MAJOR Transformation! From GRASSHOLE to LUSH, ECOLogical Landscape// Year 1 Follow-Up!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

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[@kemosabikeemanart]

Wicked

[@allanturpin2023]

Thanks for the update Pete. There's always such massive potential when you show us a finished install, it's really cool to see that potential become reality with the follow up. It's like there's a cliff ready to collapse when you guys leave, but instead of an avalanche of rocks, the homeowners have fruit tumbling out. I'm glad we get to see it too.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks Allan! I love that analogy 🙏

[@ChefDwight]

Thanks for the tour. I love that they grow things naturally with no fertilizer 👊🏾pound dirt

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

The way nature intended!

[@dwele7852]

wow, I never appreciated how many edible plants were all over the place when I lived in Africa. As kids, my friends and I would race from house to house collecting loquats, avocado, papaya, and hibiscus flowers as a competition then gorge on the fruit and play games with the seeds. I miss those days, I hope to make a similar landscape soon.

[@missing_score]

i've been obsessed with gaillardia since i was 7 years old seeing them always makes me happy

[@native_earth916]

This. Is. Rad. Thanks Pete for always keeping us in the loop 🙌 i absolutely appreciate the time you spend putting these videos together, you and Matt are absolutely killing it on these design's! 💪

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Glad you enjoyed! 👊

[@53peace]

Enjoyed this fantastic video tour of your lovely home. A piece of heaven on Earth! Stay Blessed! What an amazing place!

[@milkweeddreams8828]

I love how in the spring the rains will just set everything into it's growing/fruiting phase, I am thrilled to see this place again...it reminds me of home...awesome job...!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thank you 🙏

[@KeithHoranParkour]

Such an inspiration. I've learned about so many plants I'd never known existed thanks to you. These walkthroughs are much appreciated!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks bro! 🙏

[@amosduggan]

Really awesome to see these updates on the projects that we see you do from start to finish. 👊😎

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 👊

[@funnybones6131]

Wow 🤩 what a house 🏠 😁 very spacious, organic fruit garden, lake 😅 can’t get better 👏🏼😁

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Living the green dream 👊

[@anthonylehner3643]

Superb transformation! I hope more people will continue to make the change to this kind of much more ecological yard. Keep up the great work brother!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 😊

[@ChefDwight]

Love the view from the air

[@nonnoziccardy4353]

Epic job, looks amazing and is a great example of what can be done with a yard that looks fantastic and is better for the environment 👍

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks my friend 🙌

[@es-quire]

Wow I'm just speechless. That's awesome man

[@ourfloridagarden4191]

Yes, it’s Metro/ suburban Permaculture. Edibles and natives in the neighborhood. This shows that with minimal gardening from the homeowner and minimal attention from landscapers anyone can have this. There really is no reason why not.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

YES🙌

[@johnmcneill923]

Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL ... wonderful! Pete... Geoff and the late Bill M would be pleased. My front yard is full of large bottomless pots as out HOA does not allow fruit trees planted in ground in front yards. Now working on greenbelt area behind house. Fruit tree forest potential. Amazingly seeds grow fast in this area 🤭😊😉🍺🍺

[@davidwelty9763]

Beautiful transformation.

[@vintagetrishgarden]

Very attractive and great growth in such a short time 👌🏻

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks Trish 🙌

[@Rebecca.Robbins]

That property is AMAZING!!!!!!!

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 😊

[@gladyrose21]

Beautify and is amazing the transformation. You are making me home sick and a good way i grew up with similar landscape which was our life style. You bring tears to my eyes when you when by that hibiscus flower,my Gramma used to make tea out of the flower to lower our fever. And hummingbird love it for it nectar content. Great job Pete God bless you. Thanks for being a inspiration.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@Deltonagardens]

Banana pits- i wasnt thrilled with the look of the mulch being large chunks so i picked up a small 11hp mulcher/chipper and plan to just feed my mexican sunflower and banana leafs into that sucker!

[@Danfoodforest]

Everything looks great .... Thanks for the update

[@ChefDwight]

The landscape looks beautiful 👍🏾

[@elizabethdavis1696]

Can we get a plant list ? So we can look them up?

