Perennials are low maintenance & that's the problem for the ones trying to make $$$...they want you to spend $$$ every year...if you don't spend $$$ they don't make $$$...this guy/video is are a joke!
These are all problems that are easily delt with unless you really don't want to take the time. But really, perennials are easier to take care of. Once they're established there's less work than getting annuals every year
Annuals aren't bad if you practice seed saving. At least that is what I do with some key annuals in my garden like sweet basil. Just letting one plant go to seed gives me enough seed to last several seasons, and I will never need to buy basil seedlings or seeds again. Plus you're able to practice selective breeding to encourage traits in plants that are better suited for your particular micro-climate and predilections.
"You may not want to plant this anymore..." Yeah, that's the point. ;) Plant it once, not every year. Essential message : don't plant perennials because things might change? I expect that. Still less time & effort to do some occasional rearranging than to not plant them altogether.
They come back up! I love flowies! Back at my moms place (before the elderly care place) everything came up without being re-planted. Let's hope I can do the same here at my in laws place.
I disagree. As we get older we need to have a maintenance free Garden as nearly as possible. Pruning back and separating tubers gives an incredible return on the investment of our effort. Also beautiful landscaping increases the curb appeal / value
Great considerations for decisions about perennials. I never miss one of your videos because I don’t want to miss any of these ‘pearls’. Often times I just like the flower, foliage appearance or some other aspect when considering a plant without taking these things into account. My knowledge has been greatly improved by your experiences. Thanks for passing them along to those of us who enjoy gardening but lack much real understanding. You are a trusted and very valuable resource to many.
Thank you so very much. I really enjoy how well you explain to us why you do what you do. It made me laugh when you talked about the comfrey. I love comfrey. Mine was doing tremendously well. And then one of my trees started growing over it. It's not doing quite as well as it was. So because I like it. I will be pruning it back a little. It has so many medicinal properties to it that's why I grew it. I like the fact that you stretch our brains. You help us think about why we have what we have in the yard. I'm just a homeowner. We have 10 acres. In a very dry part of our state. Who loves to grow things. Who loves a challenge of trying to see what will work and what doesn't work. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for stretching my brain. I'm going to need to reevaluate some things I have going on in my yard. Because of what I just saw. Keep up the good work. You are very helpful.
I agree…. Just divide them… and trim them down. Perennials save so much money…. There are some years where I’m lazier and they come back beautifully without a lot of work….
I have these yellow flowers also. Yes they take over, I pull them up by the roots and throw them root down in the outside borders of my yard. They take by themselves and they are around 3 acres of woods. It is one plant you need to keep up on tho. Have to move some now. Enjoy your videos.
Brilliant video! Great reasons, and incredibly helpful to refer to when doing an annual inventory of plants. I will definitely keep your list in mind when I evaluate which plants to invest and reinvest in. Especially since my yard space is limited and water is so precious. I can also see this list overlapping onto reasons a plant once planted in an environment can become invasive. Love your channel. As always, thanks for sharing!!
Ive been pitting in my own underground irrigation using standard garden hose and pvc pipe. I dig a trench and place the pvc in first. I use self tapping screws to keep it all together that way if I have to dig it up or I want to change something I just unscrew it. The pipes lead to splitters which lead to soaker hoses above ground and drip emitters. I use the 2inch pvc caps with a hole just big enough for the hose to fit through so water/debris doesn't get inside. Just use a standard air compressor to garden hose adapter to blow out the lines in the fall. I constantly battle with controlling Canadian Thistle and Poplar trees with runner roots.
I don't keep planting anything that struggles, whether it's perennial or a specific sort of annual. I'm more interested in finding low-maintenance plants that do well with the conditions I've got. Trying to constantly fight local diseases and/or "improve" an acre or more of soil to suit something that doesn't really want to be there could drive me flat broke, or half-crazy. (or all the way crazy, I guess... ) At least in theory, the correct plants for the conditions will improve the soil on their own. I've noticed for absolute certain that the soil near old stumps on my property is *much* fluffier and richer than the clay soil in general... so yeah sometimes it takes five or ten years for those roots and microbes to do all their work, but I'm OK with that.
