I'm a plant and insect addict now. After starting planting last year, I have been obsessed to the detriment of furthering the growth of the cancerous tumor that is normal society. I consider you the dealer that gave me my first hit of the plant crack pipe.
Try to cover 4 seasons of bloom-late winter, early spring, then spring, then summer, then fall. We have hundreds of native bee species depending on this. Plant an oak if you can, as Doug Tallamy recommends. I had to plant a dwarf chinquapin oak since my yard is small, then my large black maple dies and I replaced it with the Beacon Swamp white oak, Bonnie and Mike, a more pyramidal shaped one that’s doesn’t get gigantic. Don’t forget a tree or shrub can provide thousands of blooms in a small area! 😉
Brilliantly said 👏🏻 here here & I’m sure thousands feel the same way too. It empowered you to think that you can & do make a big difference in the world by planting native, & by getting others to do so too
I think we could learn a lot about how the Native Americans lived more in commune with nature and not against it, as well as how they only took what was needed to live from native animals.
I am told there were hundreds of millions of bisons grazing on those prairies. I guess big fauna did good part of the work of mowing, clippings disposal, fertilizing, and so on. 😁
Must have seemed overwhelming for the depressed, exhausted, anxious, or been invisible to the drunken, broken or just hateful egotistical people, only the indigenous people having thousands of years of up-front knowledge would understand, and it has taken settler "westerners" hundreds of years to finally start understand, and one can only actually care about what one knows...
@@Ludvig11 true. but the native americans were once strangers to the land as well. we are learning, it's just sad things went the way they did because we could all be living in a paradise of abundance right now. the settlers fucked this beautiful land and its peoples for centuries
I love having dogbane in my yard! Stole some seed from a park a few years ago and it's been spreading ever since. I never knew such tiny flowers could be such an important source of nectar. You also get the beautiful dogbane beetles with their pearlescent sheen eating the leaves
Wow, great video with Gerry! I first met him at a Society for Ecological Restoration conference in Waterloo, ON, around 1990. I took him to some cool prairie spots in the area, including Ontario's only known prairie fen. He pointed out Muhlenbergia richardsonis to me, growing on an anthill. It's such a thin, fine grass, I couldn't see without his help.
I'm so loving this suburbia series😊. Can you get an invite back to his yard during the spring so we can see what's blooming then? Thanks for what you do!
I’m in the middle of the 2 hr podcast with Gerry and loving it. Nicely done brother…..Flora of the Chicago Region is an incredible book. So cool to see his yard. Did you realize the little pollinator garden in that other video you did was the front yard of the great Cindy Crosby author of some phenomenal prairie literature, and head steward of the Schulenburg Prairie? I would be blown away if that was coincidence….
Since Tony is in Chicago, I'd love to see him visit Indiana Dunes. The bare sand to hardwood forest succession is so, so endlessly fascinating. It has like, every imaginable habitat in a mile length. It has the furthest south populations of a few Arctic plants, too.
Damn. What a beautiful yard!. If only we could get even half of the people in suburbia to do even a 40×60 foot area in their yard. Just think about how many more butterflies and hummingbirds we would have.....species people enjoy seeing....people just need to be educated!
Earlier today I walked past a garden that had a bunch of Symphyotrichum, swarmed by bees. It made me think of Joey and the Kill Your Lawn movement. Early fall is one of my favourite times of year.
I love how you even plant small couple square foot native gardens. Anything helps, and that’s a great way to Introduce people into native plant gardens
@@midnitepostman Check out Prairie Moon nursery. That's where we got ours. There's also Prairie Nursery in WI, and U.S. Perennials in IN (they only sell plants, not seeds). Happy planting, friend!
_Ageratina altissima_ (White snakeroot) - a nice looking plant that does a good job of propagating on its own. Not so good if you plan to make dairy products from ruminants who eat it though. _Eutrochium purpureum, Eutrochium maculatum,_ and _Eutrochium fistulosum_ (Joe Pye weed) have become some of my favorites over the last few years... They grow quite tall and fill in nicely making a nice screen plant for property borders, they produce beautiful, fragrant flowers (florets?), they attract plenty of pollinators, they propagate on their own, and they're a hardy plant - even this year's Chicagoland late spring/early summer drought didn't seem to effect them much at all.
