Where I live, the Department of Conservation has a nursery where they produce and sell native plant seedlings. A cheap resource for people who don't do this.
I've been doing the same, but in opposite... Gorilla Re-gardening? Whilst out walking my dog I haul things out of the ditches and under the powerlines all D.O.T. properties, (though not from ditches directly in front of homes) bring them home and replant in my yard. I've turned my near empty lot when purchased into a quite well treed land, including wild blueberry bush and wildflowers, Maple trees, Evergreens, ferns and whatever else I find all for free. More than that, these things would have all been lost to the weedwhackers, lawnmowers, tree chippers and ditch diggers every couple years so though some dont survive the transfer most do and otherwise all would have been lost to "maintenance " work.
Great tip with the staking thank you. Since your previous advice on why not to do this kind of planting I've unfortunately found when I take my seeds out for a walk around where I work I'm still very clumsy and can't help dropping them all the time. I hope I don't have the same problem when I'm walking my currant cuttings this Winter 😉
I've heard that in Japan they keeps the seeds/pits from the fruit they eat. After the pits have dried, when they are on the road in the country they throw the seed/pits out the windows and let nature take its course. That's why the backroads in Japan are full of fruit trees. I don't know if this is true but it sounds like a great idea.
We have a hiking/biking trail following a rail line that bisects our state. I walk my dog there on a regular basis and adopted a section of the trail that I've been planting for several years. Apparently I wasn't the only one to have this thought as there are several sections I've seen that others are working on.
Thanks! I agree! This, in my opinion, is the greatest form of civil disobedience. It's funny too, some people from the conservation authority found out I do this and pulled me aside one day on a tree sale. I told them about what I do, my ethics on planting natives, then rambled off hundreds of native plants that I use. I made a lot of friends that day. Now I have the conservation authority as friends :)
Thank you for the warnings, I for one will definitely be making sure to not do this. Actually we have a number of green patches around my apartment block which are just begging to have a small sapling stuck in them. If like you say you put a stake there and make it look kind of official the city parks guys tend to leave it alone, but what they don't like and is also worth keeping in mind is for a tree or shrub to block visibility on say an intersection or pedestrian crossing, and that's why those spots are often left unplanted - and at the end of the day we don't want to be responsible (or even legally liable!!) for an accident. Also it looks weird going out with a spade and planting a sapling in the middle of the night, but no-one is really going to question it, most people mind their own business! And it gets much quicker results and lessens the chances of losing a plant to mowing etc. as you might if you just smoosh seeds. Though sticking walnuts everywhere is definitely the easiest thing in the world :D, and they will force themselves through shrubs quite quickly. My other concern is this bit of waste land suddenly getting developed after twenty years of sitting empty, but I guess there's not much you can do about that.
Yep, climax-canopy species will happily grow pretty much shaded out until their height finally overtakes the early-succession canopy or something dies and releases some light to them!
I haven't been spreading seeds in likely spots for years. I didn't have a name for what I wasn't doing. Who new I wasn't practicing "Guerrilla Gardening".
Everybody should plant at least one tree in their lifetime. This guerrilla planting is a brilliant Technique , I've got my eye on planting two trees the park near where my mother used to live which I'm very familiar from my teenage years.
I never knew the official name of this lol. Well for the past 3 years I took over public property next to my property. It is a pathway to 500 acres of woods for hiking and biking. So it was just a wasteland. I added ostrich and cinnamon ferns, wild daffodils, flag iris, bloodroot, woodland poppy, 3 chestnut trees, red and yellow twig dogwood. In spring it is just beautiful when everything begins to open, so different from what it originally was.
A modern day Johnny Appleseed I’m guessing lol…love that idea wish I had done that ,y self…will have to look up a serviceberry bush obviously none around our area
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy have 40 acres and is pretty bare tree wise. Planting poplar tree whips along the creek and low spots. Some take and others start and then just get winter killed. Just keep planting.
Lol I know exactly where this is. Might check it out today. 😂😂 Great work! We watched Kiss the Ground with our kiddo this weekend and at the end she asked if she can plant a tree in her school yard, so I might be out there guerrilla planting with you (or not you) through the summer.
On a sort of similar note, here in my city in southern Ontario I've noticed when walking some of our greenbelts that people are gardening behind their fence on the greenbelt property. Generally these are areas that aren't cared for by the city, they are left to remain natural. I honestly don't have an issue with it, I think it's a great idea. They're not harming anything and the gardens are obviously not "permanent structures." When they stop gardening the natural plants/grass will just take it over.