I'm on beach like sand plain, but my comfrey, bocking 4, does really well. Full sun and poor soil. Cup plant is great for chop and drop too. It will flower later in the summer if you cut in early june. I also feed it to rabbits...
Somebody once said this phrase by which I have lived my life and it can apply ton your plants as well. "Adapt of die" Charles Darwin: It's actually, 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change'.
Everything has its place, even if just temporarily, and nature, our gardens, growing area's and food forests are forever changing, we need to help things out occasional and adapt with the changing conditions too ... or just let nature work things out and let the plants naturalise, move around or die off as they see fit. Some great advice and explaining why things may change - thank you ✌️🌿
Perennials reseed also and are very important ecologically as nectar sources and larval hosts etc. who cares if they don’t thrive after many years? You can always divide them for new parent material or reseed in a new location. NEVER stop planting a mixture of perennials and annuals. Nature intended diversity. Also on the comfrey comment.... I live on glacial sand and I have huge beautiful comfrey everywhere. You CAN grow in sand as long as you create a solid top layer of organic matter rich in microbial life. I think this video should be redone as “what to do when your perennials stop thriving.” So many excellent techniques that may be useful in other areas of horticulture as well.
Univer. of Rhode Island imported wasps to control the lily beetle. They may have arrived here in Massachusetts since some growers reported less damage this year.
I love all you vids, thank you. Maybe I have missed it but could you do a vid on selecting scions in late winter for spring grafting? What to look for and how to store...
@@StefanSobkowiak Thank you so much. I will find it. I appreciate your knowledge and candidness in your videos. Next year is going to be my first year starting in my production orchard. My house orchard got started 4 years ago and I am using it both for food as well as propagation material. My goal is to retire into a full grown productive perennial permaculture orchard in 13 years. So much to learn between now and then... Random other question for you: I have watched your pruning videos and noted that you prune to the central leader method on all trees. I know that you can get max production that way but most other sources suggest pruning stone fruit to a goblet shape instead. What is your reasoning for the central leader on everything? When do you start leaving the 12-16 branches on the trunk? My biggest tree is only about 10ft right now, should I leave fewer branches until it gets to full size?
Yikes... I think in that case you have to be vigilant to chop them down when they get into full flower mode, before they make seed. Which could be a real pain because my bocking 14 sterile comfrey flowers almost constantly. At least you'll get lots of mulch every time you mow it, right?
I hear comfrey makes great home made fertilizer. I myself am looking for seeds to grow in my clay soil. Have a large garden and store bought fertilizer are just too expensive for me.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 Yea, I planted it for chop and drop, for which it works great, also for the green portion of my compost, but man, really hard to keep on top of lol. the bocking 14 was what I intended to get, but this was my first foray into gardening lol
It all depends, I have several really large lawns, 3 wide deep ditches with level wide strips of grass along it before the edge of the woods. I had dig all the dandelions. They attract piss ants & slugs & even in my ditches, which get mowed, I don't want them. Took me years to get those ditches free of wild rose, scrub bushes, weeds. So now I want some of my perennials from hedges & 7 large gardens I've established in a dozen years here. I have the room. Infact I put down 65 bales of hay on their sides, pushed my hand in put in a cup of soil & tucked baby perennials every foot or less. That is now a gorgeous wide border along 1 of the roads into my forest property. I have been thinning & potting up 'free' plants for other properties. Saves me a few thousand in landscaping every time. And almost instantly make me feel connected to new homes, which are projects in my case. I have even used P. like Jerusalem Artichoke & Tansy to mark my various property lines thru the forest. So it is a very personal thing.
Great!!! Sometimes, you just gotta get rid of or not plant certain plants...save or make room for what works! No mater how big of place you have a few things won't make the cut.
