Hello, New To Your Site!!! Question: This Plant Looks Beautiful...But, Who Would Want Animals Like Possums, Etc. Around Their House? So, The Male Yo-Pon Holly Can Stand Alone? Now, About The Tea ... Poisonous Berries...But Can Eat The Leaves...Crazy To Me. I Would Like It As A Low Shrub...So,One Has To Keep It A Bay -Eh. I'm In CC, Texas. Would Love You Gear Your Insights. TYIA!!!

One of my favorites in my garden, and I have it in several colors now, the only issue I've had with it is last spring when it was very wet one of my big plants drowned in my heavy soil.

I have a few non native exceptions as well. I try to keep them limited, but as long as they serve a purpose (not just because they’re “nice”) I’ll occasionally make the exception.

What is basil rosette?

Pronounced Yo-Pon Holly.

Is this the same as boneset? Thank you!

Hey Cory, Is that Gregg's mistflower sprawling behind you in this video?

How much water do they need?

Another great plant! It's perennial in the ozarks if planted in well drained gravel soil.

We're in Haskell County, TX (north of Abilene) and with the mild Autumn we've had so far, our Salvia is still in bloom. I had a bit of trouble getting some started as that was just before the bad drought and extreme summer temperatures in 2022/23 but this plant seems to have established well. I have it paired with Spanish Lavender. They don't blossom at the same time, but the Lavender is a nice "carpet" of green next to the Salvia.

I have a couple that came up in the fenceline of my horse pasture. One single pepper makes my pot of chili so hot it was almost inedible.

I've been growing lots of native trees. Is there any way i can donate them?

I live just an hour north east of Dallas. I'd like to grow something like this in a wild flower field behind my yard. Would this make it well here or is it too north?

I tagged about a dozen seedlings on my mom's property and will be digging them up next weekend! I am very excited to add them to my growing food forest! She lives outside of Waco, and I am north of Dallas, so I KNOW they will do well. AND I know for a fact they taste good! I'm also grabbing a bunch of Native Texas Pecan seedlings! Merry Christmas to Me and mine!

asclepias texana looks great next to it

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Another great informative video, thanks!

So here is how Google reads your mind. I'm sitting on my porch looking at the exact plant mentioned in this video while I drink my coffee. I'm wondering, in my brain, I wish I wrote down what that plant name was when I bought it. I came in the house and did some chores. Sat on my couch and opened up KZbin to a recommended video telling me exactly the plant name I was trying to remember in my brain. I appreciate the fact that my question is answered but feel violated. How did it know what the image was? It's just creepy. But you know what really bothers me, if I were to type a google search for the plant, the google search algorithm is so jacked up, that I never would have got my answer in the results.

Wondering if this would grow in Houston.

One of my favorite natives - I never thought I’d see a video on its cultivation (most people see it as a noxious weed)

As a conifer fanatic, I’d love to see a pinetum filled with pines, spruces, firs, and all the other genuses that can grow here, mingling with our native conifers and broadleafed trees! 👍

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I just had 3 different species of butterflies on mine today! Great late season bloomer and very hardy. Mine struggled quite a bit this summer, but I realized that a giant fire ant mound had been growing in its root system for months. After eliminating the invasive ants, the mealy blue sage is rebounding nicely with full basal growth. It transplants from cuttings really well, too.

Hi Cory. I enjoyed your informative video. I don’t know if I missed this but could you tell me how you acquired your in depth knowledge of plants. Do you have a degree in landscape architecture, or nursery management, etc?

Another great landscaping native. Do you take suggestions? My native Damianitas are putting on a show right now, and they smell wonderful.

Love those deep blue flowers! Thanks for the tip on Pollinatives, I will definitely be checking them out when they open again in the spring. Didn't know they existed and it looks like they only opened within the last year or so. Looking forward to adding some native habitat to areas of my San Antonio yard. Best Wishes!

I bet your neighbors hate your yard its not pristine like there's i noticed in the background. I love this plant its extremely drought tolerant.

Thanks for the video. We also have a pink Turk’s Cap and hope to find the white variety.

Brilliant conversation

no scientific names?

I bought two of these a couple weeks ago? Is it ok to plant this late in the year?

Laughable cost 🤪🤪🤪🤪

regular watering (3-4 times a week) if you choose, can make your aster grow very lush and the fall blooms will be a blanket of purple

We got some here in Kingsville. I’ll have to play more attention and try and collect some seeds.

That overgrown grass you got right by the road can be cut with a good pair of scissors and you can mulch the clippings.

I’m over here near Kingsville, do you think any of these plants might thrive here? Very hot summers, gets sludgy with tons of rain in spring/summer, now it is finally cool outside but overcast and gloomy. Pretty wild.

