6 Months Later: Native Wildflower Garden Maintenance
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2022
- It's time to clean up and prune the wildflowers and our native plant lawn alternatives. Join me pruning wildflowers while discussing Florida Native Landscaping project for the future as we continue the journey from grass to a wildlife garden.
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Whoever came up with "April showers bring May flowers" wasn't from Florida. 😂
Or GA. Lol
Facts!
About 20 years ago I bought a house in a newer HOA 'hood on the East Central Fl beaches. If I had a square foot of dead grass, the fussy St Augustine expert committee would come over and set me straight. Just leave a garden hose on the lawn and they knocked on the door or left us a note. I moved out to a more rural area and bought a house surrounded by three acres of maple/oak forest. Can't see my house from the road. Much better and no one can say anything about our food plants.
Wow, you’re edging by hand?? Mad props to you Jaclyn!
LOL! I like to ensure I take the most time in the heat to do basic maintenance... 😂 I was going to give some explanation about it ensures I am more in touch with the plants by doing it by hand... really... I just don't have the right tools for edging efficiently. 😂👩🌾😂
Blazing star would definitely look great. Amazingly colorful
Yay! I need to pick some up!
That Jim Carrey impression was spot on!!! Love it!
All that time watching In Living Color has paid off 😂
BTW your front yard looks fantastic since all your hard work 🙂
Oh thank you Theanne!
Your place looks so nice. It's interesting hearing you explain how you did it.
You're hysterical 🤣! I have native porter weed growing in a really hot place and it loves it! This is the low growing native form not the upright variety. And even though grasses have never really been a favorite of mine, they do really well down here and look beachy 🌾🌾🌾
Just watched this video with my husband who loves the outcome of gardening but not the effort! (Obviously, the lawn/garden is my domain.)
We were howling at the native plant upgrade of builder plants!
Living in an HOA, we don’t have much freedom to create a native garden in the front but we are creating a native and Florida friendly garden in the back. Losing the grass.
People are looking at our yard and scratching their heads. “Did you know that you have a lot of dead grass here?” Uh yeah! Isn’t it great?!
Once that’s done, we will try our hand (and when I say we, I really mean me) at a native garden in the side yard using the great ideas from this channel!
HOA friendly in the front and environmentally friendly everywhere else!
Loved your ending. LOL. Made me smile and laughed.
Thanks for the garden inspiration.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love hanging out with you in the garden on my rainy days over here in SE Texas.. same humidity , heat & mosquitos. Could listen to you all day even tho I’ve been doing this a while.. keep it coming!!
You’re absolutely amazing, love all your content!!! 💚
Thank you so much Sam!!
I love the bluegrass music! Nice way to watch you work!
Thank you! Cheers!
🤣🤣🤣 You crack me up 😂😂😂 My front yard is tree mulch, crushed oyster shell and WEEDS/GRASS that's growing through everything that's meant to kill the weeds/grass! I lost my yard people (after 8 1/2 years) because the owner moved to northern Florida and I really haven't felt like looking for a company that'll be happy providing non-poisonous weed control and mulch a couple of times a year for the front yard only. Right now I'm doing OK with backyard (shaded by live oak) so can handle with a weed-wacker. I'm still learning about growing anything in west central Florida so can offer no suggestions for plants. Thank you for your humor, wit and knowledge of FL plants. 🥰 😎
I'm glad you enjoyed my giggle fest! 🥰😄🥰
Ok, ok. I've thought about it a couple days. It is rare to see or even hear people speak of the sparkleberry tree. Aren't they wonderful?! We love them here.
Whoa!!! 😳 So pretty!!!! I want one!
Bring back some of your sweet potato vines to the front while your natives and milkweed get established. If nothing else, they will keep the weeds at bay. Ornamental sweet potato vines in planters are the rage (pinkies up!)
And when you get your grasses, add a couple stalks of lemon grass for a spray of vibrant light green. Great culinary addition for Ben; refreshing teas, great zip in curries and grilling marinades, full of antioxidants, etc. etc. AND grows like crazy. Good for chop and drop, and wonderful smelling wherever you apply it, days after you chop and drop.
Even in my un-woke neighborhood, fire bush and coontie are sneaking in, and not a boo! from the HOA.
Ooooh I love it! And I really like that firebush and coontie are sneaking in 😝
I love my False Rosemary!! It has a silvery touch with violet flowers!!!
OoO pretty
Thank you so much for this video! My flowers need this. Love how you said we will roll with it. My daughter and I say that everyday! God bless and have a beautiful day ❤
Love the polls...keep them coming.
Ok! 🙌 I'll keep them coming!
Oh my gosh you cracked me up this mornin thank you for the big belly laugh 😆
I'm so glad! 😀
You are hilarious 😂😂😂 I bought a new construction and yes…. Have the basic standard garden but slowly but surely changing it up. First garden in the yard 😂😄😄😂😂😂😂 then will tackle the front 🥰
You can do it! It would be cool if they did offer 'upgrades' to better plants... and native plants would be the best. I love that you are being the change!
