How can anyone hate these wee sweeties?!?

I would be amazed if you were my neighbor. What a yard!

Wait, are these rare? Theyre on my dads property. Been there since my great grandfather bought the land.

I posted this under his comment as well but i kinda also feel like i want to state this publicly. Listen, first of all science and arborism is one way to approach pruning. And it’s completely fine to do so. BUT, especially were i‘m from tree work is a vocational trade with guilds that are hundreds of years old. Before you have your journeymans degree you spend 3 years (sometimes 5 if you take a specialized Apprenticeship) both under a Masters care and in a guild organized School. Then it takes another two years of working as a journeyman and one to two years in school to get your master title. And this is absolutely a valid form of pruning. Sometimes we do a cut like this only every 10 or 20 years (like with apple/pear/cherry trees, olives or wine) with other trees like willows we have to do it nearly every year. 1st You realize that most of the energy of the tree is NOT in the branches but in the roots. 2nd the reason why we cut in Fall or Spring has nothing to do with the trees and more to do with trying to prevent to disrupt Nesting. In fact i know a couple of colleagues that swear by cutting in summer. 3rd Trees rejuvenate when you do a cut like this and it prolongs their lifespan this is especially true if it’s a human breed tree, similar to how lavender or heather dies because it lignifies to much. 4th Water shoots are something totally different not all first year shoots are Water shoots. And especially at your example pictures most of those branches are NOT water shoots. 5th Its absolutely okay to be against what the Film companies did and it surely wasn’t necessary to prune those trees right at that moment. But don’t just take a side and create a hill to die on because you think it’s a stronger argument for how evil the companies are, when the pruning hurts the tree.

All the full sun, native, drought-tolerant plants I've planted in my south facing front lawn that's only about 10 feet wide between my white house and the blacktop asphalt street are thriving.... except the Eastern Purple Coneflower, she never stood a chance out there lmao

Yeah we need to stop mowing our lawns and plant native plants there instead.

Some trees are like that. But some do have deep roots.

I see people do this all the time to crepe myrtle trees and I hate it.

They also make drivers drive slower! It has something to do with feeling closed in, so people will drive more carefully than they would on a street with no trees!

And yet annoying HOAS still mandate green grass in lawns.

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You are such an inspiration. This gives me hope for the world.

Irresponsible?

I think i know where one maybe. I can't say for sure but I know it was old enough to drop nuts in the 80s. so there is a small chance.

Thanks for getting the word out about natives! If you do a follow-up, maybe Joe Pye weed, prairie sundrops, New England Aster, Wild Quinine, Ironweed, and the Paw Paw tree, sole larval host plant to the endangered Zebra Swallowtail, a perfect suburban understory tree. You have a video on Paw Paw, right? Looking for it in woods?

I had two in my yard growing up. Absolutely disgusting but my parents and pet rats loved them. You'll definitely know if it's one when you have a thousand splinters in your knees or feet from the spikey balls.

Im in Washington PA where can i find native wildflower seed mixes?

Jealous of all your flowers

Developing my front lawn into a wild flower situation. It's so exciting to see all the bees just constantly tumbling in and out of flowers!

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I have three species of Echinacea (Purpurea, Angustifolia, and Tennesseensis, I love echinacea alright lol) growing both in front and back yard, and two Rudbeckia species (Fulgida and Subtomentosa) in said backyard, and they're all doing very well here right now fortunately enough, I am also having thoughts of adding Hibiscus specifically moscheutos which is also known as swamp rose mallow, Blazing star, Ratbida Pinnata/Gray headed coneflower, and Echinacea Paradoxa/Yellow Coneflower/Bush's Coneflower in the left side of my backyard, though I will be doing that next year basically gardening of 2025:P

That’s alot of tree-ning

Vegans would argue they don’t want to eat a product of a talking creature. 😂

Trees manipulated by men are as you describe but, some trees have roots as long as the tree itself😮

This is what my neighbors lawns look like because they mow them twice a week 😂

I hate when I see this. It’s ugly and ruins the poor tree.

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that milkweed is gorgeous! my kids and i found 2 monarch caterpillars this year, we just watched them hatch into strong butterflies and released them this week. it’s harder every year to find them. we searched miles of ditch along country roads here in VT where there is no lack of milkweed. for the last 2 falls, we spread the milkweed seed pods all over our field in our front yard which we keep as a natural grassland

My 2.5 meter tall Rudbeckia are looking a lot nicer than our nieghbor's brown rectangle

Why is watering your lawn irresponsible? Genuine question not a dig

Stop telling people the truth about climate change. Pretty soon everyone will be onto the lawn scam and climate change will make a lot less sense. Agendas will end!

Someone should tell HOA.

I'm french and this turf grass is not even adapted to our weather and to the fauna and flora. It's already completely dry and yellow in some areas because it is cut too short! 😑 I really enjoy the concept of bringing back native plants. It is something very new to me. Thanks for your videos. ☺️👍🌸

I love what you are doing to educate everyone ❤

Oh Please you people are ridiculous.

Native plant for the win 🏆

Eff lawns! It's senseless. Make room for habitat so you don't have to go to a park to enjoy wildlife.!

Just to let you know - they don't do well in europe either. They are ment to coexist with other herbs and weeds as thick 40-150cm tall meadows and pastures, living in partial shade with the ground and roots never seeing the direct sunlight. And even then grasses die of pretty quickly, because they have one job only - to produce seeds. And just like grains like wheat and oats, that happens sometimes during the mid-summer. After that the majority of those plants turn dry for the rest of the year. They tend to come back somewhat during autumn weather fluctuations since those often mimic spring, but the point is that grass turf is dead grass and sometimes even the best watering and fertilizing doesn't help.

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and you don't have mow and it's so much better looking

Grass is and ornamental green, that needs a copious amount of water. Personally I’ve been thinking of tearing it out replace it with crushed stone and flowers shrubs

PREACH IT! Seriously, grass isn't supposed to stay green in the hot months. It naturally has two dormant periods, winter AND summer. This social expectation of keeping a perfect green lawn is more than a little ridiculous. And irresponsible, as you said.

Love your plants

I replaced the years-dead lawn with native flowering plants at the property I rent, with permission from my landlord 6mo ago, and a few days ago they decided they don't like it because it's 10" tall, so they mowed it all down and have plans to put grass there again. You can't win when you can't change superficial people's minds.

Once again, *_everything_* about the American yard/lawn was designed in a lab to be as expensive to ppl & cruel to wildlife as unnaturally possible.

I’m doing this with my lawn right now in north Florida! Hoping I don’t have to let it grow crazy long to see some flowers though!

Ya love to see it. Keep rewilding brother. 👍🏻

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The same thing is happening in my neighborhood. Luckily our property is wild, so our native grasses and wildflowers are absolutely THRIVING in the summer heat 🥰You have a beautiful native garden!💕

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