I Finally Built A California Native Plant Garden!
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- čas přidán 16. 01. 2023
- Native plants have been something lacking in my garden for quite some time now but I am glad to say that I now finally have a space dedicated to them. I decided to built my native garden in the spot where the termite infested Jacaranda tree once stood using California native plants specific to Southern California. Putting them in a dedicated area means that they won't be disturbed by active gardening allowing it to become a little micro habitat for natives plants as well as insects!
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Much respect for the native garden! I'm in the process of putting in a pond that I will be planting with all native plants and mosses found here in beautiful Southeast AK. I'm excited to provide more habitat for beneficial native insects and also amphibians that will help keep the dang slugs under control. I have some real slug issues and don't like poisons so I'm dedicating a large plot of the garden to their natural predators. I'll have rough skinned newts, western long toed salamanders, boreal toads, and pacific chorus frogs all over the garden if all goes according to plan.
Wow that sounds like an amazing project! Cool to have so many options in a wetter climate but I guess it also brings the slugs!
I'd love to hear your garden in the summertime.
I think you planted way too many plants for that spot, especially since they should not be pruned frequently. I also garden in So. California. The Manzanita alone will cover and outgrow that space and that's with pruning. I'd like to see what it looks like in 2-3 years, that's when it's really going to take off. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice selection of plants, just too close together. Happy Gardening !
I really appreciate that you document the full process including changes to the plan. Things rarely go exactly as planned the first time, and it’s nice to see how you troubleshoot as you go.
I'm always happy to see gardeners incorporating native plants! Thanks Jacque!
Same!! Everyone should!! In our garden on the strip on the other side of our fence ride beside the sidewalk where dogs like to use the bathroom ect so not a great choice for planting veggies, I've decided it would be an ideal native pollinator garden area. It used to be all grass that was a hassle to mow, so I mulched it a couple years ago and it's been awesome to remove more grass to make way for important native plants!
im always making room for California native poppies to grow in my garden, one year i made my whole front garden look like a wildflower spring like our desert hills get after the rains
I am a huge fan of California Poppies and tend to have them scattered around my garden as much as I can!
Did you plant your native poppies from seed? I'm considering adding to a few areas of my yard and wondering what's the best method to go with. Thanks!
@@scottscriticalmass California poppies grow well from seed!
@@lyndelgado6138 - Thank you!
I’ve tried growing poppies 3 seasons in a row and I have had 0 success. If you can give me any tips at all I would greatly appreciate it
Amazed by how many plants you packed into that space. The mature size of just a few of them will completely fill that space. Hopefully, you can move them around the garden to other appropriate spots as they mature and you become familiar with the growth habits of each individual plant.
One thing I’ve found from years of growing California native plants is they they definitely do not transplant well. That’s because they tend to develop huge extensive root systems that are also linked in with mycorrhizae that massively extend their size. If plants are too crowded then the ones to go just need to be removed.
yeah it's a beginners mistake but he will learn later lol
@@richardbarry04553it really depends on the plant.
I was thinking the same thing. Did he not read up on these plants? Can fit like 1 or 2 in that entire space.
I love that you put in a native garden to benefit the wildlife! I wish more people would do things like this. Last year I planted a garden for the wildlife where I planted only annual and perennial plants that would be beneficial to our native creatures, and many of the plants I put in were natives from my area. I took out a large chunk of unproductive lawn to plant it, too. I saw lots of butterflies, bees, birds, and others all enjoying the garden, and at the same time it is highly ornamental, especially in full bloom.
Very much looking forward to seeing how this native garden area progresses over time. My wife and I are field biologists with over 50 years' experience between us working in San Diego County, doing botanical surveys and butterfly surveys in the area. So this project of yours is just the type of thing we really appreciate! Keep up the great work!
Big thing to remember with native plants is that the goal is to set up an ecosystem. So be sure the native plants you put together actually coexist in the wild. They'll build a cooperative relationship in most instances and will do a better job at attracting wildlife. Just because two plants are native to some place like Kansas, doesn't mean they operate in the same ecosystem.
