MAY Tour of POLLINATOR GARDEN - Ep. 097

[@cefcat5733]

This is gonna be good. My Grandfather, born in the late 18oo's recited this each year. 'Spring is sprung, the grass is ris' ' I wonder where the flowers is.' 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

[@YunaOnHome]

I like your wooden mushrooms, they add a bit of magic to contrast with your woodland

[@drekfletch]

If you don't have any yet, I recommend looking into dianthus deltoides. "Mat forming," it grows about 6-10" tall with flowers much smaller than regular dianthus. Ours are self-sewn and spread very nicely.

[@antoniocalo1959]

Watching from the Philippines. Mabuhay.

[@makaveli1085]

Nothing is better then starting my mornings with a coffee and watching your videos. Absolutely inspiring!

[@stephaniecottrell2413]

Geum trifolum is pollinated only by bumblebees specifically Queens emerging from hibernation. Bumblebees are strong enough to pry the flowers open. Thank you for highlighting this plant. If anyone wants to help bumblebees this plant is important early spring food source.

[@johnstone7763]

Cool garden tour with an enthusiastic gardener, doesn't get much better. Wonderful design, loving that prairie smoke!

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Really hope the G. triflorum seeds establish in the meadow down below too! First time seeing prairie smoke was on top of an alpine meadow in British Columbia, close to the arctic border.

[@jsaysyay]

inspired from your gardens forming, i've added at least 35 species of native seeds, and put succulents in an extremely dry spot, so thank you for such continual inspiration (noted the use of "spongy moth" at the start, didn't know it changed but glad to hear it as i've always been too uncomfortable to say the old name)

[@toddbigeasy]

I like to use the planned "chaos" style too! I have a shade garden that is just now bumbling shoulders and I love it!!

[@toddbigeasy]

Bumping..ha

[@thedivide3688]

You have a really good eye for planting and layout. It looks great!

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Thank you very much!

[@NemysidaTV]

Such a lovely garden! You managed to put so many different plants in such a small area, can't wait to see it in it's full glory. I suggest you behead tulips after they're done blooming. They will not produce seeds but they will waste a lot of energy in trying, by beheading them you redirect that energy back into the bulb so it can grow and produce a big strong flower next year as well.

[@honeycaffena4897]

Thank you, looking forward to seeing more, & learning 🪴from your life’s gardening story

[@depeti]

The albizia survives -15 Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) winters without any issues in central Europe. Only needs extra protection when young. Ours is 8 years old and have no problems after winter. Good luck with yours, beautiful tree :)

[@wandashaw3551]

The Garden is looking GREAT!! Looking forward to seeing her grow and really become fuller!!

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Us too! Thank you.

[@suekuly4723]

Enjoyed this. Thanks guys for sharing.

[@sherry2836]

I love planning and planting my garden. I can see that you do as well! Your gardens will look beautiful when all those plants get established and make themselves at home. I had to smile at 7:38, the "crazy hair, don't care" flowers! Very sweet. You both are doing wonderful work there and I look forward to seeing all the progress!

[@noahabbott133]

You are going to LOVE that salvia “rose marvel” when it grows it it’s just beautiful mine has more than doubled in size and it’s only its second year!

[@pray_plant_paint]

Beautiful! I moved to FL from upstate NY and this is a reminder of my gardens past. Honestly, I don't miss my old gardens, but loved watching this nostalgic reminder. This will be a beautiful pollinator patch given time. Thank you for sharing.

[@judymckerrow6720]

1st year sleeping 2nd year creeping 3rd year leaping, they will spread 🌸💚🙃

[@gardengatesopen]

Your Garden is FANTASTIC Summer!! It's going to be fun following the ever changing progress of it! 💚🌱💚

[@davidhuth5659]

There is a guy on KZbin, James Prigioni, who turned his yard into a food forest. He uses contractor paper in place of cardboard. It is available at big box hardware stores on rolls. If you can't find enough cardboard, you might consider this. Everything looks great! Keep up the great work!

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Not a bad substitute!

[@jeanneamato8278]

Love rock gardens and yours is turning out to be quite interesting. You’re gardening for blooms to pop up at different times and places. Fun.

[@sylviagutierrez7676]

Is looking so beautiful!! And can not wait for updates.. 💚🌱🌵🪴

[@flowerpixel]

I love flowering ground covers. This is gorgeous. Taking notes on the plants you mentioned

[@bellamariagoes]

We are prepping our small farm and I'm learning so many things from your videos! I feel like I'm always in a fieldtrip. 💚

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Glad it can be a source of information for you to apply on your own farm.

[@sandylee1717]

Just beautiful!

[@sandragoerlich7134]

For their first year plants are looking beautiful great diversity, there will be plenty of food for pollinators, thanks for sharing!!!

