Virtual Native Plant Garden Tour: Low Maintenance Lawn Conversion
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Colorful California native plants cover this yard attracting pollinators and birds. Ken converted his monotonous lawn in the front of his Chico, California 1960s home to gain wildlife habitat and lower water use. He also realized a reduction in maintenance. His choices of California native plants provide habitat, all season color, varied textures for interest, and evergreen screening.
Native plants provide nurturing habitat for birds, pollinators, and other wildlife. Many native plants need less water, fertilizer, and maintenance than plants from other climates.
Ann Elliott of Mt. Lassen Chapter - California Native Plant Society (CNPS) videoed several gardens in spring 2018 to share the beauty, variety, and enjoyment of including California native plants in landscaping. Find the other videos by searching for “Virtual Native Plant Garden Tour” or by subscribing to Ann’s UA-cam channel. Find more information on California native plants and gardening with them at:
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www.cnps.org/
calscape.org/
His garden is 1000x better looking than those ugly lawns across the street. It's a real gem
Love his native plant yard. The lawns take so much water that we can’t afford in this environment.
Ken has done an exquisite transformation -- so much more pleasing to look at and environmentally normal than the depressing look of lawn and half-baked plantings (if any) sprinkled around his neighborhood's yards.
LaniaLost each to there own.
@@RVBadlands2015 nah, lawns need a lot of water, the grass monoculture negatively impacts local biodiversity and typically get sprayed with pesticides and herbicides aswell, lawns need to be replaced with native gardens, vegetable gardens and small scale foodforests as lawns right now are a burden to the environment
I actually like his yard.
This was just delightful, thank you so much. I love the fact that he is like an 'everyman' i.e. not a professional landscape designer, and yet was able to create such a beautiful space.
I'm pretty sure the purple plant is not salvia, but catmint, hence the cats coming into his yard. Absolutely beautiful! I've done the same with my Colorado front yard and this has given me even more ideas.
Nepeta
I love walking by and seeing yards like this 🐝🐝
Now that we are in lockdown due to coronavirus, I'm planning make a flowerbed in my front yard
Did you do it?
What a lovely native garden!! I would love to have the list of the plants in this video! Please let me know if you have posted it. Thanks!!
Thank you very much for making and posting this video. I am inspired. Greetings from Portugal
what a fantastic garden! This really inspired me! Those Muhlenbergia have a very impressive scale. I think this is so much nicer than a boring lawn..
Really nice-looking garden! Thank for planting natives.
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That was a wild beast 14:15
I love how you drilled holes in the post.
They never showed it up close, but I think what he’s referring to Salvia is actually catmint, hence all the cats visiting his yard! 😂
Beautiful gardens. Thank you for sharing information about the native species you've selected - which support wildlife and conserve water. It's a shame about the cats that wander the neighborhood. Outdoor cats needlessly kill millions of song birds annually. Let the hawks take care of rodents, naturally; keep cats indoors.
Unless your overrun by pack rats in Arizona and there’s not a lot of hawks.
Let's just have a break for a few seconds from the bad news please and enjoy the flowers
Amazing work Ken... well done. That is the work of a smart man. Hopefully he inspires his neighbours to do the same! Lawns are such a waste of space and out dated.. with the state nature is in I believe people should be shamed to have lawns and be proud to be stewards of the land by planting native species that contribute to a healthy ecosystem!!
Truly a spectacular achievement. Great for wildlife. I love the colours. It’s like a wave of colour.
You notice his neighbor across the street keeps walking around.
Great yard! Planting natives is awesome!
Beautiful garden but what's up with the creepy guy lurking across the street @ 6:11 ?
Such a beautiful garden I'm also trying to plant more native plants for my back and front yard. I'm starting off with Texas sage since I need a privacy shrub and I think this one will do. I also wanted to plant goldenrod, but I have been hearing good and bad things about it. The good it's good for our pollinators it also attracts finches which we do have. The bad thing about it is that it is aggressive so it can easily spread all over the garden. So I have no idea how I would contain that. I guess for now I'll go with the Texas sage for now and see what else I can plant.
Love it, I am NOT a lawn person, you can't eat it, it sucks water and money and time out of your life. It is a long slow process to change over larger yards, so I am doing a piece at a time. :D Looks great.
Always nice to be the neighbor who has his house featured as the "before" , this isnt what you want😖
so beautiful. plant natives! its so rewarding
Beautiful, look at the yards across the street plain lawns no or very little flowers, I like his better, CA poppies are easy to grow and will bloom all summer if watered regularly
Your elder berry is AMAZING 🤩
Just lovely! Beautiful landscape! Bravo!
Its beautiful, and amazing how look the design
Them poppies 🤩
absolutely beautiful
What a gorgeous garden! Thank you for sharing!
It’s very well done and lots good for a native plant garden. I just wish we had liberal water use so we can have lush green with tons of flowers
A native plant garden is often not lush green, but will save water, provide wildlife habitat, and require less maintenance and pesticide use.
I wish he would have been better at names like the purple and what poppy is that ? Love his placement and choices. Beautiful !
Love all of your purple catmint or saliva , whatever it is. I love growing both of those💞
Thank you for sharing, what great inspiration.
Stunning!
Gorgeous!!!
I will be planting some native plants from California in Oregon!
As much as I love our CA plants I bet you have some gorgeous plants in Oregon that would better serve the wildlife there. And be served better by the conditions. There is also some overlap in the plants. Some CA plants are native to Oregon. But yeah bring in your Oregon butterflies with Oregon plants. Good luck to you!
Ah, you have some gorgeous Oregon native plants! There’s some overlap with California, too.