Thanks for the reminder to those so inclined to use plants that are local and native so they don't cause other problems. Kudos for not planting any of this stuff, no matter how tempting or beneficial it may have been.
Absolutely awesome. Glad to have a name for this practice. Our park district recently created a new park - unfortunately right in the middle of some of the only remaining native prairie in this area - and of course planted the hillside in grass. I snuck in and spread 1/2 lbs of native prairie wildflower seeds. Just hoping they stop mowing.
Thx for being an inspiration. I just recently sowed a mix of plants(at least sunflower, poppy, peas, clover, green lentils and flax so basically cheap stuff even my broke unemployed ass can buy) to a new installation here that was just a monoculture of one type of flower. Hundreds of the same one in a really poor soil. Basically just completely dead sand with a thin layer of garden soil or whatever that seemed to also be really meh quality on top of it. Maybe it will now have a better chance of becoming soil that grows year after year instead of likely just dying and eroding in the sun. Been also sneaking clover here and there to increase diversity in nonsensical installations or biomass in half dead areas. I have been kinda inspired by Dr. Christine Jones who says that having a lot of plant families together is good as their different microbiomes have synergies. At least my balcony tomatoes, watermelons etc. seem to be growing fine without fertilizer in a jungle of all kinds of plants. And my outside guerilla garden that is on a clay field with just hay and weeds is now kinda lush and the hordes of snails have almost disappeared while butterflies, wild bees and other stuff have started to show up in growing numbers. Feels almost bizarre how the snails just almost vanished but I think it might be largely caused by a really dry period. My plants are fine thou as I have carried thousands of liters of water from a nearby river... And it's not like my stuff is just happily growing in clay as there is a forest clearing kinda close that will eventually be a new train track. So I have been carrying a ton of good forest soil to my garden and also plenty of decomposing wood. Now the clay field grows forest mushrooms and also plum trees that I managed to get to root. Took root sprouts and pieces of a broken limb from a former yard that is now completely vanished aside from the plum trees.
may start with cantelope seeds and pumpkin, i already see pumpkin plants growing from people just throwing their halloween pumpkins on the side of the overgrown areas.
Have you considered trying to work with the council (or whatever it is where you live) as a consultant? They might be amenable to more long term solutions.
Our small town makes it very hard to become a Councillor. You have to be part of the "old boys club", and they don't listen to people my age. My town is one of the oldest (in terms of people/demographics) in Canada. But also, I definitely don't have time for it.
One of my common dog-walking paths brings me past a serviceberry bush hidden in a bunch of lilacs. I wonder if it was planted intentionally (guerilla or not) or if it was a volunteer--there are TONS of serviceberries around here!
Your post is perfectly timed for me today. I was talking to a 95 yo last evening. He told me how he and his siblings gathered wild fruits, grapes, plums and others things when he was a child. He noticed once the farmlands were sprayed with chemicals, herbicides, these natural food plants all died off. His story made it crystal clear exactly what happened to our part of the country. Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't is here on yt. He featured one post on all his guerilla plantings, mainly natives, in his area of the country. West Coast I think. The guerillas are at work. Loads of recipes on yt for flower bombs you can toss out the window of your car into a ditch. USE NATIVES ONLY!
For anyone who doesn't know Joey Santore, just be aware that CPBBD is very PG-13. Dude swears a LOT. If that doesn't turn you off though, I have to say, the first time I watched him, it was maybe the funniest experience I can remember. The mix of vulgarity, political discource, and INCREDIBLE plant knowledge is incomparable on youtube. Nobody does it like Joey. I personally find that once I watch a few of his videos, I'm good for quite a bit, but those few videos are really fun to watch.
And all this stupidity is paid for with TAXPAYERS' MONEY!!!! And do not forget the pensions these folks might get...... Meaning that property MUST be developed in a manic way........ 🤔😱😭😭😭
what gets me, is that these cities claim to be helping out the homeless. Yet they will spend thousands on ornamental flowers, but never anything that's edible. If fruit and veggies were also planted, that could be feeding a lot of people plus wild life.
I am getting scared now. I put like 5-6 trees last fall into the ground and all are doing fine now and i listened to the advice of the nursery which told me to plant and bury root base until 3-5cm below the place of grafting. I also saw some suckering BUT i didn't create mulch vulcano i have 5-10cm clear space between mulch and tree trunk. Did i make a mistake by planting them too deep? What should i do?
