One main reason to plant natives is to support the native insects that have evolved with the plants. And by extension, the whole food web. Along with saving water.
Yes. Please end the snobbery hangover from the 18th century, The Lawn. An indication of old as to wealth "we're so rich we don't need to grow food." Most lawns are imported grass, NON NATIVE, will not attract indigenous fauna, lawns are high maintenance require fossil fuel and labour to mow, and have multiple CO2 output from soil manipulation and fertilizer to potable water wastage for no useful function or positive outcome in private yards, not even useful for community picnic, and in defiance of nature and additional loss of biodiversity on top of covering everything with concrete and bitumen. As obscene and unethical as 200 horsepower for one human bum in transport, using drinking water to flush sewage whilst others have to drink sewage, and like capitalist and consumerist indifference to the preciousness of ALL life, including yours.
The food web may start with native insects that have coevolved with the plants and may be important feeding other insects, birds etc. Those in turn may feed predators.
I’m SO HAPY to see this video. I work at a native plant nursery in GA. We grow all from seed, and are stewards of rare plants in the state! I can already tell we are getting a lot more people who are more interested in preserving our native flora!
Awesome to see such kind-hearted people trying to restore native plants keep up the good work my man and to the nursery my heart goes out to you all excellent job to you
What do you mean by that? This is either very hopeful (you have your whole career to work with them!) or very depressing (you have like thirty years before they're gone!) advice, depending :o
Brian Fuxan here with the Florida and SouthnCarolina Native Plant Society and thank you for devoting an entire episode to the severity of a problem we find ourselves in with every piece of land being butchered for some sick human centric means only to be paved and installed with non-native invasive plants. Every day I learn something new.
It bothers me the most that we often don't even need to do that. Several of the plant species commonly sold for landscaping purposes have just as nice native relatives. The whole eastern woodlands region is mostly a big mix of our own species of stuff from Europe & stuff from Asia. I feel like when this sort of thing started, it was mostly rich people who just wanted hard to get plants for the sake of them being hard to get & the trends of what was sold never shifted much. We have our own conifers, our own hollies, our own hibiscus & azaleas, redbuds, maples, even or own version of the burning bushes you see everywhere.
makes me feel good about starting a native plant nursery. around here we're in such a cold climate zone 3 the only way to get seeds that for sure can survive the winter is to find them locally, so lots of walking through the forest and foraging.
There's a native nursery in Alberta Canada, so it's totally doable in cold climates. Edit: I just googled your webpage you must be nearby, you may want to collaborate with Wild About Flowers they're near Okotoks Alberta
In your cold climate, many seeds from there, need freezing, and my brain went dead from too much plant shit, not being able to think of the horticultural term for treating seeds with cold to them to germinate.
Stratification; I used to grow and graft Japanese Maples, just putting in frig after harvest, mixed with a little sawdust or peat. You had to start watching in February, because they would start sprouting right in the frig! I'm pretty certain USDA would have stratification tables for natives, as in length of treatment and what media.
For you Missourians, or midwesterners in general: Missouri Wildflower Nursery, Jefferson City, MO., Sow Wild Natives, Kansas City, MO., Critsite Prairie and Wetland Center, Belton, MO.,, Prairie Moon Nursery, Winona, MN. (Great catalog and online selection) and of course, the Missouri Dept. of Conservation online tree seedlings, on sale starting in September for delivery Feb.-April, a great tree and shrub resource, very cheap but they sell out quick.
California is unique in having multiple plant nurseries, wholesale and retail, up and down the state solely dedicated to native plants. This is bolstered by an active California Native Plant Society (CNPS) and botanical gardens devoted to natives and other BGs having large sections of natives comprising their total plant mix. I grew up in California and took all this for granted so when I moved to NY state it was shocking to find there was nothing equivalent at the same level there. California's multiple droughts and occasional water rationing has brought an awareness of native plants to the state's residents that isn't matched elsewhere.
Ohio is starting to catch up, so don't worry too much about that, though New York is mostly in a different climate zone than the rest of us. We have SeedvilleUSA, which has an OK selection of natives. They have their own website, but you can also buy from them on Amazon & Etsy. I found another new seller who have a few things I want that are hard to find,, they only ship live plants,, though & I haven't gotten the Sand Cherries I ordered yet, so that company remains to be seen. I also saw that they had pincherry & Eastern Hemlock. I also get a lot of seeds from Prairie Moon Nursery in Minnesota, a site called Hobbyseed & there's even a few independent seed & bulb sellers from PA on etsy.
For as bad as agriculture has been for California, I think we don’t talk enough about the midwest. Thankfully there’s a community growing as you say, in Texas as well. I think the Hurricane areas would be major points of native plant restoration. (Mangroves and all)
"...if you live in, and I don't know where you live, in friggin' Upstate New York, you can do this too." Me, in Upstate New York, with a refrigerator of native seedlings cold stratifying and a vendetta against Norway Maples and Bradford Pears: "Huh, I'd never really put that together before."
