Transforming front yard from turf to native Michigan landscape
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- čas přidán 11. 06. 2020
- We exchanged the turf and non-native plants for a variety of Michigan native flowers/grasses/sedges!
This landscape was done by our friends at Creating Sustainable Landscapes! Check them out to see more!
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Plants include:
Geramium Macatalum - Wild Geranium
Sporobolus heterolepis - Northern Dropseed
Echinacea pallida - Pale Purple Coneflower
Silphium terebinthinaceum - Prairie Dock
Geum triflorum - Prairie Smoke
Bouteloua curtipendula - Side-oats Grama
Monarda fistulosa - Wild Bergemot
Eurybia macrophylla - Big Leaf Aster
Allium cernuum - Nodding Onion
Asclepias tuberosa - Butterfly Weed
Schizachyrium scoparium - Little Bluestem
Zizia aurea - Golden Alexanders
Aquilegia canadensis - Red Columbine
Carex brevior - Plains Oval Sedge
Aralia racemosa - Spikenard
Eutrochium purpureum - Sweet Joe Pye Weed
Symphyotrichum cordifolium - Heart-Leaved Aster
Stylophorum diphyllum - Wood Poppy
Polemonium reptans - Jacob’s Ladder
Actaea rubra - Red Baneberry
Heuchera americana - Alum Root
Carex eburnea - Ivory Sedge
Tiarella cordifolia - Foamflower
Oligoneuron rigidum - Stiff Goldenrod
Eryngium yuccifolium - Rattle Snake Master
Penstemon hirsutus - Hairy Beardtongue
Ruellia humilis - Wild Petunia
This looks like it will become really nice. Any chance at going back near the one year anniversary and see how its turning out?
It's wild to watch this and see how little they once were because now they are quite big! And it's only been a few months! We'd love to do an update, especially in spring when it bursts with new growth and flowers 😍 Thanks for watching!!
If you do an update, would you add some more details about the process? I’m a Michigan native hoping to update my own lawn this year!
I would love to see an update of this to see how the plants spread to fill the area.
Really nice. I wish there was some narrative on what you are doing!
I wish there ws a follow up on what it evolved to? unless I didn't look further into this project.
Can't wait to see it this year!
Greetings, fellow Midwest Native Gardener! Your video was so inspiring! I just converted my front lawn to prairie and I'm so excited to watch it fill in this year.
Awesome video but I wished it had more explanation. How did you stamp out the grass. What did you put on after? (Just top soil?)
This is awesome! I really hope you do an update video soon. :)
Looking forward to a follow up video. I’m guessing native perennials benefit from tossing and dropping?
Maybe an access path to the birdbath?
What was used to kill the grass?
Looks like some kind of chemical. 😢
Hoping to see an update video. Would love if there was a spring, summer and fall video to see how it changes! I’m extra needy!
Thanks for sharing. You did great! I would love an update video please.
So how was the grass killed off at the beginning? Some kind of spray? More info would be helpful.
Hi, I got 4 native plant landscapings in the books for my business last fall. I like what you did and it’s amazing to see other companies do this too!
I was wondering where you are finding most of your customers? What have you learned about managing customer’s expectations that are contrary to mainstream landscaping?
Thanks,
Inspiring work
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I don't want native shrubs per se, but I wanna just throw down some top soil snd native flower species. Looks good though, it'd be nice to see this in full splendor.
Any afternoon sun for the natives?
How do the plants coordinate with city/County mowing ordinances ?
I’m excited I found your channel! I life in Rochester, and I’m trying to do a few of these things by myself on a large lot that was professionally landscaped when I got here 3 years ago. There are areas that have nothing on them, but there was a smallish organic garden. I’ve been planting things in the areas that were just mulch, and quite large. No water gets to them, so I’m having a bit of a difficult time keeping them watered. I’m looking to seed sone areas with edibles and planted heirloom corn, heirloom tomatoes, raspberries and blueberries around small fruit trees. The biggest issue is a dry slope along the back privacy fence that is my dog’s favorite barking area, since there are large dogs on the other side! I’m trying to fence off about 5’ so he can’t get back there, and in the meantime I’m looking for seeds or small plants that would quickly fill in that area.
Maybe I should call your landscape crew! Nice job! I’m excited someone lives near me!
Bet that took a lot of back breaking work! 👩🌾
This is great! I bet it was expensive for all of the plant starts though.. Great job!
I love what you did to your front yard. I live in Birmingham and need, want to transform my front yard. Can you recommend anyone who could help me. Many thanks.
Yes, please join the club! Contact Drew with www.creatingsustainablelandscapes.com/
Think about joining the Wild Ones, a native plant organization you can get personal help. I am sure there is one near you!
Nice! What did you use to spray the yard with at the beginning?
Exactly my question too. I'm interested in doing this and want to follow the steps.
Please don’t spray persistent herbicide. Key word, persistent. Round Up aka glyphosate is a persistent herbicide.
If you had to spray a broad spectrum herbicide to obtain this doesn't that work counter to the idea of making it natural?
If by natural you mean organic, yes you are correct it is not natural. Our intent was to become native, not necessarily natural. And these are native species so we achieved that goal. We weren't thrilled about the use of the herbicide either, but in making our decision we felt it was more important to reestablish native species and the habitat that has been missing. Yes it's not a perfect solution but it's what we felt was the best we could do between the two choices. Sorry if this disappoints you, that piece disappointed us as well :/ Thanks for your question
@@cityhouseonaprairie You could have just tilled the soil a bit with a fork and remove the grass with its roots... It's more strenuous for sure, but not that difficult, and you have the benefit of working out. It's also then easier for planting coz the sol is decompacted. That herbicide method would have been illegal in Europe, you can't just use strong herbicides like that any more in a private gardens. So yeah, like Philip, I was quite shocked at the beginning of the video =/
Hauling away an entire front yard of sod uses a lot of fuel, wear and tear on vehicles that need to be manufactured, etc. There's no perfectly green solution that I've found yet.
Often I will do a heavy sheet mulching after mowing low and flaming the sod. Occasionally the rhizomes resurrect a year later, but not as many and MUCH easier to get rid of the outliers.
How did this turn out?
Really great!! We'll have to post some updates for you guys
Good luck with the weed control
How do you control weeds like this???
If I'm not mistaken, the plants naturally will grow together and block most weeds out. The first couple years are weedier until they the plants mature, but it's just a matter of picking them by hand throughout the season.
That is correct @@SarahS-bq8ot. It's honestly quite shocking how big they've gotten even in only a few months. So we're not concerned with weeds. Plus we've found that the mulch they've been started in has mitigated weeds from getting good root depth before we spot pick them.
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what did they spray to get rid of lawn?
Laziness I guess... You can just fork the soil and remove the grass manually, it's not a big surface.
I want to do this in Kentucky but our No 1 native landscape plant is actually fescue grass so I guess we'll keep mowing.
This would be much more interesting without the noisy background sounds.
I hate the lady is just throwing the plants to the ground in a rough manner wow
Dear god the music made my ears bleed
Some things are better left unsaid. Mute.
I hope you werent spraying something that is harmful to insects and wildlife