BORING LAWN To DIVERSE POLLINATOR GARDEN - Ep. 121
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 12. 09. 2022
- It's hard to believe that around 10 months ago, this was nothing more than a lawn, but now this pollinator garden is planted up with close to 260 different varieties of plants-many of them native and that provide pollen sources for specialist pollinators, like solitary bees, for example. We'll take you through a meditative tour of this lawn-turned-pollinator haven.
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This was heart warming. I adore pollinator plants and herbs as I am a herbalist. Too many people mow too many areas thinking that they want to neaten up the gardens. We need more wild. Some high grasses are what fireflies need to breed and find mates. The more pollinator plants the better. Youâve done a heroic job. This isnât even a year old but you couldnât tell. More please. Love these videos.
I've noticed the fireflies love our shade gardens too - trying to expand them more to give them some more living space! (and so I can squeeze in more ferns :D)
Filming this before real sunup was magical:)
Lovely! It makes me smile...be a red Dahlia in a sea of pastel đ
This is my dream. We have just under an acre, lots of lawn and I'm slowly converting as much as I can into native gardens. So inspiring to see this!
Same with us - fun and a bit daunting all at once!
Love love love your kindness, gentleness and love for gardening and teaching us along the way. đ·đđ»đ·
Nice dress. Itâs for perfect for the occasion. Lovely garden! Excellent job. Thanks for showing us the nice scenery.
Have you considered making merchandise? T-shirts made in an ethical way would be amazing đ€©
Every time I plant some flowers, the deer eat it - except for the mints, like catmint of course. All my sunflowers got really tall (planted by the squirrels and birds, from the bird feeder) and got decapitated also - right before they bloomed. I blamed the deer. On the plus side, I do appreciate that the deer chomp down my blackberry bed when it gets out of control and I open the fence for them. I get Japanese beetles, so itâs not like I eat the blackberries anyway.
Unfortunately we also have a lot of builder fill dirt. At least I have a good container garden on the deck.
I need to learn more. I wish I had more time. But I love this channel so I can live vicariously đ
Such a beautiful garden. Always special when giving back to nature
You pollinator garden is looking so beautiful and whimsical even! I have been following this channel since you first announced it, and I know you say that it will take a long time to get the land to where you want it and there is much more to do, but it is absolutely amazing the amount that you all have accomplished in just a couple of years with this property. It really is becoming something special and I am so excited to continue to follow your journey as you continue to shape the land into a nature wonderland!
Beautiful. I am just going to start a Wildflower Garden. Slowly, since I broke my hip.
Time heals all. Thank you for sharing.
I love your meadow gardens. So beautiful and natural. Thank you for including the perfect music to fully appreciate it. đ đŒ
Love your garden! Iâve watched a squirrel eat the heads off of volunteer sunflowers.
Good luck. Beautiful cultivars.
Ours is zone 8/9 finally after 8 years of struggling we have majority indegienous species.
Beautiful!!!!
The unexpected sunflowers really worked well with your masterful purplish scheme
I don't mow and plant with abandon, hand weed only a few noxious interlopers and have been rewarded with clouds of butterflies, moths, skippers, bees of all kinds, wasps of several kinds, beetles, mantids, spiders--Yay! the argiope garden spiders are splendid!--hummingbird moths, sphinx moth, hummingbirds and song birds!--all on 1/8th acre in suburbia! Thank you for getting the word out! It can be done!
Absolutely gloriousâŒïž
What a beautiful idea to try and get to 100% specialist pollinators! I will have to look into doing the same in my own garden đ€©đ„° very inspiring, thank you for sharing
Wonderful video. I like seeing the names of the plants. Thank you!â€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž
New subscriber. Iâm enjoying all your Flock Finger Lakes videos. This pollinator garden is amazing! Thank you for all your zen like inspiration and for you love of the Natural World. đż
Mountain mint is a wasp magnet. So many amazing wasp, all so chill. (O;
Loving these. Beautiful job!!
LOVE the garden tours including this one, thank you!
