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Pure joy, pure genius, pure mentors in the most authentic ways possible. Thank you for spending this time with us Roy, sharing these stories. They changed your life and now they are changing ours!

Love these minutes Roy! Can’t wait to visit this park

I am so grateful to your teachings here! Thank you Roy!

Euphorbia corollata is criminally under planted , it blooms for so long and as the daintiest little flowers!

If there was one reason to go to Chicago, it would be to see this garden! Thanks, Roy

There are already lots of native things in my woodland, but it’s overwhelming and overrun with invasives because there isn’t a draw for anyone to go out there to take care of it. But the beauty and ease of maintenance of the plants you’ve already chosen- native or not- would be the catalyst for me to really want to spend more time out there. I can see how a strong planting like this could make it easier to crowd out the invasives. And the beauty and ease of care of the garden would give me incentive for better stewardship in the surrounding timber. I’m sure it will be beautiful as well as beneficial. Thanks for sharing.

You’re a gem, thank you for your knowledge

Gorgeous!

It's charming!

🐝 😍 beeeautiful 💙

Love your shows and love the way you speak up for the plants! Learned heaps from your way of looking at plants and now I actually feel confident enough to plan and start developing a shade garden using a carex matrix. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!

Is Phlox 'Dixter' a synonym of Phlox ' Margery Fish'?

Beautiful. You have definitely increased my knowledge of plants. Stachys Hummelo and Carex Pennsylvanica I learned about from you and absolutely love these plants. In fact I was just editing my garden and added in 2 more Stachys Hummelo plus several more things. I agree learning about plants and a garden is never finished lots of editing and always a work in progress. It brings me joy and relieves my stress.

Lovely! Thx so much for your videos.

Looks great 👍 thank you for the update!

Spectacular update Roy ! Love the Amsonia Butterscotch texture.

You’re inspiring and I bought your book. Using a lot of coneflowers, rudbeckia , carex, etc. deer 🦌 problems started recently so looking into plants more thoroughly. Ty for the video.

Lovely job with your garden 🪴

Beautiful Boss you put in some work those shrubs are amazing. Up keep on those must be a chore.

attracts pollinators : )

I love this!!!

Would love to see comparison of planting directly in turf vs first spraying with glyphosate/borax as you mentioned in Know Maintenance.

Would love to see you revisit this garden…perhaps in a year and then again after that so we can see progress from planting to maturity!

Man, so much time and energy spent putting in cultivars and exotics. Only about 1 or 2 species that are actually native to the region (I’m assuming it’s in Wisconsin). Especially tough to see them planted within a natural woodland. Just seems wasteful to taunt wildlife with a good time only to provide plants that they can’t use. Looks like a well designed planting too.

I really appreciate the plant lists. I have had a hard time getting muhlenbergia established. I'm in Zone 7 the lower Hudson Valley NY. It's planted in a reasonable amount of well-drained soil near the top of a large rock outcropping in full sun. Bouteloua gracilis "Blonde Ambition" is thriving nearby. Any suggestions? Thank you again for all the inspiration -- I have definitely fallen for carex and appalachia, rosea and others are very happy in my wooded ravine and helping me to gradually eliminate the Japanese stilt grass. PS, I grew up in Mequon with a birch woods full of trilliums -- I didn't realize how lucky I was!

Masterful.

What a project. It’s going to look so good once it all fills in. How many plants did you put into this garden?!

Post link to workshop with Casey you mentioned?

Love the videos, I plan to build a small cold frame this fall for overwintering, any recommendations on shape or coverings to mimic your set up just on a smaller scale? Thanks!

Thanks for sharing Roy🫶🪴

This is a great talk and tour of shrubs.

Hi, where are you located, _please?_ Thank you! ❤

Please update as it fills in. What zone? It sounds lovely and thanks for listing the plants in description 🌸🦋🐝

This is why I prefer Allium cernuum. Not only is it native, and very attractive, but if it gets out.... it's a native and is supposed to be in the ecosystem. We've done so much damage to our ecosystem with introducing all these "thuggish" invasive plants. It really is amazing, and sad. My Nodding Onions look good and I don't mind a little browning of the leaves because that's a part of the natural cycle. I've got blooms right now, and they should continue for at least another month. Haven't tried eating them, yet.

Beautiful, as always. Finding natives that are economical is a real chore if they aren't popularized by someone like Roy, encouraging people to grow them for the trades. I found one nursery an hour away that has Carex pensylvanica, but they only have a few trays, and only 3.5" pots or gallons. Very pricey stuff, honestly, when you're buying that large, so you can't get many at a time and really fill in a space. I successfully divided one 3.5" pot into thirds, and it looks like they'll survive their first hot South Carolina summer in the ground. Dividing them is always a scary proposition since you never know how many won't make it.

It should be noted that Carex montana isn't actually from Montana. It's native to Europe, and while it's not listed as "invasive" in the States, I don't want folks to think it's a native plant because it shares a name with one of our great States.

Whats the name of that fence type and what does it cost per section?

I did put in carex in a lot of areas and plants the deer don’t favor .

Deer do a lot of damage! I’ve experienced this for my first time this year. A small group of like seven have come into town and are running on city streets and in yards . They’ve chew all the tops of flowers off on agapanthus, roses, hydrangeas chewed to ground, buddleia flowers, etc. not to mention the deer scat all over the ground. I’ve put out deer repellent and found out somebody was giving them water in a big metal tub in my association complex. I’m on the park side of complex . Needless to say I feel your pain with the deer damage.

Absolutely splendid

Hard few of the sedges. I know bromides and Pennsylvanica are quite common but not the others you mentioned

You live in the south. If you lived in the north, the first 4 feet from the road would be doomed! We use road salt up here. Hope it works out!

Why cant we? Because most people think it looks unkempt and trashy. I enjoy the natural look and know that its better for the ecosystems but people like to look at golf courses.

looks like mosquito heaven

This is amazing!! thank You for sharing Roy!

Wow. Nice arrangement.

Really nice. Thanks for the video

Inspiring! What would a Roy Diblik pocket prairie look like?

Hello Roy! New to your videos. What did you mean by saying nothing grows on black walnut?!

I felt it when Roy said that I am not going to make a garden that I see in gardening magazines. I get constantly overwhelmed with all the trends and styles in magazines and instagram. I cannot decide between gardening styles and the now my garden looks like failed attempt to do all of them. I plan to attempt Roy's style by using plans from his book and getting to know the plants. Great talk!!