The Top 10 Things New Native Plant Gardeners Need to Know
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- Noted Illinois horticulturalist, gardener, and educator Ken Williams shares his gardening wisdom, combining practical tips with insights garnered through long experience. Perfect for beginning and experienced native plant gardeners alike. Recorded Feb 21, 2021.
this is such a great video. The idea that we need to focus on the entire life cycle of bugs rather than just the adult stage makes so much sense
This was such an excellent presentation. I've been searching for information on maintaining native garden beds and you taught me more in an hour than I could have ever imagined.
I've been dragging native plants home to my garden for 40 years. My "gardening style" has become trendy, as well as politically correct 😅
I'm by no means a beginner when it comes to gardening with native, but I learned a whole bunch of new tips and tricks from this fabulous presentation! You earned a new subscriber!
Love this! I also taught my daughters to " baby high five" the bumble bees in fall! (with 1 finger). Master Gardener from Cagary
2nd time listening. So much info and inspiration. Can't wait for spring! Will be stratifying seeds this winter.
Fantastic presentation! I especially appreciated the part on editing, because it's true that we sometimes need "permission" to feel okay about removing good plants - even when it's absolutely necessary to do so.
What an amazing presentation. Thank you so much, I appreciate my native plant garden so much more.
What a great video. "...the things that live on the things that live on aphids..." is the essential statement of this video. We need a huge diversity of various plants to support a proper eco-web.
i walk with a cane and when i am in the gardens i use a cane with a nail on the end that is 4 inches long so my cane wont fall over. but what it does well is help notice soil compacting by just walking you find soil problems and help aerate the soil you cane have canes with different length nails which helps new wildflower gardens that are being transformed using no dig helps get moisture into the soil. and the seeds to have pockets to settle into to sprout and help the new gardens spread. just my helpful observation.
Excellent. I am here in SC . Heat index is ridiculous. So far I have achillia, echinachia, salvia Cocinnea and Some native wild flower seeds thatI planted in a wagon. I also have a passiflora that is feeding the fritillary caterpillar as we speak. I also just got a Monarda and with this humidity I am just waiting for the powdery mildew. All is in containers and I repot as necessary. No choice, I have to get creative. Much thanks for your video. I'm on my way to the book I like on your list. Smiles.
I can't thank you enough for this wonderful presentation! Such valuable information.
We had a pretty big aphid population this year, and the lady bugs came in. We had lots of baby lady bugs too, and over time, all the aphids were gone. Love God's natural design!
Very nice…thank you.
Thank you for this. Detailed and infinitely informative told by a true enthusiast!!
I consider editing giving your garden a haircut. Plants will grow back! If you cut too much, you can plant new ones or your current ones will seed the area.
I moved into my new home and took out like 10 boxwoods that were crowding the front of the house (there’s still 10 left!). It looks SO much better now and I plan on putting in native and annual flowers. I just have to properly determine height, spread and bloom time.
Watching from Bowling Green, Ky
I and others offer our plants to share my joy with others when I’m thinning my plants in our gardens.
Excellent, so informative to listen and learn. One thing that will change my life is I will try to always cut off dying plants as close to the soil as logical and NOT DISTURB THE SOIL. Whoodathunkit!!!! Thank you for this.
Thank you for this wonderful presentation.
This is a wealth of information. Thank you
LOVED this! I have Thomas Rainer's book - which is fabulous. It started me on my new found passion on transforming my current gardens into mostly native species. I've ordered a bunch of seeds which I am winter sowing in containers. I'm SOOOO excited for spring this year!!!!
I am very interested in trying this. I liked Doug Tallamy and his presentation also. He is a wealth of knowledge. I have a very small acreage of land. I think it is doable in a small way ,but if landowners become aware and become involved it would be great. Editing would be difficult for me, but if necessary I would be okay. I like the way you present this and very informative.
great video full of love
Solid content all the way through!
When you suggest only cutting off the tops of “weeds”, letting the roots nourish the soil.
Certain weeds will grow stronger when the top is cut off. I’m thinking if I dig or pull a plant as deep as I can, it takes longer to become a plant again?
Very good info!
Thank you!!
I'm trying the "sod flipping" method for my asparagus bed.
Excellent, inspiring presentation.
Excellent presentation, thank you! But... "Turf grass is barely alive to begin with. It dies pretty easily." Guess you've never had to battle Zoysia grass, huh? You are fortunate. My father put in that stuff many years ago and it's a Dense Mat of Rhizomatous Evil.
I actually like a riot of colors like a cottage garden ,,, no one needs to be able to “read “ my garden 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Same here. I don't have swaths of color in my garden. I have a kaleidoscope of color. I like that it looks wild. I guess the landscaping edgers surrounding it are the way people 'read' that the way it looks is intentional.
You have to consider the native gardening movement as a whole. Native gardens that look untidy or ugly make the general public want to pass laws limiting them, while neat and beautiful native gardens make the general public want to join in. Like he says in the video, go crazy in your back yard, but treat your front yard like the public display that it is.
Very interesting. Greetings from Australia. 🧡
great,,,,
The saying is you can NEVER step in the same stream twice
Correct. I misspoke. Thanks for the correction!
Excellent presentation, thank you! Two questions: how do you remove Canada goldenrod? If I pull it out, it still leaves part of the root.
