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Happy growing!
Rhubarb leaves unfolding is mesmerizing
I can just imagine Zelda dancing with the daffodils and all the magical plants in a few years as your property continues into abundance
Chokeberry likes wetter border areas, I've seen wild examples of American Hazelnut on wet edges, also Pawpaw likes wet edges. American Lotus would be a nice aquatic addition.
It's great how you always manage to create a landscape that looks absolutely natural. Thank you.
Joe Pye Weed might be nice for attracting pollinators with its showy flower heads and should do well around the perimeter of the pond as it likes damp soil.
Blue flag iris would be awesome all along the edges
I love your channel, been watching your channel since the first few episodes.. bought some plants from you for my Colorado garden. keep up the videos I now live in the desert and watch your videos as if or like you live in an oasis / paradise compared to my place,,it will be interesting to see your progress in 20 years..,, keep them up
Native river cane would look great in that far end. Will hold the soil and provide habitat for birds and others.
I like the way you take into account planting positions, north south etc, one plant benefiting the other
I'm assuming that you can skim some of that algae and drop it on the berm as a fertility addition ;) Camas might be a good candidate for near the water line.
You should plant water iris to glue that soil together that stuff really is great for keeping the top layers from eroding.
Enjoying seeing everyone's suggestions. What about meadowsweet or Marshmallow. Love to see some NZ Phormium tenax around your pond but it might root too deep. It is a wonderful plant, with so much history in NZ of being used in so many different ways. Great for wildlife. We recently saw about 20 eels sheltering in the root systems of the phormium tenax on a riverbank and birds and kids love sucking nectar from the flowers after it has rained.
Narcissus are sure cheery understory to any forest. We go ’picking’ naturalized ones on in-law’s land. Out of a full hillside we pick 10.
I just added elephant ears to my new duck pond. Canna is an excellent pond plant that is great for cleaning the water and providing a lot of atmosphere. Juncus is another favorite of mine (and of the ducks). Alligator Flag, swamp sunflower, river bamboo, banana, shrub willow, bee balm.
You have so many trees, and food/medicine plants. I would just plant a ton of random flower bulbs..in that bare patch...provide some color and beauty.
DO you have marsh marigolds in your region? They make beautiful pops of color nice mats of green material and don't spread very fast.
Buttonbush and spicebush
Horsetail, pussy willow, amorpha, black cohosh, phacelia, rose mallow, black gum, pawpaw, blue flag, sea buckthorn, black haw viburnum, highbush cranberry, sweet pepperbush, ohio buckeye, staghorn sumac, marsh marigold, spicebush, pycanthemum, monarda fistulosa (wahpe wastemna) et al
plant ostrich ferns/fiddleheads along the berm! grows fast and helps w erosion
the ponds in the woods around me are usually surrounded by highbush blueberry and clethra. dont think clethra is edible but blueberry definitely is.
If you go for some more visuals, you could do some natives like pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea), or Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria).
Loving all the recent videos! Question: have y'all hosted any helpers for work exchange for a couple days or weeks to learn about the work you are doing, and would you be open to that this summer? Thanks
Equisetum hyemale scouring rush would love to be around your pond, and provide excellent habitat.
Nice idea, thankyou
How about New Jersey Tea (ceanothus americanus) for the berm, possible with an understory of native sweet violet and bearberry? The NJ tea fixes nitrogen and is a magnet for beneficial insects. The violets are an early nectar source for beneficials and a host plant for fritillary butterflies and mining bees (and edible/medicinal for us). The bearberry is edible, medicinal, and evergreen. And Sasha will probably recognize NJ Tea as the source of red root, a really great antiviral herb when tinctured (if you can manage to cut through it - I actually broke a food processor blade on dried red root once!)
Have you heard of bog filters? They could help you out with the pond water clarity and health.
These work really well. I have utilized this concept several times. It especially helps with grey water coming off a home sight into a landscape water feature.
On the water holding berm, some fine rooted plants, like carex or grasses, or muscilage producing plants, like mallow.i’m not sure but i do think from limited experience, they create a sticky humus
Neat idea thank you for these
Add in some Lycopus uniflorus with their edible roots. I encountered a patch while on a lakeside hike and brought home a single tuber. Spreads quite readily for me.
I know in the UK farmers would throw a bale of hey in to get rid of the Algae, I checked on YT and the majority seem to be saying use Barley straw.
I saw one guy, who was recommending about half a dozen different chemicals simultaneously, including copper, that will kill just about anything. So I left an acerbic comment suggesting it would be easier if he just Nuked it, my hope is that he read it with his morning coffee.
Recommended to someone else recently Deutzia Nikko. Not native or edible but deer resistant.
One suggestion would be willow. Another would be elderberry.
Amazing progress on the pond, love the wide variety of plants! I'm curious about the algae bloom. Do you think nitrogen fixers contribute to that?
I inherited a neglected pond on my property and am in the process of planting along the berm. I've been wondering if I should limit the number of nitrogen fixers ... or maybe there's no direct relationship between the pond-side NFixers and algae?
How about that after all the information you've given to me I have a suggestion.. Equisetum Hyemale.. Used in homeopathy and it is a nice aesthetic addition . Just have to plant it so that it doesn't spread out of control.
Also quick question?? When do you normally start your water lotus. After Frost or a couple weeks before last Frost??. I got a few this year and I want to grow some out and spread them around.
Shawn have you noticed any of the goumi spreading by seed?
The autumn olive will, for sure. Eleagnus umbellata, along with Bradford pear and tree of heaven, are a major nuisance and threat to resilient biodiversity throughout Virginia (where I live). Other Eleagnus species (goumi, silver berry, etc.) seem to be much more benign in this region.
I wonder how Bamboo would do on the berm. The interlacing roots and rhizomes should form a strong net effect to hold the berm without sending deep roots that would compromise the berm. Also I like what another person in the comments said (debbieretzlaff2912) about the Joe Pye Weed!
We have to stop planting bamboo in the eastern woodlands. There are many, many plants that can fit this context without depriving native flora and fauna of needed ecosystems. Bamboo is a monocultural desert waiting to happen.
In many cases yes, but here it seems to me that the pond would stop it from one side, and the dense shade of the trees would halt it from the other side. Also using it as food, building materials and the like would help deter its spread. But you are right in saying there are many great alternatives. Used wisely however, bamboo can be a great ally. Certainly not in every case so I agree with you that it must be done with thoughtful care.
willow bank?
Id desire a small pond maybe 10 to 12 ft deep. Western NC.
20x30 ft.
Are you still experimenting with duckweed?
What are your conclusions?
It would be great to do more thorough duckweed explorings but nothing too focused lately on it, hopefully I'll come back around to more!
Have you considered planting cattail? It's interesting visually, but is also edible (for humans and chickens) and has other uses you might someday find useful.
I think the calamus he mentions is what people usually call cattails.
@@frederickheard2022 Maybe, plenty of names are used interchangeably between similar looking plants. However, if the calamus he's talking about is also called sweet flag (scientific name: Acorus calamus), it's not the plant I was thinking of.