I wonder how the soil composition would compare to a similar plot (like next door, for analogy’s sake) where there was *no burning*. Anyone have an idea ?
I'm doing this with my back yard in WNY. Going to be no-mow and mostly native species. We have a few native retailers here and from the few that I bought this year there should be enough to seed the whole yard along with some I'll be trading for over the winter.
I cant tell you how many native seeds my shorts and pants pockets see on any given year. Lol. Especially right now. I freaking sow them everywhere. Gotta love it!!!
The Secret Native Garden. I’ve got plans to dig up a large plot of grass this spring and fill it similarly. Imma hang out in there 😊 Got my coreopsis in last summer. (In MO, USA.) I moved and left my Bergamot but will replant at the new house!
So healing to see and be around indeed. I would put my walmart beach cot in there for a day of permasmiling in the beauty!!! My grandparents did regular burns right behind their house too. Now its full of poison with no one doing it. I guess its a lost knowledge for the majority. If i remember correctly they did have a water truck near by and i was in awe that it was happening:)
Would love more “captions” (the only word I can think of right now) for the plants and their names , it’s nice to hear the pronunciation along with seeing how it’s spelt ! ❤
That’s a beautiful late summer fall garden. What’s he got for early spring for when the early emerging queen bees are out looking for sustenance? Anything in there for swallowtails? . I’m in SW Ohio and we share a lot of the same plants in this region. What shrubs are there?
“Native plants are a threat to an entire Western culture, and an entire industry built foremost on nature as ornamentation for human visual consumption. Native plants represent a gardening paradigm, that instead of focusing solely or primarily on the commercialization of our five senses, explores the deeper issues of why we garden, how we garden and who we garden for.” ― Benjamin Vogt, A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future
I’m going to do a patch of prairie in my urban St. Louis yard this fall. I think I’ll start with Indiangrass and Bluestem first, but I’m not really sure how. I guess spread some seed and see what happens. Then add some native wild flowers to the mix. Since it is native I assume it won’t be too much trouble to get something started.
Amazing habitat, great video! Genuine question: does a yard like that harbor ticks? I live in NJ and we have ticks everywhere unfortunately. Love the Chicago videos because NJ has a lot of the same species!
Ticks in Herbert Hoover Tallgrass Prairie in Iowa were awful the last time I was there. I stayed in the middle of the wide dirt path and still managed to have several latch onto me.
Joey i love the interviews you do from time to time but please consider getting a microphone! Even if it's a cheap lapel one, it's so hard to hear them
I had a garden even more interesting than that one, l planted over 350 different native species in my garden, 64 species of grasses. That was before l bought a native nguni goat and native Zulu sheep to do research on the role played in natural grasslands by ruminants. Now l have 21 sheep and 3 goats and only have a forest of native trees in parts and no plant at all that can be eaten. Basically l have bare ground. However l have native plants growing in containers on the roof and in the gutters and at least 500 plants growing indoors. Only this week l fenced and destroyed the grass on the very wide verge in front of my home and am busy planting it to a range of interesting native plants that cannot be got to by my sheep and goats. Joey you would love my place. If you ever turn up in Durban l live right next to the airport within a huge 850 hectare nature reserve you just have to put a visit to me on your travel program
Boy you could spend some more time there! Did you see the gutters? They divert the roof water into those sedges. Its a low spot. Trying to hold the water so it doesn'trun off muddy. It worked! Now the root systems absorb all the water. You didn't even get the front! A lot of work went into that!
Once it's established nature does it's thing. The natives evolved with fire so they know what they're doing. Same with the bugs. Some people worry about killing natives bugs. Native bugs evolved with fire and know what to do. Sometimes you can't explain why but you can trust nature.
With those solidagos this looks like usual set aside land in Poland. Solidagos got wildly invasive here, whole of Poland at the end of summer become the prairie lmao
TFA! (totally f'ing awesome) as some very senior scientist taught me to say! (cool, dude, looked a bit like the dude, great person, humble, helpful, cheerful)
I know this is late but if i live where i cant do burns, whats the next best thing? Mowing? Is there a beat time of year? I live in zone 8, coastal NC. Cireently mow my prairie garden in early spring, so i can leave dead stuff up all winter.