Also, what’s the Dutch hoe you are using for weeding?
In situations like that I think it just takes vigilance- keep pulling it as soon as you see sprouts and eventually the root will starve. As for the tool, look up 'dutch push pull hoe'.
Good luck!
I'm starting a pollinator garden in my front yard. I'm starting it in sections. As I got a mix seed packet and Don't know what's coming up. Don't want to scare the neighbors.
Skipper butterflies overwinter on Switchgrass as eggs, so why whack them down looks that?
Best tip: Plant Editing.
Does anyone know the plant on the right at 3:00? I’ve been considering preserving dried native plants and I like that one for some dark contrast
Echinacea purpurea, or purple cone flower is my guess. Definitely at least in the genus echinacea.
It's a cone flower. I leave my dead stalks up all winter so the birds can eat the seeds, so I'm quite familiar with how they look!
Skipper butterflies overwinter as eggs on Switchgrass, so why whack it down like that?
This is true. In cases like this the client demands it. Getting them to accept this method was an accomplishment.
I don’t know of studies about the survival of those eggs in plant residue on the ground, but I’d think it gives them a better chance than in a prairie burn. Thanks for the input!
how can i propagate or find swamp cabbage
57:30 tickets from the city? what would be the code/ordinance be called? I want to search my city's bylaws.
I don’t know, but it’s bad to have plants blocking the sidewalk.
A lot of great plants are illegal ragweed , Canada thistle, cannabis etc
My favorite weeds are prolly burdock, ragweed and waterhemp
Neighborhoods are filled with jealous haters
What is the plant blossom that you took a photo of shown at 1:35 minutes? Looks as a pink whirlwind ;)
Prairie smoke
@@jimgraf1720 Thank You, what a wonderful fun name. Your reply is much appreciated, as, well as your uplift outlooks found treasured in native grown plants!
My city bans thistle , ragweed , burdock, Wayfair plantain and sumac ...... Insane , cuz they let buckthorn grow everywhere
Anyway i had a baby sumac and some plantain growing well that instantly melted , not sure if the city or a neighbor sprayed ........ Ugh so disappointing. Isn't it illegal to spray with out consent?
I've heard the too much water will kill plants from the bottom up, while too little water kills plants from the tip down. Any thoughts on that rule of thumb?
Hope of Jesus help all gardeners for you are the only and lasting hope ❤️
Goldenrod is good and goldenrod is bad?
I love goldenrod , in the fall the seeds float away light as cotton , beautiful
cities seem very against getting rid of grass. old barbaric laws in my city make it very difficult.
I really want to challenge the idea of what an attractive and functional native garden looks like. I see absolutely nothing wrong with planting tall species outside homes. The speaker constantly mentions that overgrown beds are ugly and neighbors will hate it. i want to challenge that. I will not kimit what i can do with my available space because some stranger has an opinion that my plants donèt fit into their aesthetic. Gardens donèt have to be perfect, either. Just play around with your gardens until they look nice and stop caring what other people think. Theyre just plants.
You have to consider the native gardening movement as a whole. Native gardens that look untidy or ugly make the general public want to pass laws limiting them, while neat and beautiful native gardens make the general public want to join in. Like he says in the video, go crazy in your back yard, but treat your front yard like the public display that it is.
@@pendlera2959 untidy and ugly are very subjective. What is untidy or ugly to one person is a beautiful rare prairie plant to another. Someone's unrefined garden might be a stepping stone in their growth and might mature into a more refined space the following year. We need to stop being so judgemental and let people use the land they live on to experiment with growing whatever native non-invasive plants they want. I had an elderly friend complain to me for over an hour about how messy a free library was that her neighbor had recently put up. The library was not messy, it just didn't fit my friends style.
Oh dear God. you can't flip bermuda over and expect it to die.
Powder and vitamin D3 and vitamin and herbs medical like home grow up and food glass drinks and watermelon and clove powder in the soil oatmeal Bisquick potatoes and vinegar home GORW FOOD and herbs and baking powder soda 🥤 and maybe watermelon is good GORW FOOD 🥝🥝 tomatoes 🍅🥒🍅 🧅 pepper cayenne pepper powder in the soil for cooked chicken thighs to cook for dinner with DR MD and Drug store and medical Psy maybe GORW FOOD 🥝🤤
It is really important to mention the location where this video is located. Plants you are ripping up and consider not native are indeed native in some areas and are necessary to the ecosystem. Euonumus Americanus (wahoo, or burning bush) is not the invasive species and provides protective cover for small birds. It is a different species from the invasive ground cover that was introduced from Asia. Be a bit more specific before people start ripping up. Also, wild gardens while lovely, be aware of tick infestations that can be life threatening to humans. Garden smart.
It is West Cook Wild Ones. That’s the location. It’s in Illinois. It’s in the title, Faith.
He mentions Chicago and the Chicagoland area as well as his exact county in Illinois numerous times throughout the video....
@@jdy1054 Not everyone knows that West Cook is in Illinois. Williams' guidance is valuable for me as a novice gardener and I will return. However, I only just moved to Crescent City, CA, and the word "West" in the title is why I chose this video.
@@rawlsrules hence why I added the clarification, or should I say amplication. I did not know exactly where this person was, either.
Google is your friend. Use it. And listen. He’s mentioned Chicago area several times.
Boomer brain never ends. I like tried but geez.