Check out your local native plant society too. I would never poach from the wild but approved digs prior to development have gotten me some nice specimens. I gave away lots of red & blue Lobelia I grew from seed. Trying my hand at dividing natives on my property, hope to share them around too. Here around Atlanta, folks move here because they say they love the area, then they systematically remove all the stuff they can't readily ID & plant imported crap. SMMFH Gonna try cuttings off the biggest Ceanothus I've ever seen in the SE this year. It's gotta be 18' & it's growing where it floods.
Atlanta is home to the company I work for (Pike Nurseries, we have some in Charlotte) and it really troubles me how little we do with wildflowers and native species. I know that our vendors sell native plants yet we refuse to put any emphasis on them.
Same here, or was, in upstate NY, so I just started growing them myself. Originally, just because of my co-workers' swooning over various things at Cornell Trial Gardens. The growers are starting to catch on. (Prides Corners has been doing that from the beginning. A couple things I sent back with the driver have made it into their lineup. :)) I sow the seeds into plug trays , mid-October to early December. They come up at their normal time, or slightly before. When the roots reach the bottom of the cell, I pot them up , usually in 4"deep ("qt") . Usually that's August-early Sept. Whatever is still around next June +/- , gets bumped up to 1 or 2 gal.
@@GageoftheJungle I've worked as a perennial plant manager before. It's really hard to present natives in pots as they have to compete with full, blooming cultivars that get advertising dollars. Impulse buying is fun but long term, makes for more work IMHO. I stop by the Pike store in Alpharetta & quite frankly, their stock is often poor, knowledgeable help is non-existent. Last time I was there, a new guy was speading pine straw in the display beds. No one had shown him how to do this seemingly mundane task correctly. I gave him a 5 minute tutorial on my way in. Good help is hard to find! Any landscape store that still sells English Ivy doesn't get my business. Sure would like to see change in the industry!!!
I'm moving from Wisconsin to Minnesota this week to start work at a native plant nursery!! I'm so excited. Up here all the pants have adaptations to survive the super deep freeze winters. Native plants are more hardy, plant native!
Being in Australia, west of the great dividing range and south of the tropics, our natives have an amazing resilience against fire, flood and drought. It is always better to plant native!
Living lower cost up in rural Shasta County - I like to drive to Chico for my native plants from my favorite nursery: Floral Native Nursery. Best quality and selection of native plants in Northern Northern Sacramento Valley. Extirpation to Bermuda grass!!
I live nearby to Tree Of Life, and it really is such an amazing, beautiful place! Every time I go there I find a new and exciting plant; tons of edible plants that are traditional to Native American medicine. I just wish I had more space in the backyard lol! And of course, everything grows fantastic with little to no work. My coastal strawberries and wild roses are so happy. Why anyone would struggle with non-native plants is beyond me. I get that some types of non-natives people just absolutely love and need in their gardens, but for me, it's not worth all the extra work to keep it alive and all the worries that it will overtake natives. Not to mention using so much more water in an already drought-prone area
Thank you for the encouragement to seek out local native nurseries. I source my own natives but happily learned just now that there are six or eight native nurseries in my state. Love your show. Thanks. gfy
Greetings....from the North Carolina Mountains...!! I truly am shocked at your "encyclopedic brain" ....the amount of knowledge that you contain is commendable .... and again.....shocking !!! Much gratitude to you .....for sharing your journey.
Always feel good to see people growing natives. I've done the same thing here in Wisconsin. It gives one a sense of place. And talking about crumbs of habitat. Yeah, that seems to be universal, too. I started by collecting in ditches in Iowa, and twenty years later, most of those spots are gone now.
Tony. Be aware. You inspire my 'sick bastard' passion for botany/urban horticulture(nothin phalique there, 🌵🌺). You helped many of us escape to nature throughout these funky times. You've entertained My education and philosophical entertainment of the dark granite dust wall of modern scociety for the past 3 years. Thank you . I am now grduating in a month. edit: I still can't spell for dog **.. it seems.
Congratulations on the occasion of your graduation! Tony is definitely an inspirational bastard! LOL what a wonderful soul, and so awesome to share all his knowledge even though I usually have no clue what he's talking about, but I learn so much!
I'm growing a few of these.......Calliendra californica, Calliendra eriophyla, Justicia californica, Desert Mallow, and Baccharis too. Butterflies love 'em.
This was great! You are so right about people not knowing what natives grow where they live. I wish, I lived in SoCal so I could frequent Tree of Life Nursery. I will say that they also have a youtube channel where they talk about landscaping etc. I hope flooding the market with dudleyas does help stop the poaching, F poachers!
I’m become very plant oriented during this pandemic. I’m collected some Mexican buckeye I found while shadowing a arborist for a day. I plan on trying to propagate these shrubs.
Thanks! Enjoyed the hell out of this video. Native plants to your own area is a wonderful reason to kill a lawn. As if we need a reason. I live east coast, so I have some homework to do. Besides some interesting native plants and trees, I know we have an abundance of rock. Rocks in your garden lets the passing world know you're dead serious about naturalizing your area.
