Doug Tallamy: You are the future of conservation!
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- čas přidán 24. 10. 2023
- Homeowners have a responsibility to be good land stewards and help change our culture to one that collaborates with nature, maintaining sustainable landscapes that support bees, butterflies, birds and more. Gardeners and landowners are the future of conservation! We have the power to create ecological landscapes that protect pollinators, other insects, birds and many other fauna. In this follow-up to Native Plant Channel’s Ecological Landscaping with Dr. Doug Tallamy, learn more about good land stewardship as Dr. Tallamy leads viewers on a tour of Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, discussing ways to create biologically diverse plantings that support life. Tallamy explains ecological goals, pollinator/plant relationships, soft landings, the toxicity of neonics, water features, how plants and soils can sequester carbon to help mitigate the effects of climate change and even renaming our native plants to avoid “weed” in their names. He gives practical advice on kicking the lawn habit and influencing young people to be better stewards of our earth.
#native plants #pollinator gardens #HomegrownNationalPark #native plant gardening #butterfly garden #ecological landscaping #sustainable landscaping - Jak na to + styl
Doug Tallamy’s vision and his ability to translate this worldwide problem into something we can address ourselves is unsurpassed. What a treasure he is!
It also incorrect. It is a privileged person who can afford a garden for wildlife and native plants. How would you think this will solve a planetary crisis revolving around grant money "restoration" failures and habitat loss and poisoning the planet with pesticides? Its icing on a cake made out of hemlock.
Excellent. I forwarded this to my wife, so she can share with her classroom.
Thank you Dr. Tallamy for (1) sounding the alarm of our losses, and (2) giving us hope that even the smallest garden can help make a difference! You have inspired me to strive towards a better tomorrow by providing habitat for insects, birds, native plants, mammals, trees, shrubs, amphibians and all the other wonderful creatures who support our very lives and future! THANK YOU!
THIS video was an eye opener for me. I watched it over a week ago and have been telling everyone the things I learned from it ever since. And I am going to be planting native plants as soon as I can.
Welcome, it's never too late to begin !
I'm happy to say that I've transformed my yard so much the past few years. My goal is to have no kentucky bluegrass at all. I have about 25 native shrubs and trees in my yard. My property sticks out like a sore thumb, alone in the green ocean of kentucky bluegrass of every orher yard in the subdivision. My next door neighbor has begun putting up a tall spite fence so they won't have to be subjected to the sight of my 'wild' yard (lots of joe pye, goldenrod and milkweed), since their frequent complaints against me to the _weed police_ haven't gotten them the results they wanted. 😊 I get ridiculed at work for my efforts to help the planet. My boss told me that it's like the war movies, you dont waste morphine on a dying soldier. The biggest roadblocks are in getting people to stop the apathy and truly care about protecting the Earth, and to educate people about changing their mindset. Most people I know believe that bugs and critters on their property need to be gotten rid of because they're intrusive pests.
Thank you so much! We moved last year to a city that sprays for mosquitoes and we assumed that was why we had no bees or butterflies until we watched the first video!!! We bought a few tiny native plants and our minds were blown!!! The variety of bees we had never seen before was amazing!!! Not to mention the butterflies! We were hooked!!! We have now removed almost all the invasives and are replanting with natives. We are telling all of our neighbors and hoping the spraying will stop as we educate folks through your channel. Thank you, Lourdes, for making all this available! We are on the map!💕
I always felt comfortable knowing that nature was out there and I could visit it whenever I wanted. My eyes have been opened when I 1) flew across the country and saw very little wilderness 2) realized that the trees along the highway are mostly just there, if you go beyond them, it's towns and roads. I did have 3 monarchs fly by this year. They do find you if you grow what they want when they want it. Video showed me I have the wrong Ironweed. Mine is finished blooming by August.
No ironweed is wrong, I bet, unless it is a hybrid or exotic.
And I’ve sadly noticed that about 20-30% of those trees are either invasive tree species or native trees being smothered by invasive vines. It’s so sad, but seeing other people trying to help gives me hope ❤
Nature never knocks, and somehow never intrudes.
Tallamy's very last comment is right on: Native Plant Channel and Mount Cuba Center: yours is a great service to society. Thank you. I continue my quest, all alone here on 17 acres of lawn, horse pastures & invasives, practically a senior citizen, still working fulltime. I bought this property in Indiana 2 years ago but have known about native gardening in California for 6 years prior (and was wildly successful in my yard!!!! Then I sold the house and they RAZED IT ALL including 2 80- ft trees. Boy, won't those many, many Monarchs that laid eggs there for 5 years be surprised - and the host of thousands of others). First here, I was overwhelmed entirely. Now I am just overwhelmed almost entirely. I have to set aside one area, that I know, and make that one small area good, before I move the the rest of the 17 acres. That one small area is what I will put on the homegrown national garden website. But at the end of the day (at the very end, lol), I am glad I am already 65, and I am glad I leave no offspring. But I will act every day of life as if I DO have hope. I am riding on Doug Tallamy's hope - and yours. Thank you.
