Id rather look at this than a plain lawn any day!! What an amazing transformation. Just a different style but totally beautiful. I'm sure pollinators are loving it. Kudos to this couple we need more people like them using native plants like this. Thanks for sharing Janey 😊🌻
Absolutely! This is what I’m working toward in my parents garden. I’ve always loved the “natural” kind of look and they’re getting too old to care for their space now. But they have wild flowers galore. Just a few mulched areas that have a more formal feel
I’m obsessed!!! We are in Southern California and recently transformed our yard with a native garden. We LOVEEEE the color all year round and less maintenance. I still plant a cut garden in garden beds and have my non-native container pots. Best of both worlds 🎉❤🎉 Thank you for sharing Janey. I’m so impressed.
Janey, I am so stoked that you're featuring native, waterwise plants, gardens, and thoughtful gardeners. So many of us live in suburban lawn deserts that are devoid of biodiversity and frankly, personality. It's nice to see that there are alternatives to show there's another way! Thank you!
Totally, here in Amarillo Texas I don’t know if the laws work the same where your at, but we get fined for it being overgrown even though it’s the city’s property, I’m just gonna do what I want with it since I’m getting fined for it.
I think this is awesome! Education is key and people need to realize that we have to stop fighting against nature. Americans have been trained to see beauty in a way that is not natural. We need people to keep showcasing natural habitat so that it becomes more common place. Keep up the great work!!
THANK you for sharing this beautiful garden! Natives are key to supporting native bees and birds. Please include more content like this. People need to know how important this is.
Freaking awesome couple and garden! I am going to investigate native gardening in my state of North Carolina! Thank you so much for taking us on this tour!
Thank you Janey for this video. I wish more garden influencers shown something outside the box, something more than just large nursery/growers products. I think your channel really stands out because of that. I enjoyed seeing West Coast native plants because I am in the East and we have completely different natives here. I always wanted to see what is growing West. 🙂
Janey - this is one of the best, if not the best, CA native garden videos I’ve ever seen. I’ve been developing a native garden for a few years and I’m always looking at CNPS videos and whatever else I can find on RUclips and there isn’t much, especially this quality. I so appreciate you putting the common and scientific name of each plant referenced on screen. And it’s great to hear real experts talking about them. This is a very natural looking native garden (most are). I’m hoping to design mine as a little bit more manicured and “landscaped.” I think it can be done. The soil and sun factor makes a huge difference. I have several of the same plants in the ground at my house for two + years and they are just one or two feet tall. 😂 Also, thanks to your video yesterday, I learned about this and was able to visit 4 of the gardens on the East end of the tour and they were absolutely fabulous. You are a pro!!
Very enjoyable to watch your gardens evolve! The unusual plants will be fun to watch grow and will add a nice dimension. It all looks great! A lot of work but nothing more rewarding!
I am planning a native “forest/grassland” area in my backyard. I love that they created “Fig’s Meadow”! Our dogs are going to love it. Thank you for celebrating this garden and the experts(nerds😁), that created it!
Thank you Sandy, Nick and Janey. So many beautiful plants. 🌱 They thrive and support wildlife, win win! 🌱Instead of another boxwood we could try tucking in a native. 🌱I’m incorporating veggies, flowers and herbs in pots raised beds etc… for biodiversity. same concept
Thank you to these homeowners for taking the time to share their knowledge and their garden! As we can all imagine, sharing this labor of love must come with a feeling of vulnerability. I hope as gardeners we can all appreciate that and appreciate the beauty they’ve developed on their property!
Love this video! This couple's enthusiasm and knowledge is so inspiring! I'm taking notes for my Southern California yard. Can't wait to see more of these tours.
I live in PA so our natives look different than CA but I love seeing how natives can be incorporated into our gardens and different ways to remove turf! Great video!
