Thanks for your channel. In the Pacific Northwest, we have some different species to grow in our garden, but living right nest to a city park, we have a double row of oak trees. Mostly red oaks, but also one Oregon white oak. All of the squirrels are non-native. Either Eastern gray squirrels, or fox squirrels. A mile away, in a large natural area, I see the native Douglas squirrels.
Oaks are amazing! I just wanted to mention for people with limited space, such as myself, there is a small native oak. The Dwarf Chinquapin Oak, Quercus prinoides grows about 10-15 feet tall.
@@BackyardEcology If one doesn't exist already I'd love a video on recommendations / names of small varieties of natives for smaller yards. I think a lot of people would be willing to incorporate them. thx
@@BackyardEcology Awesome, thank you! Currently watching the VINES video. I think I have them all and am taking them out piece by piece. The lady who lived here for years before LOVED ornamentals :-(
Found it funny you referenced “Bringing Nature Home” by Douglas Tallamy (my current read). I was taking a short break to watch your video, I’m on page 123 in which Dr. Tallamy is recounting his conversation with his neighbor that inspired him to write this book. I cannot imagine how much time it took you in research to produce this video, well done 👍
Love the format and the humorous requests for pollinating (etc) the like button. I would certainly appreciate a deeper dive into each of these keystone species. Thanks!
NIce! You also got lucky that the moths like those particular trees. They can be picky as to which catalpa they will lay eggs on. I always love to find a good catalpa worm tree. Best fish bait there is.
I'm pretty sure one of the cats featured in the oak section were Orange-tipped Oakworm larvae, which also become really beautiful moths. They visit our red oaks every year and are a much-loved part of our yard. Interestingly, one year they were so numerous they completely defoliated one of our red oaks...a situation to which the tree responded by putting out new leaves in September! I remember going to a talk by David Wagner, who wrote the Princeton North Am caterpillar guide, at which he said the single best thing you can do to increase biodiversity in your yard is to plant an oak. I gotta throw out some props to the Juglans genus--the walnuts--as well. They also host hundreds of caterpillar species as well as providing abundant nut mast for larger wildlife. They can be difficult to control--they spread like crazy--but are amazingly rich trees for a local ecosystem, and (imo) their reputation for killing off plants that try to grow near them is blown way out of proportion. Last...one nitpick...I'm pretty sure some Norway maples snuck into the stock footage for this ep. These are not native maples and in fact can reduce wildflower diversity, as well as being aggressive spreaders. THANK YOU so much for all the work you are putting into this channel. It's vitally important, and I appreciate it tremendously!
Thank you! Oaks are hard to beat for caterpillars - even though they will defoliate them sometimes. Most trees (of any species) will bounce back from caterpillar defoliation if the tree was healthy to begin with. I had a flat of wafer ash seedlings absolutely eaten to sticks this summer by giant swallowtail caterpillars. Those sprouts have bounced back and are pushing a foot tall now!
What a great list! We have all of these on our property (though its tough to keep birches alive) We maintain a decent sized native tree/plant forest for the native fauna. I totally agree with the oak as being a terrific insect host tree... I always look for oaks when I'm birding in the spring since so many birds are eating bugs off the tips of the branches!
Oh wow, I had no idea pecans were native to North America! I would love to see a video on native fruits/nuts/vegetables. I like the idea of more in depth videos on each native plant from the different genuses mentioned in the is one ❤
I put in 3 pawpaw ...the only tropical fruit tree native to north America and host tree to the zebra swallowtail butterfly. It's a small tree. They have to be protected from full sun the first year or two. Found than in a utube video, said better fruit in sun but plant in partial shade which is confusing. I just put a white sheet on top of it's surrounding deer protection fencing first year after planting. No fruit yet but I tasted it once and it's good.