Yes absolutely. if the tree is very small still, dig them up this fall ajd plant them at a proper height using my "how to properly plant a tree video". If they are more than 3-4 feet tall, then try to dig away the mulch and soil until you see the root flare, but only in the area around the trunk.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy All of them are taller than 3-4 feet (~90-120cm) Will the 'hole' around the trunk collect too much rain/moisture? I will probably have to clean that space from time to time because it's gonna serve as mini swale/pool. If i understand right basically do what this guy did - ua-cam.com/video/yutZXXU6eHo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=PurdueExtension-ForestryandNaturalResources -dig until root flare -small slope outwards and remulch
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Dr Ieuan Evans (of Evans Cherry fame) recommends planting the graft 3" - 6" below ground level in cold climates. It improves hardiness and gives the tree a second chance if the tree is girdled by critters. After deer mice chewed a 2' strip around one of my apple trees this winter, I'm giving this a shot. If I have to trim a few suckers now and then, no big deal. ua-cam.com/video/9jPGw83NYMs/v-deo.html
Leave those trees alone because they are having an impact already and plant some other ones. See which ones survive in the long run. A dead tree isn't necessarily bad because the roots have opened up the soil profile conditioned the soil.
Yes, that's a great video. The only thing I kind of didn't like was the 2nd half where he's scraping away the mulch. There's a lot of feeder roots in that and he's destroying them as he does this. I would say only do the first half of the video, not the 2nd half. But then again, he's probably more of an expert than I am. I do know that I read a lot about this stuff from professional arborists, and I've seen people scrape away grass to do landscaping, and they kill the trees because they just destroyed all the surface roots. So i would still recommend only doing the first half of the video.
Good eye! Close. Not autumn olive but Russian Olive. Same invasive concern though. Planted by the city. (For real though, not the fun "not me" joke, it literally was not me). The crazy thing about the landscaping that was done by the city at this site is their plant choices. Bradford pears, boxwoods, and then, yes, Russian Olive!!! I'm going to start grafting onto the Bradford pears this year. I'd like to cut down all the Russian olives, but as much as I enjoy "not" planting trees and am okay with being a little illegal, I don't believe in cutting down plants that were actually paid for and are the property of someone else. I've written letters to the company here about the concern with that plant. They haven't done anything in 7 years though, so I don't expect them to do anything. Best thing I do in the fall is just eat as many of the fruit to prevent wildlife spreading it.
I disagree hard here. I'm not a natives only guy (although I often say it because that's the message I want spread to new people because we can do a lot of harm with non natives). However, anything that can be spread by bird is going to do damage even if planted in an isolated area, even such as on the roof of a building. An expert will know what non natives will behave, and there can be exceptions to the rule though.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy you're right, I didnt mean that the only time they should plant natives is when near the wild - that was my poor communication. I meant when near the wild, the only things then should definitely be only natives. If that makes more sense. I agree that even city spaces should go for natives. If not by bird, then lots of invasives spreading by waterways and drains too.
Whoever planted all this did a great job
It could really have been anyone!
🤣🤣🤣
Birds are notorious for guerrilla planting, spreading seeds and fertilizer all over the place. Blame it on them !😊
BIG thank you to ALL Guerilla Gardeners!!! True heroes, quite often heart-breaking!!! But you soldier on!!! 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦
Thank you all whoever you are!!!
Where I live, the Department of Conservation has a nursery where they produce and sell native plant seedlings. A cheap resource for people who don't do this.
That's a fantastic resource to not use!
This whole thing is inspiring and hilarious!
I've been doing the same, but in opposite...
Gorilla Re-gardening?
Whilst out walking my dog I haul things out of the ditches and under the powerlines all D.O.T. properties, (though not from ditches directly in front of homes) bring them home and replant in my yard.
I've turned my near empty lot when purchased into a quite well treed land, including wild blueberry bush and wildflowers, Maple trees, Evergreens, ferns and whatever else I find all for free.
More than that, these things would have all been lost to the weedwhackers, lawnmowers, tree chippers and ditch diggers every couple years so though some dont survive the transfer most do and otherwise all would have been lost to "maintenance " work.
Great tip with the staking thank you. Since your previous advice on why not to do this kind of planting I've unfortunately found when I take my seeds out for a walk around where I work I'm still very clumsy and can't help dropping them all the time. I hope I don't have the same problem when I'm walking my currant cuttings this Winter 😉
That's too bad, definitely work on your clumsiness. Work on it all over town. 😆 🤣 😂
I've heard that in Japan they keeps the seeds/pits from the fruit they eat. After the pits have dried, when they are on the road in the country they throw the seed/pits out the windows and let nature take its course. That's why the backroads in Japan are full of fruit trees. I don't know if this is true but it sounds like a great idea.