There was a weedy bush next door. Landlords asked me to dig it out. Said no. Cannot remove all the roots when growing next to house and sidewalk. The leaves feed the roots. As long as it grew leaves, pick them off. Finally this summer no new leaves. No leaves. Was going to leave it for whole summer but new tenant cut it down. Deleaf continually. On the weedy bush, took three or four years.
Most of the perennial flowers that I plant are native to my area. They're typically amazing plants and basically no work. I tend to go for the ones that have wider soil / moisture / sun tolerance, but if I have an extremely dry area of the yard I'll go for the extremely xeric plants that are a bit trickier (don't like fertile soil or supplemental water). Most of the native plants go to seed and then it's really easy to let them self-select where to grow optimally. I guess the other thing to comment is we don't get a ton of moisture so things don't really spread in a way that is super aggressive. I can see how this would be fairly tricky to deal with in a larger property.
I have a different reason i will not/ do not want certain perennials on our land. The perennials: milkweeds The reason: the usage of the land has changed. Our bee hives continue to fail because of increased pesticide & herbicide use in surrounding areas surrounding our farm (and other pressures). So i need to use my pasture for livestock. Milkweeds are highly toxic, so they have to go! It was nice while it lasted. I will miss seeing the huge variety of butterflies and the larger population of monarchs. But i don't want my other animals dying and i need to use my land.
Comfrey takes off like a rocket in our heavy clay soil, too. I planted little stubs of roots this past spring and the plants are already full mature size, and I've already cut them down once to make comfrey tea. Sooooo it turns out, I'm a comfrey farmer now lol. Didn't really set out with that in mind, but it's so easy to grow in these conditions that I may as well take advantage of it.
If so, that would take me off many types of plants from dahlias to daylilies, to roses. Although I think roses have a longer breeding history, and many survive in all forms..
Best thing is to.plant what will thrive in your soil with minimum care. I have dry sand soil. Yucca Cactus. Gallardia lavender cat mint thrive and bloom with little care. It's the soil light and water available to plants in your yard that can make them thrive
I guess I'm having different luck... My mint is under SOS daily running out from the Florida rain this year, growing smaller each day since three months ago! Wish yours could crawl in my yard!
Number 5 is a great rule..alot of time people will stress themselves out fighting pests and disease. I will try or move it but if it continues to struggle I will pull the plant. It's an obvious sign the plant is not thriving for one reason or another. Why go thru the struggle when I can plant a plant that will thrive. I know people who will spend so much money on trying to save a plant when pulling it and replacing it with a new plant would have been cheaper.
A better title would have been 7 reasons you might not want to plant perennials anymore and for what reasons. It is a little misleading. Other than that, this is a good educational video. I would like to see a follow up video about why you might want to consider planting perennials instead of annuals. There are good reasons for perennials, more so overall than annuals.
Also maybe talk more about how to overcome some of these problems if/when you encounter them. This seems a little unfairly and one sided. Good try, though.
There is absolutely no reason not to plant perennial flowers. You can find something for any sunlight amount because this feeds the pollinators early in the season when nothing else is around. Human aesthetic and convenience it’s not the most important thing in the world Believe it or not
Just don't buy invasive plants and I'm not talking about ones that get out of gardens and are classed as invasive but ones that spread rapidly like many grasses, golden rod, some percicaria and perennial sunflowers
I was actually ‘distressed’ when I read the title of this I video. After watching, I would call it misleading. Folks! What title would you give it? 🤷🏼♀️ Edit: What I texted to my friend… “The title of this video ‘sucks’, but this guy presents lot’s of good advice. This video is really an analysis/checklist for gardeners in how they should assess their perennials. Great for problem solving issues.”
Is it, or could it be true that double flowers types are weaker, more susceptible to disease because breeders care more about the flowers then the actual plants and so concentrate their attention too much on the bloom to the detriment of the plant?
If you just slam a perennial in anywhere without a plan you will run into problems. Even with a plan there is always changes one will need to make. Yes, if a tree grows then there will be shade. I don't care for his "why you won't want to plant a perennial flower anymore." They are the mainstay of any flower garden. COMFREY...is considered an invasive species in my neck of the woods!!
