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Learn all about flowers and plants that are native to the United States and plan native flower gardens. See what established native plants look like in every season of the year. See what native plants look like in every season of the year, from seed. Also watch native plant nature scenes for study and relaxation, and reviews for online plant-selling companies.
Lofi Music Wildflower Bumblebee Garden #2 - Chill Beats - Native Flowers Lofi for Study,Work, Baking
Native Flower Power Lofi #2
Love Lofi music? Listen to chill Lofi beats while watching native flowers and native wildflowers shifting in the breeze, being enjoyed by bumblebees. No loops or repeats. Relaxing background Lofi music and peaceful native flower visuals.
Native flowers featured:
Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot)
Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)
Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)
Pycnanthemum muticum (Clustered Mountain Mint)
Rudbeckia hirta (Black Eyed Susans)
Agastache foeniculum (Anise Hyssop)
Helianthus sp. (Sunflowers)
Videos Related to Featured Native Flowers:
What Do Black-Eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) Look Like in Every Season of the Year? ua-cam.com/video/71QjVVzzyqg/v-deo.html
What Does Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) Look Like in Every Season of the Year? ua-cam.com/video/rBBMpZ88rAk/v-deo.html
What Does Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) Look Like in Every Season of the Year? ua-cam.com/video/PnQ9yQIP-5A/v-deo.html
What Does Anise Hyssop (Agastache Foeniculum) Look Like in Every Season of the Year, from seed to established? ua-cam.com/video/vD0BIw4RWCk/v-deo.html
All video and images are created by the Native Flower Power UA-cam channel creator.
Music obtained and licensed from UppBeat (uppbeat.io/).
Songs in order of appearance:
“Dorset Road” by auv (Does this song remind anyone else of “The Goonies”?)
“Toys in the Box Bogomolove” by Fortune Cookie
“Colour and Scent” by Mum Child
“Teekanne” by Struktura
“Life After Death” by AK
“Diffuse” by Dope Cat
“Decades” by AK
“Transparency” by Soundroll
“Another Cycle” by Zayner
“Glimmer” by Dope Cat
“Barcelona” by Wooll
“After Hours” by lloom
“Waiting Room” by FE77A
“Winter Chill” by Konstantin Garbuzyuk
“Jazzna” by Kid Taro
“Anemone” by Prigida
“Secret Menu” by Eric Haley
“Her Smile” by Dosi
“Pilea” by Yasumu
“First Light” by lloom
“Name” by Walz
“Night Swim” by lloom
Love Lofi music? Listen to chill Lofi beats while watching native flowers and native wildflowers shifting in the breeze, being enjoyed by bumblebees. No loops or repeats. Relaxing background Lofi music and peaceful native flower visuals.
Native flowers featured:
Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot)
Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)
Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower)
Pycnanthemum muticum (Clustered Mountain Mint)
Rudbeckia hirta (Black Eyed Susans)
Agastache foeniculum (Anise Hyssop)
Helianthus sp. (Sunflowers)
Videos Related to Featured Native Flowers:
What Do Black-Eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) Look Like in Every Season of the Year? ua-cam.com/video/71QjVVzzyqg/v-deo.html
What Does Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) Look Like in Every Season of the Year? ua-cam.com/video/rBBMpZ88rAk/v-deo.html
What Does Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) Look Like in Every Season of the Year? ua-cam.com/video/PnQ9yQIP-5A/v-deo.html
What Does Anise Hyssop (Agastache Foeniculum) Look Like in Every Season of the Year, from seed to established? ua-cam.com/video/vD0BIw4RWCk/v-deo.html
All video and images are created by the Native Flower Power UA-cam channel creator.
Music obtained and licensed from UppBeat (uppbeat.io/).
Songs in order of appearance:
“Dorset Road” by auv (Does this song remind anyone else of “The Goonies”?)