I love your videos I think of myself as a very novice botanist and I’m always learning so much from your videos. I feel like I should have a bachelors degree in botany after watching all your videos
Really awesome. I found a few native nurseries in Northern CA and the Bay Area. Local nurseries also occasionally carry some natives. I've actually found a few natives at the big box stores too. They occasionally will have them.
I love this place. I’m on the other side of the mountain in riverside county. It’s a bit of a drive but beautiful. Been meaning to visit soon for some more plants.
Good native plant nurseries in the midwest: Prairie Nursery in WI and Prairie Moon in MN. Both of those ship. Possibility Place in IL is fine for large orders (by the flat). There are some others like Pizzo that sell flats to local park districts for fundraiser sales etc.
As another amateur botanist who' lives on an acre of ridge and valley in eastern Tennessee, for over two decades I know the local flora quite well. Never been to the western USA yet. Looking forward to traveling and botanizing soon. You're a lucky_______T. To do what you do. Ps I have no lawn, weed eater nor do I slash and burn and bulldoze like so many "developers/interlopers" do. Nor will I drain my wetlands.
Niiice!! Native Plant Nurseries are awesome. There are a few in the Kansas City area and there is an amazing grower, Missouri Wildflowers Nursery, based out of central MO. Absolutely worth a visit the next time you're through. Appreciate your advocacy!
Another fantastic episode which makes me really really wish that I had something similar in England however….. Brilliant as usual thank you very much Tony
there is a lot of places where you can get native plants in Britain, independent nurseries took a hit with covid, but you should be able to find a few with open eyes
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 the number of plant nurseries selling to the public has substantially reduced as most were bought out by large national garden centres. Those remaining sell to trade, local authorities, garden designers etc. Many garden centres sell a very small range of “improved varieties” of spring plants and bulbs, snowdrops, fritillaries, bluebells, wood anemones etc, but the genuine articles are virtually unobtainable except occasionally and invariably expensively as seed. Not everyone has the facilities or ability to grow from seed. I wish things were otherwise.
I love your videos the connection with the earth and the "dirt" otherwise called soil is something I can identify with, the variety of plants and their beauty is astounding and I really appreciate your getting up close and personal with the less showy and familiar and showing us the mostly over looked but no less wonderful side note San Juan Capistrano iss in Orange county not San Diego county just a slip over the less important and superficial details
my yard is almost done, no lawn, lots of crushed and decomposed granite and native Texas plants. A number of yaupons so I can have a free caffeine source ☕
Wonderful to see such a vast great nursery in an area where they would probably want to build a condo or something! I live in the Sierra foothills in Placer County, would love to investigate more of the natural plants. How about grasses? They look so great in the garden!
As someone who works in the gardening industry, it’s hard not to see how destructive the company I work for is. For one, massive amounts of waste produced on a daily. Organic matter, cardboard, plastic, all thrown out. We sell all sorts of horticultural atrocities and put so little focus on the natives. Lastly, we use and sell massive amounts of chemicals which is extremely detrimental to the wildlife that calls the greenhouse home. I can only imagine how many frogs, insects, and wildflowers (such as a Spiranthes in our mulch beds) that have been poisoned and killed because we don’t deem it economically important.
Jeez, the least they could do is compost/recycle. Any chance that with your experience you could eventually find some like-minded folks and open a native nursery? All the best to you.
there's an app for south east Queensland , Australia called GroNative where you can put your postcode in and it'll list native species in the area, categorized by ecological niches. it also lists nurseries that have each plant in stock as well.
My interest in native plants have been increasing , recently visited the walter sisulu botanical gardens in south africa but i missed the aloe flower season. I collected some porkbush cuttings , and some aloe ferox seed pods , i would like to also include a native sunbird attractant (leonotus leonurus). Other than those im also not sure whats native hacing grown up in dreaded suburbia
I’ve planted 2 different garden areas on my property in only California natives. I’m a landscaper as well so I’m doing this for “research”. One thing to really consider if you are looking into landscaping with California natives plants is the watering and drainage. Most California natives do not like wet roots in the summer, it will kill them. It’s not like your typical “drought tolerant” plants where you can water them on drip 4 days a week. I’ve heard from many people that California natives are difficult, but that’s only because they don’t take that into consideration. For most plants native to California (unless they’re from the redwood coastal northern regions) watering just once or twice a month is enough to keep them happy after they’ve become established.
Tree of Life is by far the best native plant nursery in Southern California. Their work with tissue culture and Dudleya pachyphytum is amazing. I highly recommend checking them out if you haven’t already.
We’re fortunate to have a couple of good native plant nurseries in the Knoxville area. It was interesting to see that you’ve got native plants in the blueberry, buckthorn etc families which we do too but the plants are very different. F-ing fascinating.
The city of Seattle has a Native plant placement program. I recall they offer a selection of ceanothus, penstamons; and other local spp. supportive to wildlife.
I would get along with you very well, lol! I too hate the tacky shit from Home Depot and Lowe's! I'm in Brevard County, FL on an acre and I planted every tree of the 71 there are native to this county (except two I'm trying to locate). The yard's filled with a shit ton of other native plants as well, two wildlife ponds I built, and some habitat/shelters for the critters. I never want to leave my yard; I love it back there! I want to bring back all the native plants we destroyed!