Great video! Thank you 🙏🏽😁 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Lately since the sun is more white than yellow like it used to be, it seems like many plants that we used to think of as requiring full sun, can now do very well with part shade For instance my strawberries that are under the filtered shade of a tree are much happier than the ones in full sun I’ve been growing zucchinis and tomatoes in part sun this year 🤣 Observation observation observation
@@TutuSainz; It is common misconception that the Sun is yellow, or orange or even read. The Sun is essentially all colors mixed together, which appear to our eyes as white.
@@guynorth3277 perhaps you are too young to know what the sun was like 30+ years ago. It is far more intense now than it used to be. Science says more UV rays are getting through due to the depleting ozone layer.
Shasta daisy, peony, ... come back year after year. Most perennials can be divided and transplanted to other locations. Sooner or later you can replace all your grass with perennial flowers and end up with a lot of honey bees in your property. Why not? LOL I let my rose bushes grow to 8 feet tall. I harvest their flowers for cooking and making tea. FREE. Grass is a result of human deforestation and removal of other plants.
Love love perennial plants they keep giving annuals cost lots of money to plant them every year .I really don't get what your point is annuals can have all the same problems bugs etc ..wtf
All of mine are thriving, although I am blessed to have a 365 day growing season where the temperature never dips below 45°F even in the dead of a so-called Winter. I LOVE them.
Manage your perennials. Dig them back, have a plant sale, give them away. As natural habitat & biodiversity disappears, pollinators depend on us planting them.
I absolutely LOVE my perennial garden, I spent a lifetime working on it.
Perennials are low maintenance & that's the problem for the ones trying to make $$$...they want you to spend $$$ every year...if you don't spend $$$ they don't make $$$...this guy/video is are a joke!
@@germicanlifestyle9069; No they are not, some perennials are quite invasive and he is merely pointing that out!
My mother used to dig up and relocate or re-home perennials that no longer thrived in their location
These are all problems that are easily delt with unless you really don't want to take the time. But really, perennials are easier to take care of. Once they're established there's less work than getting annuals every year
Annuals aren't bad if you practice seed saving. At least that is what I do with some key annuals in my garden like sweet basil. Just letting one plant go to seed gives me enough seed to last several seasons, and I will never need to buy basil seedlings or seeds again. Plus you're able to practice selective breeding to encourage traits in plants that are better suited for your particular micro-climate and predilections.
@@billclinton6040; Yes, I do that with my Brassica seeds in the North.
"You may not want to plant this anymore..."
Yeah, that's the point. ;) Plant it once, not every year.
Essential message : don't plant perennials because things might change?
I expect that. Still less time & effort to do some occasional rearranging than to not plant them altogether.
They come back up! I love flowies! Back at my moms place (before the elderly care place) everything came up without being re-planted. Let's hope I can do the same here at my in laws place.
I disagree. As we get older we need to have a maintenance free Garden as nearly as possible. Pruning back and separating tubers gives an incredible return on the investment of our effort. Also beautiful landscaping increases the curb appeal / value
As a 84 year old , I, have reduced annuals & increased as well as diversified perennials.
I love my perennials. I always have something to give away and I don't have to spend money on a plant I have!
Great considerations for decisions about perennials. I never miss one of your videos because I don’t want to miss any of these ‘pearls’. Often times I just like the flower, foliage appearance or some other aspect when considering a plant without taking these things into account. My knowledge has been greatly improved by your experiences. Thanks for passing them along to those of us who enjoy gardening but lack much real understanding. You are a trusted and very valuable resource to many.
Thank you so very much. I really enjoy how well you explain to us why you do what you do. It made me laugh when you talked about the comfrey. I love comfrey. Mine was doing tremendously well. And then one of my trees started growing over it. It's not doing quite as well as it was. So because I like it. I will be pruning it back a little. It has so many medicinal properties to it that's why I grew it. I like the fact that you stretch our brains. You help us think about why we have what we have in the yard. I'm just a homeowner. We have 10 acres. In a very dry part of our state. Who loves to grow things. Who loves a challenge of trying to see what will work and what doesn't work. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for stretching my brain. I'm going to need to reevaluate some things I have going on in my yard. Because of what I just saw. Keep up the good work. You are very helpful.