Another nice presentation. Been working on my own homegrown national park for a long time. I was noticing the absence of bees and other insects about 15 years ago. I didn’t know what the heck I was doing though. Thanks to several books, and Dr Tallamy, I figured out what direction to go. I’m also grateful for Prairie Moon Nursery, whose seed offerings have made it affordable for me to convert my tiny 2/ 10ths of an acre. If you plant close, about a foot apart, you can put in massive amounts of native plants. I have a 70 foot long privet hedge that has to come out to be replaced with a mixed hedgerow of native shrubs and small trees like dogwood, wild plum, hazel nut, witch hazel and I was so exited to actually find a dwarf chinquapin oak for along the hedge and there is a pyramidal shaped swamp white oak that only gets 30 feet wide, a Mike Dirr the tree guy offering called Beacon “Bonnie and Mike’ swamp white oak. We lost a 70 year old black maple to a small tornado and do far that oak is getting established . God bless all of you who care about your little Eden!
You are one of the first people ive heard(besides the DrT) that mentioned dwarf chinquapin (sp) oak!!! I got one from Nearly Native Nursery and put it in the front “yard”. Prairie Moon has also been a good source for me but im starting to try and find more local ecotypes. Good job ! Keep it up!
Sounds like you're creating a beautiful habitat garden! I love your native hedge row Idea.
@@TheDukestriker thanks for the source for that. If something happens to it, I have another source! It’s almost impossible to find. I had three acorns on it last year - planted them, they sprouted then a squirrel demolished them. Lol. Amazing that it makes acorns at about three years old.
I’ve been seeing a lot more houses with native plants. It seems to be a real trend to get rid of your grass here in Colorado.❤️
Nice video he's very correct 💯, we're you watching from?
Good info. I can hear Dr Tallamy talk all day long. With his knowledge, I pray that we would be more conscious about the nature and environment. Thanks o much for this video. We need more nurseries to promote the benefits of the native plants .
Talamy teaches that humans must save the environment ,when in reality.
The environment would be far better off without any humans at all.
Please do not follow gurus
This is excellent, thank you! I have watched many and many an interview of Doug Tallamy, but this is no interview. This is much more informational and inspirational. I am totally onboard with homegrownnationalpark and will sign up my property. This is our only hope, as Doug states in Nature's Last Hope. If we have any chance to save our wonderful planet, it is because of Doug Tallamy and the likes of native Plant Channel.
Dr. Tallamy is smart. His books are good and his many webinars are on youtube.
Loved this video... I am so inspired to put a pond in my back yard! I'm going to look into it. Thank you Dr. Tallamy and the Native Plant Channel.
Hi! Thank you for another wonderfully informative video! I am the lady who had my awkward star struck intro when I saw you filming. Apparently I am also in the background of the video lol.
So great to meet you both and THANK YOU for all your efforts. They fill me with hope and motivate me to keep learning and making an impact with my garden.
Nice video. Mr.Tallamy, you are very correct. I am already teaching my great grandchildren about butterflies insects and pollinators. Fla and central coast of California both have their own indigenous population of monarchs. I have monarchs year-round in my central Florida zone nine Garden. However, I do not have them in near the numbers I saw 15 years ago.
Another great video, thanks so much for sharing Dr. Tallamy's wisdom with me. I will be picking up his new book as a holiday gift for my niece.
A wonderful video! Thanks for sharing it with us. I learn something new every time I dive into native plant videos and books. I so so want a pond! I'm just trying to decide where I should put it!
So glad you learned new information, good luck in creating a pond!
There is a great series here on CZcams under the channel “Wild Your Garden With Joel Ashton”. It shows you the exact steps in making a pond that is good for wildlife. I used it to make a pond and it has gone very well. Take your time planning it!
@@NativePlantChannel Thank you!😀
@@theorphanedchicken1839 Thank you for sharing that! I'll check it out. ☺
@@awildapproachno problem! Good luck!
Also such a good point about how terribly we market native plants. And regarding Tree of Heaven, isn't it heavily supporting the the invasive lantern fly population?
Yes, it is a boon to that invader also!