“Toys in the Box Bogomolove” by Fortune Cookie
“Colour and Scent” by Mum Child
“Teekanne” by Struktura
“Life After Death” by AK
“Diffuse” by Dope Cat
“Decades” by AK
“Transparency” by Soundroll
“Another Cycle” by Zayner
“Glimmer” by Dope Cat
“Barcelona” by Wooll
“After Hours” by lloom
“Waiting Room” by FE77A
“Winter Chill” by Konstantin Garbuzyuk
“Jazzna” by Kid Taro
“Anemone” by Prigida
“Secret Menu” by Eric Haley
“Her Smile” by Dosi
“Pilea” by Yasumu
“First Light” by lloom
“Name” by Walz
“Night Swim” by lloom
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Lofi Flower Bumblebee Garden Chill Beats - Native Flower Lofi for Study, Work, Baking, Cooking
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Enjoy Lofi music? Listen to chill Lofi beats while watching native flowers shifting in the breeze, being enjoyed by bumblebees. No loops or repeats. Relaxing background Lofi music and peaceful native flower visuals. Native flowers featured: Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot) Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed) Various Monarda spp. (various Bee Balms) Monarda punctata (Spotted Bee Balm) Symphyot...
What Established Echinacea purpurea (Purple Coneflower) Looks Like in Every Season
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Is Conoclinium coelestinum (Mistflower) a Good Cut Flower?
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What Established Conoclinium coelestinum (Mistflower) Looks Like Coming Up in the Spring
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What Established Penstemon hirsutus (Hairy Beardtongue) Looks Like When it Comes Up in the Spring
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Thank you from Moscow.
Thank you for this video, so helpful!!
I'm very glad to hear that!
Spectacular! THANKS! Subscribed!
I'm so glad to hear a spectacular! These are my favorite types of videos to make!
Love this series so much thank you :)
Oh I'm glad to hear that. I tell ya what, I love lofi. At some point it occurred to me that heck, I have a youtube channel, I can make lofi videos of my own if I'd like! I'm glad someone else is enjoying them too. :-)
So far, 2nd and probably last flower flush of the growing season on mine! Never thought I’d see flowers in August and I saw a neighbour’s orange milkweed blooming same as mine too! 🎊
Well now that's interesting. Two of my A. tuberosa plants have done a second bloom this year. That's not happened before and it's interesting to hear that it's happened to someone else too!
2 questions: is this type of milkweed invasive (I’m in zone 6a) & will it work as a detriment to the spotted lanternfly? I read that milkweed is lethal to it, which I can live with because of the problems they pose to crops. Thanks!
(1) Not invasive. There's a type of milkweed that can be aggressive, although not invasive (and this isn't that one), and there's a type of tropical milkweed that northern people shouldn't plant (and this isn't that one), so this one is all good. And not invasive. (2) Honestly, I don't know much yet about the lanternfly so I can't really answer this. Anyone else have an answer on this one?
I hope you are right about bad bugs and good bugs because this year I sure had the bad bugs
I did notice the lack of mulch honelstly not really any of last years dead growth. is that universally a good idea or more in your zone...I'm in 6B ish I'd say we get chili in winter...follow up I hear what u say later in the video but I see the vids of new growth coming up out of bear soil
Thank you!!
Yes! You're welcome!
Oh dang why don’t you have tops on the milk jugs every video I’ve seen has the lids on
Honestly, I never knew that milk jugs was "a thing" being used in the plant/gardening world. I just needed more things to grow seeds from and we go through so much milk, I just started cutting the jugs in half and using them as planters on the patio. I didn't realize that people were using the tops as little greenhouses, etc. So whether you use tops or not might depend on what you're trying to do exactly. Now that I've learned more about this milk jug method, I'm going to continue growing my seedlings the way that I do (no lids/tops) because I want the seeds that germinate and "make it" as seedlings to be hardy and ready for my yard and conditions. I don't want seedlings that need special care -- do you know what I mean? That being said, it's an educated hypothesis of mine, no data behind it!