Brain Stretch is GOOD. 10 acres is more than just a homeowner. Our farm is 12 acres. There is a HUGE ABUNDANCE awaiting in those 10 acres, dry or not.
I won't quit planting perennials. I move them if needed and save $$$ not buying new ones.
I'm not the only one rearranging as my plants mature and as i read the land.
I am (unfortunately) addicted to rearranging my plants. Lol
I agree…. Just divide them… and trim them down. Perennials save so much money…. There are some years where I’m lazier and they come back beautifully without a lot of work….
@@giverny28; That is what is fun about gardening.
Hint: Stephan plants a ton of perennials...but a very few don't work out.
Also you can share plants with people who can't spend lots of money on them.
I have these yellow flowers also. Yes they take over, I pull them up by the roots and throw them root down in the outside borders of my yard. They take by themselves and they are around 3 acres of woods. It is one plant you need to keep up on tho. Have to move some now. Enjoy your videos.
What are hide yellow Daisey looking flowers called that look like black eye Susan
Brilliant video! Great reasons, and incredibly helpful to refer to when doing an annual inventory of plants. I will definitely keep your list in mind when I evaluate which plants to invest and reinvest in. Especially since my yard space is limited and water is so precious.
I can also see this list overlapping onto reasons a plant once planted in an environment can become invasive.
Love your channel. As always, thanks for sharing!!
Ive been pitting in my own underground irrigation using standard garden hose and pvc pipe. I dig a trench and place the pvc in first. I use self tapping screws to keep it all together that way if I have to dig it up or I want to change something I just unscrew it. The pipes lead to splitters which lead to soaker hoses above ground and drip emitters. I use the 2inch pvc caps with a hole just big enough for the hose to fit through so water/debris doesn't get inside. Just use a standard air compressor to garden hose adapter to blow out the lines in the fall. I constantly battle with controlling Canadian Thistle and Poplar trees with runner roots.
I don't keep planting anything that struggles, whether it's perennial or a specific sort of annual. I'm more interested in finding low-maintenance plants that do well with the conditions I've got. Trying to constantly fight local diseases and/or "improve" an acre or more of soil to suit something that doesn't really want to be there could drive me flat broke, or half-crazy. (or all the way crazy, I guess... )
At least in theory, the correct plants for the conditions will improve the soil on their own. I've noticed for absolute certain that the soil near old stumps on my property is *much* fluffier and richer than the clay soil in general... so yeah sometimes it takes five or ten years for those roots and microbes to do all their work, but I'm OK with that.
I'm on beach like sand plain, but my comfrey, bocking 4, does really well. Full sun and poor soil. Cup plant is great for chop and drop too. It will flower later in the summer if you cut in early june. I also feed it to rabbits...
Making so much sense! Why spend energy fighting for the final failure?! Thank you for telling us this mother nature message!🙏💗🙏
Great food for thought. Thank you!
Somebody once said this phrase by which I have lived my life and it can apply ton your plants as well. "Adapt of die" Charles Darwin: It's actually, 'It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change'.
It’s part of the glory of the garden for it to change year after year :) I move plants around all the time to find their happy space.
Their happy place, love it.
The plant at 3:18 I thought looks like gypsywort but it has the flowers at the tip and not the petioles. What is it?
Everything has its place, even if just temporarily, and nature, our gardens, growing area's and food forests are forever changing, we need to help things out occasional and adapt with the changing conditions too ... or just let nature work things out and let the plants naturalise, move around or die off as they see fit. Some great advice and explaining why things may change - thank you ✌️🌿
Perennials reseed also and are very important ecologically as nectar sources and larval hosts etc. who cares if they don’t thrive after many years? You can always divide them for new parent material or reseed in a new location. NEVER stop planting a mixture of perennials and annuals. Nature intended diversity. Also on the comfrey comment.... I live on glacial sand and I have huge beautiful comfrey everywhere. You CAN grow in sand as long as you create a solid top layer of organic matter rich in microbial life. I think this video should be redone as “what to do when your perennials stop thriving.” So many excellent techniques that may be useful in other areas of horticulture as well.