I'm so inspired by this tour, thank you... I live in a relatively unique environment being a Maritime Forest on the coast, that was very sadly once a wetlands that was drained for development in the early 70's. So, it's very sandy soil here, and buggy, and horribly the town I live in blanket sprays for mosquitoes. But I still try to provide sustenance for all the pollinators and wildlife that I can. I'm slowly building the soil and adding more plants that I see get a lot of interest from the birds, bees, bugs, and butterflies. I love the wild, peaceful, wabi sabi, yet orchestrated, look of your gardens. Thank you for the inspiration and knowledge that you share.
This was SO fun to watch
It's turning out sooooo nice!!
Thank you for presenting such a DELIGHTFUL video, btw you picked the perfect dress for the settings.
Iâve been following this since this channel started. Time passed so quickly. This is absolutely beautiful and inspiring. Canât wait to see how it would look like in the future
What a beautiful garden. My wife and I were blown away you forgot a name! Just kidding we know you are human too. BTW someone had to say something about that dress, WOW!! So pretty. Like a Klimt painiting.
GREAT job guys. Thanks for the inspiration
Thank you so much Summer! Dazzling!
Looks awesome! Love what you did. Enjoy.
I always enjoy a garden tour: I especially appreciate the plant and pollinator information you share.
Gorgeous !! My dream lawn!
I've been following you since starting this garden, and am happy to see your success! If you want more specialist bees, you might consider Summer Poinsettia plant, aka Fireplant Euphorbia. Mine is covered in LOTS of different bee species. I got the seeds from my grandmother before she passed.
Absolutely love these tours! Well done!! Beautiful garden
Thank you for this episode, the garden is stunning! The things you all have done, are amazing! I always look forward to the next video, both here and on your other channel.
this garden is so beautiful thanks for sharing
I love the way you are gardening. Very good job, May you be an inspiration for many people.And I like it that you mention the plants by their Latin names so that People in other countries know where you are talking about.
What a stunning garden
Such a lovely garden!
I love this type of gardening. Thank you for sharing and for caring for our relations. â€ïžđđ§ĄđđđđȘ¶
Wow Summer , the pollinators garden is soo beautiful, and every year would be fuller, thanks for sharing!!!
An inspiring garden. Thanks for sharing.
This is by far one of the best pollinator garden tours I've seen on you tube! So much in bloom! So many native plant gardens look like a hot mess, but this looks like an actual intentional garden that just so happens to embrace natives. Very inspiring. I wrote down some names of plants I intend to try. Thank you
you're most welcome.
Absolutely beautiful! You can feel like hustle and bustle and life from this area.
Thank you for these inspiring videos! This one in particular, audio and camera are so great.
You're probably the person to ask: how do you choose newer cultivars in confidence that they will be beneficial for some bugs? I'm not talking about specialists necessarily, I've just heard from some entomologists that a lot of new plants offer nothing to bugs, even many that are advertised as pollinator plants. People can't just assume because it is a cultivar that comes from a good pollinators plant that it will also be good, but of course there are so many plants out there beyond the original species. Is there something you're looking for, or do you simply research every cultivar you are considering?
And do you have a complete list of all your plants here and in your meadow?
This is absolutely beautiful. Gorgeous garden and light.
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Nice to see your excitement about these plants.
Love your garden. It is perfect. My favorite style. Looks absolutely amazing.
Nice garden, its great fun to watch your adventure unfold. Thanks for posting.
What a lovely tour - your knowledge, passion and beauty kept me watching.
Great tour, Summer, and that DRESS is banginâ
this garden is amazing! definitely inspired to plant a few hundred plants in my yard right now!!!
Lovely tour, you've done a wonderful job transforming the land and integrating it to the bigger picture of nature. Thanks for sharing
Gorgeous. You have such an eye for color. Love the idea of mixing natives in with other pollinator attractors.
Such a beautiful and inspiring pollinator garden!
It's here!†I watched the planting videos and just now got a notification for this! It's beautiful.
I cant believe that i started out gardening trying to establish an English garden. As i've gotten older and less able to dig, i've become infatuated with native plants!
I'm not sure if it's the plants themselves, your wealth of information, or the videographer that makes these videos so captivating but I love them!
I think it's "yes" "yes" and "yes" đ
I love your pollinator garden with all the beautiful colored plants. I hope to start something on a small scale next year also.
I appreciate your naturalistic, light-handed way of planting, and have taken up many of your ideas in my own garden.
Love your garden. Good job.
Fantastic... I love planting wildflower seeds.... Yours looks stunning...