Another thing to remember is keystone species (species of plants that do the most). Here in Florida, Serenoa repens supports HUNDREDS of insects and animals, so its a keystone species. It's a good idea to plant that in the yard along with other plant species that match its ecosystem.
But then there's *specialist* keystone species. Many bees and other pollinators specialize in certain types of plants. A specialist keystone species is one that supports many different specialist pollinators. So in the case of Florida, Coreopsis is a fantastic one for that.
But not all native plants have to be a catch all for animals. Some may only support a couple insects but those are important too and in some cases can be the prettiest ones.
In order to do what we can, our yards should be 70% native biomass.
Good sources on this I'd recommend are Doug Tallamy and maybe check out if your state has a native plant society which usually posts videos on youtube with seminars.
And if you're north of Mexico, please don't plant Asclepias curassavica (tropical or scarlet milkweed). It's highly invasive and disrupts migrations of monarchs as well as cause other negative effects scientists are still studying. Just plant native.
Hey, we recognize those plants! Thanks for sharing this great info with your audience!
Really happy to see a native plant garden in an arid climate. Usually it's just cactus and succlents but I want something that will attract pollinators and has more lush leaves. Can't wait to see it grow in.
From a 4th generation native Californian I am so glad you are planting natives! I can remember hiking in San Diego and seeing lot's of wild manzanita growing alongside trails. Can't wait to see them thrive.
I'm finally dedicating a bed to native plants this year, I'll definitely try to work some of these plants in!
So awesome! Don't entirely abide by the rules of 1x/month watering. Some may need more to get established. What worked for me and others is to analyzed the top several inches of the soil. If it's dry as a bone, then deep water. Wait until bone dry, then deep water. Repeat. Also, you may have too many plants for the space. In about 3 years, you will probably not see the ground.
From my understanding it seems like the tricky part is that in summer these plants don't want much water so I am interested in seeing this balancing act!
@@jacquesinthegarden Definitely, a balancing act. Good luck!
Yah the spacing for some of the plants picked is going to be tough. The Achillea spreads a lot. I have two planted in 5 gal pots and they took that over in just the fall.
@@umiluv Yeah, given the right moisture and sunlight.
I got a huge drill bit to help move along remaining stump. Drilled as many holes in it as I could.
About "Top Soil"!
I now live in San Diego, but I lived in the Midwest as a kid.
I KNOW what actual top soil is. That beautiful "black dirt" in the farmlands for hundreds of miles on either side of the Mississippi and other rivers. Whether it started with sand, clay, or loam, it got flooded repeatedly, with river bottom gunk left mixed in with the dirt. It is a beautiful mix of mineral component and organic component built over centuries, and it makes the Midwest the bread basket that it is.
When I moved to Orange County, the house had some bushes intermixed with a lava rock front yard. I wanted grass or some other plants instead, and I ripped it out, removed all the lava rock, and ordered a few dump trucks worth of "top soil". I expected that "black dirt". That they had found an area with great top soil and dug me up some.
I learned that California doesn't have any black dirt, and whatever you get when you order "top soil" will have been manufactured locally. They delivered dump trucks worth of basically sand + compost. I guess that's similar to the constituents of real top soil, but just mixing those two things together and dumping that mix into the yard is not quite the same thing as a soil that has been marinating for a few centuries.
So -- yes, you can order "top soil" in California. And, as you showed in this video, it has a use. I think it was a great choice for your project!
But it's not what the rest of the country thinks top soil is.
As a member of the CNPS (California native plant society) I am thrilled to see you talk about your native plants.
This looks great! I hope we get to see it later in the season as the plants establish 👍
When planting in a spot like this with an old tree root system, remember that as the roots rot, the area will slump down over the next many years. On the other hand, it will also create a bit of a bowl shape which might help to prevent water runoff.
Great work! Love it!
Yeah I have already seen some settling from the massive rain storms we got these past weeks but I think it may work out with the bowl like you said
So glad to see your new native garden! I started one this past year. Moosa Creek is great!
I love Theodor Payne Nursery, it's close to my home in the San Fernando Valley; they are a hidden gem for sure. I'd love to see how your native garden looks in several months. Please do a video on they progress. All the Best.
