Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities.
This is just full of good information about protecting and restoring good soil and how to include native shrubs and understory around an urban/suburban property. Keep in mind at least half of the plants mentioned are specifically for the Northeast and would not do well in the more dry clay soil of places like Illinois or Iowa. However, the overall concepts are vital to learn.
The Wild Ones merch link that was shared does not provide fabric content or have a statement guaranteeing that items were made without child and slave labor. Where is correct link for standard information please?
Material information is available at support.threadless.com/article/614-what-are-your-products-made-of. Info on sustainability and ethics are here: support.threadless.com/article/1098-threadless-sustainability
My neighbors 1/2 mile away tills their land. Frost hits our gardens differently as does rainfall. To me, plant considerations are based on the experience of elevation and soil that you’re working with. I mulch with oak leaves and my garden does not require as much water as theirs where they till in cover crops. Our approaches are very different. She pinches caterpillars while I plant natives to encourage them.
Incredible conversation! Lots of great actionable information shared freely and graciously. Thank you, this will be very helpful for my project in the Charlotte area!
I have a question. We are now clearing a hoarded property that had multiples of abandoned lawn mowers, loose car and mower batteries, and several mounds of car tires. It didn't seem that any of the batteries leaked, thank goodness. Most of these items were in the woods or at the edge of the woods and lawn area. I was wondering whether any of these remnants warrant planting for remediation? Also, I have a very small side yard where I had to remove a heating oil tank that was leaking. That was 20 years ago and I occasionally still smell it. My bedrrom and the guest room are adjacent. I will be planting some Little Bluestem and Prairie Dropseed in hopes they will eventually help with that. Any thoughts or recommendations most welcome.
I love where your heart is at, this is such a unique and beautiful plant! Unfortunately the video is shot in a narrow portrait mode with the photos of this beautiful native repeatedly covered by blocks of text. If landscape mode is not an option consider rearranging things so that the viewer can see the entire photo AND the fact blurbs.
I don't believe Americans who say they care about the environment while using devices/components produced by slave labor in ways that are EXTREAMLY bad for the environment. Given that they cant even stop themselves or the companies from using said environmentally unfriendly slave labor, I don't believe for a second Americans wont mask off and pollute whatever wherever to keep our standard of living. Especially the people screaming about the environment while outsourcing pollution. After all these are the same idiots who shipped all our jobs away making us poorer. Poorer people pollute more because they dont give a fuck about anything but survival, AND RIGHTLY SO.
Yes! We do need more native plugs being sold in nurseries! I refuse to keep paying 35$ per shrub. I'm wintersowing and starting from seeds. I can certainly wait for plants to grow and save $$$!😅
My next-door neighbor is under the misapprehension that our local leash law doesn't apply to her 4 huskies. They tromp through my pollinator garden all summer long, knocking caterpillars from their host plants. In retaliation for me shooing her dogs out of my yard, she called the weed police on me. Thank you for this much needed and informative series!
My next-door neighbor refuses to keep her husky on a leash, so it's _akways_ rummaging around my pollinator garden. It's a big dog, so it knocks plants to the ground and knocks caterpillars off of them. I shooed it away one day, and she immediately flipped out on me, saying she was going to f*ck me over. 2 days later, I got a notice from the city about my nuisance yard. She retaliated by trying to destroy something she knows I love. Neighbors really are the worst sometimes.
THANK YOU, FOR THIS VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION!! WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WASPS, BEES, AND "HORNETS"?!... HOW FAR HAVE "KILLER BEES" SPREAD ACROSS NORTH, AND SOUTH AMERICA?!,,, WHAT ABOUT THOSE JAPANESE "MURDER HORNETS"?!...
...ALTHOUGH I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THIS GREAT INFORMATION,.. I WISH YOU ALL WOULD STOP HARPING ON "CARBON SEQUESTRATION"!!!! THAT'S THE MOST STUPID EXCUSE, FOR DOING WHAT THE "WILD ONES" IS SUPPOSED TO BE FOCUSED ON: PROTECTING, PRESERVING, AND RESTORING LOCALLY NATIVE PLANT COMMUNITIES, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE REAL HABITAT VALUE, FOR ALL OF THE NATIVE SPECIES IN THE FOOD WEB!!!... CARBON IS AN ELEMENT!!! WTFU! YOU CANNOT DESTROY IT, NOR CREATE IT... STOP SPEWING THE "CARBON CULT TALKING POINTS!!!... IT'S ALL ABOUT "HABITAT"... NOT "CARBON"!!! GEEZ!!!