These are all mostly herbaceous perennials that don't produce woody tissue, this means the Vegetation dies every year while the roots continue to grow for decades. The buildup is more than bacteria and fungi can eat in a year before the next round of vegetation is produced. Burning speeds up that cycle. Also eliminates competition from woody plants and keeps ticks and chiggers in check.
Not hippie dippy, plants definitely communicate, especially when something is really stressing them People think of plants opening their mouths and talking or something, but it doesn't have to be verbal or telepathic They communicate that they need water by going limp and losing turgidity They show that they're getting too much sun by turning yellow They also communicate with each other through chemical signals for example They can't shut up for real 😆
The brave ones who stand against institution, despite being shamed, bullied, and worse.. like hippies. This man’s yard is glorious. It’s harder for the cops to catch you in tall plants. Unfortunately (as much as we know this guy has been harangued, including by the fuzz) any overtly melanated family with a yard like this would be run out of town. But we gotta start somewhere.. I’ve got almost every one of these plants in my yard. I’ve pissed off the jerk across the street enough times to make my kids proud lol
If you can't burn, what do you do? I live in the city and am planting as many natives as possible but im a little anxious that theu eill need burning or something that i can't do on my city property
Curious where you heard that. Wikipedia says they're almost everywhere with suitable habitat and even says they found a mosquito preserved in amber in Alberta from 79 million years ago. And the early European settlers had problems with malaria (though that didn't disprove what you said). But I did hear particular mosquito species were introduced from Africa.
I like the short and sweet info-visual snacks but ya know, if he would have been okay with it, you could have just propped up a camera somewhere and let it roll for, oh I dunno, thirty minutes or a couple of hours while you dink around then upload it raw. Maybe on a day or late afternoon when the cicadas and birds are out making noise somewhere might be nice for people without a decent yard or park within reach. Or maybe I really just wish I would have done that for myself when I was in the Rockies and the river and rain or magpies and woodpeckers or bobcats were making noise and the construction and tourism were low. Didn't have the mic for it but it still would have been so much better than a little photo album.
Also kills ticks. Enriched the soil. Clears last year's growth (these are herbaceous perennials so the tops die every year while the roots remain alive).
A pond with standing water is also mosquito-proof if it hosts a complex ecosystem. Mine is full of hydrophytes, teeming with predators such as backswimmers, aquatic beetles and dragonfly larvae and you couldn't find a mosquito in it even if you looked with a magnifying lens.
It really is a nice plant, leaves are a pretty light green on succulent stems, and the weird orange flowers look like dangly fat fish…and the crushed leaves are also an antidote for poison ivy or bug bites! 🌱
we have it. Hummingbirds and birds just love it. plus it is easy to weed out , not invasive but bountiful. Also magical on poison ivy and othet skin problems. My giant impatients.
It's a mistake to reject modern life's environment. You can have it both: unfiltered nature and a modern life. As humans we too are part of the ecosystem. We can be intentional when we set up our spaces to allow room for the things that make our lives great, both from nature and modern industry. None of us see the The CPBBD Botanist without these modern trappings. That said, this yard is lovely.
Behold! The native plant inator. Using this I will become ruler, of the entire TRI STATE AREA!!!!!
Doofenschmertz 😂
Watch out for Perry
I'm imagining a raygun that plants tallgrass prairie plants. I like it.
“A wetland platypus? PERRY THE WETLAND PLATYPUS???”
If he'll let you, it would be amazing if you could go back later in the year to get footage of Mr. Wilhelm doing his burn.
Second this.
I'm a plant and insect addict now. After starting planting last year, I have been obsessed to the detriment of furthering the growth of the cancerous tumor that is normal society. I consider you the dealer that gave me my first hit of the plant crack pipe.
Try to cover 4 seasons of bloom-late winter, early spring, then spring, then summer, then fall. We have hundreds of native bee species depending on this. Plant an oak if you can, as Doug Tallamy recommends. I had to plant a dwarf chinquapin oak since my yard is small, then my large black maple dies and I replaced it with the Beacon Swamp white oak, Bonnie and Mike, a more pyramidal shaped one that’s doesn’t get gigantic. Don’t forget a tree or shrub can provide thousands of blooms in a small area! 😉
I love this love of yours. Keep up the crack!
