I just finished putting all natives in my front yard flower beds . And I have seen more pollinators in the last week than I have seen here in the last 5 years. It is amazing!!
While I mostly agree about not being too quick about cutting down perennials in the fall I might start pruning back some of my more woody perennials a bit in the fall. The reason is that this past winter we had a 16" snowfall. I had a bed with mostly large hot lips and maraschino cherry salvia. Many of those plants caught the snow and then split all the way back into the ground. I lost about 75% of them. Had I pruned them a little I think they would have not split and thus survived. So, I guess the moral is there's an exception to every rule. Great video, BTW.
Nice, well stated video! I've been using your methods for the last few years and this year, even though I had two honey bee hives burst into 6 by the end of summer, I only saw clouds of native pollinators in my garden...I had a few visitors for garden walks this year and there were lots of "what's this" and "what's that" questions when they saw my little visitors to the garden. I need to study up on native poillinators so I can answer them next summer. I'm seeing species that I've never noticed before so gardening in my front yard swale system has become quite the game of "work, then run in to get on the internet and name that insect"...LOL. I just found your channel today, I'll be resting and watching your videos as I rest up after making 26 jars of crabapple jam this afternoon!
Quite interesting comments I too try ti let grow naturally....in my field many Bumble bees, flies come fir tissle with violet flowers, St john's worth with yellow flowers . No chenical at all 100 ;% natural..
Great info. Hope you don’t mind but we have already chosen this video to learn “How to attract pollinators”. Not sure if you’d want to but maybe go,back and give the video a listen and see if you think this is reiterated also or not. For me, I just wanted to get to the info and it was taking a bit too much time to get there. Also, some of us will not have the space you have for multilayers so pollinators can have shelter. I get your idea but most of us also won’t have ponds or food forests either, but probably more simple gardens. If we had what you have we’d be making videos ourselves lol I know for me, I cant wait until herbs flower at late season or allow over abundance to grow, then flower, so they attract pollinators. ? What would be really great to know is, how to attract pollinators all through the season. Which flowers to have at start and in the middle season, as end of season is a time as most things are going to seed and will flower anyway. Take it or leave it. I hope this doesn’t come out as picky. I was hoping it would give you a sense of what might be a great video for the masses. Thanks!
Thanks for the additional advice. Were you able to download my attracting pollinators guide above? That will give you some additional, more detailed info and/or get to the point quicker :-). To address some of your concerns, I think I mention that you can have bird baths or some shallow bowls of water in your garden, rather than a pond. I agree that the food forest does allow for a lot more variety and flexibility and yet there is still a lot you can do in a small space. For a client, we just grow on her balcony and still manage to bring in quite a few pollinators, with a living wall of sedums and alyssum, container plantings of lavender and coreopsis and of course planters full of herbs and annual veggies. There are definitely some early season bulbs like crocus and pasque flower that can be planted, mid season Meadow Night Sage, flax, blankeflower, and cosmos and late season purple coneflower, bee balm etc.
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I just finished putting all natives in my front yard flower beds . And I have seen more pollinators in the last week than I have seen here in the last 5 years. It is amazing!!
Oh wow! That's amazing to hear! Yay!
Enjoyed the video and appreciated the information...I will employ some of the suggestions.
Great points! Thank you!!
You're welcome and thanks for watching!
While I mostly agree about not being too quick about cutting down perennials in the fall I might start pruning back some of my more woody perennials a bit in the fall. The reason is that this past winter we had a 16" snowfall. I had a bed with mostly large hot lips and maraschino cherry salvia. Many of those plants caught the snow and then split all the way back into the ground. I lost about 75% of them. Had I pruned them a little I think they would have not split and thus survived. So, I guess the moral is there's an exception to every rule. Great video, BTW.
Thanks so much for sharing this advice! Something to definitely keep in mind!
Nice, well stated video! I've been using your methods for the last few years and this year, even though I had two honey bee hives burst into 6 by the end of summer, I only saw clouds of native pollinators in my garden...I had a few visitors for garden walks this year and there were lots of "what's this" and "what's that" questions when they saw my little visitors to the garden. I need to study up on native poillinators so I can answer them next summer. I'm seeing species that I've never noticed before so gardening in my front yard swale system has become quite the game of "work, then run in to get on the internet and name that insect"...LOL. I just found your channel today, I'll be resting and watching your videos as I rest up after making 26 jars of crabapple jam this afternoon!
Wonderful to hear about all your pollinators. So great! Thanks for watching!
Quite interesting comments I too try ti let grow naturally....in my field many Bumble bees, flies come fir tissle with violet flowers, St john's worth with yellow flowers . No chenical at all 100 ;% natural..
i like your advice and all what i can see
Plant some African Blue Basil plant and the bees will go crazy
I'll look into that for next year!
Beautiful videos 🌱🌱🌱🌱
Great info. Hope you don’t mind but we have already chosen this video to learn “How to attract pollinators”. Not sure if you’d want to but maybe go,back and give the video a listen and see if you think this is reiterated also or not. For me, I just wanted to get to the info and it was taking a bit too much time to get there.
Also, some of us will not have the space you have for multilayers so pollinators can have shelter. I get your idea but most of us also won’t have ponds or food forests either, but probably more simple gardens. If we had what you have we’d be making videos ourselves lol
I know for me, I cant wait until herbs flower at late season or allow over abundance to grow, then flower, so they attract pollinators. ?
What would be really great to know is, how to attract pollinators all through the season. Which flowers to have at start and in the middle season, as end of season is a time as most things are going to seed and will flower anyway.
Take it or leave it. I hope this doesn’t come out as picky. I was hoping it would give you a sense of what might be a great video for the masses.
Thanks!
Thanks for the additional advice. Were you able to download my attracting pollinators guide above? That will give you some additional, more detailed info and/or get to the point quicker :-). To address some of your concerns, I think I mention that you can have bird baths or some shallow bowls of water in your garden, rather than a pond. I agree that the food forest does allow for a lot more variety and flexibility and yet there is still a lot you can do in a small space. For a client, we just grow on her balcony and still manage to bring in quite a few pollinators, with a living wall of sedums and alyssum, container plantings of lavender and coreopsis and of course planters full of herbs and annual veggies. There are definitely some early season bulbs like crocus and pasque flower that can be planted, mid season Meadow Night Sage, flax, blankeflower, and cosmos and late season purple coneflower, bee balm etc.
I’m not seeing the pollinator guide you mentioned.
Hi Rose, here's a link to the pollinator guide: www.brokengroundpermaculture.com/attractingpollinators.html