I love it! I’ve had recommendations to avoid our backyard being taken over by weeds to do the meadow grasses and it’s lovely! I’d love to have this all over the backyard. I just adore the hawk moths! They love our red valerian! (As do the butterflies) we enjoy seeing them at dusk on a hot 100 degree summer evening 😊
Wow that was amazing. I love plant Nerds. Something about how grass moves in the wind. I love all grasses. How exciting a Sunday Video. Have a great day. ❤
With Sandy being from S Florida, I'm surprised they planted bamboo. Is it not invasive there? You were talking about parasitic plants and not realizing there was a such thing, mistletoe is a parasitic plant! Does it grow in California? I loved their yard! I wonder how allergy season goes in their neighborhood and if the garden has any impact on the neighbors.
You knocked it out of the park with this tour--so much valuable info on natives. I especially like the idea of planting natives that bloom in summer too. You have a fantastic channel with something for everyone, so thanks for this inspiration, I'm bookmarking this one!
Loved the tour Thank you Nick, Sandy and Janey for sharing this. Now we know how nice native plants can fill our yards.cant wait for the next tour Janey.
Beautiful! I love how he gave (and you, Janie, inserted onscreen,) both the botanical and common name of the plants. Looking forward to more tours. You're a natural tourguide!
I'm totally into this! So many rare plants! I'm a little surprised they didn't use any native shrubs aside from the sage. I suppose they didn't want to block the view to the street and are waiting for the oak to size up? Or maybe everything is from seed? If so, bravo!
My kind of garden! Thank you for showcasing Nick and Sandy's garden. I started to buy only native trees and plants and thinking about pollinators and what is best. I love mixing natives into my existing rose garden and I found native salvia this year which always looks lovely with roses. Slowly transitioning my front lawn into garden each year and my neighbours are commenting and loving the changes.
This was awesome to see! Thank you Janey, love the use of all the native plants. Can’t wait for more garden tours on Sunday! Yay! We all need some nerds who plant beautiful gardens! Thanks Nick and Sandy 🌻💐🌺🌼.
I love this! I'm trying to grow many of these plants. My climate is a little hotter than your area and it's pretty hard to figure out how to properly water these plants when getting them established. A lot of information on California natives are from coastal areas which is so much milder than the central valley. I would just love it if you were to dedicate a corner of your property to natives. Thank you for this tour!
How fascinating!! Very very cool idea for those of us that have the environment and space for those kinds of plants! I split my year between southwest Florida and northern lower Michigan so I have two vastly different gardens! It’s really fun to learn about what grows where!
Definitely will be looking into native plants for my area. I have some already planted but I am sure there are so many more. I’ve screen shot some of the ones you featured to see if the will grow in my area too since we have similar climates. Hugs fr9m Texas!
Janey, thanks so much for highlighting native gardens on your channel!! And Nick and Sandy, wow! So cool to tour your spectacular garden! Diplacus pictus!?🤩Thanks for making it look good! Kill your lawn! 🤘
I agree. I’m more of a structured garden with planned messiness kind of gal. 😂 this was very interesting however and some of those plants are beautiful!
I think using natives is a great idea however that front yard is a bit too over grown for a neighborhood setting. I planted a native garden in my backyard after taking a college course that covered Ca. natives. I eventually decided that I wanted to see more color and after Borage took over my yard. I came to realize like so many that the cottage look is my thing. Looking forward to the Sunday landscapes.
I have to be honest, when I first saw their yard from afar, I thought "oh wow, it kinda just looks like they let weeds overtake their yard" but as I watched each plant up close, they are all SO beautiful! SO incredibly unique and absolute beautiful plants! I am in shock that people don't grow more of these plants! Thank you Janey for opening my eyes to this ❤
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for featuring this wonderful garden and talking about native plants. These are the plants that support the creatures that balance the food chain for our (human) species. I live in a neighborhood with strong HOA restrictions so I have limited natives in the front yard but predominantly native plants in the back. #DougTallamy
So this has inspired me to create my own meadow of indiana native flowers/grasses!! Awesome job & i love Fig’s appearance🥰 I am SO Pumped for these sunday garden tours Janey!!! 😜
Northwest Michigan, I’ve been adding some natives to my gardens and have found some lovely plant varieties that are not standard fare. Great to learn about so many of these, although probably not native to my area. Knowledge is power!
