Very helpful! I’m using Carex Pennsylvania to edge the path under the oak tree in dry shade. The tree has a circle of aquilegia canadensis (50 plugs, 2”x5”) then a patch of wild strawberries where there is a patch of sun. The outline of ninebarks will eventually grow into each other on two sides to create privacy and maybe eventually keep the deer out like a hedge. Then I put a low hedge of amsonia illustrious on the sunnier edge. The open areas are now planted to aster, boneset, Scrophularia Maranda along the back fence. If I would have found your sedge presentation sooner I may have used a matrix pattern. My main focus was a secluded area to sit, and a paradise for insects so the birds will love to live here in the garden. Thank you. I would send you photos and consult with you (and pay your fee) for improving on this area. Yvonne Kolarik Ponca City OK. This is 2-3 years of study and planning.

Excellent. I am here in SC . Heat index is ridiculous. So far I have achillia, echinachia, salvia Cocinnea and Some native wild flower seeds thatI planted in a wagon. I also have a passiflora that is feeding the fritillary caterpillar as we speak. I also just got a Monarda and with this humidity I am just waiting for the powdery mildew. All is in containers and I repot as necessary. No choice, I have to get creative. Much thanks for your video. I'm on my way to the book I like on your list. Smiles.

Powder and vitamin D3 and vitamin and herbs medical like home grow up and food glass drinks and watermelon and clove powder in the soil oatmeal Bisquick potatoes and vinegar home GORW FOOD and herbs and baking powder soda 🥤 and maybe watermelon is good GORW FOOD 🥝🥝 tomatoes 🍅🥒🍅 🧅 pepper cayenne pepper powder in the soil for cooked chicken thighs to cook for dinner with DR MD and Drug store and medical Psy maybe GORW FOOD 🥝🤤

Excellent insights - thank you for your experiences, concepts and perspectives. I am especially focused on helping native bees, wildlife, and birds.

Very nice…thank you.

I've been dragging native plants home to my garden for 40 years. My "gardening style" has become trendy, as well as politically correct 😅 I'm by no means a beginner when it comes to gardening with native, but I learned a whole bunch of new tips and tricks from this fabulous presentation! You earned a new subscriber!

What a great video. "...the things that live on the things that live on aphids..." is the essential statement of this video. We need a huge diversity of various plants to support a proper eco-web.

Thank you for this wonderful presentation - I'm inspired!

Thanks for this!

Watching from Bowling Green, Ky

Omg totally true

Wow yes

Ive been looking for this info for so long. Thanks

A plant is neceser for men

2nd time listening. So much info and inspiration. Can't wait for spring! Will be stratifying seeds this winter.

WHO will control the 30% ?? NOT YOU !

Love this! I also taught my daughters to " baby high five" the bumble bees in fall! (with 1 finger). Master Gardener from Cagary

If you buy distilled water during the winter for indoor humidifier.. save those plastic jugs. They are excellent for sowing.

I and others offer our plants to share my joy with others when I’m thinning my plants in our gardens.

When you suggest only cutting off the tops of “weeds”, letting the roots nourish the soil. Certain weeds will grow stronger when the top is cut off. I’m thinking if I dig or pull a plant as deep as I can, it takes longer to become a plant again?

Thanks Roy! Are carex like Carex Appalachia east to grow from seed? We can’t get this sedge out her in Colorado

Well worth watching -- beyond the basics. Thank you.

We had a pretty big aphid population this year, and the lady bugs came in. We had lots of baby lady bugs too, and over time, all the aphids were gone. Love God's natural design!

...FYI: I GOT RID OF ALL OF MY LAWN, (EXCEPT FOR A NARROW STRIP, BORDERING ALONG THE ROAD. IMHO: ...KILL YOUR LAWN!!! RESTORE AS MANY NATIVE SPECIES AS YOU CAN GET, TO REPRODUCE, ON YOUR PROPERTY!

Why not the native soil

cities seem very against getting rid of grass. old barbaric laws in my city make it very difficult.

how can i propagate or find swamp cabbage

i walk with a cane and when i am in the gardens i use a cane with a nail on the end that is 4 inches long so my cane wont fall over. but what it does well is help notice soil compacting by just walking you find soil problems and help aerate the soil you cane have canes with different length nails which helps new wildflower gardens that are being transformed using no dig helps get moisture into the soil. and the seeds to have pockets to settle into to sprout and help the new gardens spread. just my helpful observation.

What an amazing presentation. Thank you so much, I appreciate my native plant garden so much more.

this is such a great video. The idea that we need to focus on the entire life cycle of bugs rather than just the adult stage makes so much sense

My family owns Hamilton native outpost company. You should check them out

Thanks for presenting Roy! I Learned a lot about sedge installation plantings.

this was great and really helpful. thanks for posting. my garden is very young, and i don’t have many major plants to fill. the cover plant info was most insightful !!

To say natives can’t be invasive is absolutely wrong in my opinion. Natives do push out other natives and it happens in most lands.

I'm trying the "sod flipping" method for my asparagus bed.

great video full of love

Hope of Jesus help all gardeners for you are the only and lasting hope ❤️

I'm starting a pollinator garden in my front yard. I'm starting it in sections. As I got a mix seed packet and Don't know what's coming up. Don't want to scare the neighbors.

Excellent presentation, thank you! But... "Turf grass is barely alive to begin with. It dies pretty easily." Guess you've never had to battle Zoysia grass, huh? You are fortunate. My father put in that stuff many years ago and it's a Dense Mat of Rhizomatous Evil.

Thank you for this helpful presentation. With all due respect, please stop telling people to chop up leaves with a mower. The amount of life you kill with this action is defeating and unnecessary. Whole leaves will stay in place after a few rain events and will more slowly break down and return nutrients to the earth while providing shelter for many. If you’re planting natives for beneficials, please stop killing them in the process.

Solid content all the way through!

Boomer brain never ends. I like tried but geez.

Even though your chapter is not local to me, I find your conversations very inspiring and helpful for me when considering how my local natives will perform and the associations they may have to each other. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge for us newbie native gardners! 💚

I am very interested in trying this. I liked Doug Tallamy and his presentation also. He is a wealth of knowledge. I have a very small acreage of land. I think it is doable in a small way ,but if landowners become aware and become involved it would be great. Editing would be difficult for me, but if necessary I would be okay. I like the way you present this and very informative.

Roy, can you get on board with doing presentations at iLandscape next year?

I can't thank you enough for this wonderful presentation! Such valuable information.

What is the plant blossom that you took a photo of shown at 1:35 minutes? Looks as a pink whirlwind ;)

Pity James Lovelock is not alive to see this & precision produced foods. I'd be good if there were also legislation to stop harmful practices such as trawler net bottom dragging. In Greece dynamite fishing was outlawed but my local farmer was still doing this in 1982/3 on Sifnos. Locals were still going out with 12 to twenty guns & all their dogs shooting these tiny birds they put on their belts. The boys stoning rare bird gliding into rest on the Isle. I took this to a sympathetic local & he spoke to the local Priest who spoke about this in the Church. For some time that stopped the boys but it'd need the Priest to do this on a regular basis. This is a problem all round the Med.

My city bans thistle , ragweed , burdock, Wayfair plantain and sumac ...... Insane , cuz they let buckthorn grow everywhere Anyway i had a baby sumac and some plantain growing well that instantly melted , not sure if the city or a neighbor sprayed ........ Ugh so disappointing. Isn't it illegal to spray with out consent?

Best tip: Plant Editing.