Univer. of Rhode Island imported wasps to control the lily beetle. They may have arrived here in Massachusetts since some growers reported less damage this year.
I love all you vids, thank you. Maybe I have missed it but could you do a vid on selecting scions in late winter for spring grafting? What to look for and how to store...
Look under the grafting playlist I did one on exactly that subject a few years ago.
@@StefanSobkowiak Thank you so much. I will find it. I appreciate your knowledge and candidness in your videos. Next year is going to be my first year starting in my production orchard. My house orchard got started 4 years ago and I am using it both for food as well as propagation material. My goal is to retire into a full grown productive perennial permaculture orchard in 13 years. So much to learn between now and then...
Random other question for you: I have watched your pruning videos and noted that you prune to the central leader method on all trees. I know that you can get max production that way but most other sources suggest pruning stone fruit to a goblet shape instead. What is your reasoning for the central leader on everything? When do you start leaving the 12-16 branches on the trunk? My biggest tree is only about 10ft right now, should I leave fewer branches until it gets to full size?
Comfrey does so well here, and i accidentally got the one where seeds are viable, that my orchard is being overtaken lol.
Yikes... I think in that case you have to be vigilant to chop them down when they get into full flower mode, before they make seed. Which could be a real pain because my bocking 14 sterile comfrey flowers almost constantly. At least you'll get lots of mulch every time you mow it, right?
Might not be a bad thing. Very healthy soil
I hear comfrey makes great home made fertilizer. I myself am looking for seeds to grow in my clay soil. Have a large garden and store bought fertilizer are just too expensive for me.
@@dogslobbergardens6606 Yea, I planted it for chop and drop, for which it works great, also for the green portion of my compost, but man, really hard to keep on top of lol. the bocking 14 was what I intended to get, but this was my first foray into gardening lol
@@juneramirez8580 My yard is a red clay mollisoil, damned near 100% clay with no other particulate in western Oklahoma.
I’m so glad I found your channel! New subscriber 😊
Thanks, enjoy the vids.
It all depends, I have several really large lawns, 3 wide deep ditches with level wide strips of grass along it before the edge of the woods. I had dig all the dandelions. They attract piss ants & slugs & even in my ditches, which get mowed, I don't want them. Took me years to get those ditches free of wild rose, scrub bushes, weeds. So now I want some of my perennials from hedges & 7 large gardens I've established in a dozen years here. I have the room. Infact I put down 65 bales of hay on their sides, pushed my hand in put in a cup of soil & tucked baby perennials every foot or less. That is now a gorgeous wide border along 1 of the roads into my forest property. I have been thinning & potting up 'free' plants for other properties. Saves me a few thousand in landscaping every time. And almost instantly make me feel connected to new homes, which are projects in my case. I have even used P. like Jerusalem Artichoke & Tansy to mark my various property lines thru the forest. So it is a very personal thing.
sooo expensive to buy new plants or even seeds each year. i love spending time in my garden. its not just a hobby its life!
Great video! Just found your channel! 👍
Welcome aboard.
Great!!! Sometimes, you just gotta get rid of or not plant certain plants...save or make room for what works! No mater how big of place you have a few things won't make the cut.
Im with you on those sunflowers…..im forever pulling from my garden. Its not gonna go away. Ugh😩
Thanks...
I divide and move around my perennials for the exercise! 😂Lol ... I call this playing Musical Plants, a fun gardening version of Musical Chairs. 👍
Rock on!
and that why I keep it in pots. snd keep the ones that I want to keep in ground.
The memories one got 🥺
Re: comfrey - should you amend the soil as you would any other?
If it doesn’t grow like crazy don’t plant it. Not a plant you want to amend soil for.
Wondering where you found the pull-behind roller/crimper? Thanks.