Brilliantly said 👏🏻 here here & I’m sure thousands feel the same way too. It empowered you to think that you can & do make a big difference in the world by planting native, & by getting others to do so too
amen to that last sentence, Brother! LOL (also the whole statement, but mainly that last sentence LOL)
You're killing it lately with the shorter uploads. Really appreciating these videos. Hope you make it to Toronto in the future.
It's been easier. Still got a lot of massively long Brazil stuff to put up
Imagine seeing these prairies hundreds of years ago filled with these plants and the ecosystems around them.
I think we could learn a lot about how the Native Americans lived more in commune with nature and not against it, as well as how they only took what was needed to live from native animals.
I am told there were hundreds of millions of bisons grazing on those prairies. I guess big fauna did good part of the work of mowing, clippings disposal, fertilizing, and so on. 😁
Must have seemed overwhelming for the depressed, exhausted, anxious, or been invisible to the drunken, broken or just hateful egotistical people, only the indigenous people having thousands of years of up-front knowledge would understand, and it has taken settler "westerners" hundreds of years to finally start understand, and one can only actually care about what one knows...
@@Ludvig11 true. but the native americans were once strangers to the land as well. we are learning, it's just sad things went the way they did because we could all be living in a paradise of abundance right now. the settlers fucked this beautiful land and its peoples for centuries
Perfectly beautiful! Why anyone would prefer a monoculture that requires weekly maintenance escapes me. Love this!
Living back in Northern Michigan I can appreciate these midwest natives so much. Thank again and gfys bye.
I love having dogbane in my yard! Stole some seed from a park a few years ago and it's been spreading ever since. I never knew such tiny flowers could be such an important source of nectar. You also get the beautiful dogbane beetles with their pearlescent sheen eating the leaves
i can hear all the beautiful, happy insects living in that paradise!
Just LISTEN to this landscape!
Wow, great video with Gerry! I first met him at a Society for Ecological Restoration conference in Waterloo, ON, around 1990. I took him to some cool prairie spots in the area, including Ontario's only known prairie fen. He pointed out Muhlenbergia richardsonis to me, growing on an anthill. It's such a thin, fine grass, I couldn't see without his help.
Really wish this one was longer & the home owner talked more. Just an amazing garden. Thanks for sharing!
I'm so loving this suburbia series😊. Can you get an invite back to his yard during the spring so we can see what's blooming then? Thanks for what you do!
I second this. I also want to see the burning! I live in IL and want to do this in my yard. Looks easier and more beautiful than mowing.
I third this suggestion! Return in winter & spring, pleeeeeze!
I’m in the middle of the 2 hr podcast with Gerry and loving it. Nicely done brother…..Flora of the Chicago Region is an incredible book. So cool to see his yard. Did you realize the little pollinator garden in that other video you did was the front yard of the great Cindy Crosby author of some phenomenal prairie literature, and head steward of the Schulenburg Prairie? I would be blown away if that was coincidence….
:-O
I love that you included the tidbit on milk sickness
Incredible. Thanks for sharing this gem of natural order restored. Fantastic!
Since Tony is in Chicago, I'd love to see him visit Indiana Dunes. The bare sand to hardwood forest succession is so, so endlessly fascinating. It has like, every imaginable habitat in a mile length. It has the furthest south populations of a few Arctic plants, too.
What's really lame, is that the morons of the neighborhood probably think. "Oh what an unkept yard this man has." 😑
The propaganda has been relentless to be fair. We're going to have to break the programming.
@@katiekane5247 I'm glad that man doesn't live in a bitch ass HOA neighborhood 👏👏
All those goddamn flowers. Absolutely ideal. Definitely a goal of mine to own some land and nourish it into a more natural state.
Damn. What a beautiful yard!. If only we could get even half of the people in suburbia to do even a 40×60 foot area in their yard. Just think about how many more butterflies and hummingbirds we would have.....species people enjoy seeing....people just need to be educated!
Earlier today I walked past a garden that had a bunch of Symphyotrichum, swarmed by bees. It made me think of Joey and the Kill Your Lawn movement. Early fall is one of my favourite times of year.
That's it. I am going to make a small native plot in my yard. Seeing the summer and fall colors has me hooked!
As much as I love seeing your exotic travels, your upper Midwest native plant series is FREAKING AWESOME!.
