and I'm wondering if 4 hours of full sun is enough for a similar planting.
This is on the north side. 80% of the garden gets full sun.
You can find native plants for your hardiness zone that will tolerate some shade. Look into purchasing used paperback copies of any books put out by the Department of Conservation for your state. Didn’t mean to butt into your question, but I can scarcely withhold my enthusiasm when I see others who are trying this.
Thanks for sharing!
Bit of a disconnect encouraging the use of RoundUp in a video about creating a "sustainable, native plant habitat."
www.monarchgard.com/thedeepmiddle/to-spray-or-not-to-spray-garden-site-prep-and-reviving-biodiversity
Houses around you, look like structures. Yours..a home.
Woo
I'm all in on doing this but I need a design/layout. Suggestions on where to find that? I'm in SE Pennsylvania.
Besides my book or online classes?
idk. i see lawn grass invading the garden making it look weedy. i think a clean edge from the grass to the garden looks much more pleasing and intentional.
cool
So you mow it all down in the early spring? Do you have to replant anything or does it all come back? What sort of ratio of perennials or annuals for your zone are in there? Beautiful garden!
This one we mow because it's a highly visible front yard -- out back we leave some areas for the bees to nest in. 100% native perennial forbs and bunchgrasses. We don't garden by zone but zipcode and ecoregion because we use native plants.
@@bvogt excellent, thanks!
The Purple Poppy mallow can be found in my area of Platte river valley in Eastern Nebraska 😎
Nicely done Ben! Curious, how do you manage to water the thin strip of grass while not getting your prairie plants wet?
Rainfall.
@@bvogt Ha, that’s what I do now too. Often gets brown and ugly looking if not kept up on.
maybe hose or short range sprinkler?
If done well it looks amazing if done poorly it just looks messy and unkept ... and if your neighbors move can actually lower their resale value ... I am a firm believer of planting natives and planting closely HOWEVER I am also a firm believer of being considerate of your neighbors ... Frankly I plant some plants I rarely see so my property looks attractive from the viewpoint of my neighbors.
It's great to be ecological but please also be nice.
Where are you located? What USDA growing zone?
Nebraska. I don't garden by hardiness zone (totally innaccurate), but ecoregion since I use 100% native plants.
What are some of the native grass species you plant?
Bouteloua curtipendula, Schizachyrium scoparium, Sporobolus heterolepis. Then the sedges: Carex albicans, rosea, blanda, eburnea.
My opinion year two-four looked good wild but not unkept thereafter it looked too unkept and almost 'abandoned house' look for my taste. I'd suggest doing this in the backyard first.
Very cool, but I feel like this would take the entire neighborhood to look good. Otherwise it looks like an abandoned house.
I did the same thing, just let the weeds take over. Now I’m hip, but my yard looks like hammered ass.
I did not let the weeds take over -- that's a recipe for getting reported to weed control. This is a designed space with carefully curated and managed plant communities.
The weeds definitely did not take over, they are all intentional matrix plantings of grasses…. you knew exactly what you were doing and it looks amazing. I am gradually doing the same thing introducing more and more natives. Love the Eryngium (?) and later asters blooming. Kudos to you!
I wish grass lawns would become a thing of the past. So bad for the environment and wildlife. Just make the whole thing a wildflower lawn. Do you have an HOA? I know certain entities won’t allow you to do this because it can lower the value of neighborhood homes. Do they have rules or fees for this sort of thing?
Great, the pathetic American grass yard must go. Wildlife habitat is beautiful
Never understand why you don’t move out to the country. Noticed how you conveniently only show close up shots so you don’t see how ridiculous it looks driving thru the neighborhood - but hey you do you. What’s next a thatched roof to do away with those nasty asphalt shingles?
A green roof would be fantastic. A lot of urban buildings are using those now as a way to drastically cut energy use and bills.
I can't believe he said the G word. Yuck.
www.monarchgard.com/thedeepmiddle/to-spray-or-not-to-spray-garden-site-prep-and-reviving-biodiversity
That looks terrible.