I was making a backyard lawn a few years ago. Buffalograss, which is a low-maintenance grass that's a good pollen source for bees. It was getting established, but then the flood hit. A whole bunch of forest floor detritus washed into the yard along with a ton of seeds. In spring, the yard exploded with a variety of plants. Sage, thistle, spiderwort, prairie verbena, Engelmann's daisy, and more. I just let it grow. Mostly. I had to mow some paths for the dogs to get around, but yard was mostly just a thick, native flowerbed. It was like an oasis for plants and critters. If I ever have a lawn again, that's what it's going to be.
Yea, I think 65% of my boot camp platoon was from Chicago, so I heard dat accent before. Yea. Anyway, I just got back from this exact nursery, good thing I took the truck and not the motorbike cause, uh, I had to, you know, 'load up' a few restless natives. I still want to go back with the motorbike, Ortega Highway is awesome, you know, just for the ride! -edit- Before I forget; thanks for the tip!
I’m trying to plant natives on my acre plot. There’s a little wooded area I’ve been working on for years. It was all trash, fake grapevine, peoples bbq ashes and car parts. Oh, don’t forget the invasive honeysuckle.
That bit about the choya killed me. Slowly turning over my yard from grass to mostly-native flower and open-pollinated vegetable garden in the mid-Atlantic US here. Balancing pretty, productive, and pollinator-loving with the energy I have to tackle each year in the right season. Looking into more perennial edible plants, too. Undoing some serious horticultural atrocities while I'm at it -- some previous owner put yucca in full shade, and that's just the beginning.
17:00 Plant natives, it gives you a connection to the land around you. If you've got a lawn the only thing you have a connection to is the void within your soul and the home depot garden center.
They made a park in a canyon and bulldozed a bunch of sycamore trees near our house in San Diego when I was a kid in the 70s, my dad brought home sycamore logs and made stuff out of the lumber. Interesting looking wood.
One main reason to plant natives is to support the native insects that have evolved with the plants. And by extension, the whole food web. Along with saving water.
Yes. Please end the snobbery hangover from the 18th century, The Lawn. An indication of old as to wealth "we're so rich we don't need to grow food." Most lawns are imported grass, NON NATIVE, will not attract indigenous fauna, lawns are high maintenance require fossil fuel and labour to mow, and have multiple CO2 output from soil manipulation and fertilizer to potable water wastage for no useful function or positive outcome in private yards, not even useful for community picnic, and in defiance of nature and additional loss of biodiversity on top of covering everything with concrete and bitumen. As obscene and unethical as 200 horsepower for one human bum in transport, using drinking water to flush sewage whilst others have to drink sewage, and like capitalist and consumerist indifference to the preciousness of ALL life, including yours.
Elaborate on the food web.
The food web may start with native insects that have coevolved with the plants and may be important feeding other insects, birds etc. Those in turn may feed predators.
This semester I’m taking my first college botany class because of this channel. It’s going well :) thank you to all you bastards
That's awesome! He is very inspirational and fascinating. I wish you success in your academic endeavors!
Godspeed you Payton Lott!!
Funny, I actually found out about this channel through my professor at my botany class!
I’m SO HAPY to see this video. I work at a native plant nursery in GA. We grow all from seed, and are stewards of rare plants in the state! I can already tell we are getting a lot more people who are more interested in preserving our native flora!
Which one? I'm in Dawson county
Awesome to see such kind-hearted people trying to restore native plants keep up the good work my man and to the nursery my heart goes out to you all excellent job to you
Outstanding! I've been telling my students that they have decades to support native plant use.
What do you mean by that? This is either very hopeful (you have your whole career to work with them!) or very depressing (you have like thirty years before they're gone!) advice, depending :o
@@thestrangegreenman it's both. That's why it's perfect advice.
At the end of each class, you should tell your students “Go fuck yourself. Bye.”
I LOVE this place, one of the best nurseries I have ever been to. Also have a large library of good content on UA-cam.
These videos single handedly changed my direction in life. Been a fan for a few years now, love the work
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@@thekingoffailure9967 Oddly enough, I’ve nearly put down gaming completely to take up full time care taking of my plants
Brian Fuxan here with the Florida and SouthnCarolina Native Plant Society and thank you for devoting an entire episode to the severity of a problem we find ourselves in with every piece of land being butchered for some sick human centric means only to be paved and installed with non-native invasive plants.
Every day I learn something new.
It bothers me the most that we often don't even need to do that. Several of the plant species commonly sold for landscaping purposes have just as nice native relatives. The whole eastern woodlands region is mostly a big mix of our own species of stuff from Europe & stuff from Asia. I feel like when this sort of thing started, it was mostly rich people who just wanted hard to get plants for the sake of them being hard to get & the trends of what was sold never shifted much. We have our own conifers, our own hollies, our own hibiscus & azaleas, redbuds, maples, even or own version of the burning bushes you see everywhere.
makes me feel good about starting a native plant nursery. around here we're in such a cold climate zone 3 the only way to get seeds that for sure can survive the winter is to find them locally, so lots of walking through the forest and foraging.