[@jeff6899]

You so effectively apply the term "Grasshole" (lol--love it !), that I think Webster's may add it to their next Dictionary edition !😁😁😄🤗 ....Fantastic ! :)

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

We need shirts! 👊

[@jeff6899]

Pete...I'd probably buy one of those ;)

[@survivingtodie]

Wow I’ve watched a lot of your videos never realized how close you are, I’m right in Inverness currently working on turning my girlfriends quarter acre lot in the suburbs into a food medicinal plant forest, got a lot of inspiration from your videos and have a lot of respect for what you’re doing. I currently have 75+ cuttings of Peruvian apple cactus that I transplanted from the cuttings of a single cactus mother plant, in totally natural organic soil no added fertilizer or compost and in less than two months I have 11 flower buds on a single cutting! Went all out growing blue corn , yellow corn, tomatillos , tomatoes, six varieties of pepper, cherry plum, Persian silk trees, aloe Vera, ginger, fiesta &red& white/red center hibiscus, peas, carrots, okra , burgundy okra, opal basil, mesclun, banana gold finger variety , plantain , dragonfruit, yellow onion, potato, pineapple, rustica tobacco, cucumber, yellow and red sunflower, Don Juan rose climber, moonflower, passionflower, green grapes, poppies, tiger lily , and two kinds of palms , just to name a few 😂😂 lotta inspiration in these videos just wanted to say thanks for your time and efforts it doesn’t go unnoticed 🤙🤙🤙

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Holy crap! Y’all are killing it. Keep it up 🙏👊🙌

[@enlightenedkerry8594]

Woohoo! Another great job! Looking forward to the next one! Much love from Southern California

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Much love Cali! 👊

[@kristofp72]

Well done man it looks like you've found a perfect middle ground between the well manicured garden style of the client, the edible garden & touches of permaculture.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks man!! Now to show other landscapers this is the way.

[@jamesb6500]

Beautiful, well done.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 🙏

[@ChefDwight]

I'll stay at the jackfruit tree 😋

[@gabrielag9846]

Great-looking property! Quick question.. what's the irrigation situation like? I'm sure most (if not all) of these plants can thrive on our natural rainfall, but I would assume that the plants would need supplemental water for a little while as their roots establish. Did the homeowner need to drag a hose around the property for a few weeks?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks! We converted the overhead irrigation to a more water saving micro irrigation system. They only use it during dry season.

[@j.r.hutchinson1897]

I've been waiting for this video. Thank you.

[@khmerguidinglife1349]

The little similar star shape I have never seen before , thank for the tour

[@ChefDwight]

Good morning Pete what's growing on 👊🏾

[@MichaelMartinussen]

Love it!

[@keeslocksmiths8407]

Love all the vids, such good info

[@ameisherry]

Here’s some ideas 💡 In taiwan 🇹🇼 they plant Kandelia obovata next to the river, it’s grows very well in sand and loves the water as well

[@matthewhicks6895]

Looks amazing. Great job Pete. How do you get the passion fruit to grow in full like that?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks! Just proper amendments when planted and love.

[@Mrbfgray]

Trimmed palms look fantastic, much better w/o 'deadwood' even tho I like things fairly natural but dead not attractive. Love the tunnel but I'd have to open it up even if losing some fruit, I loath ducking. Gorgeous property--WELL DONE.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks Bo!👊

[@thebeardedgrower4625]

How can you keep a jackfruit tree alive in Longwood? I just looked it up and it doesn't live in anything colder then zone 10 and that's zone 9. I love jackfruit so if there is a trick to growing it in zone 9 I must know??

[@1d1hamby]

Depends on the microclimate you can create to keep the cold air off of it and the variety. All gardening is an experiment.

[@jbfanta]

Love the environment

[@releventhurt]

Kage team Mother Nature, it’s awesome¡

[@2tall4youtube]

I found that Mangolia X Alba does shoot a lot of root the first year from planting, but does not push growrth that much. I find it pushes a lot of growth second and third year from planting.

[@LoganBrownMedia]

For the area with the pool pumps, it's fine to plant galangal? They won't disturb the piping? Do you recommend any particular plants to put around pool piping and septic tanks areas?

[@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel]

So many for me to look up and try out. Do you ship out galangal? That looked interesting

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Not yet with the galangal. Eventually with that one.

[@mereanit9409]

Thank you for the tour. Are those edible hibiscus what we call 'Bele' in Fiji?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Glad you enjoyed. I’m not sure about that one

[@marcellecrago9330]

So inspiring!

[@mylesadams1662]

have a banana pit out the front and felt the banana pit probably wasn't the nicest on the eye so put some clumping grasses around and clumping grasses hedges also help to hid the permaculture mess esp when you have a front food forest... lol!

[@releventhurt]

I got to grow a landscape with this aesthetic it’s so pleasing

[@1d1hamby]

Everything looks great after you were done. Thanks for the video and keep up the great work. Won't those Tithonia take off in the banana pit? Are there any pomegranate that work well in this area?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks David! The Tithonia was green so it should just break down. It’s been hit or miss with the pomegranate, I haven’t found a reliable one yet.

[@honeytreefarmnc]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks bro 👊

[@AngelRuiz-if7bp]

Awesome landscape! How do you get rid of the grass so quickly to start the foodscape project?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks! We use the sod cutter and the proper machines to get this done quickly.

