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Wait until you learn why everyone has a grass lawn

"For free, for free!" Nothing is for free. Someone paid for it with cash or labor. You may not know who, but someone paid.

Do you have a recent video showing what your gorgeous garden looks like this summer? Thanks for the great video! Getting ready to plant a native garden in MN this coming weekend.

That’s not a swale. A swale captures water.

Are there not subspecies and strains that may be smaller?

I accidentally found you. Im rapt

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Loving this! Ditto on being anti-lawn!

She is clueless…and wrong

Hope they come back soon 😢

Thank you

I have listed to Radio West three times this week. Great content!

Lawn haters all have a few things in common. 1. Hippie 2. Idealist 3. No idea how much work anything takes. 4. Couldn’t grow an actual lawn if they tried.

Arcs and tangents... I don't need mathematics to build a bed. But please keep bending over.

Yay! What a good video! I didn't have to ff. I didn't mind your voice, no music and just enough talking to let us know what's going on and so we can get to know you a bit. Great job! Beautiful fountain annnd enjoyable to watch! Thank you for the smiles. See you soon.

Love this!

You are so hot.

Thanks for being vulnerable and sharing part of your life. Keep doing the good work and channeling your energy into it.

Wow you should have washed the aquarium rocks, the glass marbles and those other things first. Even though they said they are pre-washed, they are not. And many of those glass stones, leech. I tried all three for my Beta fish and they ALL were all miserable. Your fountain looks great and your personality is awesome!

I love it, I’m researching do it yourself fountains right now and I really like this one.

Inspiring work! Looks like you need at least twice as many plants though. Too much space in between for weeds. This will be a maintenance nightmare if you don’t add more. Packera, Pussytoes, Sedges, Green-and-Gold, Heath Aster, Purple Love Grass are great groundcover options throughout. Also, the stepping stones should‘ve been spaced how a normal person walks, not so spread out and awkward. Pay attention to how people walk.

Hi 👋. Fabulous job 👌👏. I too am a landscape gardener and tend to neglect my own, that is until i’m forced to act when it starts to resemble a jungle ( not the best advert really lol 😆) . In the UK 🇬🇧 we call it ‘A Busman’s holiday’ when having to apply our specific trades, such as gardening, car mechanics,plumbing, electrics etc to working for ourselves 😆.

Will painting the unglazed sides of the pots prevent them cracking apart when the temperatures drop below 0? All of my unglazed pots have cracked and broken in our cold weather. Also, how will you keep it clean? I have a bird bath that I refill daily. Birds come, raccoons come, feral cats and coyotes come and the water gets quite dirty , especially when the birds play in it. They , of course, defecate wherever they are and drink from the water too. Dirt and debris fall into the birdbath as well. I would love to know how your fountain fares in all these situations.

This is beautiful and I love it! But as a DIY, you lost me at "drill bits." 😊

So it’s not a scam ?

Well done! Our backyard has become such a birthing, sleeping, grazing spot for our local deer herd that nothing manages to escape their appetite. A simple dish birdbath quickly become their summer source of water. Our deck, therefore, is our garden spot with containers and some of my newly constructed solar fountains. Not as extensive a habitat as yours, but the fountains have already been popular with squirrels, wrens, butterflies and flying insects. I have yet to catch the hummingbirds using the fountains, but I am hopeful. Thanks for sharing - and if anyone is curious about small scale fountains for decks and patios, I have a few DIY videos.

Where could I find blue matt penstemon?

how amazing! Even better, NO invasive creeping Bermuda grass

So interesting to see how you build the garden vision section by section, step by step, so it's a lot less overwhelming than having to think about the large space as a whole. This is such a useful video!

What a great job! How/where did you run the power cord for the pump?