LOL that's basically what I do haha
We have a hiking/biking trail following a rail line that bisects our state. I walk my dog there on a regular basis and adopted a section of the trail that I've been planting for several years. Apparently I wasn't the only one to have this thought as there are several sections I've seen that others are working on.
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I just LOVE that video! With the food insecurity that we are about to face, Gerrilla Gardeners are heros, not criminals.
Thanks! I agree! This, in my opinion, is the greatest form of civil disobedience. It's funny too, some people from the conservation authority found out I do this and pulled me aside one day on a tree sale. I told them about what I do, my ethics on planting natives, then rambled off hundreds of native plants that I use. I made a lot of friends that day. Now I have the conservation authority as friends :)
Thank you for the warnings, I for one will definitely be making sure to not do this. Actually we have a number of green patches around my apartment block which are just begging to have a small sapling stuck in them. If like you say you put a stake there and make it look kind of official the city parks guys tend to leave it alone, but what they don't like and is also worth keeping in mind is for a tree or shrub to block visibility on say an intersection or pedestrian crossing, and that's why those spots are often left unplanted - and at the end of the day we don't want to be responsible (or even legally liable!!) for an accident. Also it looks weird going out with a spade and planting a sapling in the middle of the night, but no-one is really going to question it, most people mind their own business! And it gets much quicker results and lessens the chances of losing a plant to mowing etc. as you might if you just smoosh seeds. Though sticking walnuts everywhere is definitely the easiest thing in the world :D, and they will force themselves through shrubs quite quickly. My other concern is this bit of waste land suddenly getting developed after twenty years of sitting empty, but I guess there's not much you can do about that.
you raised some great points to keep in mind!
Great post
Yep, climax-canopy species will happily grow pretty much shaded out until their height finally overtakes the early-succession canopy or something dies and releases some light to them!
I haven't been spreading seeds in likely spots for years. I didn't have a name for what I wasn't doing. Who new I wasn't practicing "Guerrilla Gardening".
I didn't read your comment. I won't do the same thing that you didn't do.
Everybody should plant at least one tree in their lifetime.
This guerrilla planting is a brilliant Technique , I've got my eye on planting two trees the park near where my mother used to live which I'm very familiar from my teenage years.
I never knew the official name of this lol. Well for the past 3 years I took over public property next to my property. It is a pathway to 500 acres of woods for hiking and biking. So it was just a wasteland. I added ostrich and cinnamon ferns, wild daffodils, flag iris, bloodroot, woodland poppy, 3 chestnut trees, red and yellow twig dogwood. In spring it is just beautiful when everything begins to open, so different from what it originally was.
With all the wild fires, this nation needs more "not you" Guerilla planters 🤫
Plant native - thanks so much for spreading the message
A modern day Johnny Appleseed I’m guessing lol…love that idea wish I had done that ,y self…will have to look up a serviceberry bush obviously none around our area
I think u just changed my life.
hahaha awesome. It's quite the rabbit hole, but dive right in!
Been busy trying to get things growing. Best part is seeing when plant finale takes off and starts to thrive.
Indeed, that's so fun.
You have to plant a LOT, because quite a bit of it won't survive.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy have 40 acres and is pretty bare tree wise. Planting poplar tree whips along the creek and low spots. Some take and others start and then just get winter killed. Just keep planting.
Wonderful bits of information.
Didn’t know this is what it’s called, but I’m doing this near me with native fruit and nuts I love this.
Lol I know exactly where this is. Might check it out today. 😂😂
Great work! We watched Kiss the Ground with our kiddo this weekend and at the end she asked if she can plant a tree in her school yard, so I might be out there guerrilla planting with you (or not you) through the summer.
Say hi to whoever you see out there doing this!
On a sort of similar note, here in my city in southern Ontario I've noticed when walking some of our greenbelts that people are gardening behind their fence on the greenbelt property. Generally these are areas that aren't cared for by the city, they are left to remain natural. I honestly don't have an issue with it, I think it's a great idea. They're not harming anything and the gardens are obviously not "permanent structures." When they stop gardening the natural plants/grass will just take it over.
Hilarious! Have NOT done a bit of this, too. But not yet shrubs, only annuals. Keep up doing the good work
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Thanks, you too!