This is good info. This is my first year having this plant and mine flopped over and laying on the ground. I wasn’t sure if I planted it wrong. I think I’ll prop it up carefully with a post.
You've done absolutely nothing wrong. You've just got a happy plant that grew tall! In natural settings where you might find this plant "normally", it's surrounded by other plants and they all "help" hold eachother up, do you know what I mean? And there's often native grasses squeezed in there that also provide support. So when we grow them as solitary plants in our gardens, they do have the tendency to flop over if they get too tall. Options then to deal with that: 1. Plant more of them and/or other plants right next to them so they can all support each other. 2. Get those garden stakes ready so that you can stake them up when they get tall. 3. Cut them somewhere around May/June so that they don't get as tall and maybe get more "bush like" (I mean, not exactly, but kind-of).
thank you. what plant is in the cage and why?
Love love seeing all the stages and appreciate learning! Thk u
Oh good! It was the one thing missing when I started getting into native plants, so I thought, "Well heck, why not make seasonal videos of my own?!" :-)
this is wonderful
I'm so glad you enjoy it. :)
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Right back at ya.
smells like anise!
Yes! Quite!
Lovely and helpful video, thank you! Few people create videos than span this much time, but it's so helpful when I'm new to this plant, I started it from seed, and interested in learning what's ahead for my plant. My question is, does anyone cut it back at all in its first year to create a bushier plant? Second question is how to use for tea. Is it the leaves or the flowers or both? Fresh or dried? ☕️
1. Yes, if you cut it back just above a node, 2 branches will form at every cut, just like basil and mint. So, yes, it gets bushier. 2. You can use both the leaves and flowers, fresh or dried, for tea.
I agree with @fawnrosenberg1997 that you can cut it back (sometime early in the season) and it won't grow quite as tall, and will become more bush-like. I think one error people make is not cutting it early enough in the season. For the tea question, I defer to others to answer that, I've never tried to make tea from it yet.
New subscriber here. Rabbits ate all my cone flowers. I'm going to replant but fence them.
Ooof. Yes, those rabbits. They are brutal. Also, groundhogs. I'm in a bit of a war with 2 groundhogs right now too. Little fences or cages work GREAT against rabbits and so-so against groundhogs (I've had one of those determined groundhogs pull a cage down, and another time, it ate everything that was growing above the cage level). I have also had success against both groundhogs and rabbits by planting things they like in the middle of things they don't like (eg, Agastache foeniculum [Anise Hyssop], Monarda fistulosa [Wild Bergamot]). I would LOVE to hear how your fencing works against your rabbits!
Wow, this was an incredibly informative video, and enjoyable to listen to someone else who is obsessed with milkweed like i am. I learned a few fun facts i didnt know from this one! Ive really been enjoying my milkweed garden this year. I started it 2 years ago and this year its really flourished beyond what i thought it could, and the ecosystem that has formed around it is blowing my mind. It came up so dense this year, i even have a mama bunny nesting in there right now. Amazing to see in what used to be just a barren half-dead chunk of suburban yard.
Oh my, I agree with everything you've said!! And you've got a little nesting site now! Wonderful! What I had previously for my A. incarnata sites from the previous homeowner was non-native plantings. What I love about that is how it feels like those areas are "waking up" after all those years of non-native plants. Finally there's activity up in here! Bees and butterflies, aphids and lacewing bugs, and so so so many insects that I honestly don't yet know what the heck they are! It's neat to see a barren half-dead chunk of yard like what you had or a biologically 'dead' non-native hellhole like what I had, turn into a little thriving ecosystem!!
love it !!!
Thank you <3
I am here for this.