I love how you even plant small couple square foot native gardens. Anything helps, and that’s a great way to Introduce people into native plant gardens
Where can you get native seeds to start something like this?
Little patches are the gateway
@@midnitepostman Check out Prairie Moon nursery. That's where we got ours. There's also Prairie Nursery in WI, and U.S. Perennials in IN (they only sell plants, not seeds). Happy planting, friend!
@@midnitepostmanright of ways, roadsides if you can beat the mowers.
Thank you for sharing this!
Gerry really laid out some truth there at the beginning....
Nice. The sound is amazing
_Ageratina altissima_ (White snakeroot) - a nice looking plant that does a good job of propagating on its own. Not so good if you plan to make dairy products from ruminants who eat it though.
_Eutrochium purpureum, Eutrochium maculatum,_ and _Eutrochium fistulosum_ (Joe Pye weed) have become some of my favorites over the last few years... They grow quite tall and fill in nicely making a nice screen plant for property borders, they produce beautiful, fragrant flowers (florets?), they attract plenty of pollinators, they propagate on their own, and they're a hardy plant - even this year's Chicagoland late spring/early summer drought didn't seem to effect them much at all.
I don't like asking for help with anything but thanks for helping
You are the best. I just love the unapologetic, no bullshit callout of the common, weak-minded, selfish mentality toward the world.
I would love to see his soil composition compared to the neighbors!
Soil composition, species diversity, insect diversity, bird, etc.
I wonder how the soil composition would compare to a similar plot (like next door, for analogy’s sake) where there was *no burning*. Anyone have an idea ?
I'm doing this with my back yard in WNY. Going to be no-mow and mostly native species. We have a few native retailers here and from the few that I bought this year there should be enough to seed the whole yard along with some I'll be trading for over the winter.
so much love for the Chicago region plants, prarie chaos, natives...just awesome to see.
And if you burn- you’re killing the ticks!
Joey, love your UA-cam videos and Love your show with Al “Kill Your Lawn”!
Love you!
Greetings from Germany!
❤🇩🇪
Great pod, awesome to see it after hearing about it for 2 hours!
I cant tell you how many native seeds my shorts and pants pockets see on any given year. Lol. Especially right now. I freaking sow them everywhere. Gotta love it!!!
Man, Uncle Tony's been droppin' them like they're hot... as the kids say these days. 🔥
The Secret Native Garden. I’ve got plans to dig up a large plot of grass this spring and fill it similarly. Imma hang out in there 😊 Got my coreopsis in last summer. (In MO, USA.) I moved and left my Bergamot but will replant at the new house!
I love this channel.
dude this whole channel and philosophy is really inspiring and important. thank you for doing something
I don't know what the fuck I was trying to say... it creates beauty.
So healing to see and be around indeed. I would put my walmart beach cot in there for a day of permasmiling in the beauty!!! My grandparents did regular burns right behind their house too. Now its full of poison with no one doing it. I guess its a lost knowledge for the majority. If i remember correctly they did have a water truck near by and i was in awe that it was happening:)
Would love more “captions” (the only word I can think of right now) for the plants and their names , it’s nice to hear the pronunciation along with seeing how it’s spelt ! ❤
That’s a beautiful late summer fall garden. What’s he got for early spring for when the early emerging queen bees are out looking for sustenance? Anything in there for swallowtails? . I’m in SW Ohio and we share a lot of the same plants in this region. What shrubs are there?
Thank you.
Pretty awesome yard🙂
Could we get an update of the yard when he burns it?
3:46 I love how the subtitles put weedy as "weeny"
Gorgeous and I'm killing my lawn too!
“Native plants are a threat to an entire Western culture, and an entire industry built foremost on nature as ornamentation for human visual consumption. Native plants represent a gardening paradigm, that instead of focusing solely or primarily on the commercialization of our five senses, explores the deeper issues of why we garden, how we garden and who we garden for.”
― Benjamin Vogt, A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future
I’m going to do a patch of prairie in my urban St. Louis yard this fall. I think I’ll start with Indiangrass and Bluestem first, but I’m not really sure how. I guess spread some seed and see what happens. Then add some native wild flowers to the mix. Since it is native I assume it won’t be too much trouble to get something started.