What a beautiful thing to do!🤗💛🤗
Thanks for the reminder to those so inclined to use plants that are local and native so they don't cause other problems.
Kudos for not planting any of this stuff, no matter how tempting or beneficial it may have been.
It's so tempting to do this, but its really best to never do it! Glad I am strong enough to resist the temptation!
Absolutely awesome. Glad to have a name for this practice. Our park district recently created a new park - unfortunately right in the middle of some of the only remaining native prairie in this area - and of course planted the hillside in grass. I snuck in and spread 1/2 lbs of native prairie wildflower seeds. Just hoping they stop mowing.
That is awesome!
Haha nice video, I liked the ''not me'' editing.
Thx for being an inspiration. I just recently sowed a mix of plants(at least sunflower, poppy, peas, clover, green lentils and flax so basically cheap stuff even my broke unemployed ass can buy) to a new installation here that was just a monoculture of one type of flower.
Hundreds of the same one in a really poor soil. Basically just completely dead sand with a thin layer of garden soil or whatever that seemed to also be really meh quality on top of it. Maybe it will now have a better chance of becoming soil that grows year after year instead of likely just dying and eroding in the sun.
Been also sneaking clover here and there to increase diversity in nonsensical installations or biomass in half dead areas.
I have been kinda inspired by Dr. Christine Jones who says that having a lot of plant families together is good as their different microbiomes have synergies. At least my balcony tomatoes, watermelons etc. seem to be growing fine without fertilizer in a jungle of all kinds of plants. And my outside guerilla garden that is on a clay field with just hay and weeds is now kinda lush and the hordes of snails have almost disappeared while butterflies, wild bees and other stuff have started to show up in growing numbers.
Feels almost bizarre how the snails just almost vanished but I think it might be largely caused by a really dry period. My plants are fine thou as I have carried thousands of liters of water from a nearby river...
And it's not like my stuff is just happily growing in clay as there is a forest clearing kinda close that will eventually be a new train track. So I have been carrying a ton of good forest soil to my garden and also plenty of decomposing wood. Now the clay field grows forest mushrooms and also plum trees that I managed to get to root. Took root sprouts and pieces of a broken limb from a former yard that is now completely vanished aside from the plum trees.
Thanks for your service to nature 👍 🙏
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thx!
Birds are notorious for guerilla
may start with cantelope seeds and pumpkin, i already see pumpkin plants growing from people just throwing their halloween pumpkins on the side of the overgrown areas.
Someone else has done some great work
A cute sand sniper or a wilsons snipe awe❤ 🐦🦅
Thanks for the ID!
Have you considered trying to work with the council (or whatever it is where you live) as a consultant? They might be amenable to more long term solutions.
Our small town makes it very hard to become a Councillor. You have to be part of the "old boys club", and they don't listen to people my age. My town is one of the oldest (in terms of people/demographics) in Canada. But also, I definitely don't have time for it.
Even mowed areas can be useful. Achicory
One of my common dog-walking paths brings me past a serviceberry bush hidden in a bunch of lilacs. I wonder if it was planted intentionally (guerilla or not) or if it was a volunteer--there are TONS of serviceberries around here!
Interesting, whether intentionally or hap hazardly, it's good to know they thrive with eachother.
"That's what I'm looking for when I don't plant"
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I would totally never consider doing this with raspberry canes and edible mushrooms around my entire neighbourhood.
😆 🤣 👍
Your post is perfectly timed for me today. I was talking to a 95 yo last evening. He told me how he and his siblings gathered wild fruits, grapes, plums and others things when he was a child. He noticed once the farmlands were sprayed with chemicals, herbicides, these natural food plants all died off. His story made it crystal clear exactly what happened to our part of the country.
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't is here on yt. He featured one post on all his guerilla plantings, mainly natives, in his area of the country. West Coast I think. The guerillas are at work. Loads of recipes on yt for flower bombs you can toss out the window of your car into a ditch. USE NATIVES ONLY!
For anyone who doesn't know Joey Santore, just be aware that CPBBD is very PG-13. Dude swears a LOT. If that doesn't turn you off though, I have to say, the first time I watched him, it was maybe the funniest experience I can remember. The mix of vulgarity, political discource, and INCREDIBLE plant knowledge is incomparable on youtube. Nobody does it like Joey. I personally find that once I watch a few of his videos, I'm good for quite a bit, but those few videos are really fun to watch.
I like the serviceberries growing up through the nandina shrubs. Nandina is the ugliest plant.