Hi @awildapproach ! Oh man, I love lofi and am glad you're all over this too! :-)
Hello @Native Flower Power , Thank you so much for taking time to make these videos. I ran across your channel about a month and a half ago since I was looking into interesting flowers to plant in my yard. I have since subscribed and learned a ton since courtesy of your work. I will definitely plant Coneflowers in my yard going forward. I do have a request though. I have recently planted Eastern Red Columbines in the hopes of attracting more hummingbirds to my yard. Could you do a similar video on the Eastern Red Columbine when you have an opportunity? Again, thanks a million for the efforts that you put into these videos. They are greatly appreciated.
Thank you so very much for your comment. I'm glad this video type is helpful to you. It's my favorite type of video to make, but of course, the most time-consuming. :-) I'm actually working on a Columbine video, so yes, that will be coming. But in how long? Not sure, I'm still getting video right now! I do very much appreciate the suggestion of what would be helpful to you. Also, I adore your youtube icon. <3 I have a Lannister tank top.
Great video, thanks, very informative. I built a rain garden last year and my Swamp Milkweed is huge this year LOL. Any tips on keeping them from folding over? My flowers are heavy and we had a huge downpour tonight so they are all bent over and one snapped up high :(.
Oh my gosh a Swamp Milkweed in a rain garden!?!? Oh I bet it's THRIVING!!! So, in "natural/wild" settings, native plants are usually growing bumped up next to a bunch of other plants (blazing stars, native grasses, etc.) and they all actually act to "help" hold eachother up. At the edge of prairies or native plant areas, many plants are flopped over, but everywhere not the edge, they're usually all upright. Know what I mean? So options for you: (1) Plant many other native plants (and more swamp milkweed) right up next to eachother so they help support eachother. (2) Get out those plant stakes so that when they get tall, you can stake them up. (3) Cut your swamp milkweed when it's still early in the season (May/ early June) so that it won't grow as tall and will get a bit more "bush-like"
It took 3 years for mine to bloom
Thank you for saying this! I know we often read seed packets or native plant websites and they say that it'll bloom in its 2nd year, but many many native plants can take much longer depending on where it's growing and under what conditions. I also have some swamp milkweed that didn't bloom for 4 years from seed, but is doing just fine.
wow thank you! Love this with all the seasons . Great info
I'm very glad that this was helpful!
they will do much better if you place them where they do not get water. unlike many mint plants, AH does not like wet feet. in fact it is probably the most wet intolerant of mint family most of which i grow in my orchard. i have a thing about mints 🙂 mints are absolutely awesome for attracting native pollinators, my orchard humms 🙂great vid. for identification, you might add some macro still shots.
Thank you so much for helping me learn the plant! I think I"ll add it to my little habitat.
It's surely a lovely one! A very pretty addition to a habitat. I've never been much of a "birder" but seeing the birds come in for the seeds is something that's more fun to watch than I expected!
I just bought a swamp milkweed plant . I have lots of wild milkweed. Lots of monarchs
Oh I love to hear it! It must be stunning to watch!
Thank you very much for time laps video. Never seen or heard of these plants. When I was looking for orange color flowers, I found orange Butterfly perenial. That is pretty much same milweed family as yours. I am learning about them because I've ordered a few
Yes indeed! Butterfly weed and Swamp milkweed are the same genus! Both Asclepias. You're right about Butterfly Weed being orange, one of the few native flowers that is orange. So surely nice to look at. I've been watching purple milkweed more recently, do you have any of that?
