Native plants for the home garden. (Eastern US) If you are a gardener and want to remove your lawn to replace it with native plants, you'e in the right place. Our ecosystem needs home gardeners to step in and start planting butterfly gardens, pollinator meadows, and native trees and shrubs to replace the habitat that has been removed. We can't do it alone, but together our gardens can provide a home for bees, butterflies, birds, and more wildlife than we ever thought! Spring is coming so gardeners, let's get planting!
I bought 100 dollars worth of this as live plants and also a couple packets of seed in case I wasn't able to get it to grow, what I like is the blooms and that it doesn't really spread, all of the ones that are towards the blue side of the colors seem to grow better than then red and orange ones I've gotten. I bought this with the idea of making tea eventually, I like licorice tea but found out it makes my blood pressure go up. The leaves depending on variety are either really bitter to me or they have a hint of sweetness and licorice flavor.
Anise Hyssop is definitely a pollinator favorite in my garden. There's one thing that may get more action which is the blunt mountain mint which has been blooming for a while now. The hyssop is just starting to bloom so they will have overlapping bloom time; can't wait to see who comes to visit.
OMG….i thought the thumbnail was clickbait. Now I wish it were! It’s time for someone to invent a yard bot that resembles Wall-E to put out fires and weed the garden
It seems like instead of giving your beds something that nourishes and revitalizes the soil (mulch) you are planting something that’s going to compete with your plants instead? Anything that spreads is going to have all that competition now.
Sounds like you and your family have had a rough go of it this summer! Never fun when it’s one thing after another. Hopefully you can look back on day and laugh! Is that your chinkapin oak at 10:07? If so, it looks amazing!
😭omg I'm so sorry. Literally this week I left you a comment asking where you went. I had no idea the extent of which life has been throwing @#%& at you! Glad you're pulling through and the fire turned out alright.
Wow! That’s one hot compost! I guess it’s done. That would have been nerve wracking. With the planetary positioning it doesn’t surprise me and because Uranus is all about surprises and electric…well, it was fitting. Glad no major destruction. And hope your dad is doing better. We took care of both our parents simultaneously and it was a challenge that ultimately ended in losing one almost every year in a row and several other members non stop. Terrible years since 2008 and I blame Pluto and it won’t be totally out of my sign until the end of this year. The bindweed-use a brush killer and all you do is cut the vine off and treat the cut and it will go to the root and be gone.
Yeesh, that's a tough turn of events. Your beautiful plants and thriving garden are a balm in difficult circumstances. Sending healing thoughts as you and the garden recover!
Must be the year for disasters. My bedroom curtains caught fire from a recharging lithium battery fan. Just as we finally got the new carpet in and paint, etc., we had my dad, aunt, and son in law hospitalized in the same week. I’m kind of afraid of what’s coming next.
Glad it was not worse -- hope your family member is better. I had a recent unexpected health issue and my adult son has been such a blessing helping us out, including in the garden. He planted all the berry bushes that I had ordered before I fell ill and now he is the first one to go check to see how they are doing. I am also fighting bindweed -- it's now gotten itself all tangled up in a Mrs. Robert Brydon clematis. I like your solution! Does glyphosate do it?
Good to see you again Lisa! Sorry you had such a string of bad luck! Can’t even imagine watching the fire on your phone for that long waiting for someone to show up to put out the flames.
I bought bright magenta be balm from a garden center in Massachusetts is where i have planted it on the place bed. It had blooms all over in June but now nothing. I deadheaded it but haven't seen any new but in a week. I initially watered it a lot but read somewhere it needs infrequent deep watering sand that's what o have been doing for 2 weeks or so. Would you invite why isn't it blooming? Would it still live and be ok next season?
As a perrenial, Monarda blooms once a year for three weeks. If you want something that blooms longer you can try anise hyssop, I have another video about that one. I don't recommend deadheading monarda, just let the blooms produce seeds for the birds next year. ☺️
www.patreon.com/LisaLikesPlants Thank you so much to everyone who's been patient for the next video! Looking forward to talking more about plants and less about disasters next time! 🌱🌱🌱
I hope your family is feeling better and has a better month, sometimes life and adulting are not fun if there is a silver lining, at least you now have compost and biochar
omg, i guess that's one way to find out how fire tolerant your natives are XD 7:25 what is that plant that's growing through the pavers? I always see it in the summers here but never remember to look it up
Oh, Lisa, I'm so sorry you went through all of that and all at once! Sheesh! I'm glad you are okay, and the fire was put out fairly quickly before it could spread further. Wow, I don't think I've ever thought about compost piles catching on fire. Unfortunately, there are some folks who have set off fireworks in not so safe ways in my neighborhood, and uh...it makes me think. Even though you went through so much, you still made a funny and entertaining video about it. Your attitude is great and that cicada brood was HUGE!! Wow! I wish we had that this year! I know, kind icky when there's so many, but I love cicadas. I just also will duck for cover if I think they are flying toward me. It's a mix of emotions. Hugs to you, Lisa!Your garden will continue to get more and more wonderful as the years go on, I'm sure of it. I love what you've created so far.
I thought you were being very positive about all this. As an older person who is starting to experience health issues, it really puts things in perspective. Yes this will set you back a little bit, but before you know it your garden will be as beautiful as ever. I hope that your family member is doing better now.
For anyone who is going to mulch, highly recommend not using black mulch (or dyed mulches in general). Black mulch is made from carbon black dye, which uses an extreme amount of energy (1300 Celsius) to heat up coal tar/petroleum byproducts and is thought to be carcinogenic/negative organ effects
I got one from a native nursery but I think I unfortunately killed mine 😔 it was already 4ft tall and I believe I ripped too many feeder roots trying to untangle the roots. I have similar soil, do you have any advice that I should do differently cause I'm not giving up and Im gonna buy a 2nd chinquapin oak
Do it! Buy a small one and you won't have to untangle so many roots, they grow fast. Water well the first year or two. Don't plant too deep. Plant in the spring or fall for best results. Mine have so many baby acorns right now!
I only cut them back in maybe late May if they are getting very tall. Deadheading is very hit or miss with this plant as far as getting a second bloom, so I wouldn't deadhead.
Another fabulous video - love the taste test at the end. I want to have a lovely lush bee balm, but mine tends to be a bit spindly and sparse! Maybe in time it'll fill out! 🤞🏼
