Mesic Prairie Design Episode
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Follow along with me as I create a foundational design for a 300 sq ft Mesic Prairie planting!
Mesic Prairie Plant List:
Coreopsis palmata
Echinacea pallida
Echinacea purpurea
Parthenium integrifolium
Sporobolus heterolepis
Schizachyrium scoparium
Monarda bradburiana
Liatris scariosa
Silphium terebinthinaceum Prairie Dock
Geum triflorum Prairie Smoke
Erigeron pulchellus (Robin's plantain)
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This video is worth watching many times. I love how you make the connection between life and gardening. You teach us how gardening mimics the philosophy of life in so many ways. Most of all this is a great video to remind me that I have the freedom to add some non natives or cultivars, and not feel guilty, and that I am the artist in this space. I am planting a prairie in my daughters' former riding arena, so it is a huge space. I had worried about using such small plugs of grasses
To continue, now I know I can use those smaller plugs to my advantage!
wonderful! thanks for watching!
If I had known a few years ago what I have now learned from you; I could have saved myself a lot of digging out and doing over.
I always learn a lot from your videos - from the practical (how to actually do this kind of planting) to the important messages that help me to think and understand what I'm doing. Design and Stewardship; goals and objectives. Allow flexibility and joy into the garden. Thank you - this video had a wealth of explanations and wisdom.
So nice of you... thanks for watching!
Thank you Roy for another great educational video. I learn so much from your videos. I have a few native plant seeds that I’m going to try winter sowing. You’re videos have really inspired me to add more native plants to my garden.
Wonderful! thanks for watching!
We need 15 more of these educational tutorials!! What a good deed you are doing here with sharing your knowledge!
Very helpful (and inspiring) to see your planning process. I bought my current property two years ago, so there is a lot of experimentation going to try to determine what will grow where. I start with small drifts or clumps and if those plants do well and play well together, I add more groupings. I love schizachyriums and fortunately they seem to be happy where I put them. I planted some from gallon nursery pots but then found a source for plugs, which have done quite well. I did winter sowing of echinacea pallida and that worked reasonably well so I am planting more this year. Very helpful observation about planting generous reseeders into a mature planting. I had hesitated to plant some of the perennials you are using for fear that I wouldn't be able to control them. Now I have a strategy. Gardening is a continuing experiment, which is what makes it endlessly fascinating and rewarding.
well said! love to hear this... thanks for watching!
This might be my favorite so far. You make the gardening process seem doable. Thank you for your work!
You are so welcome!
Thanks for the very helpful video. We have a large area on our property that was once a fairly dense forest of spruce, but a series of hurricanes have left us with a wide open mess of roots and stumps. I am feeling inspired to plant a prairie with some of the beautiful things you mention before the scrub and goldenrod take over!
That sounds like a project...be sure to use plants that will have durability in your area! thanks for watching!
We are in zone 6b on the coast of Nova Scotia, so I am hoping to emulate your plant list as much as possible. :)
Thank you, Roy, for your wisdom! Please, go on. It’s always pleasure to watch your show and understand your planting approach.
thank you!
“Who let this limonium in?” and the discussion about the scarlet tanager boycotting a garden really get to the heart of the native/non-native matter, along with the comments in your recent video about “putting edges on words.” It ends up being very inflexible and exclusive. Like so many good thoughts do, they can become rules and regulations that push people further into their silos and quash reasonable discussion. Great video.
well said! thanks for watching!
Roy, I’m transforming much of my back and front lawns into prairie beds, but I’ve been paralyzed (for lack of a better word) about moving forward because I worry about getting the plant relationships right. Your books and videos help me overcome that fear. I especially looked forward all week to your mesic prairie design video.
One question on a valuable tool, where can I buy the Dutch push/pull hoe that you use for weeding?
Thank you!
Such a great and precious video ; I will come back to it many times !
Thank you very much!
This is priceless
Thank you sooo much, Roy!
This is wonderful! Thanks so much! Now I need to know how your translate this onto the ground so your helpers know what to do. Is there already a video about that? I've been looking, but you have a LOT of videos :) I'm looking forward to watching them ALL!
Thank you Roy!! New subscriber here.
Welcome!
Very touching
thanks for watching!
I think of all your videos, Roy, this is my favorite. I love the practical zen, you bring to gardening. Thanks for doing these and for bringing more beauty to a world that needs it so much. Do you ever use Pale Indian Plantain in your gardens? It is an incredibly beautiful plant.
I use Cacalia plantaginea...it typically fits better from a scale perspective. thanks for watching!
Roy, I would love to hear you talk about how you overwinter perennials. I always struggle with the dilemma of either covering the pots to protect from frost and keeping them out in the open to not create habitat for rodents. Either way, I always lose a lot of plants.
Thanks so much Roy for all your thoughtful videos! I will follow your suggestions in this video for a prairie I'm designing. Just to be sure - 2" pots for the grasses and 4" for the plants? The new plants need a solid headstart over the sporobolus and schizachyrium, right?
Yes. And thank you for your kind words.
How wonderful! Thank you, Roy! This video answered one of my previous questions regarding how to put perennials and grasses together. One thing interests me regarding this particular design. For a home gardener who does not have access to electronic designing tools, just the piece of paper, - how do you go about calculating how many grass plugs you'll need?
Thank you, again!
Take the sq footage (don't include edges, so 10x20 would be 9x19) and divide by 2.24 which will equal 18" centers.
Thanks Roy! With a 300 sq. ft. space, would you be looking at 250 or so plants in 2.5's and 4"?
yes...maybe a little more depending on how many Sporobolous and Schizachrum are used to fill in.
Saint Roy! Im wondering if you could clarify the scale of your your plants and the grid squares- when you put the symbol down do they represent their mature size or plug size? when this planting fills in will there be empty spaces or is all the ground covered (how long would that take)
Thanks so much!!
Roy, do most of these native plants require cold stratification to germinate?
from seed? yes.
@@RoyDiblik Thanks, Roy!
Yikes! When I saw that my local libraries didn’t have Flora of the Chicago Region, I looked on Amazon. It costs $250. As excellent as I’m sure it is, it’s a bit too expensive for this home gardener.
Have you asked your local librarian if they could purchase a copy? Most are happy to accommodate. If they don’t have a budget for the physical book, they might be able to acquire a digital copy.
@@lobstahchowdah8920 Excellent idea. I did finally find a 1994 edition at an Ohio university, but unfortunately, it doesn’t include the new section about insects. Despite this, I’m looking forward to borrowing it. I’ll also ask the county libraries if they can purchase it. Thanks!
Great information! One thing I keep thinking is, why do I never see Monarda Bradburiana for sale around here? I bought some Monarda Fistulosa last year at a native plug sale, Northern Illinois. I'm hoping to drive up north to Northwind this Spring and get some.
interesting...we look forward to your visit! thanks for watching!
Hi Roy, what is your thought process on the shapes created in each pattern? Is it as simple as what looks good for a particular bed?
That's definitely where artistry/creativity can come into play in keeping with plant growth rates and habits and appropriate spacing. There are no rules.
Thank you for the reply. Very thoughtful of you to respond!