When you talk scraping to get rid of Bermuda, is that done with a sod cutter? It’s invaded at least 1/2 of our lawn and overtaken some of the beds! 😢

Yes! I'm putting together a plan for this right now. We have stiltgrass, clover and dandelion on almost the entire 7000 sq ft lot, and I ignorantly spread seeds from bags for birds without thinking so you can imagine how bad it got lol

Im In 78526. Very hot Tip of Texas! My soil is hard to dig, heavy clay like, I have to jump in my shovel to dig a hole even my husband has a hard time! What kind of grass or buffalo grass or clover etc would be good? Tia

Yes! How?

Im getting so OBSESSED by that apron! 😂 I feel like such a dork!

Who is she? I live in South Texas and she had mentioned one she recommended for this area and I thought I had it in my Amazon basket but I don’t. 😢 so now I’m trying to find what she recommends it started with a s. 😔

would love to see progress photos and update on this project!!

What was the adjustment to the flow that you made and why?

Need to know the technique being used here. I wanna say I heard you say recently that the water needs to be routed at least ten feet from the house? I live in Texas and absolutely hate turf(Bermuda and Saint Augustine grass🙄). Last few years I’ve probably pissed off the neighbors because I’ve had it and I don’t maintain my yard like everyone spending a fortune on irrigation and such but I want to transform my lawn badly.

Okay but that Big empty bottom pot literally is a hazardous area where little creatures such as Chipmunks or other animals that can drown very easily, because they will have no way out. You need to put rocks in their in a manner that any code or chipmunk or mouse or anything that gets in that pot can climb its way out!

I dug some sod to plant four trees in my backyard. It is a ton of work and my body hates me now 😂😂

I just purchased a pot and a couple of saucers to make my own birdbath/pollinator fountain!!!! I'm working on native plants. I love your design. Adding the aquarium gravel under the marbles was perfect. I'm so glad I found your channel... it's been a life long dream of mine to have my yard as a certified wildlife habitat!! PS--GO FOR THE POND!!!!! 😉😁🤣

Can’t see .. . . 😟 what you bought and what you were demonstrating. I think it’s the camera person trying to capture what you were describing 😮

We have a view from our deck, and while looking out over our lawn and the neighbor's lawns, it occurred to me that all that mown grass was like a desert for wild creatures. No wonder the deer that venture finto our yards from a nearby greenbelt eat our rose bushes and vegetable crops. I never much liked grass before that, but now I'd really rather have something else. I told my husband that I want to put in a garden, just for the wildlife. I didn't connect that thought with creating a wildlife sanctuary until I found your channel, but I'm all in. Thanks for sharing your expertise.

Hallelujah! You are saying everything I want to hear about landscaping!

Lovely design. How often would you need to clean the fountain---marbles and rocks? And what did you do about winterizing it? Thank you.

Oh, it's lovely all right. We have a pond like that. Even put in a little uv unit to kill algae and keep the water healthy. Good variety of aquatic plants, goldfish, small waterfall. The first year, a great blue heron ate all the fish. Back to the store for goldfish. Bought the fake heron, the flashing reflective disks, the motion sensitive water sprayer ...fed a lot of fish to a lot of herons with those heron-proofing purchases. And be aware, I live on a quarter acre in a heavily populated suburb. This isn't rural. Bought a big netting thing and covered the pond. That pond environment is exceptionally healthy, the fish are thriving and I love it. Gotta clean the filter multiple times a week. Pump breaks down periodically. Isn't maintenance free at all. But super healthy. The birds can't water in the pond, but they bathe and drink on the waterfall and the water we put out for them. I advise against putting in a pond till you know more about the pitfalls. Like the frogs. I like the sound, but my yard is frog central so I hear them a lot in the summer. Oh, and when you attract birds to your yard, they crap on everything, especially grackles. I hate grackles. But I see a lot of dragonflies and hummingbirds come by, many other types of birds drop in, it's nice to relax to the sound of the water.

Not me seeing this months too late! 😢

I built something similar for my yard. I would suggest putting more rocks or aquarium gravel in mesh bags to put in the base. It adds a lot of surface area for beneficial bacteria, which keep the water fresh and clean for the critters.

Probably a breeding ground for mosquitos when off