Native Plant Garden Tour Jan 2024 - Evergreen Groundcover, Wildlife Habitat & Winter Interest

[@gaillarkin7409]

Even in the winter, you can see nature’s beauty.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Yes, you can!

[@tiffanyrowbotham3663]

Beautiful!

[@heidijasper5915]

Great tour! Your landscaping and wild areas look amazing!

[@ninetypercentnative]

Morning Heidi! Thank you so much!

[@judytrombly-ganance482]

I appreciated this tour. I love the ground covers, carex and Christmas fern that offer some green in the winter. At what point will the robins eat the holly berries? Hope you are feeling better.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Hi Judy! They have been enjoying them for about a month now.

[@PlantNative]

Gorgeous! Do you have a video of your native pachysandra propagation? I’d be interested. TY

[@ninetypercentnative]

Not yet! I purchased all my root cutting off a native nursery on Etsy. Funny that you mention because I am experimenting with a cutting in water on my kitchen counter. It's been there for week and no roots so far. My next step is to go get some cutting and put them in soil. I will put this on the video list for the results!

[@carolinechronowski6080]

I love your garden!

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you so much, Caroline! I can't wait for you to see it in the spring and summer!👩🏻‍🌾💚🌿

[@awildapproach]

Be careful how close you put your brush piles to your tree trunks. My brother's girlfriend's sister had a tree decline from having a pile too close to the trunk. I don't know how far to do it, but it looks like one of your piles might be too close to one of your trees. It may also depend on the species of tree, but I just wanted to let you know, in case! Take care, Michele!

[@PlantNative]

I placed logs within two feet of our big Sugar Maple and then lost a huge limb bc of carpenter ants though they said they only eat decaying wood in trees.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you! I will keep an eye on that!

[@awildapproach]

So sorry you're sick. I've been feeling bad today, too. Get well soon, and make sure you get the rest you need. I love your American Hollies. Did you plant them or were they there already? If you planted them, how fast did they grow? I've heard they grow very slowly, but I want some. I have one that came up on its own, but it's very tiny. Also, I love eastern red cedar. They get a bad wrap because they are so prolific in dry sites, but I like them for privacy and screening, since I have so many of them popping up in my backyard. I just move them where I want them and leave most of them where they are. I love partridge berry. I need to add that. I saw it in Kentucky near the Red River Gorge and it was lovely. Thanks for sharing, Michelle! I hope you feel better soon.

[@ninetypercentnative]

We have American Hollies growing everywhere around my area. They self seed alot so I move them around. They grow REALLY slow. Thank you for the well wishes! I am feeling so much better! I haven't been sick like that in YEARS!

[@awildapproach]

@@ninetypercentnativeso glad you’re feeling better! You getting this snow? We got around 8”!

[@ninetypercentnative]

@@awildapproach yes we did too! Probably about 6 though.

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

Wow I didn't even know there was an American holly, I guess we don't have it on the West Coast! How can you tell the difference from the European holly? It looks like it might have a more open habit maybe, but so similar! I see birds in my neighbor's European holly all the time and I wonder what would be a good native replacement, bc the European one us considered noxious by our city. We have tall Oregon grape, which is sort of holly-esque, but it doesn't really get tree-sized.

[@PlantNative]

Hi. Check out, “Heteromelesarbutfolia.” The UC Master Gardeners of Napa County listed the TOYON as a native that, “resembles Holly but outshines it.” Toyon is the Indigenous Peoples name for it but its common name is California Berry or Christmas Berry.

[@ninetypercentnative]

Thank you so much for adding this!!!!!!

[@ninetypercentnative]

Yes! Ilex Opaca. Very similar! They grow naturally all over here. The berries and leaves are duller on the American holly if I am not mistaken. Lol, Oregon grape is becoming problematic here. Thank you for stopping in!!

[@Hayley-sl9lm]

​​@@ninetypercentnative Oh no, maybe it's a bit over used in landscaping now? That's one of the reasons I actually haven't planted Oregon grape yet, I feel like it doesn't need my help at this point. But because it's gone mainstream it can be tricky to find a straight species, because there are all these weird hybrids of it now. I would love to plant Toyon if it was in my native range, I'm trying to convince my sister to plant it who lives in Thousand Oaks... It could probably survive here but I'd have to be pretty careful about drainage. I think for now I'm going to go with some native Prunus.