Growing Native Plants in 2025? Here's What I am Growing!

[@lisalikesplants]

So happy you're back! 🌱🌱🌱

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you!

[@JessaFisher]

ThankYOU for coming back! There is no one like you and you add a wonderful energy to you tube. Thank you!!!

[@JessaFisher]

Also thank you for admitting your failures, that makes me feel better!

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you so much! 🥰That means a lot to me!

[@ninetypercentnative]

Great to hear! I will def keep that in mind now when making videos!!!

[@karengroh6256]

I'm so glad you are back and happy to hear that you are doing well. Great video!

[@ninetypercentnative]

You are too kind, thank you!

[@awildapproach]

Yay! Glad to see you're back. Definitely glad you took a break, though, as we all need it sometimes. Life is wild! As for the plants, I planted two coralberry shrubs, too, and I'm so excited to see how they do. I put one in my courtyard garden area and the other near my front garden arbor. I am hoping mine get 4 feet tall and wide, because that feels like a great size for where I put them. The bellflower looks gorgeous and I've been meaning to get seeds for that for ages and I keep forgetting to. I love side oats grama. Mine are still babies, but I loved its flowers so much. So dainty and charming. In general, I'm needing more of the shorter plants like that in my garden, so I'm excited to keep adding things like that. Welcome back!

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you! So good to hear from you!

[@victoriamutarelli138]

welcome back! I can't wait to see what spouts this spring!

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you!

[@PlantNative]

Exciting! I have a Coralberry that I trimmed a bit from the top in early spring. I stuck the cuttings in the ground and it rooted and grew. I know it’s a clone but hey…free plant. ❤ Side Oats has minute flowers and the tiniest of pollinators use it. Very sweet.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Hi!! Thank you so much for the Coralberry propagation idea!! I am absolutely doing that.

[@brendadrury4414]

Welcome back. I live in northern Virginia also. I live my violets in the spring. I have large areas of them in my backyard.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Hi Neighbor!!! Thank you for dropping in!

[@taylorswf23]

Welcome back Michele!

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you!

[@joannesmith1287]

Good to see you back. You may also like TN nursery for bare roots. They are very reasonable and have sales and a great inventory. I also am trying to use more latin names because it clears up confusion of plants with the same common name. I have ordered some of the same seeds as you. I winter sow but use rotisserie chicken containers. You might like to grow Lupine from seed. Use Everwilde grow instructions 180 boiling water, soak overnight., plant, germination 7/8 days. Look forward to your next video.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you for all the great information!!! I purchased the Carolina Allspice from TN and the Coralberry and Fragrant Sumac from Cold Stream. I forgot to mention that in the video. That was the second order I have placed through them and I have not been disappointed. Keep me updated on your sowing and growing results!

[@christiridley1009]

Good to see you again, plant friend 😊 Also, I learned about the "Chelsea Chop" from you, and I do that to my ironwood to keep it shorter in some places.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you! 🥰 I swear, so much of what I have learned has been from British gardeners!

[@mywildwelshgarden-es3fr]

Hello from South Wales, UK. I have only just discovered your channel. The UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world so I am trying to grow native plants for wildlife and encourage others to do the same. Very few people here grow native plants and most are unaware of their importance for wildlife. I have been growing some wild flowers from seed and I have just planted a 6 square metre tiny forest, which is as small as you can go, I think. I`m very excited to see how it does. I`m looking forward to seeing your experiments with propagation and hoping I can learn something, Isabel

[@ninetypercentnative]

Hello! So exciting to hear from someone in another country! I've learned much of what I know from British gardeners! Do you follow Joel Ashton, @WildYourGardenWithJoelAshton? He has an amazing orchard and meadow restoration project. I am a big fan of his videos and what he is doing over there. Thanks for stopping in, keep me updated on your native plant journey!

[@mywildwelshgarden-es3fr]

@@ninetypercentnative Yes I do follow Joel Ashton, in fact I have just ordered some bare root trees from his shop to add to my tiny forest. And some wildflower seeds, as my next project is to try making a mini wildflower meadow. If you`re interested I am sharing my journey on KZbin @mywildwelshgarden-es3fr

[@heidijasper5915]

Welcome back!!! 🎉 I had not heard of Cold Stream Nursery. I am excited because it is in MI, my neighbor to the north. As I start my shady natives nursery to support myself, I will need wonderful resources like this one to get bare root plants.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Hello! I also order bareroot from TN Nursery. Here is a good resource for shady gardens you may be interested in, carolynsshadegardens.com/2012/04/02/your-native-woodland-if-you-build-it-they-will-come/.