I love native gardens. Wish there was a video like this for the American Midwest
Theodore Payne is amazing and some of the plants he’s planting came from Moosa Creek in Valley Center ❤
Miner’s lettuce for cool season greens
I am so jealous of your manzanita. They are my favorite high desert plant. When I lived in the low desert, they just wouldn't live. The bark is so gorgeous, the flowers are so pretty and the little apples are adorable. Looking forward to seeing this little corner thrive.
I am VERY excited for the manzanita, one of my favorite plants to see out on hikes
We had to water our local rain garden quite a bit the first year or two until the native plants became established. And def after planting. Zone 5b/6a. Native plants rock!
I’m a flower farmer up in the Bay Area and I too have most of the native plants you’ve just added. I love them. My Mimulus (Monkey Flower) heavily self sows. It is taking over its area in the garden but I’m not mad at that 😂. Enjoy your natives!
Thanks for taking us through the whole process. I like how you explained your reasons for what you were doing. Looking forward to seeing the updates.
It’s so cool to learn about California native plants. I’m from the east coast, so very different. Your videos are always so informative.
Having an area in your garden with native plants is going to be beautiful, what a great idea. Listening to you describe all the of the plants, I can see the picture in my head it is going to be such a gorgeous are🪴
I just finished planting purple plum radishes. I’m excited. Thanks for the upload.
Theodore Payne
Foundation
Is about 30 min from where I live great nursery
Such an amazing nursery we had a blast shopping there
Can we get a updated video or even just a short of how it looks now, I would love to see how it turns out! I’m thinking of doing something similar to what you did.
Thanks for planting natives. I appreciate your enthusiasm. A common mistake for beginning a native garden is getting too many plants and planting them too close together. The plants you planted are (for the most part) way too close together. The black sage can get up to 8-10 feet wide, the white sage can get up to 5-7 feet wide plus it can have 6-8 foot flower stalks in all directions. And the austin griffiths manzanita can get 6-10 feet wide. Your planting area only appears to be about 7 feet wide. Also, for future you can save some money planting yarrow and sages from seed, Also you did well to buy most of the plants in small pots, but there was no need to buy the manzanita in a 5 gallon. tr to buy 1 gallon or less. it saves money and the plant roots will do better in the long run starting from a smaller pot. When you are done planting, add mulch. Native plant leaves are best but wood chips are fine. Mulch will conserve water and stop weeds from sprouting.
I have to do dirt very differently here in Australia! I use premium potting mix, perlite, worm castings, organic dynamic lifter and compost, topped with sugar cane mulch! Everything my plants will need and great for moisture retention! I supplement with liquid, only if my plants tell me they need it!
Love to see the native plants! You've got some of my favorites in there: Manzanita, monkeyflower, yerba buena, and the mariposa lilies. As a long-time renter who hasn't been able to grow many of these perennial native plants myself, I'm excited to see how they work in your space. I've heard the deep-rooted natives can take a while seeming to barely grow at all, as they first grow that massive root system before spending any resources above-ground, so I'll try to be patient waiting for your updates on this project!
I really enjoyed this episode. You revealed your thought process, showed flexibility and discovery. It felt real because it is real.
I love hummingbird sage. It's the first plant I ever collected in the wild and it's now taken off in my garden. Great informational video. Thanks for sharing.
I think you should plan Kevin’s hell strip. You could use a mix to include some of these plants and add some milkweed or California poppies. I can’t wait to see how this grows out
theodore payne is wonderful. looking forward to seeing your native garden grow!
I love EVERYTHING about this! Imagine if every home in america had a big beautiful native garden… it wouldn’t solve all our problems (clearly), but I could only imagine it would bring a whole lotta healing into our world…
I am in LA/OC area and am now looking for native plants. So happy to see your video!
That topsoil looks a lot better than the topsoil I've gotten in the past.
I was surprised as well although I was also surprised that it cost like 9 bucks a bag, that hurt!
I wish the big box stores sell more natives! It is too far for me to drive to my local one.