You are hilarious! But I share your sentiments. People have the same 10 big box plants that are really boring...agree! I have several varieties of clumping bamboo, tons of butterfly plants and some exotics. Slowly converting the grass to flower beds.
Love the music!!!
Yay! I'm glad you enjoyed!
I think it would be cool if you did a gardener knowledge sharing/collaboration video and did a zoom video with The Lawrence Garden Farm (another UA-camr). I feel like getting both of you together would really help us Floridians who want to garden in the front yard but need some more help with aesthetics.
I have Beach Morning Glory growing in middle of front yard and it has reached my blacktop driveway where it flourishes over that burning hot surface. Amazing long vines that like this HOT weather. I just keep redirecting them so I don’t drive on them. I believe they calm down in the summer
That is a great idea! Run a morning glory through my new area! I like it! Thanks Teresa!
Lot of work but worth it🥰
Yes it was!
Maybe ground cherry pineapple? The bush gets about 18" tall and has beautiful yellow/golden fruit.
So funny!! Love it! I'm getting monarchs in my garden even found a caterpillar. Also I've been buying native plants.🌺🌹💕🦋🌅
Yay!!!! And using Native plants!!!!! I'm so happy 😁
🤣🤣🤣🤣 "that's what cheap people use!"
I snorted coffee out my nose! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bwahahaha!!!!!! ☕️
My daughter just made me buy a bunch of milkweed and flowers for the “insects”. Spent way to much. She was just asking me how to propagate milkweed. Guess I’ll find out when you let me know :-)
Yay! You are a good mama and she is a great crusader for the bugs!
@@WildFloridian I think it’s just because someone told her they are on the endangered list
The background music is soothing. Makes me wanna move to somewhere country and get away from people. #gardengang
#gardengang! Hope all is well out west!
"the lugh-shury plhants, dahling!". 😂😂😂 Loved your cute-ness in this video!!
😊 thank you Brooke
😂😂 having way to much fun! How about creeping thyme or oregano as a lawn subsitute.
Mully grass accents in the front near the curb.
Good point!
You’re adorable! Dwarf fakahatchee grass is beautiful. The love grasses can look pretty puny after the fall blooms, at least in Sarasota County. I’m not sure what they would do down in your area, but you may want to check that out. Blue porterweed looks beautiful growing in masses and get about a foot tall.
Thank you Karen! I’ll look into dwarf fakahatchee. I’m not too far from Sarasota! Only across the bay 😄
@@WildFloridian For some reason I was thinking you’re in the Miami area. Also, native blue porterweed looks beautiful grouped together on the ground.
I really like a row of society garlic bonus it's edible.
Going to check that out!
ahhh, to be young again.
And to be able to squat down like she did. That would be awesome lol.
LOL!
@@WildFloridian Enjoy your flexibility while you can my dear lol 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
I feel your pain. I’ve been trying to mow my lawn after work. Every time I think I’m going out..... Mother Nature says not today 🤣
So true 🌧 🥵⛈
Leather gloves stopped me from a nasty snake bite three days ago in my garden
Add some necklace pod and privet senna/bahama cassia accents.
Love these! I think they are a little bigger than I want for this space.
I have blue flag iris that grows so well. Edible cactus eg aloe, prickly pear, date palm
Oh ya get some Florida driftwood. I have old stumps in my succulent garden. ( got rid of my pencil tree that was ginormous ) I really should make driftwood garden trellis. Yes! We made one for a friends wedding
we are in a drough here in missouri im gonna have to replace some things im gonna put a lot of echinecea in the fall after it rains a bit we are gonna burn our grass till it and put the raised beds up
One idea is peanut plants. I don't know the scientific name for them. They do not grow peanuts. They do have pretty little yellow flowers that speckles around the plant itself. They're wonderful on spreading across the ground and giving you little tiny yellow flowers. As soon as I can find them I will get them in my new yard. Have fun and have a wonderful day.
Perennial peanuts ‐ a versatile groundcover that can be planted statewide and blooms all summer long with cheerful golden flowers.
It can be planted on its own as a groundcover in larger beds or used as a lawn alternative in areas that receive low levels of foot traffic. It also can be inter-planted within some existing lawns.
This spreading groundcover is particularly effective on sites that have problems with erosion, since the rhizomes grow to form a mat that helps hold soil in place.
Perennial peanut is evergreen in frost-free areas of the state. In colder parts of the state, it will drop its leaves, exposing its brown rhizomes. If you're using perennial peanut as a lawn substitute, you can overseed the area with ryegrass to keep the area looking green throughout the winter.
Some of the best features of perennial peanut are its resistance to nematodes, pathogens, and drought. Plus it requires little fertilizer.
I’ve been doing different native grasses. Not familiar with them, I’ve planted just a few plants of different ones.
I’m terrible at names, but I’ll try to remember to get you the names & description of my favorites.
One is definitely “blue tops”. They look “grassy” - but get blue ball shaped cowers in the fall. I *love* them.
Another suggestion, I’ve been following a butterfly gardener “Butterfly Inspirations” - I think - and she throws zinnia seeds in her largely native garden.
