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Cargo and people and animals carry seeds...blessings...m

Excellent,

I have a bunch on my land.more and mire come the bigger i build fire pits and stuff, also i put anti bird spots against cros which are eating the local desert tortoise.

2 years ago I lost a large portion of my native garden and gave up because I did not understand the mechanisms behind watering native plants. I think I will try again with the information you have shared. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! 👍

Your video made me comfortable with using native plants 🤗

I have a butterfly garden done all in pots. I don't understand the tiny amount of milkweed? One tiny plant planted amongst those others will not feed all the caterpillars that you'll get on that one little plant. They'll starve for sure. You need 2-3 containers full of milkweed plants just to feed them all. This isn't really a good way to teach people how to start a butterfly garden in pots. The host plant needs pots to themselves and the nectar plants need pots to themselves to have a successful potted butterfly garden. But I enjoyed watching your video.

Excellent video and excellent presentation, thank you..

Phoenix Botanical garden: humming birds, hares rabbits and many desert plants...

Excellent deep analysis and diverse knowledge... Thank You... I traveled Phoenix, Arizona.. I drove to the mountains... I love ❤️ desert plants...

Thank you. great presentation!

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On my south-facing back slope (coastal San Diego), I have 8 Toyons (5 - 7 years old). At this time of year (December) the berries are profuse, bright red and contrast nicely with the dark green foliage. The plants vary from 5 - 8 feet in height and width (they serve as an excellent screen for the house from the street below) and were watered over the last year but once a month -- with sprinklers -- after the winter rains subsided. They are attractive, grow quickly, highly drought tolerant and only require occasional trimming/shaping. Perfect.

I was hoping Mike would get back to the sage at the end of the video to continue telling the differences in planting. Is it only keeping a flat basin and planting it at a slightly higher level than the manz?

Wonderful presentation! Thank you for a lovely, quick breakdown of the Toyon ❣️

El otro dia fui a comprar plantas a Tree of Life, ya de haberlas pagado y caminando hacia el estacionamiento me encontré con Mike. Yo no sabía quién era él. Él muy humildemente me ofreció ayuda a cargar las plantas a mi carro, lo que fué de mucha ayuda en un día muy caluroso. No es sino hasta ahora que descubrí éste video que me doy cuenta quién realmente él es. Mike está lleno de conocimieto en el trabajo que desempeña y también lleno de bondad y humanismo. Gracias Mike, por éste video y otros más y por estar allí en Tree of Life ayudándonos a todos de una y mil maneras.

Mr. Tubbs is my Bio teacher he’s the Goat

Such a great presentation about Hummingbirds! I hope I can visit your nursery some day.

Excellent presentation!

The real star of this tutorial is the spotless white outfit worn.

thanks i'll be watching this on my way from cali to arizona

"10 random succulents on drip swimming in a sea of mulch". Shots have been fired.

Do they have a plant book

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Great knowled. Thanks! But - Buckwheat - Very hard to kill -- hehe -- I've killed two of them.

Sooooo, I'm hella late, but who moved in? Where Chelsey at? I'm looking to attract native bees to my little farm and would love to know what kind of plants and pollen they prefer.

thank you very much!

I made a bee apt. one move in. I call her Bizzy.. I'm hoping her offspring will pollinate my Salvia Spathacea. (Hummingbird Sage)

I love these videos so much! Keep posting and I’ll keep giving my entire paycheck to tree of life! xD

Thank you!

My friend found a Magic gecko in the hills of Wildomar where she lives! I was so surprised, i didn’t know we had geckos right by Tree of Life! :)

Bob, thanks for the tip on showy milkweed, didn't know they need some shade.

Good information and well presented, thanks!

I seen a fat tail gecko or magic gecko just the other day with my brother working at home moving some pieces of wood and seen it’s silhouette with my phones flashlight

30:48 hahaha

Testing . . . testing . . . testing . . . Mike is great; always has been good at communicating--much better than I am. The method should work fine, especially for those who don't want to watch their gardens go through their regular stress cycles. The only modifications I might suggest is that people get used to using a probe to "feel" resistance in the soil profile. Better yet, get a soil sampler that will go deeper (or rent them). In order for water to penetrate to the greatest depth with the lowest loss to evaporation, without risking the adverse effects of higher temperatures at/near the surface where "feeder" roots are, and without overstimulating growth, resulting in some pretty rank-looking plants (e.g., California holly and other plants that stay green in the summer because they are "deep-rooted". This only happens if there are pores or fissures at least as big as the root diameter throughout the soil profile) and have physiological adaptations to reduce water loss in the hotter periods when water is scarce. The drought-deciduous plants can SOMETIMES benefit from cutting back in April or May, when they first start to dry up and lose lower leaves but the growing tips are still active. This cuts fire risk greatly (provided one does not leave the trimmings or other "mulch." My Indian grandmother incorporated "mulch" into the soil, but did not leave it on the surface. A healthy ecosystem is partly defined by "resistance to invasion," as Dr. Ewel suggests, so top mulches not only leave fuel for embers, they interfere with plant reproduction, especially Nature's "mulch," the cryptobiotic soil crust community, which stops weeds, produces available nutrients, and does not burn AT ALL. I'll mercifully stop here . . .

This video really brings the native garden to life. Great visuals, planting, care tips and context. Thanks so much for making this available

Love this! Super bummed I missed in person but thankful this was recorded

Masks. So ridiculous.

Please focus the slides.

That was great, thank you! Are there reasons to choose to dig 1.5x deep vs not any deeper than root ball?

Hanging house too

Have you gotten any orioles? I had a couple last year feed of my hummingbird feeders.

Great info! I will have to come and see your nursery!

I love how you were working very hard to find a name for the unproductive plant community. Your videos and the advice you give is fantastic and very much appreciated for the beginner native plant person that is mee.

fantastic talk, thanks!

This has a criminally low amount of views. I have a northern facing wall I have been growing canna Lily in, full shade but lots of bright reflected light so the bloom crazy and I don't have to water as much with the shady soil. Looking for something that can replace them and still get that 3-4 ft spreading coverage to fill the planter. Maybe yerba mansa? But I'd like a bit of mixed color in there. Any suggestions?

Cuttings often lead to poor root development. Nursery culture can mask this problem. Can it make it worse? For example, can luxury conditions slow root development. At the other extreme, containers can restrict root development leading to such silly-looking things as an apparently well-developed top, with a much smaller root ball in the shape of a smaller container inside a larger one, usually seen when the growing medium falls away when the plant is removed from the container. I hope that tissue culture will prove to be effective in replacing both cuttings and seed-collecting. Just make sure that tissue is collected from a large number of plants to mimic the genetic diversity of the wild populations. Will, say, an oak from tissue culture develop the same kind of root initial and tap root that an acorn will? If not, we may have to stick to acorns, as getting initial root depth (to continuously available water) quickly is essential in responsible oak woodland restoration. Will you please comment?

I stopped at 00:07. Gotta go now. I'll finish it later. My favorite is LIVING "mulch," aka the cryptogamic soil crust community of living (usually non-vascular) native/indigenous plants and their associated organisms. Ooo, ooo, ooo, what a little bit of surface compaction can doo-ooo-ooo! Non-combustible, beautiful, weed-proof, erosion- (but not disturbance-) proof, part of the nutrient cycle, interesting, cheap (zero) and easy. 😀

This is a topic I was really interested in, but the video was too long. I wish it was shortened to highlight salient points

Mr. Allen mentions a handout. Do you have a link for it?