That is fantastic! I’m adding lots of natives to my yard too. I’m excited to follow how your plants do. Keep us posted!
Can't wait to see how this turns out!
Everything looks great!
Love sage
The city removed a stump in front of the house just this past summer. I had a large pile of wood chips in its place for a while and that’s exactly the consistency left behind. Regardless, it was fine to use to cover the walkway on the side of the deck which was really just weeds anyways. I made sure I put down some cardboard first. Looking forward to the growth progress of your native garden in future videos!
I’ve been looking forward to this video!!! I love purple needle grass
I dream of having my own yard and garden again someday so I can plant an abundance of native plants. In the meantime, where I rent probably has the largest stand of California Buckwheat in a city environment. I used to hate it, but I have come to love the abundance of food it produces for the bees, and the change in colors over the seasons. And I may be guilty of sneaking some natives into the flower borders as I am able, especially a narrowleaf milkweed to replace the tropical milkweed which is a fast growing garden bully.
I need to get some buckwheat going for sure! I also should really add in some narrow leaf milkweed, good reminder for me to start some seeds
I've never propogated buckwheat, but you're welcome to some cuttings or diggings from here. There's a portion growing down into where it isn't welcome, and I'd be happy to dig it up and plunk it in a pot for you.
I love this new garden.
Thanks for sharing Jacques... I look forward to seeing how the native planting area grows as we get into Summer..
Can't wait until it fills out!
Love your positivity!!
Awesome!! Natives are so important
Thank you! Now I know the name of the flower that I took a picture of while hiking at Stoney Point Park in Chatsworth, CA - Fiesta Marigold Monkeyflower! I use it as my wallpaper on my phone.
Great video! Can't wait to see your native garden grow in!
Just a note: A better word for natives that spread readily in their own habitat is aggressive.
Invasive plant has an actual definition of the plant being foreign and harmful to the environment in which it is aggressively spreading.
So few people are aware of the problems of invasive plants and the benefits of native plants to sustaining ecosystems that I really think it is important that we make the distinction well known.
Great idea, glad you adjusted your plan to work around the stump. I look forward to seeing how your native garden progresses.
I'm inspired to look for some native plants!
This is so enlightening!
Good stuff! Thanks for another great episode!
Glad to see you get into some natives Jacques. I've been a fan of natives for over 40 years and you made the right choice by picking up some at Theodore Payne. You might also want to plant a ceanothus which have beautiful lavender to purple blooms early in the season and the bees love them. Thanks again for a very informative and complete video!
I love learning from fellow native plant gardeners. I love your optimism and patience planting around roots. Watching your journey is so pleasant. Thank you so much ☺️
R.i.p. Jacaranda wonderful three!!But 👍 awesome project Jacques, definitely
Way to go Jacques!
Great choice to use natives Jacque! Its going to look so beautiful in no time
Great video! I'm looking forward to updates on how your native garden progresses! Over the last year I've also planted natives in several areas of my garden. Sourced all our plants from Native West Nursery in southern San Diego. They have a great selection!
This is great!
I'm restarting my garden this year and made sure to include a native garden with 11 different species! I'm so excited to see all these flowers
Thank you so much for this post. I am in the process of turning my front yard into a native garden and being able to hear your thoughts and watch you plant is quite helpful. I sheet mulched my entire lawn two months ago and am hoping to begin planting soon. I just looked up Theodore Payne yesterday; I was looking for a Palo Verde but love the possibility of a Manzanita instead. Would love to see footage of how your garden is progressing. Thanks again for sharing all you do.
I plant mostly all California natives and was pretty surprised in how you went ahead and planted these & your mix of different hydro zones. I’m interested in the progress of your garden so far. Relatively young still so maybe not much.
Your dogs are so cute!!
lovely content as always. It would have been great to see some pictures or b-rol of what the plants you put in look like when they are mature and or blooming.
Heck yeah! Native plants in any area are amazing for exactly all the reasons you said. California natives and hybrids are stunning! 😊
Yay native plants! Great vidoe
Great idea with the native garden. We need more gardeners to do this! Great video.