There's a native nursery in Alberta Canada, so it's totally doable in cold climates. Edit: I just googled your webpage you must be nearby, you may want to collaborate with Wild About Flowers they're near Okotoks Alberta
@@LoneHowler Hah sure thanks
In your cold climate, many seeds from there, need freezing, and my brain went dead from too much plant shit, not being able to think of the horticultural term for treating seeds with cold to them to germinate.
Stratification; I used to grow and graft Japanese Maples, just putting in frig after harvest, mixed with a little sawdust or peat. You had to start watching in February, because they would start sprouting right in the frig! I'm pretty certain USDA would have stratification tables for natives, as in length of treatment and what media.
I fucking love the way you say “you just gotta destroy your lawn” real talk here. I love what this nursery is doing thanks for sharing this with me/us
I’m watching this again because it’s awesome 😃
I almost always watch these twice minimum. I wonder if it counts my multiple views
For you Missourians, or midwesterners in general: Missouri Wildflower Nursery, Jefferson City, MO., Sow Wild Natives, Kansas City, MO., Critsite Prairie and Wetland Center, Belton, MO.,, Prairie Moon Nursery, Winona, MN. (Great catalog and online selection) and of course, the Missouri Dept. of Conservation online tree seedlings, on sale starting in September for delivery Feb.-April, a great tree and shrub resource, very cheap but they sell out quick.
I love Prarie Moon Nursery
Thank you very much!!!
Thank you!
Prairie moon is amazing I use their seeds to plants my pirate prairies around chicagoland 😆
I've gotten so addicted to making little prairies around where I live. So much enjoyment from just spreading seed and waiting @@videosbyjimjo8462
California is unique in having multiple plant nurseries, wholesale and retail, up and down the state solely dedicated to native plants. This is bolstered by an active California Native Plant Society (CNPS) and botanical gardens devoted to natives and other BGs having large sections of natives comprising their total plant mix. I grew up in California and took all this for granted so when I moved to NY state it was shocking to find there was nothing equivalent at the same level there. California's multiple droughts and occasional water rationing has brought an awareness of native plants to the state's residents that isn't matched elsewhere.
For New York State, check out Amanda's Native Garden.
CNPS rules!!
Ohio is starting to catch up, so don't worry too much about that, though New York is mostly in a different climate zone than the rest of us. We have SeedvilleUSA, which has an OK selection of natives. They have their own website, but you can also buy from them on Amazon & Etsy. I found another new seller who have a few things I want that are hard to find,, they only ship live plants,, though & I haven't gotten the Sand Cherries I ordered yet, so that company remains to be seen. I also saw that they had pincherry & Eastern Hemlock. I also get a lot of seeds from Prairie Moon Nursery in Minnesota, a site called Hobbyseed & there's even a few independent seed & bulb sellers from PA on etsy.
For as bad as agriculture has been for California, I think we don’t talk enough about the midwest. Thankfully there’s a community growing as you say, in Texas as well.
I think the Hurricane areas would be major points of native plant restoration. (Mangroves and all)
I came right after I saw you featured in wired. Just watched few vids as of now but I'm already hooked
Perfect timing, my man. Snowed out morning. Coffee, "flowers", and CPBBD.
"...if you live in, and I don't know where you live, in friggin' Upstate New York, you can do this too."
Me, in Upstate New York, with a refrigerator of native seedlings cold stratifying and a vendetta against Norway Maples and Bradford Pears: "Huh, I'd never really put that together before."
Check out your local native plant society too. I would never poach from the wild but approved digs prior to development have gotten me some nice specimens. I gave away lots of red & blue Lobelia I grew from seed. Trying my hand at dividing natives on my property, hope to share them around too.
Here around Atlanta, folks move here because they say they love the area, then they systematically remove all the stuff they can't readily ID & plant imported crap. SMMFH
Gonna try cuttings off the biggest Ceanothus I've ever seen in the SE this year. It's gotta be 18' & it's growing where it floods.
Atlanta is home to the company I work for (Pike Nurseries, we have some in Charlotte) and it really troubles me how little we do with wildflowers and native species. I know that our vendors sell native plants yet we refuse to put any emphasis on them.
Same here, or was, in upstate NY, so I just started growing them myself. Originally, just because of my co-workers' swooning over various things at Cornell Trial Gardens. The growers are starting to catch on. (Prides Corners has been doing that from the beginning. A couple things I sent back with the driver have made it into their lineup. :))
I sow the seeds into plug trays , mid-October to early December. They come up at their normal time, or slightly before. When the roots reach the bottom of the cell, I pot them up , usually in 4"deep ("qt") . Usually that's August-early Sept. Whatever is still around next June +/- , gets bumped up to 1 or 2 gal.