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Awesone video! I enjoy this subject very much. I'm surprised to see willow on the list and will try to plant one this year. This is great information thank you. I am also interested in a video of fireflies like one commentor posted, i've noticed such a fast decline in my area and would love to see a video about them.
i have a small property (1/4 acre) and it already has three non-native weeping willow trees taking up vital space in my backyard 😔 i wish i could replace them with native trees but i read you can’t plant a new tree close to a cut down tree because of the root system in place from the old tree…so, i don’t know how to tackle that. they’re already 20 feet all and provide at least a place for birds to perch …. so, to cut them down would leave a void that i couldn’t fill for maybe 5 years….i wish the previous owner had not planted weeping willows 😩 i feel stuck with them
I think if you removed them you could plant something new without any issues. If I go out and cut a tree in the woods there is woody regen almost immediately where the sun can reach the ground - the old tree's root system doesn't seem to matter. Weeping willows are also a tree I wouldn't want in my yard as they can cause all sorts of problems with water, sewer and septic lines. They are also not the strongest trees and can be damaged in storms or uprooted.
I kinda wish you had listed the species names when you showed the number of native species in each genus. Even if you had only flashed them on-screen for a few frames, I'd be happy to pause the video and get Googling.
Thanks for the feedback! I will keep it in mind for the future. I will likely have videos covering each genus in much more depth in the future. Many of the species are not available for sale and many have super restricted native ranges so they are not an option for most people.
It would be hard for me to do a video about trees in the UK since I have no practical experience with them. I have studied the plants and animals of eastern north America for my entire life so I have a ton of baseline knowledge and experience with them.
Loved your video! I will now be on a mission to find and plant as many of these plants that I can. Do you have any suggestions on how to attract fireflies?
Thanks! I may do a video on fireflies as managing for them depends on a lot of things - location, species of firefly, plant community involved. There are many species of firefly and they are all a little different.
Yes, I would definitely like a deeper dive. Especially based on areas. I live in NE Tennessee. How do I know what’s native in my particular area? Thanks!
It is hard to get into what is native to specific areas in UA-cam videos - there would have to literally be a video for every state for every species. A great place to get information is from your state's native plant society. We are also working on a workshop that will cover this very topic so stay tuned!
@@MisterPerson-fk1tx When it comes to native plants climate zones mean nothing - the plant is either native to a place or it isn't. The whole zone system was created for agricultural crops and non-native ornamental species. I will likely do a video on this at some point.
Your video description looks like a 12 y/o girls notebook, with all those emojis. I love this video tho, I wish more people knew this kind of stuff and would appreciate nature more.
I have 9 out of 10 of these plants on my property. I guess I need to plant some hickory trees. Great info.
Nice! Hickories are great trees and the nuts are excellent eating. Pecans get all the glory but I actually prefer shagbark hickory nuts.
Thanks for your channel. In the Pacific Northwest, we have some different species to grow in our garden, but living right nest to a city park, we have a double row of oak trees. Mostly red oaks, but also one Oregon white oak. All of the squirrels are non-native. Either Eastern gray squirrels, or fox squirrels. A mile away, in a large natural area, I see the native Douglas squirrels.
It is crazy how many places the gray and fox squirrels have been introduced into!
I can not express how happy I was to stumble upon your channel.
This is the content i've been searching for so long
Thanks! I'm glad you are finding the channel helpful!
I put in a pin oak I grew from an acorn 20 yrs ago...itw big now. I planted 2 white oaks around 1 ft tall this year.
Nice!
Oaks are amazing! I just wanted to mention for people with limited space, such as myself, there is a small native oak. The Dwarf Chinquapin Oak, Quercus prinoides grows about 10-15 feet tall.
I plan to have a video on them in the near future!
@@BackyardEcology If one doesn't exist already I'd love a video on recommendations / names of small varieties of natives for smaller yards. I think a lot of people would be willing to incorporate them. thx
@@mysterycrimecult9340 I will see what I can do! Great idea!