I love the use of natives, grasses and and more natural flow- Piet Oudolf’s gardens have always been the most inspiring to me. I think it’s great people are allowed to express themselves in their gardens in ways that use less water, less pesticides and herbicides. I love the backyard! It makes me want to walk through it.
This does make me want to incorporate more native and drought, tolerant, plants in my yard. I do like more of a structured garden. My concern was the bamboo in the backyard - bamboo is known for traveling, and I wonder how the neighbors like it.
Janey, this was a fantastic tour! Even though I live in a totally different climate, I enjoyed learning about so many plants native to California and I just loved the look of their gardens. Nick and Sandy's enthusiasm was contagious as was yours - thank you for sharing this and encouraging people to think about their gardens in more climate friendly ways that still retain beauty and interest.❤
People may think it is weird that this couple knows so much about native plants (plant nerds), but I think it’s weird we have become so disconnected with the basic things around us that sustain our life and ecosystem. We should all get back to our roots, some of this should be basic knowledge, and probably was 50 plus years ago.
I think what throws a lot of people off about planting native gardens is they think it looks messy. Because a lot of native gardeners kinda have nature in mind and nature is kinda messy! But the reality is, you can make a formal clean garden with natives as well. The options are only limited to your imagination.
I love seeing this garden! I don't live in California but it's still so fun to see! I also super love seeing their rock garden, because I love crevice gardens and have created a similar one in my garden where I had a little spot right by my steps that needed something, and that something was a crevice garden! So fun.
This garden tour was a delight! I love the whole nerdiness of your guests! Janey: you need to install a gray water system! Especially since you are concerned about how much water you have available from your well. 😊 AND you need to find a spot in your yard to install a California native garden!!! 🧑🌾
I have been gradually adding natives to my water wise front yard. I love that you're featuring this. It's so important and cool and smart. I really do hope people get inspiration from this.
This was the funnest garden tour ever, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing what these two creatives have achieved and created in their own patch! I’m a huge fan of native gardens anyway, and in particular habitats that encourage the wildlife in, are my jam. Imagine having an opportunity to glean such invaluable knowledge from an amazingly talented couple like Nick and Sandy?! They’re a dream team. Thank you all for sharing this incredible garden with us. It is such an inspiration. 🙏🙌
My new favorite video from. I try to incorporate as many native California plants as possible…this video is so informative, and I’ll be returning to it for reference. Excellent job, Janey.
I'm from Michigan and I completely enjoyed this video! Their native garden is so amazing!! I love the enthusiasm that they have for what they've created! GREAT video, thank you Janey!!
I found this totally fascinating.I'm in the UK zone 8 but this couldn't be more different to my climate if it tried. At the moment we are drowning in rain and have been for months! When you see them close up some of those plants are gorgeous. That little blue one near then end of the video (sorry can't remember what Nick called it) is particularly pretty. I doubt I'd ever be able to grow any of them, except maybe the bamboo!!!
What a beautiful garden! They are so knowledgeable and this was a fantastic video. I wish this would become more mainstream. I'm fascinated by their grey water swale!
Everything was so beautiful, I need to find something like that here in South Texas (way south), I especially like those grasses, we get terribly hot 🔥 summers
I love the use of heights and layers! The blue bush lupine is beautiful! I thought it was a buddleja at first. The black and white monkey flower is unique. I had never even heard of monkey flower until Janey did a tour last year. The grasses are beautiful too! I don't have any in my garden but I'm considering one or 3 after seeing this garden.