[@cjsredfish]

That looks like a good balance of nice classic and yet functional landscaping. What is the variety name of the cold hardy guava on the front corner of the house? Also what's the best cold hardy avocado for the Fl panhandle you've seen?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks! That’s a cattley guava. I think it would be Del rio, poncho or Lila.

[@cjsredfish]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL thanks very much. I wasn't even close on that spelling. I miss a lot of the tropical fruits that I once had access to growing up. Excellent videos.

[@ameisherry]

You are doing an amazing job 👍

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 🙏

[@jasonbaker7598]

Do you expect the jack fruit tree to produce fruit that far north?

[@jeff6899]

Fyi Only--Just bought a small All Simpson's Stopper (Shostopper) at a nursery late last week here in Metro Phx. Doing some more research right after, showed it was a common shrub in some places in FLA ! A rarity here in Phx, though...

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Score! They should handle the heat after established.

[@maxuladath1009]

cool. very satisfying to the eyes.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Thanks 😊

[@MELISSAJAMESSeagypsy50]

Hey hey what's growin on. I have a question, we are moving to Florida in about 2 weeks. We have a lot of house plants. Do you know the laws on bringing plants across state lines? Thanks for your help.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Hello! It’s normally just fruit trees they’re concerned about, you should be fine with ornamentals.

[@ameisherry]

I grow up with eating that flower as well :) taste so sweet

[@MarcellaSmithVegan]

I've not see comfry in videos in SWFlorida, does comfry not do well down there?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

It’s hit or miss in Florida. The further north the better it does.

[@alenajoseph6954]

Pete good morning, my passion fruit is hoaded with flowers and they are opening and closing by night . but I noticed they are all dieing and falling off, I tried pollinate by hand but still falling, what to do,I am in the Caribbean

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Good question. If it’s not pollinating it’s probably not a fruiting variety.

[@piedpiper7051]

You were in my neck of the woods!

[@brianthian8449]

Hi Pete, do you know if all Canna lilies are edible? And if not, how can we distinguish between the edible and inedible varieties? I love growing it as a hedge and biomass plant, but if all are edible then that adds to the functions 👍🏼

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Hey Brian! I just know the varieties we grow are edible, they aren’t easy to distinguish. You really have to know the source.

[@brianthian8449]

Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL thanks! Will try and find some experts 👍🏼

[@lupusk9productions]

Did you guys install irrigation tubing for all of that or is Florida that awesome to not need it? Speaking from Arizona... haha.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

We actually converted the existing irrigation system to a micro irrigation system. It doesn’t get used very often. Basically as soon as rainy season gets here it is shut off.

[@theresadailey5809]

enjoyed the follow up, maybe the citrus trees need some companion trees to help each other ?

[@christianrogers4339]

This was in Longwood, FL? I used to live there lol. I live in Altamonte Springs now

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Yes! Awesome area.

[@ChefDwight]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 " Don't be a grasshole "

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

👊

[@cissoliaarvidsson8654]

I really want your job! :D

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

The world needs more of me! Become an ecological landscaper 😉

[@joseurena2575]

👊👊👊

[@Ilie1982___]

👍👍

[@Kizarat]

Hey Pete do you provide any volunteer opportunities?

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Not at this time. I have something in the works.

[@Kizarat]

@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL Awesome, keep us updated.

[@ryandombrowski5340]

Pygmy date palm makes an edible fruit. It's not much, but tasty when properly ripe

[@robotdeathderby]

watching these videos makes me feel like i live in a dumpster

[@kristofp72]

I can relate

[@Naturestheway]

Lots of us unfortunately

[@andreinarangel6227]

5th viewer

[@dorothydecembre5239]

Be careful you eat aunts while eating the flowers.

[@carlosvargasbatman]

I don't like grass but the word grasshole is oddly disturbing. It paints a visual imagine of a grassy anus.

[@kevinbrown8172]

That place does look nice, but as packed as it is up close to the house means much worse mosquitos that lurk for birds in the bushes and a lot more reptiles of all kinds. We have so many in Florida that constantly crap all over every surface of our house, making such a mess. And Cuban tree frogs- the worst! So it’s a trade off.

[@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL]

Disagree. It’s about creating a healthy ecosystem, I wish lynne would chime in here and tell you that the mosquito problem has actually went down. That is the homeowner. I’ll get her in the next video for you.

[@kevinbrown8172]

It’s neat and sure it’s healthy, but as an old native Floridian I’m telling you from experience it’s critter and skeeter heaven. I like it, don’t get me wrong, but if you don’t want patio furniture, walls and windows and doors always covered with black turds, snakes all over the place, instant bug bites and big frogs jumping and peeing on you every time you open the door at night...for you Non-Floridians that may not know...

[@1d1hamby]

I have lived in Florida for over ten years and have less of a problem with your critter scenario with native ground covers and plants than I did with a "grasshole" yard. Many grasshole yards that I visited had twice the problems as a native species yard.