@@BackyardEcology Awesome, thank you! Currently watching the VINES video. I think I have them all and am taking them out piece by piece. The lady who lived here for years before LOVED ornamentals :-(
@@mysterycrimecult9340 Thanks! Invasive vines are a huge problem and take some time to get under control.
Found it funny you referenced “Bringing Nature Home” by Douglas Tallamy (my current read). I was taking a short break to watch your video, I’m on page 123 in which Dr. Tallamy is recounting his conversation with his neighbor that inspired him to write this book. I cannot imagine how much time it took you in research to produce this video, well done 👍
Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed the video. It does take quite a bit of work to put them together.
Love the format and the humorous requests for pollinating (etc) the like button. I would certainly appreciate a deeper dive into each of these keystone species. Thanks!
Thank you! Stay tuned for deeper dives into these species in the near future!
luckily for me , somebody planted 3 catalpa trees on our property at least 75 years ago.
all three are massive and get caterpillars fairly regularly.
NIce! You also got lucky that the moths like those particular trees. They can be picky as to which catalpa they will lay eggs on. I always love to find a good catalpa worm tree. Best fish bait there is.
I'm pretty sure one of the cats featured in the oak section were Orange-tipped Oakworm larvae, which also become really beautiful moths. They visit our red oaks every year and are a much-loved part of our yard. Interestingly, one year they were so numerous they completely defoliated one of our red oaks...a situation to which the tree responded by putting out new leaves in September! I remember going to a talk by David Wagner, who wrote the Princeton North Am caterpillar guide, at which he said the single best thing you can do to increase biodiversity in your yard is to plant an oak.
I gotta throw out some props to the Juglans genus--the walnuts--as well. They also host hundreds of caterpillar species as well as providing abundant nut mast for larger wildlife. They can be difficult to control--they spread like crazy--but are amazingly rich trees for a local ecosystem, and (imo) their reputation for killing off plants that try to grow near them is blown way out of proportion.
Last...one nitpick...I'm pretty sure some Norway maples snuck into the stock footage for this ep. These are not native maples and in fact can reduce wildflower diversity, as well as being aggressive spreaders.
THANK YOU so much for all the work you are putting into this channel. It's vitally important, and I appreciate it tremendously!
Thank you! Oaks are hard to beat for caterpillars - even though they will defoliate them sometimes. Most trees (of any species) will bounce back from caterpillar defoliation if the tree was healthy to begin with. I had a flat of wafer ash seedlings absolutely eaten to sticks this summer by giant swallowtail caterpillars. Those sprouts have bounced back and are pushing a foot tall now!
please make more detailed videos about all of these genera
I am working on the oaks right now and there will be more following!
@ cool, i just saw the white oak group video
What a great list! We have all of these on our property (though its tough to keep birches alive) We maintain a decent sized native tree/plant forest for the native fauna.
I totally agree with the oak as being a terrific insect host tree... I always look for oaks when I'm birding in the spring since so many birds are eating bugs off the tips of the branches!
Thanks! Oaks do draw the birds during spring migration due to all the caterpillars. Maples are also a big draw at that time of year.
Oh wow, I had no idea pecans were native to North America! I would love to see a video on native fruits/nuts/vegetables. I like the idea of more in depth videos on each native plant from the different genuses mentioned in the is one ❤
Stay tuned for more in depth looks at many of these trees in the future!
Yes, please!
I put in 3 pawpaw ...the only tropical fruit tree native to north America and host tree to the zebra swallowtail butterfly. It's a small tree. They have to be protected from full sun the first year or two. Found than in a utube video, said better fruit in sun but plant in partial shade which is confusing. I just put a white sheet on top of it's surrounding deer protection fencing first year after planting. No fruit yet but I tasted it once and it's good.
Brilliant! We are on The Home Grown National Park Pollinator Map. Hope to see you in Tennessee next month, January. Gratitude!
Nice! See you in TN!
This is great!❤️👍🇨🇦🙏
Thanks!