[@FlockFingerLakes]

And thank you for watching and enjoying :)

[@FlockFingerLakes]

And thank you for watching and enjoying :)

[@lorrainelander2421]

Hi. I love your garden. It's great to be watching it evolve. I wanted to share a method I used years ago when I moved into a property with a lot of tent caterpillars. I put up birdhouses, particularly for chickadee and titmice in the trees that were the most affected (for me this was wild black cherry). Then I took an extension pole and tore open the tents to make sure the parent birds could get access to the caterpillars to feed their babies.

[@thunder402]

I enjoy seeing what your putting in your gardens. Gardens have seasons and its fun to watch them evolve. Have fun!!!

[@missprettyplants7217]

So beautiful!! love the design so much and the plants are so pretty! 🌸

[@cmur4372]

Beautiful garden!

[@creech444]

I love the Dianthus/Sweet William, here I buy the fancy mix seed mix. They're amazing the first couple of years with the fancy colors, but after that tend t reseed into the more basic solid magenta/pink which are still a bright spot in the early Spring. I probably would have never bought them on their own, but discovered them in a wildflower seed mix and just fell in love with them. I've started a number of my flower beds with various wildflower mixes, with the annuals for early color and the perennials for later blooms. But find after the first year of a "meadow" I rework my favorite perennials into a base for a more organized border after I've seen what does well in that particular spot.

[@jordanadam4693]

I'd love to see some wildlife cams with all the rewilding! From birds to mammals , insects and amphibians! 🐝🐦🌳🪶🦆🐸

[@sjoerdmhh]

Nice! I like that style of gardening too. Most of the garden advice I see says you should plant the same cultivar in drifts, but I always find it more interesting to go over the top with variants. If you buy 3 lavender plants, why not go for slightly different cultivars. I guess it's a bit chaotic, but it's also interesting :). We have a small rooftop garden (6 square meters) with over 70 species/cultivars. There's something in flower for most of the year. You can extend the season even further with autumn and summer flowering crocus. Out here, those almost bridge the winter gap and they mix nicely because their leaves look like tufts of grass. The most floriferous plant on our roof this time of the year (and probably of the whole year) is a white-flowered creeping thyme (sold to me as Thymus praecox 'Albiflorus'). It's just one plant, but at any time during the day it has 5-10 bumble bees and some hover flies and small native bees on it. And it flowers at least twice a year. We have 7 thymes on the roof (also a Thymus praecox 'Minor' that looks a lot like the 'Elfin'), but they differ quite a lot in growth habit and flowering time, so it's worth trying even more cultivars!

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Thanks for the tips on the different cultivars. We never see the Elfin thyme bloom, but all the other thymes we have seem to bloom effortlessly. We have a carpet thyme that has no scent at all, but spreads and flowers like mad. May be the best one between stepping stones.

[@gilligallou]

beautiful pollinator garden, I did an Instagram stories this am about native plants and naturalizing yards, your place looks awesome. well done,

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Thank you very much! Work in progress.

[@wimhance6541]

Lovely choices. With all your other projects on such a large ambitious scale it's good to see something smaller, and more personal, which responds with more immediacy. Nice too to see echoes of your field trips (the rockery.) I hope it will bring you much joy, I know it will be something we'll see change and evolve.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Love incorporating what we see and learn from other places and reflect into our own spaces. And I'm smitten on bringing rocks and wood in the gardens; I just think it makes them far more interesting to interact with and look at. Plus the other (wild)life seems to enjoy it too.

[@aaronrdomanais]

so happy to see all the progress!

[@SequoiaElisabeth]

Fun to see the progress. :-)

[@alanconrad8490]

Thanks for the Tour! Lookin good :)

[@emilygrant9606]

One of my favourite early bloomers is the pasque flower. It has pretty flowers, nice textured foliage and interesting seed heads! It usually blooms mid-may here in zone 3. I love your approach to planting. I love so many different plants and want to include them all in my city-sized garden but often feel pressure to have more repetition. I’m also encountering the same thing with a large new bed planted last fall that is lacking some early season colour.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

YES! Love the pasqueflower. We planted it in the memorial garden (purple, reddish, and white ones) but recently found a pink one and planted in this garden. The seed heads ARE so beautiful too, I agree.

[@_JanetLouise]

beautiful flowers, so much fun. Albizia is a horrible, huge invasive here..... 'Albizia, the tree that ate Puna'

[@Fellowtellurian]

Love that you embrace lupine. They get a bad rapport

[@sebastianjimenez2211]

This is so amazing. Great you, both of you ! :D

[@charlesbale8376]

I always enjoy a garden walk and really appreciate the botanical name information you are so careful to share.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Thanks for the note of appreciation. Have a lovely evening Charles.

[@encisasistersfunjourney1180]

Wow! the jumpsuit pants outfit is back. We missed seeing that 🌿🌻🌾

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Had to wipe off the cobwebs!

[@francineh.7825]

Beautiful!! 🌸🌷

[@SiSwitzer]

This is very beautiful planting Summer, amazing! I’m currently taking a horticultural course with the RHS (I’m in the U.K.) and this video is super inspirational on how to plant for height, colour, season, ground cover, form and so on! Wonderful, thank you!😍

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Glad it's useful on your journey in plants!