Hi Janey 🌺.This garden looks so pretty with these native plants and it full of beautiful colors .I have two color from pretty Lewisia in container , the deep pink and peachy orange its flowers attract attention and I will get more plants from it and I love how he planted the Lewisia between the stones . . Have a wonderful day . 🌺🌻🌺
Ok this is amazing ! I will have to watch again to write down all the pretty things to find. I live in the CA High desert and use alot of native amongst my cut flowers.
What a lovely couple and their garden. I've always loved a rock garden, never made one tho. Janey, those heat loving plants would be nice across your front, they'd love being near the rd. Thank you for sharing, and Thank you Nick and Sandy.
Please know that there isn't a good way to capture the beauty of these plants. From experience, I tried to capture some native azaleas which are breath taking, not possible.
Wow, just fascinating! Big thank to Nick and Sandy …. Such knowledge and passion….I just love it! Can’t wait to see you meadow Janey….monty will love it ❤️❤️❤️
Wow, this was such a fantastic garden tour! Thank you for ALL of the information, and sharing these beautiful California plants. I've made notes, taken screen shots and now I have a starting place! I can't wait to check out CNPS and Cal Scape!! Thanks again for this amazing tour!
Dear Janie and Jason, thanks for allll the information you provide! I just watched this for the first time and it was soooo good I humbly suggest that you rewatch it …. just in time for fall planting 🌼🌼 maybe along the roadside? This garden certainly inspired me for this fall.
2023 I made my first garden using both flowers and vegetables…. It was also the very first time I had ever seen and was visited by a Hawk Moth! I had to ask people what in the world they were 😂 I was lucky to see them again throughout the season. ( in my zone 6a6b 30 mins south of Columbus they were attracted to my ‘Proven Winners superbena sparkling amethyst’ 💜
Id rather look at this than a plain lawn any day!! What an amazing transformation. Just a different style but totally beautiful. I'm sure pollinators are loving it. Kudos to this couple we need more people like them using native plants like this. Thanks for sharing Janey 😊🌻
Couldn’t agree more. 😊
Absolutely! This is what I’m working toward in my parents garden. I’ve always loved the “natural” kind of look and they’re getting too old to care for their space now. But they have wild flowers galore. Just a few mulched areas that have a more formal feel
Although it’s not my cup of tea, I can admire the flowers and hard work they’ve invested.
I’m obsessed!!! We are in Southern California and recently transformed our yard with a native garden. We LOVEEEE the color all year round and less maintenance. I still plant a cut garden in garden beds and have my non-native container pots. Best of both worlds 🎉❤🎉 Thank you for sharing Janey. I’m so impressed.
Janey, I am so stoked that you're featuring native, waterwise plants, gardens, and thoughtful gardeners. So many of us live in suburban lawn deserts that are devoid of biodiversity and frankly, personality. It's nice to see that there are alternatives to show there's another way! Thank you!
Native plants would be great for the area outside the fence by the road.
Totally, here in Amarillo Texas I don’t know if the laws work the same where your at, but we get fined for it being overgrown even though it’s the city’s property, I’m just gonna do what I want with it since I’m getting fined for it.
I think this is awesome! Education is key and people need to realize that we have to stop fighting against nature. Americans have been trained to see beauty in a way that is not natural. We need people to keep showcasing natural habitat so that it becomes more common place. Keep up the great work!!
I wish every state would have a resource like Cal scape. It’s a fantastic idea.
I found it for Cape Cod, MA after he explained it!
THANK you for sharing this beautiful garden! Natives are key to supporting native bees and birds. Please include more content like this. People need to know how important this is.
Freaking awesome couple and garden! I am going to investigate native gardening in my state of North Carolina! Thank you so much for taking us on this tour!
Such an awesome example of microcosoms of the native plant world. I lovep meeting fellow plant needs, and these are professional plant nerds!
I think it looks wonderful. Whimsical and wild is a nice change to see. I truly enjoy all types of gardens and it's refreshing to see such an array!