@@GageoftheJungle I've worked as a perennial plant manager before. It's really hard to present natives in pots as they have to compete with full, blooming cultivars that get advertising dollars. Impulse buying is fun but long term, makes for more work IMHO. I stop by the Pike store in Alpharetta & quite frankly, their stock is often poor, knowledgeable help is non-existent. Last time I was there, a new guy was speading pine straw in the display beds. No one had shown him how to do this seemingly mundane task correctly. I gave him a 5 minute tutorial on my way in. Good help is hard to find!
Any landscape store that still sells English Ivy doesn't get my business. Sure would like to see change in the industry!!!
Beech Hollow in Scottdale, GA (close to Decatur) is a small native nursery with really great seasonal interest
New favourite channel. Bringing together two of my favourite things- plants and foul language.
I'm moving from Wisconsin to Minnesota this week to start work at a native plant nursery!! I'm so excited. Up here all the pants have adaptations to survive the super deep freeze winters. Native plants are more hardy, plant native!
Being in Australia, west of the great dividing range and south of the tropics, our natives have an amazing resilience against fire, flood and drought. It is always better to plant native!
How’s it going? I’m in WI and looking to start my own little nursery, very interested in natives 😊
Living lower cost up in rural Shasta County - I like to drive to Chico for my native plants from my favorite nursery: Floral Native Nursery. Best quality and selection of native plants in Northern Northern Sacramento Valley. Extirpation to Bermuda grass!!
I really love your genius-informative and funny commentary
Tree of Life are good people. The non-profit I worked at in LA used them a lot.
Thanks for a shred of hope, the possibility of optimism. Best UA-cam content right here folks
This is incredible. The breadth of your knowledge is astounding; thank you for sharing.
I've been spreading common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) seeds in the areas that aren't mowed.
Me too!!! ;) If we all did this imagine how much of a difference we could make!?!!
I live nearby to Tree Of Life, and it really is such an amazing, beautiful place! Every time I go there I find a new and exciting plant; tons of edible plants that are traditional to Native American medicine. I just wish I had more space in the backyard lol! And of course, everything grows fantastic with little to no work. My coastal strawberries and wild roses are so happy. Why anyone would struggle with non-native plants is beyond me. I get that some types of non-natives people just absolutely love and need in their gardens, but for me, it's not worth all the extra work to keep it alive and all the worries that it will overtake natives. Not to mention using so much more water in an already drought-prone area
Always enjoyed your program, for a kind hearted person I can tolerate a lot even kind of liked the way you talk. Keep the good work@
Thank you for the encouragement to seek out local native nurseries. I source my own natives but happily learned just now that there are six or eight native nurseries in my state. Love your show. Thanks. gfy
Greetings....from the North Carolina Mountains...!! I truly am shocked at your
"encyclopedic brain" ....the amount of knowledge that you contain is commendable ....
and again.....shocking !!! Much gratitude to you .....for sharing your journey.
Always feel good to see people growing natives. I've done the same thing here in Wisconsin. It gives one a sense of place. And talking about crumbs of habitat. Yeah, that seems to be universal, too. I started by collecting in ditches in Iowa, and twenty years later, most of those spots are gone now.
Dude was so surprised to see your video on WIRED today! Good shit!
Been thinking about Natives a lot as the invasive Scotch broom is in full bloom right now all over the place in the Bay Area.
Thanks for the info and vid. You make the best stuff on this damned site. Looking forward to the next, as always!
Knowing the native plants of my country...
Tony. Be aware. You inspire my 'sick bastard' passion for botany/urban horticulture(nothin phalique there, 🌵🌺). You helped many of us escape to nature throughout these funky times.
You've entertained My education and philosophical entertainment of the dark granite dust wall of modern scociety for the past 3 years. Thank you . I am now grduating in a month.
edit: I still can't spell for dog **.. it seems.
Congratulations on the occasion of your graduation! Tony is definitely an inspirational bastard! LOL what a wonderful soul, and so awesome to share all his knowledge even though I usually have no clue what he's talking about, but I learn so much!
I'm growing a few of these.......Calliendra californica, Calliendra eriophyla, Justicia californica, Desert Mallow, and Baccharis too. Butterflies love 'em.
Justicia, gorge
Great to see Louie & Jack! Love them :-)
This was great! You are so right about people not knowing what natives grow where they live. I wish, I lived in SoCal so I could frequent Tree of Life Nursery. I will say that they also have a youtube channel where they talk about landscaping etc. I hope flooding the market with dudleyas does help stop the poaching, F poachers!
Your content is always great!
I’m become very plant oriented during this pandemic. I’m collected some Mexican buckeye I found while shadowing a arborist for a day. I plan on trying to propagate these shrubs.
You are doing good work. Thank you!
Thanks! Enjoyed the hell out of this video. Native plants to your own area is a wonderful reason to kill a lawn. As if we need a reason. I live east coast, so I have some homework to do. Besides some interesting native plants and trees, I know we have an abundance of rock.
Rocks in your garden lets the passing world know you're dead serious about naturalizing your area.
The rocks in my garden include local specimens that tell the story of the deposit of Watchung basalt. Plus specimens from my travels like lizardite.
I missed you! This is my go-to native nursery!