I think it was earth tools. Look up roller crimper for BCS tractor.
There was a weedy bush next door. Landlords asked me to dig it out. Said no. Cannot remove all the roots when growing next to house and sidewalk. The leaves feed the roots. As long as it grew leaves, pick them off. Finally this summer no new leaves. No leaves. Was going to leave it for whole summer but new tenant cut it down. Deleaf continually. On the weedy bush, took three or four years.
Hi Stefan! Have you considered selling perennial flowers bouquets?
We do, $10 a handful. Better to come with someone with big hands. When you have them by 100s there can be a lot of picking.
@@StefanSobkowiak that is great Stefan!
nice !!
Where do i find the Sea Berry plants, i can't seem to find any in my area? Do you sell cuttings or bare root plants?
No I don’t, sorry. Many nurseries are low on stock.
Try Edible Acres nursery in Finger Lakes region of NY. They have such strong plants and I've been very happy with ones I've purchased. 🌱👍😁
Most of the perennial flowers that I plant are native to my area. They're typically amazing plants and basically no work. I tend to go for the ones that have wider soil / moisture / sun tolerance, but if I have an extremely dry area of the yard I'll go for the extremely xeric plants that are a bit trickier (don't like fertile soil or supplemental water). Most of the native plants go to seed and then it's really easy to let them self-select where to grow optimally. I guess the other thing to comment is we don't get a ton of moisture so things don't really spread in a way that is super aggressive. I can see how this would be fairly tricky to deal with in a larger property.
Fun to share
I have a different reason i will not/ do not want certain perennials on our land.
The perennials: milkweeds
The reason: the usage of the land has changed.
Our bee hives continue to fail because of increased pesticide & herbicide use in surrounding areas surrounding our farm (and other pressures). So i need to use my pasture for livestock. Milkweeds are highly toxic, so they have to go!
It was nice while it lasted. I will miss seeing the huge variety of butterflies and the larger population of monarchs. But i don't want my other animals dying and i need to use my land.
I can't grow comfrey, either. :(
Super clay soil here comfrey grows insane here. Seabuckthorn not so much.
Comfrey takes off like a rocket in our heavy clay soil, too. I planted little stubs of roots this past spring and the plants are already full mature size, and I've already cut them down once to make comfrey tea. Sooooo it turns out, I'm a comfrey farmer now lol. Didn't really set out with that in mind, but it's so easy to grow in these conditions that I may as well take advantage of it.
Just asking. Why don't you have marsh mallow?
Never got some.
I like it. Grow well from hard clay or sand. Not to weedy, I have to multiply by dividing roots. Edible flowers and roots.
When Stefan slows talking and the camera zooms in. It's like u can see the gears moving in his head.
Haha sometimes the gears are going faster than others.
To paraphrase an old Elton John tune - don't try to drink whiskey from a bottle of wine.
If so, that would take me off many types of plants from dahlias to daylilies, to roses. Although I think roses have a longer breeding history, and many survive in all forms..
Best thing is to.plant what will thrive in your soil with minimum care. I have dry sand soil. Yucca Cactus. Gallardia lavender cat mint thrive and bloom with little care. It's the soil light and water available to plants in your yard that can make them thrive
Oh and I learned my lesson on mint
Hahaha
@@StefanSobkowiak Mint is a borderline noxious weed!
I guess I'm having different luck... My mint is under SOS daily running out from the Florida rain this year, growing smaller each day since three months ago! Wish yours could crawl in my yard!
Number 5 is a great rule..alot of time people will stress themselves out fighting pests and disease. I will try or move it but if it continues to struggle I will pull the plant. It's an obvious sign the plant is not thriving for one reason or another. Why go thru the struggle when I can plant a plant that will thrive. I know people who will spend so much money on trying to save a plant when pulling it and replacing it with a new plant would have been cheaper.
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There are plenty of perennials to choose from that are suitable for a smaller garden, without them wanting to take over.