Super informative
Is there more information somewhere on how to get on that map he mentioned? I transformed the property surrounding my new-to-me house from all stones to mostly native flowers and mulch. I see monarchs and their caterpillars regularly. I’m now working on attracting hummingbirds as well.
Awesome! So fascinating and this should be shared to many!
Absolutely amazing ideas. Thank you for this video. Something, everybody can do. Restoration diy. Hope, we will see such gardens soon everywhere 👍
Really interested in learning this and applying to my garden - I am in the interior of BC, I'm wondering how I find out which plants are native to where I am, or if all plants are similar in North America?
Plants are VERY different depending on where you are in North America. I'm in New Brunswick on Canadas east coast and we would share hardly any plants. Just googling "Native plants in British Columbia" will give you lots of results, and you can also search for "native plant nurseries" in your area, the workers there should be very knowledgeable and help you select good native plants.
Its beautiful ❤❤❤
I am from Holland but I love everything you do❤❤❤
Plant densely but leave some areas of bare soil for nesting bees.
Thanks ❤
Please come back. Please make more. I can volunteer help. I can film and edit from home. We need this channel back. ❤
Beautiful
Im on the map!
But it is not the reason I am back to make some comments. I see you did a series of videos showing us what blooms in what month. I've watched them. I wonder if you would consider doing a series based on the height of the plants? I noticed that most plants seems to be in the 3 to 5 foot tall range. I'm wondering what short plants I can plant on the sunny side of the beds I am thinking of planting.
One of the difficulties I am encountering is the cost of native plants and the scarcity of native seeds.
Prairie moon nursery ,online ,has a great selection of native plants and seeds
Try to avoid etsy I feel like they rip people off who are trying to grow natives.
Do you have a resource that can show how to build one of the small ponds like you showed near the end of the video? I would love to do that but I am nervous and would like some guidance.
I tore out my lawn and suddenly started getting panicled willow herb and Virginia creeper started popping up.
Beyond inspirational. Love his message. The urgency to plant for our pollinators runs deep. I can feel it in my bones that we are running out of time. In this RoundUp ready culture of weed killing why do so many wonder about cancer? Just the other day I walked across the street and asked a woman in high heels why she was freely using RoundUp on a couple weeds growing between cracks in the parking lot. No face coverage. I asked her to consider her actions. She had no idea RoundUp reduces the life of pollinators. The other issue we face is daily is ChemTrails. Anyone truly in touch with nature knows this is no conspiracy. ChemTrails continue to manipulate Weather and bombard us with a Climate Change agenda. How much longer with they get away with it? The good news is; Mother Nature will always win. It might take time but some day they will have no choice but to stop using poisons. Glyphosate in particular. I will never give up and with Nature on our side I am confident, going forward she will have her way. Thank you for taking the time to educate, inspire and freely give; just like nature.
Yeah invasives seem to have lovely names! But they are anything but lovely to our environment.
the sound of water competes with Dr. Tallamy speaking;
invest in a better sound system
If we used the botanical names it would eliminate the ‘weed’ in the common names
I heard one square ft of lawn grass has enough neonics to kill 250,000 bees. I learned that from webinar from Pollinator Pathways.
I use a pest control company to keep water bugs and roaches out of my home; is this hurting other insects around my property?
Ask your pest control company!! Tell them what you want, ask what they use, and they'll tell you the possibilities! Usually they spray where many of our pollinators may not go, but I'm sure the pollinators that use mud and the ground to mate or shelter would be harmed by any pesticides that would also harm cockroaches. Integrated Pest Management is a fun thing to learn to do yourself! Best of luck!
Thank you!
Which phlox is that?
Native phlox Jeana.
Why does it sound like someone is doing the dishes in the background?
That is the sound of the fountain visible in the video.
Is it the fountains in the pool?
I have no idea how I missed the fountain!
My biggest problem is finding a landscaper who does small yards. I ended up having the whole thing covered in felt with 3 inches of gravel. I couldn't mow it, so I buried it.
(:
Hopefully you can find a better solution for your landscape.
I don’t know why the camera is focused on the people speaking when we could be looking at the garden borders instead
Sounds like you need your own garden borders to look at! 🥂
I appreciate the native plant channel.
The idea that Doug talamy is the leader is silly. 0:28
Please make videos about the plants withoutt any gurus trying to convince the masses of some great lesson
The future of conservation has to be a concerted effort not to just promote individual responsibility. That's an idea often promoted to establish and redirect action away from legislation, industry and established interests. Worrying over native and introduced plants while habitat loss, rampant pesticide use and grant fueled restorations that often fail ... is perhaps is a better focus. There is an old saying: "Divide them, then rule them". Invasion biology has done that work for Monsanto. Please stop.