Great to see all those seed-grown Dudleya! I know that species get poached from habitat and that’s a problem.
Tony.....God bless you.....
I love your videos I think of myself as a very novice botanist and I’m always learning so much from your videos. I feel like I should have a bachelors degree in botany after watching all your videos
Really awesome. I found a few native nurseries in Northern CA and the Bay Area. Local nurseries also occasionally carry some natives. I've actually found a few natives at the big box stores too. They occasionally will have them.
great video! I've only been to one native nursery but i really wanna go check this one out.
Love to see this focus on the native plant nurseries! Thank you for bringing the focus to this type of good business.
I love this place. I’m on the other side of the mountain in riverside county. It’s a bit of a drive but beautiful. Been meaning to visit soon for some more plants.
Dude you crack me up. good show
I wish that big box stores would sell milkweed like these guys.
Check your local area! LA is doing a milkweed conference with free plants and seeds!
If you need some seeds I'll send you some!!! I've got swamp Milkweed, and some orange milkweed seeds too. The Swamp Milkweed is pink. :)
That bush poppy is gorgeous !!!!
Portland, OR area has Bosky Dell Natives in West Linn. Highly recommended.
Seed collecting is good for the natural ecology and your withering soul.
Good native plant nurseries in the midwest: Prairie Nursery in WI and Prairie Moon in MN. Both of those ship. Possibility Place in IL is fine for large orders (by the flat). There are some others like Pizzo that sell flats to local park districts for fundraiser sales etc.
I would love a whole series of nurseries in this country. I love what you’re doing , from nola/Laredo,tx
Life facts. Thanks Joey.
As another amateur botanist who' lives on an acre of ridge and valley in eastern Tennessee, for over two decades I know the local flora quite well. Never been to the western USA yet. Looking forward to traveling and botanizing soon.
You're a lucky_______T. To do what you do.
Ps I have no lawn, weed eater nor do I slash and burn and bulldoze like so many "developers/interlopers" do. Nor will I drain my wetlands.
Thanks for the good words about Tree of Life.
Niiice!! Native Plant Nurseries are awesome. There are a few in the Kansas City area and there is an amazing grower, Missouri Wildflowers Nursery, based out of central MO. Absolutely worth a visit the next time you're through. Appreciate your advocacy!
We have Bosky Del Natives here near Portland, OR. It's a beautiful spot. Really interesting to see other native plant nurseries too!
Another fantastic episode which makes me really really wish that I had something similar in England however….. Brilliant as usual thank you very much Tony
there is a lot of places where you can get native plants in Britain, independent nurseries took a hit with covid, but you should be able to find a few with open eyes
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 the number of plant nurseries selling to the public has substantially reduced as most were bought out by large national garden centres. Those remaining sell to trade, local authorities, garden designers etc. Many garden centres sell a very small range of “improved varieties” of spring plants and bulbs, snowdrops, fritillaries, bluebells, wood anemones etc, but the genuine articles are virtually unobtainable except occasionally and invariably expensively as seed. Not everyone has the facilities or ability to grow from seed. I wish things were otherwise.
I love your videos the connection with the earth and the "dirt" otherwise called soil is something I can identify with, the variety of plants and their beauty is astounding and I really appreciate your getting up close and personal with the less showy and familiar and showing us the mostly over looked but no less wonderful
side note San Juan Capistrano iss in Orange county not San Diego county just a slip over the less important and superficial details
my yard is almost done, no lawn, lots of crushed and decomposed granite and native Texas plants. A number of yaupons so I can have a free caffeine source ☕
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So many gorgeous plants!!
We've been slowly planting our slope in Carlsbad, CA with natives from Tree-of-Life Nursery, replacing the Eucalyptus and Ice Plant.
Wonderful to see such a vast great nursery in an area where they would probably want to build a condo or something! I live in the Sierra foothills in Placer County, would love to investigate more of the natural plants. How about grasses? They look so great in the garden!
As someone who works in the gardening industry, it’s hard not to see how destructive the company I work for is. For one, massive amounts of waste produced on a daily. Organic matter, cardboard, plastic, all thrown out. We sell all sorts of horticultural atrocities and put so little focus on the natives. Lastly, we use and sell massive amounts of chemicals which is extremely detrimental to the wildlife that calls the greenhouse home. I can only imagine how many frogs, insects, and wildflowers (such as a Spiranthes in our mulch beds) that have been poisoned and killed because we don’t deem it economically important.
Admission is the first step to recovery
Jeez, the least they could do is compost/recycle. Any chance that with your experience you could eventually find some like-minded folks and open a native nursery? All the best to you.
Beautiful Oak ! love your channel! Hello From Alberta
there's an app for south east Queensland , Australia called GroNative where you can put your postcode in and it'll list native species in the area, categorized by ecological niches. it also lists nurseries that have each plant in stock as well.
Do you know if there's anything similar for other states?
It would be cool to hear more about arid plants on how they germinate!
Thank you, great info!