[@heidijasper5915]

@ninetypercentnative thank you so very much! I am just compiling a list of nurseries and wholesalers!

[@ninetypercentnative]

If I think of anything else, I will pass it along! I love using Etsy as well for bare root.

[@gaillarkin7409]

Glad to see you back! There is so much great information on this video.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you!!

[@chubbybottomacres]

I live in Tn and we have a yearly Tennessee tree day, I wasn't going to get any this year but got 6 because of your video, thank you? lol just kidding a real thank you cause i would have been sad come spring if i hadn't gotten them

[@ninetypercentnative]

Oh my goodness! 🤣🤣🤣 I looked up the program, that's so cool! We have something similar but just for my county its called Fairfax Releaf, such a cute name.

[@martystevens2313]

Did cold stream farm have a sale when you bought the ferns? 50 for $40 is a steal! I rushed to their website, but they are 3.20 each so 50 would be $160.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Hi! The bare root Christmas ferns were from an Etsy seller, www.etsy.com/shop/CaneCreekMeadows?ref=yr_purchases. Just know, I do not think I have ordered from them in the past so I cannot speak to quality and service.

[@videoviewer570]

Can you please provide a list of the native plants you cited / are growing in 2025? PS I live about 10 miles from West Point VA.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Yes, I actually was planning to put that in the description. Thank you for saying something!!! I will do that now and below: Shrubs ordered (bare root): Calycanthus floridus/Carolina Allspice Symphoricarpos orbiculatus/Coralberry Rhus Aromatica/Fragrant Sumac Perennials ordered (bare root): Pachysandra procumbens/Allegheny pachysandra Polystichum acrostichoides/Christmas fern Spigelia marilandica/Indian Pink Iris cristata/Dwarf Crested Iris Perennials (growing from seed): Viola eriocarpa/Yellow Violet Triodanis perfoliata/Venus’ Looking Glass Liatris Spicata/Dense Blazing Star Vernonia noveboracensis/NY Ironweed - Dwarf variety Allium Cernuum/Nodding Onion Bouteloua curtipendula/Sideoats Grama Spiraea tomentosa/Steeplebush Campanula americana/Tall Bellflower Agastache foeniculum/Anise Hyssop Monarda Punctata/Spotted Bee Balm Hypericum Punctatum/Spotted St. John’s Wort Parthenium integrifolium/Wild Quinine Camassia Scilloides/Wild Hyacinth Antennaria Plantaginifolia/Pussy Toes Zizia Aurea/Golden Alexanders Prunella vulgaris subsp. lanceolata/Heal All

[@ninetypercentnative]

Also, I have very close friends in West Point. We visit a couple times a year. Almost always for the Crab Carnival. :)

[@zathras2010]

Where do you find those deep cell propagation trays you mentioned? I see lots of farms using them on KZbin but nobody tells where they got them from

[@ninetypercentnative]

I bought mine in 2019, here is a link, amzn.to/3PqhDbl. They are not hard plastic and won't last forever. Mine probably started falling apart 2022/2023ish. I am pretty hard on my stuff too.

[@nicolasbertin8552]

Plants grown together don't grow faster because of competition, they grow faster because they help each other. It's been proven that plants have different bacterial ecosystems at their roots (that they even store on or in their seeds so their descendants get a headstart), and they take nutrients from their collaboration with these bacteria (as well as fungi). Some plants will be good at phosphorus intake, some at nitrogen etc... And if you plant different families of plants close together, they will grow faster because they will exchange the nutrients or bacteria with each other, either because they're connected through mycorhizae, or because their roots are close together, and bacteria can benefit both plants. However, if you plant 2 plants of the same family together, they won't benefit since they're good at the same thing. Once you know this "technique", you start to understand how some of the garden myths have occured : plant this between tomatoes to protect them, this at the foot of peach trees to help them etc... In reality, all plant families are beneficial to one another, it's not just one miracle plant. You don't HAVE to plant marigold near tomatoes. It could be basil, parsley, mint, whatever. They all help with nutrient intake, growth. It even works for plants good at taking in water. I have an helianthus Lemon Queen that grows poorly unless I water it. However, elsewhere in the garden I have the exact same species of helianthus, growing near a walnut tree, and it's thriving, no watering needed at all... I'm pretty sure it's taking water from the tree through mycorrhizae.