Near a carpark, do you worry about plants being sprayed or does it not affect berries??
Yeah, I would avoid areas like that for sure.
And all this stupidity is paid for with TAXPAYERS' MONEY!!!! And do not forget the pensions these folks might get...... Meaning that property MUST be developed in a manic way........ 🤔😱😭😭😭
They mowed down nearly everything I have planted, feels like a total waste of time.
what gets me, is that these cities claim to be helping out the homeless. Yet they will spend thousands on ornamental flowers, but never anything that's edible. If fruit and veggies were also planted, that could be feeding a lot of people plus wild life.
100%
If we could just clone 7 billion of you, we'd be fine.
Damn right.
I am getting scared now.
I put like 5-6 trees last fall into the ground and all are doing fine now and i listened to the advice of the nursery which told me to plant and bury root base until 3-5cm below the place of grafting.
I also saw some suckering BUT i didn't create mulch vulcano i have 5-10cm clear space between mulch and tree trunk.
Did i make a mistake by planting them too deep?
What should i do?
Yes absolutely.
if the tree is very small still, dig them up this fall ajd plant them at a proper height using my "how to properly plant a tree video".
If they are more than 3-4 feet tall, then try to dig away the mulch and soil until you see the root flare, but only in the area around the trunk.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy All of them are taller than 3-4 feet (~90-120cm)
Will the 'hole' around the trunk collect too much rain/moisture?
I will probably have to clean that space from time to time because it's gonna serve as mini swale/pool.
If i understand right basically do what this guy did - ua-cam.com/video/yutZXXU6eHo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=PurdueExtension-ForestryandNaturalResources
-dig until root flare
-small slope outwards and remulch
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Dr Ieuan Evans (of Evans Cherry fame) recommends planting the graft 3" - 6" below ground level in cold climates. It improves hardiness and gives the tree a second chance if the tree is girdled by critters. After deer mice chewed a 2' strip around one of my apple trees this winter, I'm giving this a shot. If I have to trim a few suckers now and then, no big deal.
ua-cam.com/video/9jPGw83NYMs/v-deo.html
Leave those trees alone because they are having an impact already and plant some other ones. See which ones survive in the long run. A dead tree isn't necessarily bad because the roots have opened up the soil profile conditioned the soil.
Yes, that's a great video. The only thing I kind of didn't like was the 2nd half where he's scraping away the mulch. There's a lot of feeder roots in that and he's destroying them as he does this. I would say only do the first half of the video, not the 2nd half. But then again, he's probably more of an expert than I am. I do know that I read a lot about this stuff from professional arborists, and I've seen people scrape away grass to do landscaping, and they kill the trees because they just destroyed all the surface roots. So i would still recommend only doing the first half of the video.
6:22 - 6:28 - is that an autumn olive?
Good eye! Close. Not autumn olive but Russian Olive. Same invasive concern though. Planted by the city. (For real though, not the fun "not me" joke, it literally was not me).
The crazy thing about the landscaping that was done by the city at this site is their plant choices. Bradford pears, boxwoods, and then, yes, Russian Olive!!!
I'm going to start grafting onto the Bradford pears this year. I'd like to cut down all the Russian olives, but as much as I enjoy "not" planting trees and am okay with being a little illegal, I don't believe in cutting down plants that were actually paid for and are the property of someone else. I've written letters to the company here about the concern with that plant. They haven't done anything in 7 years though, so I don't expect them to do anything. Best thing I do in the fall is just eat as many of the fruit to prevent wildlife spreading it.
just ask for permission...most places will not care enough to say no
I'd be pissed if people started planting black walnuts in my neighbourhood. Don't want the juggalos to get my apple tree
The range isn't that far. It's basically wherever the leaves drop.
Is there a creepy naked guy at 7:00? 😂
Nice video!!
Glad you didn't make it
People should only plant natives if they're near the wild, inner city can be whatever - but ONLY natives in the wild!!!
I disagree hard here. I'm not a natives only guy (although I often say it because that's the message I want spread to new people because we can do a lot of harm with non natives). However, anything that can be spread by bird is going to do damage even if planted in an isolated area, even such as on the roof of a building.
An expert will know what non natives will behave, and there can be exceptions to the rule though.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy you're right, I didnt mean that the only time they should plant natives is when near the wild - that was my poor communication. I meant when near the wild, the only things then should definitely be only natives. If that makes more sense. I agree that even city spaces should go for natives. If not by bird, then lots of invasives spreading by waterways and drains too.