[@cathykirkmcrae7727]

Looks amazing!

[@aaronolsen3985]

So beautiful! Absolutely love your videos!

[@FilomenaJackStudio]

Wow! So glad I found your channel! I’m in the Finger Lakes too ;)

[@judymckerrow6720]

Ms. Summer I would pop the heads off of the tulips or I should say the seed pods, I do that and have good luck with my tulips coming back every year. Just a thought.🌸💚🙃

[@amyjones2490]

Try some creeping thymes. Pollinators love it and they are coming into bloom and will bloom all summer and they are easy to start from seed. I got mine from Pinetree seeds…magic carpet was my favorite.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Yes, we have that beautiful elfin thyme, as you may have seen, between the stepping stones and some of the T. praecox that blooms so effortlessly.

[@thedivide3688]

Oh...and good on keeping that Chocolate Mimosa in a pot. That won't even survive in the PNW if it gets too cold. Even in zone 8 they might die back completely here if it gets too cold.

[@barbll000]

The garden is lovely. I keep my garden pretty crowded so weeds can't have room to grow.

[@ralugator]

What a wondrous garden! I like the variety of plants with a restrained color palette. Where are those hand-carved mushrooms from? They are darling.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

We got them off an artisan on etsy actually.

[@goeddia223]

I feel that Flock is asking for an apiary... :)

[@jennifer-threedogsinagarde8265]

Try some baptisia (native), Gillenia trifoliata (native, common name Bowman's root) hardy geraniums, pulmonaria (very early), gas plant, blue star (amsonia also native), bleeding heart and columbine (aquilegia) for early flowers that pollinators will love. Japanese Anemones are super aggressive by year three. They can take over your whole garden. Myself, I would never have them in a mixed planting.

[@kimmy6304]

super lovely!!! your plot of land is coming along so very well, I love it

[@davidweeks3758]

Plants, plants and more plants. I am not sure if you expected this channel to be a horticulturists favorite but as far as I'm concerned...I love it. Great work. Hope all is well and take care from Wyoming County.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

Thank you for your well wishes. And yes, there will be more plants on this channels. Especially with planting season now!

[@shephusted2714]

this is juicy content and in your power alley for core competencies and the algo - i still say get a wiki going for flock documentation and gristmill use...diy with debian - my only suggestions is now to brainstorm and do a few easy outlier projects - experiments - buy more gravel and compost - pls plant some chestnut trees - plant different varieties they may still get blight #hybrids #don't break debian

[@SHARONSHORTOrchidsandGarden]

Cool!

[@ohhenry78]

Love your hat! Could you tell me where I could buy one? and what is it called? Bamboo hat? Straw hat? Let me know. Thanks!

[@FlockFingerLakes]

It's a vintage rice paddy hat!

[@Justinnnn]

you should give hepatica a try - blooms reaaally early here in zone 4 (sometimes late march!)

[@FlockFingerLakes]

We have planted three round-lobed hepatica to the left of the garden. They bloomed very, very early-got frosted-and now the leaves are left.

[@trineley6777]

Hey I really think your garden looks great. But I was wondering about the meadow you created last year. Can we see what it looks like this first year?

[@liliaduran359]

what kind of soil did you use to plant your pollinator garden?

[@anacabrera5617]

[@naturecare6072]

You guys should plant vegetables and start conserving food. Let the community help your farm and let them have some of the products. Free labor for you and food for the community. Food is very expensive lately. I highly recommend planting vegetables. Not just plants.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

That will be another video ;)

[@ekimtv7057]

@homesteadbrooklyn what is the botanical name of that pink campanula

[@Shaden0040]

Yjr Sinner Chocolate looks related to Mimosas.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

yes, same family: Fabaceae

[@valtaoimatsukase6072]

Ok

[@thomasrobinson8193]

Where were the pollinators?

[@FlockFingerLakes]

The bumblebees are sad you didn't notice them 🐝🐝🐝

[@ramthian]

😘🙏

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

You realize that no dig, by laying cardboard and covering in topsoil, is really "dig somewhere else" right? A garden needs to be full if you want to harvest more carbon than you are emitting. Keep the plant canopy closed!

[@FireflyOnTheMoon]

I don't get why you went for low, lime-loving, stone-loving rock garden plants in a sodden area of the Finger Lakes, planting on deep sod.. - - If you have any problems with molluscs I would take out the dead log from the garden.

[@FlockFingerLakes]

The phlox seems really adaptable and we've hilled it up in the higher, stonier parts of the garden. Seems to thrive this way (in this garden and the memorial garden we've done). Keep in mind that the tops of the garden hilled up dry out quickly; and the topsoil-compost mix is quite sandy, which can hold water, but because it's hilled up, tends to drain more readily. Hence why the Sempervivum and Phlox and Thymus seem to work in those areas. Don't think they would do as well closer to ground level though where more of the wet-loving species are planted.