@@nativeflowerpower9942 No, I have several orange and one tropical (yellow with red). Tropical is not hardy in my zone 5b. But it looks different than orange ones. Big, tall stem with thick leaves. Did not see any flowers on any of them yet, but I am glad that they thriving. Is there any botanical name for Purple Milkweed? Magenta, orange and purple are my the most favorite colors in flowers
Thank you very much for showing time laps of Batterfly weed flower. I love orange flowers in general, that's how I found these online. Never seen them before. Got excited looking at beautiful flowers and very sturdy leaves. Ordered online. First order came as bare roots. Long way to see them blooming. Now ordered few live plants. So beautiful flowers! Does accidental frost in April -May can affect them or not? I live in 5b zone
Is there a way I can remove your sign from blocking the video image...? Maybe better to include your obstructive extra written info labels ..in your "More" info area ..👋
Do you have problems with slugs eating them
100% no. I've not seen any slugs yet. Any other people out there having slug trouble? There are a lot of predators that like a good slug meal, so I do recommend not spraying those slugs and giving time for the predators to come in and take care of it for you. Get a little natural habitat going! :-)
Thank you so much for this!! I often wonder how plants look through the year
When I first started getting into native plants, that's what I wanted to see too! It's why I started the channel even :-)
My daughter used to pet bumble bees. You are only the second person I've heard does that.
YESSS to your daughter! Who needs to pet a dog or cat when you can pet bumblebees?! :-p
Loving this series! Keep it up!!
Love your content sm!
Thank you so much!
I’ve been waiting for another video like this from you. This is the best native planting channel on UA-cam! Thanks so much for sharing:,)
Thank you! I'm so glad to hear that! This is absolutely my favorite type of video to make.
A fantastic video that shows exactly how to find keystone native plants. Thank you so much for sharing this with people! I love your personality in these videos. It really shines through.
You're just the best! Thank you! Yeah, those keystone plants are so important! It's a great choice when someone doesn't have much time or is not really interested in doing much. Keystones really pack a punch.
I really appreciate the time and care you put into this video. The detail is incredible! I love seeing the timeline , especially what they look like when breaking out in the spring!
Thank you! Oh yes, I LOVE when they come up in the spring! They start peeking through and it always feels amazing! Like, "Oh my gosh, it's really going to happen again this year!!" Plants are pretty awesome, in truth.
I’m lucky to have common, orange and red milkweed! 🎉So far, no monarch caterpillar… Also the common one is potted (spreads too much) and unlike the red and orange mw, has not flowered yet! 🤔 Just leaves. All the wild ones I see are blooming or even finished. I suspect that it doesn’t like much to be in its (self-watering) bucket and kinda crowded, probably 6-7 plants sharing the space.
Oh that's really quite interesting. Growing common milkweed in a pot makes sense because it's so aggressive, but also yeah, it can be inhibitory. That probably does explain the lack of flowers. But as you and I both know, those Monarch butterflies will come and lay eggs on milkweed leaves, regardless of whether there's ever any flowers or not. So that's good. when you say red milkweed, do you mean Asclepias incarnata or Asclepias rubra?
@@nativeflowerpower9942 Incarnata. 😁 Similarly, no seed pod on the incarnata in this late August… 🤔
👍🏼…Great Direction of this video!
Thank you very much! :)
Incredible video. Thank you for taking the time to video asclepias incarnata in each and every season and to show and discuss the insect activity you've seen on it. This is the exact info I was looking for. Thanks for trying to help our native wildlife :) i just planted some in my yard
I'm so glad that this is just what you wanted/needed! I'm also glad to hear that you just planted some -- I hope you get a really nice patch of it going! :-) Enjoy!
Finally got two of these after 3 seasons of failed germinations. I love the cheerful yellow flowers and it's a recommended native plant for pollinators!
Oh man, I really have to give it up for your persistence! Most excellent indeed! I hope you really enjoy their cheery blooms. :-)
Thank you! Do black eye Susan comeback every year in Colorado?
They are usually biennial and so they should "come back" only once, but if you leave the seed heads up and let those seed drop, you should absolutely get a little patch going that seems/appears to be coming back every year. Do you know what I mean?