Loved it. Thanks 😊
That phlox isn't pilosa I think. One of the later flowering ones like paniculatum or maculatum or glaberrimum.
Amazing habitat, great video! Genuine question: does a yard like that harbor ticks? I live in NJ and we have ticks everywhere unfortunately. Love the Chicago videos because NJ has a lot of the same species!
Studies show woodlands contain more tick pressure than meadows.
@@katiekane5247 fascinating thank you for the info!
I imagine the burning takes care of many of them. More burning means less ticks
Ticks in Herbert Hoover Tallgrass Prairie in Iowa were awful the last time I was there. I stayed in the middle of the wide dirt path and still managed to have several latch onto me.
@@susanpetropoulos1039 they're not burning or what? Sounds like bad management
I'd love to see a followup video when he's burning. I'm really curious how he does that on a suburban lot. Great video.
Joe Pye Weed!!😍
you rock!💎🌱
God I wish I could grow a garden like this.
Wow how does someone control their burning in such a small space?! Love it.
Cold temperatures and a garden hose
In Chicago it's not too hard. Done it many times. It's often harder to get it to burn at all. Now I'm in CA. Different story out here!
i love this...
This man knows where it’s at!
Most of the firemen love to help if you ask 'em in my experince.
Yes!!!!!!!!! "When you live in Beauty...."
You'd love the finger lakes region of New York State!!!!!!
I would love to see you come back and film how he burns his yard!
Inspiring stuff!
You could lose a tiger in there
Joey i love the interviews you do from time to time but please consider getting a microphone! Even if it's a cheap lapel one, it's so hard to hear them
Temat filmu na przyszłość Rimacactus laui (Eriosyce laui) mega ciekawa roślina.
Whats that low growing ground cover my king?
and I thought my yard was gangster although my neighbors who dump tons of chemicals on their yard disagree
Any videos from Queens or NYC area?
I had a garden even more interesting than that one, l planted over 350 different native species in my garden, 64 species of grasses. That was before l bought a native nguni goat and native Zulu sheep to do research on the role played in natural grasslands by ruminants. Now l have 21 sheep and 3 goats and only have a forest of native trees in parts and no plant at all that can be eaten. Basically l have bare ground. However l have native plants growing in containers on the roof and in the gutters and at least 500 plants growing indoors. Only this week l fenced and destroyed the grass on the very wide verge in front of my home and am busy planting it to a range of interesting native plants that cannot be got to by my sheep and goats.
Joey you would love my place. If you ever turn up in Durban l live right next to the airport within a huge 850 hectare nature reserve you just have to put a visit to me on your travel program
I think Illinois Beach state park is doing a prescribed burn next week if you're interested in filming one. Maybe call them to make sure
Your awesome
Boy you could spend some more time there! Did you see the gutters? They divert the roof water into those sedges. Its a low spot. Trying to hold the water so it doesn'trun off muddy. It worked! Now the root systems absorb all the water. You didn't even get the front! A lot of work went into that!
“Walk in Beauty”
Great video!
Is he do the burning and afterwards sowing the seeds, or do he leave it without intervention of sowing and let nature do its own thing?
Once it's established nature does it's thing. The natives evolved with fire so they know what they're doing. Same with the bugs. Some people worry about killing natives bugs. Native bugs evolved with fire and know what to do. Sometimes you can't explain why but you can trust nature.
With those solidagos this looks like usual set aside land in Poland. Solidagos got wildly invasive here, whole of Poland at the end of summer become the prairie lmao
Nice!
TFA! (totally f'ing awesome) as some very senior scientist taught me to say! (cool, dude, looked a bit like the dude, great person, humble, helpful, cheerful)
I did indeed forget to take the seeds out of my pants before i washed them about a month ago 😭 they were in coin envelopes, so hopefully they’re fine.
Joey with the joe pye is like me whenever I see heterotheca 😂
I know this is late but if i live where i cant do burns, whats the next best thing? Mowing? Is there a beat time of year? I live in zone 8, coastal NC. Cireently mow my prairie garden in early spring, so i can leave dead stuff up all winter.