My interest in native plants have been increasing , recently visited the walter sisulu botanical gardens in south africa but i missed the aloe flower season. I collected some porkbush cuttings , and some aloe ferox seed pods , i would like to also include a native sunbird attractant (leonotus leonurus). Other than those im also not sure whats native hacing grown up in dreaded suburbia
always the best ..Thanks for sharing
I’ve planted 2 different garden areas on my property in only California natives. I’m a landscaper as well so I’m doing this for “research”. One thing to really consider if you are looking into landscaping with California natives plants is the watering and drainage. Most California natives do not like wet roots in the summer, it will kill them. It’s not like your typical “drought tolerant” plants where you can water them on drip 4 days a week. I’ve heard from many people that California natives are difficult, but that’s only because they don’t take that into consideration. For most plants native to California (unless they’re from the redwood coastal northern regions) watering just once or twice a month is enough to keep them happy after they’ve become established.
My understanding is water deeply but not frequently
For those in the DMV area: check out Chesapeake Natives Native plant nursery; great prices, lots of species and no tacky cultivars
I live in Orange County and I need to make pilgrimage to Tree of Life.
Tree of Life is by far the best native plant nursery in Southern California. Their work with tissue culture and Dudleya pachyphytum is amazing. I highly recommend checking them out if you haven’t already.
This was great. Tons of native nurseries out there, but I'msure some areas need more. A great one in Missouri is MO wildflowers.
We’re fortunate to have a couple of good native plant nurseries in the Knoxville area. It was interesting to see that you’ve got native plants in the blueberry, buckthorn etc families which we do too but the plants are very different. F-ing fascinating.
Where I live in MA the TACKY Bradford Pear is planted in front of 90% of businesses and houses
The university I went to in IL has them in their landscaping. The campus just reeks in the spring.
Same here in TN :(
started watching and was like, ah SJC thats not too far from me, then the opening line about gettin the cops called had me dyiiiin! lol
Amazing! Got me curious about resources like this in my Seattle area. Thank you.
The city of Seattle has a Native plant placement program. I recall they offer a selection of ceanothus, penstamons; and other local spp. supportive to wildlife.
I would get along with you very well, lol! I too hate the tacky shit from Home Depot and Lowe's! I'm in Brevard County, FL on an acre and I planted every tree of the 71 there are native to this county (except two I'm trying to locate). The yard's filled with a shit ton of other native plants as well, two wildlife ponds I built, and some habitat/shelters for the critters. I never want to leave my yard; I love it back there! I want to bring back all the native plants we destroyed!
I was making a backyard lawn a few years ago. Buffalograss, which is a low-maintenance grass that's a good pollen source for bees. It was getting established, but then the flood hit. A whole bunch of forest floor detritus washed into the yard along with a ton of seeds. In spring, the yard exploded with a variety of plants. Sage, thistle, spiderwort, prairie verbena, Engelmann's daisy, and more.
I just let it grow. Mostly. I had to mow some paths for the dogs to get around, but yard was mostly just a thick, native flowerbed. It was like an oasis for plants and critters. If I ever have a lawn again, that's what it's going to be.
Got one in my Province not far from my city, I have a planter pot full of sweetgrass. I plan on getting some ground cover this year
“See and note this” Real nice!
Yea, I think 65% of my boot camp platoon was from Chicago, so I heard dat accent before. Yea. Anyway, I just got back from this exact nursery, good thing I took the truck and not the motorbike cause, uh, I had to, you know, 'load up' a few restless natives. I still want to go back with the motorbike, Ortega Highway is awesome, you know, just for the ride! -edit- Before I forget; thanks for the tip!
I’m trying to plant natives on my acre plot. There’s a little wooded area I’ve been working on for years. It was all trash, fake grapevine, peoples bbq ashes and car parts. Oh, don’t forget the invasive honeysuckle.
That bit about the choya killed me.
Slowly turning over my yard from grass to mostly-native flower and open-pollinated vegetable garden in the mid-Atlantic US here. Balancing pretty, productive, and pollinator-loving with the energy I have to tackle each year in the right season. Looking into more perennial edible plants, too. Undoing some serious horticultural atrocities while I'm at it -- some previous owner put yucca in full shade, and that's just the beginning.
I someday hope to have my own little project like this! So far I've introduced two native flower species to our student garden
Native plant nurseries are the bomb. Thanks for encouraging us to kill our lawns.
17:00 Plant natives, it gives you a connection to the land around you. If you've got a lawn the only thing you have a connection to is the void within your soul and the home depot garden center.
"If they don't got any native plant nurseries up there, you start one"
Fuck yes.
Easier said than done
California sycamore is my favorite tree, i love that guy nice
They made a park in a canyon and bulldozed a bunch of sycamore trees near our house in San Diego when I was a kid in the 70s, my dad brought home sycamore logs and made stuff out of the lumber. Interesting looking wood.
Love this place--in south Orange County though, not SD.
Tony!!! Please go to Rancho Sierra at the Santa Monica Reserve. You and Antonio would hit it off SO WELL. Ya both smart assess and sassy.
Another great native plant nursery is Missouri wildflower nursery.
Awesome nursery, would love to experience. Thank you for sharing.