I wasn’t sure so I broke a leaf and a white substance comes out on mine
That's a milkweed for ya! :-)
Timely video. We are a new group with the goal of creating native pollinator gardens across our county. Current project is a local high school who has allowed us to develop a garden with various types of native gardens including a prairie. Exciting stuff. Thanks
That's VERY exciting! Oh I love that you're working on making native gardens across the county!!! What an impact that will have! Do you have the budget for putting native pollinator garden signs up with the gardens so that people will know what's up? Also, how did you make that happen? Who/how did you contact in the county to convince? Was it difficult or easy? Did the county give you a budget at all? So many questions, but it's such an amazing project that you have!! Also, for that highschool, in my Method #1 video (Keystone plants: ua-cam.com/video/YGCkoSi_99I/v-deo.html), I show you a website where you can find the keystone plants for your specific local area (zip code) -- that has a huge impact, but also could help highschool students feel more connected to their local native plants and understand/learn them.
I’m just in the planning stages and was wondering why you might not want to have a mixed garden situation. Like having native plants as well as non-native (as long as they are not invasive) in your garden. Maybe different areas for each or something? Should I be avoiding non-native at all costs? Or is it ok to have a mix?
The concept is to promote indigenous biodiversity as native plants will always benefit local wildlife far more than non-natives. Natives also do a lot better to your region and require less work. Of course, you are free to grow whatever you want as long as it isn't some horrible invasive. For example, zinnias and cosmos will still feed pollinators and seed-eating birds but need to be replanted every year. Something like a coneflower would do 1 more thing where they are host plants to certain butterflies/moths, and is perennial. Another thing is that local wildlife may not recognize non-native plants as a source of food. For example, in my part of the world, I have grown a lot of aster, but not a single bee has every visited them. There are also specialist pollinators that depend on only 1 or 2 plants for their entire survival.
Another point of view - my prime directive that guides my gardening 1. No invasives. Don’t plant them and if u have some remove them 2. Straight species 3. Native cultivars. I do avoid cultivars where the leaf color was changed (especially from Green to a dark color and no double flowers) 4 non invasive non natives that you love and are needed for your garden design.
I love the answers that others have given here. I'll add my own two cents too. Non-native plants are really only for our enjoyment. Native butterflies, bees and pollinators often don't recognize them, or if they do and use their pollen/nectar, the pollen and nectar don't have the appropriate carbohydrate to fat to protein ratio for our pollinators. This ends up harming our native pollinators, unfortunately. Do you know what I mean? Because most yards are filled with *nearly all non-native plants, I feel like that's enough of those and we should be focusing on just native plants at this point. I guess my own personal rule is to only plant native plants (no hybrids -- I explain my reasoning on that at the end of this Method #2 video), and the only exceptions to that would be a non-native plant that I absolutely ADORE. So, I'll keep a non-native plant if I have specific adoration for it, but otherwise, native plants are beautiful, smell good, bring oodles of pollinators and are better for those pollinators, so why even bother with non-natives? To help you decide what you think on this question better for yourself, I might suggest three things packed with info/ideas: 1. Look up on UA-cam, any talk given by Dr. Doug Tallamy. Or just read his book, "Nature's Best Hope". 2. Watch the first part of my video on the difference between native and non-native species. I know you already know the difference but I talk about more detailed reasons of why it matters: ua-cam.com/video/jYeR8ERbV_I/v-deo.html 3. Watch Rebecca McMackin's UA-cam Ted talk: ua-cam.com/video/qxgE0q1_m6U/v-deo.html
AMAZING 💚 Thank you for creating this Agastache story and share it with us. I just planed my FIRST one ("Blue Fortune") this early June within our new butterfly garden, and your story gives me insight what to expect (hopefully) 🙏
You're welcome! And they certainly can bloom in year one! Here's hoping for you!
Great video. Question. I'm new to native gardening. I planted 18 gallon sized hairy beards tongue. 1 has died (I think) another is almost dead, I think. And the rest have flowered and are done, but seem to be doing ok? They're all in the same sunny area with the same soil and watering. Any ideas? Or what should I look for to keep the others from dying? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
Thank you ❤
You're welcome ❤