Love your new native garden and especially all the info. But you do realize that those 2 × Purple Needle Grass can fill that whole bed by themselves, right? Nothing wrong with that, they're absolutely beautiful. Just saying you might be rehoming or expanding that bed.
Nice video. Once your native garden grows out it’s going to look great. More and more now I like to plant native plants. I’ve purchased some pretty good top soil at Lowes and Ace hardware.
Cool stuff! Yarrow is also medicinal for scrapes and cuts. And yerba buena makes a nice tea! Love foraging them in norcal.
I've had a few natives here and there in my hillside pollinator garden, but I went (almost) full in with Cal natives in a section just in the last 4 months. I've had so much fun creating texture and future color with them. I have many that you planted but my favorites are Cleveland Sage, and an absolute must is californica ecelia (coast sunflower).
Would love to see, a year later, how your native garden has grown.
Would love to see this garden now 😊
I’ve never tried to grow over a stump but I’ve put pieces of firewood at the bottom of my big planters in Az. The idea was to use them as water storers for the plants. When I took the planters apart I found the plants had sent roots into to wood like crazy. They loved it. It not only provided water but also food
We could do so much good if we all used native plants
LOVE a dog cameo!!! 🥰
I just too out a 100 year old American Elm, that was diseased. It left me with a lot of wood chips. I will be planting a native garden along with some plants from Arizona.
I have a native pollinator garden and planning on making another one this year.
Oh I would love to see a humming bird! We don’t have them in the uk but I think they look stunning
I’m following the Illinois Audubon society’s program for a native bird and butterfly sanctuary. Just finished the native habitat certificate. All In efforts to have nature be my pest control.
Greetings from germany! I also planted some Achillea (millefolium) in my garden, because this variety is my native yarrow :D
great!
Nice
Will you be smudging with the white sage !!!! That’s such a special plant to grow hope all your native plants do well
love it.. you should reset the rocks on the corner ..
Yeah the rock wall needs serious work 😂
I started a native plant garden in my Pennsylvania backyard last year. Less lawn, more native plants!
I am interested to see how your garden will be holding up after this rainy season. I bet it’s gunna look great come May! Also, did you know we have our own native plant nursery here in San Diego? Maybe you do but if not, look up Native West.
Jacque, I'm interested in native insects. The first I heard about that was from Summer Rain @ Flock Finger Lakes. Thanks for your video about native plants.
I plan on keeping an eye on these native plants to see what ends up making it's home there!
Super cool Jaques, I've read heuchera likes part shade but I think coastal it does take full sun fine, mines planted at about 60/40 shade so it will be nice to have some ones to compare with. My experience the sages are too close, but that's how I plant mine too. It's gonna look the most natural. Monkey flowers are gonna be 2 high by 2 wide by April if not sooner, by far the most quickly rewarding plant I've gotten in the ground this last year. Super excited to see how well everything has grown by mid spring and love to see you incorporating some natives!
Oh good to know on the monkey flower, I agree the sages might be too close I am considering re spacing them a little before they get too established
@@jacquesinthegarden If it likes it the white sage can spread to 2-3 wide by summer easy. Height to match with flower stalks way higher. I've found black sage to go up to 2-3 ft quickly, lean, and then back bud with growth heavily to the other side to even it's width. If the water lightens up they might behave a bit more, but with even a fraction as much rain this next month I'd expect similar growth.
I'm still just really stoked for this. You guys are on a slippery slope 😅. There's a lot of good shade/mid to high water plants as far as edible natives go, good stuff for odd spots. We have offensively large amounts of plants that are insane for teas. Mint family going very hard in California 🤣
nice little native garden bed with the small rock wall around it. Did you build that rock wall? I have a bunch of river rock that I want to use for something like that in my front yard to help create levels on a sloping yard and curious about the best way to go about that.. I'll be using lots of native zone 9B plants as well.
buy some poppy seeds and spread them around
I've killed 2 Manzanitas because of overwatering. They apparently hate summer watering, I unfortunately made the mistake of thinking they need extra water during summer... I was told to by a native specialist at the nursery where I bought my 3rd manzanita from to plant it and forget it and that is what Im doing right now. 😅