Well done. The local pollinators are going to love them!
@Andrew_the_Arborist5 ай бұрын
Thank you! I hope so 🤞🤞
@bananasgrowing5 ай бұрын
“spent a few hours…” what a way to enjoy the day 😊
@Unfortunately_Mickey5 ай бұрын
I would be super interested if you did a series on good yard plants for various other areas of America. Not only the native plants, but the soil comp of some areas are so different to work with.
@nicktozie66854 ай бұрын
I love what you do homie, get it going international. Beautiful work
@Gwen09215 ай бұрын
Thank you for info on native gardening💛💛
@Istielthia5 ай бұрын
I live just south of you in Md and we're showing trying to convey our backyard from non-native grasses to native (or at least naturalized) ground cover. We're starting with a path area near our shade garden & using a mix of common violet, white clover and stonecrop to fill in the area. We're also trying to minimize the amount of mowing we have to do by trying to keep all the ground covers we plant to 5 inches or under. 🤞🏻
@Andrew_the_Arborist5 ай бұрын
That's great! One step at a time. Best of luck
@prisonerr246015 ай бұрын
"still some weeding to do" Grass: how the turn tables
@Andrew_the_Arborist5 ай бұрын
They better stay away, or else 🤨
@xSol_Raven5 ай бұрын
I'd like to inform you the subtitles are completely covered by the channel name
@Andrew_the_Arborist5 ай бұрын
Thanks - I'll adjust for next time! This was my first time using an external application for subtitles, so I apologize for messing it up!
@xSol_Raven5 ай бұрын
@@Andrew_the_ArboristNo worries friend, happens. Enjoyed the video regardless.
@linwong14945 ай бұрын
Excited to see the progress you've made! Clicked the instant I saw the update.
@Andrew_the_Arborist5 ай бұрын
Thank you! Hoping to document each step of the way, just in case this turns out to work well lol.
@ahaanh84562 ай бұрын
I always put a layer of overlapping cardboard, soak it then top it off with compost while putting wooden planks side.
@whittledwoods5 ай бұрын
This is great! Quick question though, how do you keep invasive species/undesirable grasses out of a native plant garden? Is there any maintenance you have to perform or do the natives begin to outcompete the invasive intruders?
@aaronacevedo3215 ай бұрын
Where does one find native plant seeds? Most nurseries by me have the usual big store plants
@Andrew_the_Arborist5 ай бұрын
If you're in the eastern US, check out Ernst Seeds - they have a great number of native seed mixes. If you're looking for something more localized, check out this great resource from Homegrown National Park: homegrownnationalpark.org/directory/
@gratedshtick5 ай бұрын
Quick question, where can you find this kind of native wildflower mix? Did you just get a bunch thay were native to the area or was there a special mix?
@johnd16555 ай бұрын
there are websites like americanmeadows or prariemoon that sell native seeds mixes. some of their wildflower mixes include non-native seeds, however. You can also find local seed shops for your area that only sell native seeds.
@20firebird5 ай бұрын
do you have any advice for finding what native flowers would fare best in my backyard?
@jaxwagen42384 ай бұрын
I have a ton of blue violet in my yard. Should I just let it do its thing or should I try to control the spread?
@OnyxaeDrac5 ай бұрын
Where did you buy the seeds? I want to plant more native plants but I'm not sure where to get the seeds from
@alexandramorrison14215 ай бұрын
Muhlenbergia schreberi gang let's goo
@Andrew_the_Arborist5 ай бұрын
What a chill lil grass dude lol. Love nimblewill
@Felis-Concolor5 ай бұрын
I’m in New Jersey and picked up native wildflower mixes. It says not to plant the seeds until it’s above 60 degrees, is this true? I already planted it and it’s been low 50s all week.
@ElizabethWarrenYeahYeah5 ай бұрын
Yellow rattle eats and eradicates unwanted grasses leaving room for meadow flowers.
@Dimigg5 ай бұрын
❤️
@niah.92035 ай бұрын
If there's not much turf grass to worry about, world the tarp need to still be covering the area for 5 months? (No turf grass but other weeds present)
@Andrew_the_Arborist5 ай бұрын
Probably not! You can manually remove the weeds if you want. But if the ground is mostly bare and sunny, you can probably just rough up the surface a bit with a metal rake, and sow directly into that, making sure to control any non-native weeds that pop up.
@niah.92035 ай бұрын
@@Andrew_the_Arborist awesome! I got scared because I have 2 months to select some seed and put it down 😂
@y0nd3r5 ай бұрын
For the folks who are sick to death of christianized plant names, the star of bethlehem's real name is Ornithogalum umbellatum. Some people also call it grass lilie.
@CWorgen57325 ай бұрын
The ornithogalum is terrible. It's in our entire lawn, when i was a kid it was only under one tree.
@Andrew_the_Arborist5 ай бұрын
It's so bad! I don't know how it's spreading in my yard. It was not bad at all 3 or 4 years ago, but now it's much more abundant. Each year, I carefully dig up a bunch and I mow down the rest so they don't flower, but they still spread.
@CWorgen57325 ай бұрын
@@Andrew_the_Arborist My best suggestion is to *not* shake the dirt off the clumps. They make baby bulb-lets right by their roots, and those are so tiny that you don't even notice when they fall off into the soil.
@beansbutterreviewwagon25425 ай бұрын
Sshhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeewwwww
@Fatpumpumlovah25 ай бұрын
lol, those annoying "bulbs" are wild onion IDJUT!!!
@Andrew_the_Arborist5 ай бұрын
Nope they’re not. I harvest all of Allium vineale in my yard for cooking and eating. This stuff is Star-of-Bethlehem - not edible. I think I know what grows in my own yard, thanks though!
@Fatpumpumlovah25 ай бұрын
@@Andrew_the_Arborist Understood. but i was looking at the bulb, its singular not multiple knobs like Star of Bethlehem and at that size and thickness (of the stem) the extra bumped out bulbs would have started already, its why i based my answer that way. I could be wrong tho.
@Fatpumpumlovah25 ай бұрын
@@Andrew_the_Arborist in addition even if it is its not a trash plant. it has medicinal purposes, as it is applied to wounds to cauterize and promote healing, and has also been used to treat asthma, bronchitis, epilepsy and hydrophobia