Hey, thanks for this thought. You may need to update this video though. Now that President Trump is coming in and these tariffs and whatnot are coming in, I've been saying it for a while and then when President Trump start talking about tariffs, I've made the statement to allow people. Tariffs are only actually going to be immediately beneficial to the United States if we never had a free treat agreement to begin with. Back in the '90s I remember there was a absolute scream for more people to come and work because the job market was absolutely booming and as the NAFTA kafta thing started, that wide distribution of available jobs very quickly disintegrated. I remember thinking at the time in my naive teenage outlook on things that oh well the president said that NAFTA and such are a great thing because it spreads more wealth to these poor people across the world plus the Americans are going to get more jobs... Yeah well I got smarter over time. I watched my dad and several other people that we knew in various different places not just manufacturing but suppliers for manufacturing lose jobs and small businesses close. And the reason we kept hearing about places closing including my dad's shop that he was at for 27 years was because jobs have been moved across these or to Mexico or to Canada or whatever. That was Michigan. Now down here around North Carolina I can tell you that I've been to many different counties and they still have shops that are closed and talking to local people it all started about when jobs moved to Mexico. This brings me back to tariffs, when we took tariffs away and made jobs more readily accessible in other countries which globalizes the economy which globalizes the trade that is needed to make a society like the United States function. Whereas before we were largely self-sufficient in our own manufacturing, now thanks to regulations, wages, and whatever with not having tariffs other investments into countries or industries into countries, kind of ties our hands when it comes to tariffs actually being beneficial on an immediate notice. Reason for this is because supply gets affected, also if other countries have wanted to start looking into something other than the United States dollar, this also can become more enticing why would somebody need the US dollar if other countries aren't willing to go and pay tariffs and if money becomes a object of penalization. Sanctions were probably a safe bet, tariffs would have to be eased into and maybe some tax cuts for industries to keep a majority of their workforce in the United States, and over a period of time gradually becoming more self-sufficient as a country then terrorists would make more sense as far as making a stronger impact on other countries without harming the materials and supplies that we currently rely on globally. I remember also and I think people still do when I talk to them sounds like everyone agrees that when products were made in the United States, they were quality controlled or had much better products, it seems like other ones like China care more about numbers not so much about longitivity of a product. And this applies across many different facets like going to Lowe's and getting hardware that doesn't last long or stuff you buy on Amazon or whatever seems like things will only last just a few years and then you got to get something else. The other thing that NAFTA was not good at was over a period of time other countries don't have to do as much business with the United States because now they're economy is more self-sufficient or they can look at other countries as getting supplies. And this would cause the United States to become a less important part of trade as far as reliance on products whereas now the United States almost needs imports. That being said other countries could start to diminish US imports to their country and still go and have a good deal of exports to the United States. So we're not really gaining anything financially. It's been a ticking time bomb as far as killing the US dollar. Yes the main things cheaper for two or three decades and the cost is now the dollar, our own independence on materials, and the jobs that have never come back. Arguably other jobs have come into the United States however the communities that lost their jobs, such as to these free trade agreements, how does that make it better for them and, why couldn't the other companies although only few across seas had invested into the United States and somehow work something out with tariffs or lack thereof that way? In which case the jobs would have been brought into the United States still. Thanks to our reliance on China materials and goods, and not having had the foresight through politics and politicians that only had dollar signs and an easy paycheck in mind did not want to come to the reality in the groups of what's been going on for the last 2 years as far as communist countries coming together and hitting the United States and their pocketbook and material goods. Pretty good price to pay, will you see if you ask me. Like I said, like to see an updated video if you aren't already working on one or haven't done one then I apologize. Updated, I listened to more of your stream and I start chuckling when I wrote my comments previously I didn't even listen to more than a couple minutes and I'm listening to commas made by this guy yep that's pretty much what happens. Still would like to see an updated video on this if you haven't done one yet especially since China and Russia are teaming up and China's cutting our supply chain

Pretty yellow wood is nice for woodworking. Also, agarita margaritas are a thing.

Why are these plants so expensive and rarely sold?

I am in zone 7b NW Texas (Chillicothe). Mine freezes to the ground--it is root hardy. I trim it to 6 inches in spring. It will grow to 3-4 ft tall, 3-4'wide.

Subscribed and unsubscribed in one day. I live in Houston 30 years. It is has declined into a hellscape after Parker left office. This is the new Portland.

Why not '' to whom you make something " ?

Great plant. I haven't planted one yet in my garden on an ozark bluff. I would have to protect it this far north.

Thank you, Cory! Been eyeing one of these since I saw the Kickstarter.

I’m enjoying watching your in depth plant videos🙂

We need to fix the building codes in other cities so we can just build cheaply like they do in Houston

Maybe they see the newborns as taking their jobs???

Damn... I agree with housing first whole-heartedly but if Houston is the example of success I can't imagine how bad is the rest of the country must be..

Giving people a place to live makes them no longer homeless. Wow crazy idea. 🤯 There’s still really bad drug and mental health issues.

I’m gonna be honest it’s tough in Houston. In order to be considered homeless you have to be seen living outside for an extended period of time. There’s a place called tent city or something like that it’s actually right next to a “shelter”(I’ll explain). You have to be seen living in tent city basically. So let’s say you have no where to go, no housing nothing but you have had somewhere to stay but it’s not permanent. You aren’t considered homeless then. So in order to be actually considered homeless you have to really suffer. It doesn’t matter if you’re poor and have nothing if you have help from any individual that helps you not sleep outside on the concrete, you are out of luck out of help. There are a variety of programs you can look into but it’s lots of work and if you are homeless and have no resources how do you get around? I’m certain Houston is doing good things but access to those things for people can be hard at times unless you’re willing to put yourself into dangerous situations. That’s the problem. In order to qualify you have to almost nearly experience things you shouldn’t have to just to get help. You shouldn’t have to move in with roommates you don’t know or family that doesn’t help or care about you. That’s the problem.