Mostly Native Garden Walkabout ✿ May 22 2024
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- In this episode, I just do a casual garden walkabout and talk about new garden areas and plants! This garden consists mostly of native plants, with a few non-natives. Some of the non-natives are temporary placeholders, while some are more permanent. Featuring: Spiderwort, Eastern Redbud, American Black Elderberry, Butterfly Weed, Gaura, Lanceleaf Coreopsis, Penstemon, native grasses, echinacea, and so many more!
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Thank you for doing these videos. I love your garden walkabouts and seeing how things have changed over the seasons and years. 🥰 I was super excited to see your gaura. We have several species that grow wild here (in west Texas). Tough plant. It's my favorite wild flower.
It's a wonderful plant! Love it. I'm so glad you love the videos of the garden tours over time. I love sharing them. :)
That elderberry is amazing! Great video! You are a little bit ahead of me in the season and it's nice to see what's ahead! 🌱🌱🌱
Thank you! It's become my favorite native shrub in my garden! It really makes the patio a nice place to hang out.
Your fondness for the Elderberry sounds like how my wife and I are about our Serviceberry trees, Beauty-berry, and Carolina Sweet-shrub. Amazing how we pick a few specimens to cherish amongst everything we plant. Great Work as usual.. The garden is amazing!!
Yes, it's nice to explore which plants are just total knock-outs! I don't know if I mentioned why I love elderberry so much, but there are many reasons. One is its beauty. It's also a fantastic plant for screening. It leafs out sort of early compared to beautyberry and button bush for example. It's also a host plant for some gorgeous moths. Then you also get those beautiful berries the birds enjoy. Just all around wonderful native shrub. I fell in love with it at a local park, where it grows wild, so I had to buy my own. :) Thanks for the lovely comments and for watching! Happy gardening!
Beautiful flower 🏵️🪻🪴🌷🌿☘️🌱 thanks for sharing 🤗🤗🤗🤝🤝👌🌷🌿🌱☘️🪻🪴
Thanks for visiting and leaving a comment! :) Have a great weekend!
My elderberry cutting is blooming for the first time this year 🤗
Nice!😊Happy gardening!
Hello from Kansas. That grass you were uncertain about looks like downy brome to me. Another name it goes by is cheatgrass. If that is what you have, it is a winter annual that is not native to North America. You might search for some images and see if it matches your plants. I remove it before it drops its seeds whenever I spot it in the spring. It is extremely easy to pull out by the roots.
I really need to do some research on it because there's also a native prairie brome or something like that which looks so so similar. I may remove it from my garden beds just in case and replace it with my seedlings I still have of some native grasses I grew myself from seed. :)
Verbena bonariensis is invasive I believe in your area. I had one and it went crazy! Is that grass Prairie Brome? Kinda looks like it. Send pics to prairie moon nursery they may be able to tell you definitively. I love the pink evening primrose. Have you gone out with flashlight at night to look for moths?
No, I haven't gone out with flashlight to look for moths, but I need to!! Sounds fun! Verbena bonariensis is not invasive in Tennessee. It spreads, but it is easily out-competed by my native plants. :) As it spreads around my garden, it dies in the first places I planted it, so it must be short lived or easily shaded out and competed against. It's also a very open plant, so lots of light gets past it and to my natives. Look on bonap, so you can see it's not invasive here. Maybe it is elsewhere though. As for the potential brome grass, I'm not sure, but I'll look into Prairie Brome, since you brought that up! I hope it's native, but if it turns out to be an invasive grasses, I should be able to remove it with a shovel. :) Thanks for the suggestions!
What future plans or projects do you have for your garden? Will you be doing pathways or a water feature?
Great question! I bought a pond kit, and I really hope to dig for a pond in the future. It's getting pretty hot already here in Tennessee for such a big project, so I may wait on it until Fall or next Winter or Spring. As for pathways, I'm so glad you asked! Currently, most of my pathways are mowed turf grass, but I've been discussing with my husband some alternative path ideas for the front garden. I haven't decided what to do yet, and it may be a long term goal, changing the path from lawn to something else, so that could be further in the future. However, we did do a short easy brick and stepping stone path in the backyard. If you check out my backyard playlist, you may find it there. :) I'd also like to add a real bird bath or a fountain (maybe even both) for my garden. I've been using a dish for a bird bath, but it's starting to deteriorate. The best place for a fountain at my place will be in the backyard, as that's where the electrical outlets are. Excited to try to add a fountain some time. I may try to save up for one for the summer. Happy Gardening! Thanks for following along on our journey.
How big is the elderberry
Mine is still small about 2ft tall n wide
I have three of them. The largest one I have (next to the front patio) is probably about 8 or 9 feet tall. The other two are maybe between 3.5 and 5 feet tall. The one near my patio gets lots of rain water from my gutters and water run off from my concrete main pathway, so that could be why it's tallest. I have 2 types. Some are Sambucus canadensis the straight species, and the others are Sambucus canadensis 'Johns' cultivar. I hope that helps! Happy Gardening!
How much does water cost in America? Plants need a lot of water.
The great thing about native plants (if the correct native plants are chosen for the site) is that they require much less water. If chosen properly, they only need water when first planted or for a few months. Then after that, they can depend on the rainfall alone. I'm in a temperate area, so that helps, too. We get lots of rain in East Tennessee. Our droughty times are August and September, so that may be a time when I water more, the new plants. Thanks for watching! :)
@@awildapproach Thanks your reply, it was well thought out, keep up the good work. Your channel inpires me and others.
Natives don’t because they’ve adored to regional rainfall patterns
Yes, natives just may need some water at first planting and maybe a few months after (depending on the plant), but yes, if the right native plants are chosen for the right place, rainfall is pretty much all they need after they are established. :) Thanks for watching!