Backyard Transformation in Just 3 years: Re-creating Nature
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Starting with a blank slate in 2018, Bobbie Herbs created a compact native plant garden in her backyard. Nestled in dense suburbia she hoped to bring some wild into her yard while not offending her neighbors. She will walk us through her steps of research, design, and execution - all beautifully documented through her photography. Randi Eckel and Bobbie will then discuss what worked, what didn't work, and how mother nature sometimes has her own ideas! Bobbie is a Master Gardener with certifications in horticulture from Longwood Gardens and Randi is the founder and owner of Toadshade Wildflower Farm. Join us for a terrific conversation on gardening and transforming spaces with native plants.
Meet Bobbie Herbs. Bobbie J. Herbs is a certified Rutgers University Master Gardener. She earned her Ornamental Horticulture Certification at Longwood Gardens and serves on the board of the Native Plant Society of New Jersey. She gardens passionately, without too much fuss by using native plants as living mulch, everchanging floral displays, and putting a little wild in her small garden. Her backyard, in dense suburbia, attracts skippers, butterflies, frogs, toads, dragonflies, spiders and a recent immature box turtle. She is honored to make a healthier earth - at least her little piece of it - and offers hope to others who consider recreating natural habitat in their gardens. Her work with NPSNJ provides a community of like-minded people and lifelong learning about the significant role native plants have in sustaining a healthy planet and beautifying our yards.
Meet Randi Eckel: Dr. Randi Eckel has been working with native plants for over 35 years, and founded the mail-order native plant nursery Toadshade Wildflower Farm in 1996 to further public awareness and availability of native plants. A life-long naturalist, lover of nature, entomologist, and confirmed plant and ecology nerd, Randi specializes in the interactions between plants and other living things. She is known for her lively and engaging lectures and workshops on growing and propagating native plants, and offers interesting, nuanced information on the complex issues facing native plants and native plant communities.
Actually a wood chip pile, trail or edge is full of life. And then when I planted Russian kale, basil and a nasturtium at an edge near our driveway they grew amazingly reflecting the life of the soil produced by the wood chips.
This was intimidating 😂. I’m moving forward in my front yard of the Philadelphia suburbs. I’m not a master gardener and I don’t know how to make plans but I have a native plant nursery access and I know how to dig a hole. So far so good.
Wonderful video. The concept of juxtaposing the amateur enthusiast with the professional pointers was brilliant.
What a fantastic video! One of my favorite garden videos for sure. And all that wildlife you attracted with your gorgeous gorgeous garden.😍🌿🦎🐝
I'm curious as to where she drained the storm water under the pstio
wonderful!
Native plants could be widespread overnight in the US if the government wanted it to.
Unfortunately, removing invasives is much more of a problem. No idea why they continue to allow nurseries to continue to sell non-natives