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Print: amzn.to/3uKUZDL
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Listen to it FREE with an Audible trial: amzn.to/3O9ZgpT 👈👈👈👈
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🍁🍁🍁🍁 Video about early season pollen and nectar sources: ua-cam.com/video/x3Ay2AEIE6o/v-deo.html 🍁🍁🍁🍁
🦋🦋🦋🦋 Video about the red spotted purple butterfly: ua-cam.com/video/Tnz_Uf_wKGw/v-deo.html 🦋🦋🦋🦋
🦋🦋🦋🦋 Video about the mourning cloak butterfly: ua-cam.com/video/TX3GWD95mQ0/v-deo.html 🦋🦋🦋🦋
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Thank you for all of these helpful and entertaining videos you've shared this year! You are Shannon are an inspiration ❤
Thank you!
I love how every clip of whitetail deer is super stampy
Awesone video! I enjoy this subject very much. I'm surprised to see willow on the list and will try to plant one this year. This is great information thank you. I am also interested in a video of fireflies like one commentor posted, i've noticed such a fast decline in my area and would love to see a video about them.
Glad you found the video helpful!
i have a small property (1/4 acre) and it already has three non-native weeping willow trees taking up vital space in my backyard 😔 i wish i could replace them with native trees but i read you can’t plant a new tree close to a cut down tree because of the root system in place from the old tree…so, i don’t know how to tackle that. they’re already 20 feet all and provide at least a place for birds to perch …. so, to cut them down would leave a void that i couldn’t fill for maybe 5 years….i wish the previous owner had not planted weeping willows 😩 i feel stuck with them
I think if you removed them you could plant something new without any issues. If I go out and cut a tree in the woods there is woody regen almost immediately where the sun can reach the ground - the old tree's root system doesn't seem to matter. Weeping willows are also a tree I wouldn't want in my yard as they can cause all sorts of problems with water, sewer and septic lines. They are also not the strongest trees and can be damaged in storms or uprooted.
Yes I believe planting where a old tree was is fine you should cut them willows down before they get much bigger
You can use the stumps to make birdbaths, bug hotels etc. and plant the garden between where the trees were. Starting with some host trees.
I kinda wish you had listed the species names when you showed the number of native species in each genus. Even if you had only flashed them on-screen for a few frames, I'd be happy to pause the video and get Googling.
Thanks for the feedback! I will keep it in mind for the future. I will likely have videos covering each genus in much more depth in the future. Many of the species are not available for sale and many have super restricted native ranges so they are not an option for most people.
@@BackyardEcology looking forward to it!
wondering if you could do a version of this video for species in the uk? biodiversity is my jam! 🦋
It would be hard for me to do a video about trees in the UK since I have no practical experience with them. I have studied the plants and animals of eastern north America for my entire life so I have a ton of baseline knowledge and experience with them.
@@BackyardEcology no worries that makes sense! Thank you :)
Loved your video! I will now be on a mission to find and plant as many of these plants that I can. Do you have any suggestions on how to attract fireflies?
Thanks! I may do a video on fireflies as managing for them depends on a lot of things - location, species of firefly, plant community involved. There are many species of firefly and they are all a little different.
Yes, I would definitely like a deeper dive. Especially based on areas. I live in NE Tennessee. How do I know what’s native in my particular area? Thanks!
It is hard to get into what is native to specific areas in UA-cam videos - there would have to literally be a video for every state for every species. A great place to get information is from your state's native plant society. We are also working on a workshop that will cover this very topic so stay tuned!
@@BackyardEcologyI'm in Atlantic Canada, we don't need every province/state but maybe you could do climate zone? Don't forget 5!
@@MisterPerson-fk1tx When it comes to native plants climate zones mean nothing - the plant is either native to a place or it isn't. The whole zone system was created for agricultural crops and non-native ornamental species. I will likely do a video on this at some point.
Your video description looks like a 12 y/o girls notebook, with all those emojis.
I love this video tho, I wish more people knew this kind of stuff and would appreciate nature more.