A better title would have been 7 reasons you might not want to plant perennials anymore and for what reasons. It is a little misleading. Other than that, this is a good educational video. I would like to see a follow up video about why you might want to consider planting perennials instead of annuals. There are good reasons for perennials, more so overall than annuals.
Also maybe talk more about how to overcome some of these problems if/when you encounter them. This seems a little unfairly and one sided. Good try, though.
There is absolutely no reason not to plant perennial flowers. You can find something for any sunlight amount because this feeds the pollinators early in the season when nothing else is around. Human aesthetic and convenience it’s not the most important thing in the world Believe it or not
Just don't buy invasive plants and I'm not talking about ones that get out of gardens and are classed as invasive but ones that spread rapidly like many grasses, golden rod, some percicaria and perennial sunflowers
There is alternative answers to all your reasons, but the main thing is you can change anything
I was actually ‘distressed’ when I read the title of this I video. After watching, I would call it misleading.
Folks! What title would you give it? 🤷🏼♀️
Edit: What I texted to my friend…
“The title of this video ‘sucks’, but this guy presents lot’s of good advice. This video is really an analysis/checklist for gardeners in how they should assess their perennials. Great for problem solving issues.”
Sorry for the title misleading Christine.
Is it, or could it be true that double flowers types are weaker, more susceptible to disease because breeders care more about the flowers then the actual plants and so concentrate their attention too much on the bloom to the detriment of the plant?
Yes in my experience they are weaker. A plant has 100% energy, how it apportions it can give a result we want but unintended consequences.
If you just slam a perennial in anywhere without a plan you will run into problems. Even with a plan
there is always changes one will need to make. Yes, if a tree grows then there will be shade.
I don't care for his "why you won't want to plant a perennial flower anymore." They are the mainstay
of any flower garden. COMFREY...is considered an invasive species in my neck of the woods!!
Great video! Thank you 🙏🏽😁 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Lately since the sun is more white than yellow like it used to be, it seems like many plants that we used to think of as requiring full sun, can now do very well with part shade
For instance my strawberries that are under the filtered shade of a tree are much happier than the ones in full sun
I’ve been growing zucchinis and tomatoes in part sun this year 🤣
Observation observation observation
Oh, so you've noticed that the Sun is now White, rather than yellow? wtf?
Yes, I’ve noticed many of my garden plants can’t tolerate the full sun anymore.
@@guynorth3277 🤷🏻♀️ I have heard other people mentioning it too
@@TutuSainz; It is common misconception that the Sun is yellow, or orange or even read. The Sun is essentially all colors mixed together, which appear to our eyes as white.
@@guynorth3277 perhaps you are too young to know what the sun was like 30+ years ago. It is far more intense now than it used to be. Science says more UV rays are getting through due to the depleting ozone layer.
Holl up if they are happy they wont have diseases or bugs??? What
Obviously you're not talking about Arizona.
Shasta daisy, peony, ... come back year after year. Most perennials can be divided and transplanted to other locations. Sooner or later you can replace all your grass with perennial flowers and end up with a lot of honey bees in your property. Why not? LOL I let my rose bushes grow to 8 feet tall. I harvest their flowers for cooking and making tea. FREE. Grass is a result of human deforestation and removal of other plants.
Love love perennial plants they keep giving annuals cost lots of money to plant them every year .I really don't get what your point is annuals can have all the same problems bugs etc ..wtf
The point was different reasons why not plant perennials in that spot, also applies to annuals. Try them somewhere else.
@@StefanSobkowiak ??? Right
All of mine are thriving, although I am blessed to have a 365 day growing season where the temperature never dips below 45°F even in the dead of a so-called Winter. I LOVE them.
Kind of misleading title. Should be selecting proper habitat.
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Manage your perennials. Dig them back, have a plant sale, give them away.
As natural habitat & biodiversity disappears, pollinators depend on us planting them.
I couldn’t make it through this video. Silly prespective
Not 100% permaculture if you using plastic ground cover and irrigation system. There’s no plastic and pipes in natural forest
So true. Good luck finding someone 100% permaculture at some scale.
This is quite pointless really