Thank you Janey for this video. I wish more garden influencers shown something outside the box, something more than just large nursery/growers products. I think your channel really stands out because of that. I enjoyed seeing West Coast native plants because I am in the East and we have completely different natives here. I always wanted to see what is growing West. 🙂
Janey - this is one of the best, if not the best, CA native garden videos I’ve ever seen. I’ve been developing a native garden for a few years and I’m always looking at CNPS videos and whatever else I can find on RUclips and there isn’t much, especially this quality. I so appreciate you putting the common and scientific name of each plant referenced on screen. And it’s great to hear real experts talking about them. This is a very natural looking native garden (most are). I’m hoping to design mine as a little bit more manicured and “landscaped.” I think it can be done.
The soil and sun factor makes a huge difference. I have several of the same plants in the ground at my house for two + years and they are just one or two feet tall. 😂
Also, thanks to your video yesterday, I learned about this and was able to visit 4 of the gardens on the East end of the tour and they were absolutely fabulous. You are a pro!!
What a treat! Thank you!!
Very enjoyable to watch your gardens evolve! The unusual plants will be fun to watch grow and will add a nice dimension. It all looks great! A lot of work but nothing more rewarding!
Janey, you could so incorporate a crevice-rock garden into your berm in front of the house… definitely into areas of the dry creek bed ….
I am planning a native “forest/grassland” area in my backyard. I love that they created “Fig’s Meadow”! Our dogs are going to love it. Thank you for celebrating this garden and the experts(nerds😁), that created it!
Thank you Sandy, Nick and Janey. So many beautiful plants. 🌱 They thrive and support wildlife, win win! 🌱Instead of another boxwood we could try tucking in a native. 🌱I’m incorporating veggies, flowers and herbs in pots raised beds etc… for biodiversity. same concept
I’m a native plant person in Southern Missouri so it’s so so interesting to me to see California natives , thank you ❤
Thank you to these homeowners for taking the time to share their knowledge and their garden! As we can all imagine, sharing this labor of love must come with a feeling of vulnerability. I hope as gardeners we can all appreciate that and appreciate the beauty they’ve developed on their property!
Perfectly worded. I appreciate learning from all gardeners and opening my eyes to a style I was not aware of.
Love this video! This couple's enthusiasm and knowledge is so inspiring! I'm taking notes for my Southern California yard. Can't wait to see more of these tours.
One of my favorite tours that you’ve done! I’m inspired to plant some native grasses now for my dogs and that rock garden was amazing
I'm in Florida and we have a Native Plant Society too!! I'm a member
I live in PA so our natives look different than CA but I love seeing how natives can be incorporated into our gardens and different ways to remove turf! Great video!
This is awesome! I would LOVE future updates of this garden through the seasons. Especially during the dry season ❤
I love it! I’ve had recommendations to avoid our backyard being taken over by weeds to do the meadow grasses and it’s lovely! I’d love to have this all over the backyard. I just adore the hawk moths! They love our red valerian! (As do the butterflies) we enjoy seeing them at dusk on a hot 100 degree summer evening 😊
This is amazing. Such great information. So much better than grass!❤
Wow that was amazing. I love plant Nerds. Something about how grass moves in the wind. I love all grasses. How exciting a Sunday Video. Have a great day. ❤
With Sandy being from S Florida, I'm surprised they planted bamboo. Is it not invasive there? You were talking about parasitic plants and not realizing there was a such thing, mistletoe is a parasitic plant! Does it grow in California? I loved their yard! I wonder how allergy season goes in their neighborhood and if the garden has any impact on the neighbors.
Trees and weeds are usually the culprit for allergies.
You knocked it out of the park with this tour--so much valuable info on natives. I especially like the idea of planting natives that bloom in summer too. You have a fantastic channel with something for everyone, so thanks for this inspiration, I'm bookmarking this one!