Very beautiful & the butterflies love zinnias
They also love old fashion pintas 😉
What kind of grass is being removed? Can you make a video of the actual removal and preparation of that front area? I am up here in Marion county and the stuff I have is a pain to remove and then vines itself back in the areas I have cleared.
Oh yes! I'll show you. I just got a truck load of mulch. I was going to start spreading today... but I broke my toe last night. 🙃
Party in the front, party in the back? Have you ever had a garden in an other state/zone or are you a native too?
Party all around town! I'm not a native... a transplant when I was a seedling. We moved to Florida back in 1990 from Illinois.
I'm looking for grasses not only for looks but for chop and drop. Trying to do permaculture as much as possible.
Cool!
Dwarf Fakahatchee grass does great for me. Order some white flowering Muhly grass. Love grass has been a miss so far for me. It dies very hard in the winter.
Thanks Nemo!
Joewood is 50 bucks for a 3gal at the native nursery in ft Myers, that’s luxury lol also buccaneer palms are really expensive In southwest Florida
How about perennial peanut to replace the grass?😉
The rarest native plants are the fancy plants.
So True!!!!
Pink muhly grass! Do any fescue grasses grow here?
So sad that we did not have the choice to pick our front landscape. Builder couldnt even tell us the names of our palms!
Oh geez! 🙄 I haven't heard of anyone being able to 'upgrade' their landscape when building a new home. Maybe we will be able to change the conversation.
Chenille ground cover? Maybe with a Firespike bush in red...
For another look, exotic Elephant Ears (come in different sizes and colors)...
A must have for somewhere, is the SO pretty purple Trandescantia Moses in the Cradle... Tradescatia pallida is the one I have growig "Wandering Jew".
These all do well in the shade.
Chenille and wandering jew are both not native and extremely invasive though
@@Eryalb Easier to control than Mimosa and Ornamental peanut because the roots are not as deep. Just have to control the leading edge in all cases of every groundcover. Frog Fruit is easiest to remove out of all those mentioned. Haha trust me I know.
@@Sandra-gk3ct if you plant native ground covers than you don't potentially alter environments and cause damage long lasting damage. Just because it is easier doesn't make it better. We shouldn't be encouraging people to plant invasive species
@@Eryalb What are your suggestions?
@@Eryalb Don't get me wrong I love to watch native wildlife (insects) in action, and I do have Florida natives growing too. The Frog Fruit is especially good, though some not so natives like Aloysia virgata Sweet Almond, attract all kinds of native pollinators. I think if I was restricted to just natives it wouldn't be as much fun.
I live in the historic district. Not cookie cutter at all, but I’m paying for it with high property taxes. 🥴
Anyway, I have screw pine trees in my front yard. Everyone loves them! I watch people passing by and they stop and point at the trees and laugh and take pictures. I always know exactly what they’re laughing about. If you’ve never seen one, look them up, but be warned, they’re vulgar looking. 😂
I have frog fruit grass and clover as cover for my whole backyard. The clover dies during winter and my yard looks brown, but not as much maintenance as the front yard.
Yes! I love historic Florida neighborhoods. Super interesting to walk and drive through. That is hilarious about your screw pine. I think frogfruit can die back further north. Here... it always gets purple-ish. I'm curious to watch it through the seasons in a maintained lawn... most examples I get to see in person are no planned.
Hi I am in Bradenton neighbor. I just planted 9 Pigeon Pea plants. Do you have any... What do you think of them.
We have an issue with sugarcane grass spreading all over. We too are looking at a no-grass concept. We plan to add clumping bamboo between the neighbors for privacy and avoid the grass seeds blowing into our lot. We are considering perennial peanut in some areas.
If anyone knows how to pull out sugarcane grass permanently, please share your thoughts. Thank you.
Clumping bamboo can get bigger and messier than what you think. (I want to get rid of the clumping bamboo in my backyard)
@@kigeliakitten It depends on the variety. I have used clumping bamboo before that never spread. It’s the runner bamboo variety that will spread.
How about “cranberry hibiscus aka rosella” for the beds by the road? Also, you keep mentioning getting ready for fall planting, and I’d like to know what you’re doing... I live a little south of you -10B- and in the last year have also started a small veg garden. I’d like to go from seed, not just buy the plants, but I’m not sure when to start them.
Follow along she will post more but she also has some planning videos from last year!
Awwww @Stephanie D ! And hey Theresa... over the next couple weeks I'll be posting my veggie planting videos. There is also videos from the last couple of falls. Plus check out the seasonal gardening calendar www.wildfloridian.net/calendar ... it's free. Also also actually, I will be doing all the fun community posts for fall veggie gardening so you can get lots of ideas!
Thanks! I have the seasonal garden planner, it’s great!
I don’t understand why you are 10A and we in Bradenton south of you we are 9B ? You get so much more rain than we do and we are probably more hot without the rain . How and who decides on these zones? Hot is hot these days.
How do i trim swamp milkweed.
Snip snip! You can trim it pretty close to ground. My caterpillars have eaten it down to just a couple inches.
Do you save your seeds?
Yes! Some of them.
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I can’t stand HOA landscapes. They drive me nuts 😂😂😂😂
Right with ya!