White snakeroot is poisonous and as you mentioned it is reported that milk from cows that ate it killed President Lincoln's mother. It can be invasive and that's the main reason I'm not a fan. Wish I had not introduced it to my yard despite its flowers. I'm going to try and dry someof the flowers though and see if it may have some positive value for me but I'm not hopeful given their fluffiness. I did not know the story about how milk sickness was discovered! Thank you for a very informative discussion.
Use in floral arrangements in my own home and lasts for 3 weeks . AND deer will not eat it. There are many poisonous plants in arrangements. Just use common sense.
Thank you so much for this wisdom it's very thorough and by that actually usable. I'm very subsetable to all the things you mentioned that it can help with... ❤😊
Just a shameless plug for your Shepard pole feeder with raccoon baffle- it has effectively broken the will of any raccoon or squirrel to even go near the feeders anymore, where everything else failed. I have a full week of trail cam footage to prove it. EXCELLENT product!!
I’ll have to remember those products, as they solve 2 problems- pesky 4-legged thieves and the bird seed waste from messy eaters. The only benefit from errant seed on the ground are volunteer sunflower plants popping up in my garden area which has been kind of fun. 🌻🌻🌻
If you accidentally touch it or will you be okay because I was walking and I walked through the plant and I don't know if my hand might have touched it.
Very interesting! Never new that kind of thing was found in the north. The ant/egg connection is too fun. I had heard of that with seeds...but another insect, cool...
Have tried a few times to grow this in southern NY state...no bueno. Then I see it thriving here in a supermarket parking lot island, baking in sun and surrounded by asphalt and concrete. I'm assuming it likes to suffer... A lot
Mine are tough. I planted three in the very dry way back garden. Doing pretty good! Oh, and I had a bad Japanese beetle problem this year. They didn’t touch these. Neither do the deer and bunnies.
Yes, this book recommends root divisions in fall just as plants go dormant or in spring just as shoots start appearing; also softwood tip cuttings (at least 2 nodes) in late spring; or surface sowing thickly in fall as seeds need light and germination rate can be low; cold moist stratify at least 30 days if storing seed through winter: nature-niche.com/collections/plant-guides/products/gardeners-guide-to-native-plants-of-the-southern-great-lakes-region
I’m so happy I found your video wonderful information but I have a question I planted a little gym magnolia in my front yard so is this the host plant For the eastern tiger swallowtail? I also planted some milkweed and this is my first year seeing butterflies everywhere
That's so nice to hear! Yes, species in the genus Magnolia are known hosts for eastern tiger swallowtail, and 'Little Gem' is a dwarf cultivar of the native M. grandiflora (southern magnolia). I do think it could be a successful host plant for butterflies in your area.
Native sunflowers like Helianthus divaricatus and H. occidentalis, false sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), vervains like Verbena hastata and V. stricta, butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa), swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), bee-balm (Monarda fistulosa), horsemint (Monarda punctata), purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) and pale purple coneflower (E. pallida), wild senna (Senna hebecarpa), culver's-root (Veronicastrum virginicum), rosin weed and cup plant (Silphium integrifolium and S. perfoliatum), early goldenrod (Solidago juncea), and leadplant (Amorpha canescens) are great next-in-line bloomers, depending on your site conditions. Don't forget about our native grasses: switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), Canada wild rye (Elymus canadensis), and purple love grass (Eragrostis spectabilis) all show their lovely seed heads in late June into July!
Thanks for sharing good informational video! I've been searching for info since the middle of June to figure out how to get three 4th instar cats off my potted Sassafras tree into an enclosure I've used to raise Monarchs. My first pupated 6/14/24. After spending many, many hours with them not knowing how long it takes to actually pupate, the last one pupated yesterday. Now I wait for them to eclose. According to your video, it looks similar to the Monarchs. Now I wait and hope to get lucky to watch at least one of my Spicebush Swallowtails eclose.
All native plants will mature and fill out and spread by seed and often vegetatively when they are happy with their site. New Jersey tea is not aggressive and appropriate for more tightly controlled landscape settings.
Per this resource: nature-niche.com/collections/plant-guides/products/gardeners-guide-to-native-plants-of-the-southern-great-lakes-region, starting from stem cuttings is possible any time of the growing season. It also germinates readily from seed, if sown in cool soils in fall, and from divided plants in early spring or after flowering has ceased. We have successfully transplanted seedlings all the time, as long as you can keep them watered while their root systems establish in the new location.
Good luck with your efforts! This post I did about controlling autumn-olive is also very applicable to buckthorn: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rP-Jqo689O4.htmlsi=hI5vzLDGxSdcXX_C
I would love this IF it had bee guards in the nectar ports. It does not; I contacted the company. I hope they add them! I have a smaller version of this feeder that is made by a different company that does, but it’s smaller than I would like.
Yes, but sometimes the bees/wasps can gang up on the bee guards and push them open anyway. I just stop filling the base with nectar when I see the bee activity start picking up mid-summer. My orioles seem to prefer the jelly then oranges, so they are content without the nectar later in the season.
Thank you, Martha. In northern York County Pennsylvania my first snakeroot was a volunteer! Now many plants have dispersed into other beds. The stately new growth is always welcome in the Spring to balance out the showy daffs, iris, dicentra, tulips etc. Deer, groundhogs and other critters avoid it! Wish it had a sweeter common name . . .
I found some of these wild along the side of a road here in San Diego. The cranes bills are huge, maybe 5 or 6 inches. I'm going to harvest some of the seeds 🙂
I just planted two under the trio of evergreens next to our bedroom window. Hopefully it will spread and get along with my wood poppies and other shade plants. Thanks for doing these videos!
Thanks for the info and resources! My lawn management practice has definitely changed over the last several years. I’ve purposely never put chemicals on the lawn and therefore always have had “weeds,” but have changed the cutting practices to be more pollinator-friendly. Last year I tried No Mow May, but it grew so much that it was very hard to manage after the fact. This Spring, I’ve been trying to mow less often and at a higher height so that many of the dandelions, violets, etc have time to bloom and some can go to seed. I also over seeded with clover last Fall to help. Ideally, I’d like to cut down on the grassy area I have… a work in progress. Regarding dandelions, I know that some say that they don’t do much for pollinators and wildlife in general, but I when I picked some to make dandelion jelly the other week, the many dandelions that I left had little bees a buzzing about and I also witnessed birds eating the seed heads and stems. Thanks again!