Loved the tour Thank you Nick, Sandy and Janey for sharing this. Now we know how nice native plants can fill our yards.cant wait for the next tour Janey.
Just down the street from my house! Lots and lots of front yards moving in this direction. The birds 🐦 and insects 🐞 must be celebrating! 🎉
“I only know the scientific name”! Heck , most of us barely know the common! Great nerdy people! Very inspiring
Beautiful! I love how he gave (and you, Janie, inserted onscreen,) both the botanical and common name of the plants. Looking forward to more tours. You're a natural tourguide!
I'm totally into this! So many rare plants! I'm a little surprised they didn't use any native shrubs aside from the sage. I suppose they didn't want to block the view to the street and are waiting for the oak to size up? Or maybe everything is from seed? If so, bravo!
I love the wild look it looks beautiful
My kind of garden! Thank you for showcasing Nick and Sandy's garden. I started to buy only native trees and plants and thinking about pollinators and what is best. I love mixing natives into my existing rose garden and I found native salvia this year which always looks lovely with roses. Slowly transitioning my front lawn into garden each year and my neighbours are commenting and loving the changes.
Question: How do they control the invasive nature of bamboo? So many interesting natives. We should all consider a section of our yard to them.
This was awesome to see! Thank you Janey, love the use of all the native plants. Can’t wait for more garden tours on Sunday! Yay! We all need some nerds who plant beautiful gardens! Thanks Nick and Sandy 🌻💐🌺🌼.
I love this! I'm trying to grow many of these plants. My climate is a little hotter than your area and it's pretty hard to figure out how to properly water these plants when getting them established. A lot of information on California natives are from coastal areas which is so much milder than the central valley. I would just love it if you were to dedicate a corner of your property to natives. Thank you for this tour!
Outstanding, Beautiful can’t wait for more California natural information
Way inspired me! This was insane and I absolutely LOVE this garden 💚 I took soooo many screenshots for most haves in my garden!
i appreciate the plants but it is too wild for me.
This is such an interesting video! I love the native plants and how they interact with the environment. ❤
Beautiful yard and the info o cal scape.
Incredible Janey! This is going to be fun. Thank you!
I LOVE this garden!! I was watering my little native calico monkey flower when he was showing his to you!
Absolutely enjoyed this garden tour. Looking forward to Sundays to view more tours ❤
Fascinating Californian native plants/flowers. Thank you
How fascinating!! Very very cool idea for those of us that have the environment and space for those kinds of plants! I split my year between southwest Florida and northern lower Michigan so I have two vastly different gardens! It’s really fun to learn about what grows where!
Definitely will be looking into native plants for my area. I have some already planted but I am sure there are so many more. I’ve screen shot some of the ones you featured to see if the will grow in my area too since we have similar climates. Hugs fr9m Texas!
Janey, thanks so much for highlighting native gardens on your channel!! And Nick and Sandy, wow! So cool to tour your spectacular garden! Diplacus pictus!?🤩Thanks for making it look good! Kill your lawn! 🤘
It’s not my style a little to messy looking, but I will implement some of these in my garden. Thank you for the tour.
I agree. I’m more of a structured garden with planned messiness kind of gal. 😂 this was very interesting however and some of those plants are beautiful!
I agree . The front yard is quite messy looking , but I love their back yard.
Front yard a little too much for me
Same. I've been adding natives into my garden but I prefer to keep it somewhat structured with a hint of whimsy here and there.
I think using natives is a great idea however that front yard is a bit too over grown for a neighborhood setting. I planted a native garden in my backyard after taking a college course that covered Ca. natives. I eventually decided that I wanted to see more color and after Borage took over my yard. I came to realize like so many that the cottage look is my thing. Looking forward to the Sunday landscapes.
I have to be honest, when I first saw their yard from afar, I thought "oh wow, it kinda just looks like they let weeds overtake their yard" but as I watched each plant up close, they are all SO beautiful! SO incredibly unique and absolute beautiful plants! I am in shock that people don't grow more of these plants! Thank you Janey for opening my eyes to this ❤
I think that garden is amazing!