Love this garden
You have a beautiful garden and word of advice my friend in the fall we've the stocks up from your plants so that Arby's will have a place to hibernate in the winter and next spring they will find a new home.
Of course the gas leaf blowers are going off in the background blowing a whole lot of nothing... the soundtrack of the suburbs.
Great design.
Wonderful!
Beautiful
I live in Sonoma County, would you mind posting the name or link for the endangered salvia? I would love to propagate 🤔
looks great!!!!
Beautifully done!!🍀🎈🍀
22:18 I think that’s Nepeta ‘Walker’s Low’ rather than Salvia
Sure would have been nice if they had slowed down to identify the plants. Maybe I can find it on another site.
Try Calscape for all your native plants needs. It is the backbone site for finding plants that will work for you and your area as well as what they need, what butterflies need them, and where you can get them. Happy plant hunting!
I'm curious, how do you handle when the annuals like the poppies die and become unsightly to the neighbors? What does the garden look like without them when it is such a focal point?
I want to add more annuals but this aspect makes me nervous.
Erin Wessel - Annuals and some perennials can go through unsightly phases. However they may be setting and dispersing seeds for next year’s plants and/or providing food and habitat for critters.
With native plant gardening, like English country gardening, there is less formality. Each person needs to decide how tidy they want their yard and how much they want to conform to the neighborhood.
The focal point can keep changing with the seasons in a well-designed native garden. As poppies die back, desert willow, Baja fairy duster, California fuchsia , monkey flowers, mallows, baileya, encelia ... there’s so much variety. And the old stems and seeds are providing food and home to native fauna. Even the neighbor’s lawns can look pretty sad in SoCal heat.
What kind of ornamental grass does he have?
I'm doing the same with mine. Sun garden back yard shade front yard. Same method, cardboard and mulch. My back yard is about half garden half grass now. Just started front yard. I have vids on my channel.
Nice, thanks for sharing. How many years did it take to grow it like that?
This was about 3 years after installation.
Who's the strange old fellow hovering about, snapping pictures with a camera? Do people still use those?
Came here to inquire the same thing! He was creeping me out.
Doestheuniversehaveanedge? Yeah there’s a lot of those in neighborhoods just creeping all the time!
My guess is he’s trying to learn
It only looks strange because she cuts ot turns around every time they see him. He's probably just a neighbor who came out to socialize and she cut that content because it's a tour of the garden, not neighbors.
Right there with you on the cat thing, brother. The whole kiki mentality is COMPLETELY out of control. The neighbors just don't care what you want on your property.
Could you list the plants names here?
Trying to attract birds, but planted a lot of catmint lol.
If their are only 75 of left of that bush in front of his house maybe someone should propagate it
Yeah, sounds like he should share rhizomes and/or seeds with his local native plant society and friends and family.
LOL
What is the name of the beautiful plant with the purple flowers
Catmint
Hello there! My Thai silk California Poppies are blooming weirdly. The calyxs look all bumpy and swollen and the flowers are coming out all crinkled. Just as if they where little balls of tissue paper! Its super sad. Foliage looks just fine tho... Im desperately looking for help and figured that maybe, you might have had this issue before. Do you know whats going on or can give me some advice on how to fix them. Thank you!
Sorry to hear about your poppies. I have no ideas for help. Good luck!
Can you find out which type of salvia Ken planted?
The "salvia" he refers to and he states that he deadheads and it reblooms actually sounds like catmint. "WalkersLow".
It's definitely catmint.
So did he not remove his grass & just covered it was cardboard?
What zone is he in.
what is his location in Calif
Very nice... What is the name of that rare Arctostaphylos from Sonoma? I love Arctos!
Howard McMinn
@@Moochy999 Thank you, but I suppose that is not very rare then. Is that a rare Arctostaphylos in Chico? I am from CA.
What is that native plants sign, that's standing in your yard?
This is a sign available from CNPS.org.
I made the mistake of thinking that "drought-tolerant" meant i never needed to water. My native plants have been resilient, but ive lost some in this third year of "extreme drought".
native meadow mix for people who have soccer players?
That purple is catmint, probably Walkers low.
Yes, looks like my Walker’s Low. Def no Salvia.
Why is there so much wood chips?
why didn't you just plant a CA native oak instead of a red oak...
Isn't that catmint, not salvia?
Take a look at "Lawn to California Native Garden" July 28, 2020 By: Ann-Marie Benz & Maya Argaman, CNPS Horticultural Outreach Manager & Coordinator. facebook.com/California-Native-Plant-Society-Mount-Lassen-Chapter-117934118233470/?view_public_for=117934118233470
Desert Willow very nice but not Calif native. It is a Arizona native.
Manzanita, not salvia, sorry
Arctostaphylos densiflora - i think.
Nurseryman Louis Edmunds specialized in manzanitas and, in the spring of 1949, presented a group of seedlings to Howard McMinn, professor of botany at Mills College in Oakland. Planted on the college grounds and at the professor’s home, each developed individual characteristics of form and foliage. McMinn suggested that the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation test several forms that had impressed him, with a view to possible introduction. The results of this trial were to have lasting impact on California horticulture. Three of the cutting-grown progeny of these seedlings were subsequently named: Arctostaphylos densiflora ‘Howard McMinn’, California Horticultural Society Award of Merit 1956 and one of the most widely planted manzanitas in the state; ‘Sentinel’, less popular than ‘Howard McMinn’ but frequently grown; and the seldom seen cultivar ‘Harmony’. Though attributed to A. densiflora, all three are actually hybrids with one or more other species.
Somewhat informative. Too bad you didn't show before and after pictures.
But cats dont eat allí the birds🥺I hace Cats AND the respect the garden but I totally get him
Stop interrupting the man. What a big mouth