Yes I would presume
But keep in mind dead stems sometimes provide habitat
Great vid. You got any on why burning is good? Really curious about the reasoning behind that
These are all mostly herbaceous perennials that don't produce woody tissue, this means the Vegetation dies every year while the roots continue to grow for decades. The buildup is more than bacteria and fungi can eat in a year before the next round of vegetation is produced. Burning speeds up that cycle. Also eliminates competition from woody plants and keeps ticks and chiggers in check.
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt Hell yeah dude thanks for the great info!! Keep up the good work
what a great garden! people should listen to plants! and, what's wrong with sounding hippie dippy?!!! hahaha
I dont have to worry about my neighbors lawnmower accidentally mowing my house down... i can understand the emergency calls.
Not hippie dippy, plants definitely communicate, especially when something is really stressing them
People think of plants opening their mouths and talking or something, but it doesn't have to be verbal or telepathic
They communicate that they need water by going limp and losing turgidity
They show that they're getting too much sun by turning yellow
They also communicate with each other through chemical signals for example
They can't shut up for real 😆
keep speaking the truth
The brave ones who stand against institution, despite being shamed, bullied, and worse.. like hippies.
This man’s yard is glorious. It’s harder for the cops to catch you in tall plants. Unfortunately (as much as we know this guy has been harangued, including by the fuzz) any overtly melanated family with a yard like this would be run out of town.
But we gotta start somewhere.. I’ve got almost every one of these plants in my yard. I’ve pissed off the jerk across the street enough times to make my kids proud lol
I thought for that exact reason A.altisima was basically extinct or near extinct
I need assistance. Can someone help me start a small-scale version of this in my backyard? I don't know what plants to start with (SW pennsylvania)
If you can't burn, what do you do? I live in the city and am planting as many natives as possible but im a little anxious that theu eill need burning or something that i can't do on my city property
Rake some stuff in spring before things start popping up but after the old stalks and seeds have provided some habitat for insects and food for birds
Mosquitos are native to Africa. North America had its biting flies pre contact, but no mosquitos that preyed on people.
Curious where you heard that. Wikipedia says they're almost everywhere with suitable habitat and even says they found a mosquito preserved in amber in Alberta from 79 million years ago. And the early European settlers had problems with malaria (though that didn't disprove what you said). But I did hear particular mosquito species were introduced from Africa.
I like the short and sweet info-visual snacks but ya know, if he would have been okay with it, you could have just propped up a camera somewhere and let it roll for, oh I dunno, thirty minutes or a couple of hours while you dink around then upload it raw. Maybe on a day or late afternoon when the cicadas and birds are out making noise somewhere might be nice for people without a decent yard or park within reach.
Or maybe I really just wish I would have done that for myself when I was in the Rockies and the river and rain or magpies and woodpeckers or bobcats were making noise and the construction and tourism were low. Didn't have the mic for it but it still would have been so much better than a little photo album.
Can you explain the logic of burns more?
Prevents trees from taking over for one. Some seeds are adapted to fire for germination.
Also helps keep out undesirable non-natives
Also kills ticks. Enriched the soil. Clears last year's growth (these are herbaceous perennials so the tops die every year while the roots remain alive).
Mosquitoes like standing water, they can't reproduced without it. whoever said plants had much to do with it isn't all there.
A pond with standing water is also mosquito-proof if it hosts a complex ecosystem.
Mine is full of hydrophytes, teeming with predators such as backswimmers, aquatic beetles and dragonfly larvae and you couldn't find a mosquito in it even if you looked with a magnifying lens.
Tony. Do Jewelweed. The spring-loaded switch blade plant. Impatiens capensis edit. Balsaminaceae
It really is a nice plant, leaves are a pretty light green on succulent stems, and the weird orange flowers look like dangly fat fish…and the crushed leaves are also an antidote for poison ivy or bug bites! 🌱
we have it. Hummingbirds and birds just love it. plus it is easy to weed out , not invasive but bountiful. Also magical on poison ivy and othet skin problems. My giant impatients.
It's a mistake to reject modern life's environment. You can have it both: unfiltered nature and a modern life. As humans we too are part of the ecosystem. We can be intentional when we set up our spaces to allow room for the things that make our lives great, both from nature and modern industry. None of us see the The CPBBD Botanist without these modern trappings. That said, this yard is lovely.
What are you rambling about, how much have you totally misinterpreted and what is the relevance - if any - to this video?