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for featuring this wonderful garden and talking about native plants. These are the plants that support the creatures that balance the food chain for our (human) species. I live in a neighborhood with strong HOA restrictions so I have limited natives in the front yard but predominantly native plants in the back. #DougTallamy
Me too! HOA’s really need to educate themselves & change their old thinking & ways.
So this has inspired me to create my own meadow of indiana native flowers/grasses!! Awesome job & i love Fig’s appearance🥰
I am SO Pumped for these sunday garden tours Janey!!! 😜
I know they appreciate someone who understands their garden and doesn't complain that it isn't round or square or flat!
Love this garden. Absolutely stunning!! A very informative and insightful garden tour. Thanks so much for sharing.
Northwest Michigan, I’ve been adding some natives to my gardens and have found some lovely plant varieties that are not standard fare. Great to learn about so many of these, although probably not native to my area. Knowledge is power!
I love the use of natives, grasses and and more natural flow- Piet Oudolf’s gardens have always been the most inspiring to me. I think it’s great people are allowed to express themselves in their gardens in ways that use less water, less pesticides and herbicides. I love the backyard! It makes me want to walk through it.
This does make me want to incorporate more native and drought, tolerant, plants in my yard. I do like more of a structured garden. My concern was the bamboo in the backyard - bamboo is known for traveling, and I wonder how the neighbors like it.
Love this so much❤❤❤❤
Janey, this was a fantastic tour! Even though I live in a totally different climate, I enjoyed learning about so many plants native to California and I just loved the look of their gardens. Nick and Sandy's enthusiasm was contagious as was yours - thank you for sharing this and encouraging people to think about their gardens in more climate friendly ways that still retain beauty and interest.❤
Love this! Anyone can incorporate natives in their gardens. Thanks for sharing! 🌱🌞
Native gardens are a little chaotic. I love their backyard meadow.wonder if it stays green all year.
damn that black rock in the backyard actually looks like asphalt, I love the look of it.
How fun were these two to watch?!?! Love their passion! What a beautiful garden!
The Waterwise Garden Tour in Sonoma county this year was FABULOUS! More native garden tours are needed!❤
People may think it is weird that this couple knows so much about native plants (plant nerds), but I think it’s weird we have become so disconnected with the basic things around us that sustain our life and ecosystem. We should all get back to our roots, some of this should be basic knowledge, and probably was 50 plus years ago.
So, annuals become perennials by re-seeding... thanks for the info!
I think what throws a lot of people off about planting native gardens is they think it looks messy. Because a lot of native gardeners kinda have nature in mind and nature is kinda messy! But the reality is, you can make a formal clean garden with natives as well. The options are only limited to your imagination.
Lovely garden. Native species do so well. It's a wonder people don't plant more of them.
I love seeing this garden! I don't live in California but it's still so fun to see! I also super love seeing their rock garden, because I love crevice gardens and have created a similar one in my garden where I had a little spot right by my steps that needed something, and that something was a crevice garden! So fun.
Thank you for planting natives and thank you for sharing! 💚
This garden tour was a delight! I love the whole nerdiness of your guests! Janey: you need to install a gray water system! Especially since you are concerned about how much water you have available from your well. 😊
AND you need to find a spot in your yard to install a California native garden!!! 🧑🌾
I have been gradually adding natives to my water wise front yard. I love that you're featuring this. It's so important and cool and smart. I really do hope people get inspiration from this.
These two people are so knowledgeable. I enjoyed learning from them! This video was so fun to watch.
Amazing progress in such a relatively short time🎉
I love this garden! I tend to sway more to the cottage garden esthetic. Natives are the way to go. I’m trying to do this in my Florida garden.