Loved it!
Itâs all so beautiful!!
You look so pretty yourself!!
Itâs beautiful!!! Screenshot a few for the wishlist đ
Looks really good for almost a year old. Nice work
Just tore out my back yard as it was five foot high in goose grass, brambles and creepers. Used a tiller to turn it all over one I had removed the top layer. Had many roots to pull out but seems I got most of them. I'm doing pretty much the same and planted it with meadow flowers to promote the ecology of where I live.
So amazing. I have done similar beds and I adore the wildlife habitat itâs given us.
Just wonderful †What a dream of a garden!
So beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I love how your videos are filmed and edited
Loved watching this tour and the garden is just beautiful.. I aspire to convert my backyard into this slowly! such a great inspiration â€
Wow! Just beautiful again, this is so uplifting and inspirational. Keep it up it looks great! Love and peace from Cornwall xxx
Awesome Thank you, I paused video to write down the names of some of the pollinators lol love this concept of bringing pollinators into the landscape!!
It's looking spectacular! Love your dress too!
I enjoy videos like this.
You guys have put such hard work into this, it's so heart warming to see it all start to pay off. đïž am so glad you're spreading the message about our beloved pollinators. Keep up the amazing work! đ
Just gorgeous! đ What an amazing job yâall have done, I so much enjoy following along on the journey and living my best gardening life vicariously through your videos. Thank you for sharing! đâš
We are loving how quickly the three of you are transforming your property. I think we'll be asking for plant advice as we move forward with our own farm transformation just down the road. :)
Your information is so nice n adding to my knowledge thanks
Best of luck
Awesome đžđ±
brilliant garden!
Your garden is very beautiful and so are you
LOVE IT!
I'm building a pollinator garden specifically with monarchs in mind. Quickly falling in love with the idea that our yards can be conservation sites if we want them to beđ
It looks absolutely stunning... What a gorgeous place it became...is woow...like a wonder garden đđđ€
It's great to see the huge transformation in your property; you have put in an impressive amount of time and devotion into your projects. Thanks to Summer for your perennial vigor and perpetual smile. Thanks to Sander for the skillful videography; for example the early morning backlit plants make for a surprising showcase I'd never expect in a pollinator garden. Thanks to overseas Joey for making films that matter. Wishes for continued success to all . . . .
We've been noticing the same with the Canadian geese in Belgium, and Fall hit us with tons of rain since last week! Funny how these creatures seem to know better than us what is up ahead.
Your meadow is so beautiful.
This is so beautiful, i wish i had some land so that i could do something like that, also i would like to say that i absolutely agree with you when you say that it is wonderful to have the wild life using your space as if was their own. Congratulations and keep doing what you do.
just breathtaking! thank you, this is such great inspiration for my future gardens. I love getting the names of each plant, as I often don't know what to look for or what a plant may look like at it's full size (vs a bedding plant baby - or a seed). Also love that dress, amazing colour!
Enjoyed it.
I have a very large balcony since this spring and I try to achieve a meadow vibe with lots of pots and native species. I was just trying and I was already overwhelmed with the amount of pollinators that came in. Very soon I will go for bulb and seed shopping. Next year will be even better
Beautiful đ„°
Bless youâ€â€â€
It was lovely and interesting to watch this episode. The names are big help for reference. Iâve got Pollinator plants in my garden and just yesterday I enjoyed watching a Hummingbird Hawk moth side by side with an orange red bottomed bumblebee, both feasted on my Bartblume( Beardplant). Thanks for sharing your garden!đđč
I've been watching and following you for quite a while, absolutely love the content. I'm about to do something similar as you did with my lawn. I was wondering if there's is a map, or list, describing your different gardens and what plants are in each ?
Woooow that flowering oregano â€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïž
Your garden looks so good! This is so interesting and important to listen to. I really enjoy the way you present facts, flora and fauna. I really need to do my own research and read up on my own local pollinators.
As an aside, you see a lot of the perennials you call native being sold commercially here and are sometimes really popular. Of course, "here" being Sweden, that also comes with its own issues regarding invasiveness so while I can objectively really, really like your garden, part of me is too used to seeing some of them take over in these parts. For instance, Lupines recently became (finally) blacklisted for their astounding talent to just spread, and spread, and spread until you have entire fields filled with them.