This was the funnest garden tour ever, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing what these two creatives have achieved and created in their own patch! I’m a huge fan of native gardens anyway, and in particular habitats that encourage the wildlife in, are my jam. Imagine having an opportunity to glean such invaluable knowledge from an amazingly talented couple like Nick and Sandy?! They’re a dream team. Thank you all for sharing this incredible garden with us. It is such an inspiration. 🙏🙌
My new favorite video from. I try to incorporate as many native California plants as possible…this video is so informative, and I’ll be returning to it for reference. Excellent job, Janey.
I'm from Michigan and I completely enjoyed this video! Their native garden is so amazing!! I love the enthusiasm that they have for what they've created! GREAT video, thank you Janey!!
Do they have any social media? I’d love to learn more from them
Really enjoyed this informative tour on natives. I live in Va Beach Va and grow blue eyed grass and poppies from fall sowing
I found this totally fascinating.I'm in the UK zone 8 but this couldn't be more different to my climate if it tried. At the moment we are drowning in rain and have been for months! When you see them close up some of those plants are gorgeous. That little blue one near then end of the video (sorry can't remember what Nick called it) is particularly pretty. I doubt I'd ever be able to grow any of them, except maybe the bamboo!!!
Ah and then bamboo would take over the world 😂
What a beautiful garden! They are so knowledgeable and this was a fantastic video. I wish this would become more mainstream. I'm fascinated by their grey water swale!
Everything was so beautiful, I need to find something like that here in South Texas (way south), I especially like those grasses, we get terribly hot 🔥 summers
Even though I would not want my neighbors planting such a garden next to me, I loved listening to all the knowledge they shared.
I have to admit that I thought about the bamboo creeping under the fence to the neighbors yard. 😬
I love the use of heights and layers! The blue bush lupine is beautiful! I thought it was a buddleja at first. The black and white monkey flower is unique. I had never even heard of monkey flower until Janey did a tour last year. The grasses are beautiful too! I don't have any in my garden but I'm considering one or 3 after seeing this garden.
Hi Janey 🌺.This garden looks so pretty with these native plants and it full of beautiful colors .I have two color from pretty Lewisia in container , the deep pink and peachy orange its flowers attract attention and I will get more plants from it and I love how he planted the Lewisia between the stones .
. Have a wonderful day . 🌺🌻🌺
Thank you, Nick, Sandy and Janey! This was so educational and enjoyable! I could listen to Nick mentioning the names so effortlessly all day!
Ok this is amazing ! I will have to watch again to write down all the pretty things to find. I live in the CA High desert and use alot of native amongst my cut flowers.
What a lovely couple and their garden. I've always loved a rock garden, never made one tho. Janey, those heat loving plants would be nice across your front, they'd love being near the rd. Thank you for sharing, and Thank you Nick and Sandy.
Please know that there isn't a good way to capture the beauty of these plants. From experience, I tried to capture some native azaleas which are breath taking, not possible.
Wow, just fascinating! Big thank to Nick and Sandy …. Such knowledge and passion….I just love it! Can’t wait to see you meadow Janey….monty will love it ❤️❤️❤️
Wow, this was such a fantastic garden tour! Thank you for ALL of the information, and sharing these beautiful California plants. I've made notes, taken screen shots and now I have a starting place! I can't wait to check out CNPS and Cal Scape!! Thanks again for this amazing tour!
When I saw the crepe Myrtle in the back yard, I gasped! Wow is that beautiful!
Dear Janie and Jason, thanks for allll the information you provide! I just watched this for the first time and it was soooo good I humbly suggest that you rewatch it …. just in time for fall planting 🌼🌼 maybe along the roadside? This garden certainly inspired me for this fall.
2023 I made my first garden using both flowers and vegetables….
It was also the very first time I had ever seen and was visited by a Hawk Moth! I had to ask people what in the world they were 😂 I was lucky to see them again throughout the season. ( in my zone 6a6b 30 mins south of Columbus they were attracted to my ‘Proven Winners superbena sparkling amethyst’ 💜