Id rather look at this than a plain lawn any day!! What an amazing transformation. Just a different style but totally beautiful. I'm sure pollinators are loving it. Kudos to this couple we need more people like them using native plants like this. Thanks for sharing Janey 😊🌻
Absolutely! This is what I’m working toward in my parents garden. I’ve always loved the “natural” kind of look and they’re getting too old to care for their space now. But they have wild flowers galore. Just a few mulched areas that have a more formal feel
Janey, I am so stoked that you're featuring native, waterwise plants, gardens, and thoughtful gardeners. So many of us live in suburban lawn deserts that are devoid of biodiversity and frankly, personality. It's nice to see that there are alternatives to show there's another way! Thank you!
I’m obsessed!!! We are in Southern California and recently transformed our yard with a native garden. We LOVEEEE the color all year round and less maintenance. I still plant a cut garden in garden beds and have my non-native container pots. Best of both worlds 🎉❤🎉 Thank you for sharing Janey. I’m so impressed.
THANK you for sharing this beautiful garden! Natives are key to supporting native bees and birds. Please include more content like this. People need to know how important this is.
Thank you to these homeowners for taking the time to share their knowledge and their garden! As we can all imagine, sharing this labor of love must come with a feeling of vulnerability. I hope as gardeners we can all appreciate that and appreciate the beauty they’ve developed on their property!
I think this is awesome! Education is key and people need to realize that we have to stop fighting against nature. Americans have been trained to see beauty in a way that is not natural. We need people to keep showcasing natural habitat so that it becomes more common place. Keep up the great work!!
I have to be honest, when I first saw their yard from afar, I thought "oh wow, it kinda just looks like they let weeds overtake their yard" but as I watched each plant up close, they are all SO beautiful! SO incredibly unique and absolute beautiful plants! I am in shock that people don't grow more of these plants! Thank you Janey for opening my eyes to this ❤
You knocked it out of the park with this tour--so much valuable info on natives. I especially like the idea of planting natives that bloom in summer too. You have a fantastic channel with something for everyone, so thanks for this inspiration, I'm bookmarking this one!
This was awesome to see! Thank you Janey, love the use of all the native plants. Can’t wait for more garden tours on Sunday! Yay! We all need some nerds who plant beautiful gardens! Thanks Nick and Sandy 🌻💐🌺🌼.
Beautiful! I love how he gave (and you, Janie, inserted onscreen,) both the botanical and common name of the plants. Looking forward to more tours. You're a natural tourguide!
Wow that was amazing. I love plant Nerds. Something about how grass moves in the wind. I love all grasses. How exciting a Sunday Video. Have a great day. ❤
My kind of garden! Thank you for showcasing Nick and Sandy's garden. I started to buy only native trees and plants and thinking about pollinators and what is best. I love mixing natives into my existing rose garden and I found native salvia this year which always looks lovely with roses. Slowly transitioning my front lawn into garden each year and my neighbours are commenting and loving the changes.
I love the use of natives, grasses and and more natural flow- Piet Oudolf’s gardens have always been the most inspiring to me. I think it’s great people are allowed to express themselves in their gardens in ways that use less water, less pesticides and herbicides. I love the backyard! It makes me want to walk through it.
I'm from Michigan and I completely enjoyed this video! Their native garden is so amazing!! I love the enthusiasm that they have for what they've created! GREAT video, thank you Janey!!
Freaking awesome couple and garden! I am going to investigate native gardening in my state of North Carolina! Thank you so much for taking us on this tour!
So this has inspired me to create my own meadow of indiana native flowers/grasses!! Awesome job & i love Fig’s appearance🥰 I am SO Pumped for these sunday garden tours Janey!!! 😜
I love seeing this garden! I don't live in California but it's still so fun to see! I also super love seeing their rock garden, because I love crevice gardens and have created a similar one in my garden where I had a little spot right by my steps that needed something, and that something was a crevice garden! So fun.
Janey, this was a fantastic tour! Even though I live in a totally different climate, I enjoyed learning about so many plants native to California and I just loved the look of their gardens. Nick and Sandy's enthusiasm was contagious as was yours - thank you for sharing this and encouraging people to think about their gardens in more climate friendly ways that still retain beauty and interest.❤
This garden tour was a delight! I love the whole nerdiness of your guests! Janey: you need to install a gray water system! Especially since you are concerned about how much water you have available from your well. 😊 AND you need to find a spot in your yard to install a California native garden!!! 🧑🌾
Thank you Janey for this video. I wish more garden influencers shown something outside the box, something more than just large nursery/growers products. I think your channel really stands out because of that. I enjoyed seeing West Coast native plants because I am in the East and we have completely different natives here. I always wanted to see what is growing West. 🙂
Northwest Michigan, I’ve been adding some natives to my gardens and have found some lovely plant varieties that are not standard fare. Great to learn about so many of these, although probably not native to my area. Knowledge is power!
I am planning a native “forest/grassland” area in my backyard. I love that they created “Fig’s Meadow”! Our dogs are going to love it. Thank you for celebrating this garden and the experts(nerds😁), that created it!
I agree. I’m more of a structured garden with planned messiness kind of gal. 😂 this was very interesting however and some of those plants are beautiful!
I think using natives is a great idea however that front yard is a bit too over grown for a neighborhood setting. I planted a native garden in my backyard after taking a college course that covered Ca. natives. I eventually decided that I wanted to see more color and after Borage took over my yard. I came to realize like so many that the cottage look is my thing. Looking forward to the Sunday landscapes.
Janey - this is one of the best, if not the best, CA native garden videos I’ve ever seen. I’ve been developing a native garden for a few years and I’m always looking at CNPS videos and whatever else I can find on RU-vid and there isn’t much, especially this quality. I so appreciate you putting the common and scientific name of each plant referenced on screen. And it’s great to hear real experts talking about them. This is a very natural looking native garden (most are). I’m hoping to design mine as a little bit more manicured and “landscaped.” I think it can be done. The soil and sun factor makes a huge difference. I have several of the same plants in the ground at my house for two + years and they are just one or two feet tall. 😂 Also, thanks to your video yesterday, I learned about this and was able to visit 4 of the gardens on the East end of the tour and they were absolutely fabulous. You are a pro!!
Definitely will be looking into native plants for my area. I have some already planted but I am sure there are so many more. I’ve screen shot some of the ones you featured to see if the will grow in my area too since we have similar climates. Hugs fr9m Texas!
Thank you Sandy, Nick and Janey. So many beautiful plants. 🌱 They thrive and support wildlife, win win! 🌱Instead of another boxwood we could try tucking in a native. 🌱I’m incorporating veggies, flowers and herbs in pots raised beds etc… for biodiversity. same concept
Very enjoyable to watch your gardens evolve! The unusual plants will be fun to watch grow and will add a nice dimension. It all looks great! A lot of work but nothing more rewarding!
I have been gradually adding natives to my water wise front yard. I love that you're featuring this. It's so important and cool and smart. I really do hope people get inspiration from this.
My new favorite video from. I try to incorporate as many native California plants as possible…this video is so informative, and I’ll be returning to it for reference. Excellent job, Janey.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, for featuring this wonderful garden and talking about native plants. These are the plants that support the creatures that balance the food chain for our (human) species. I live in a neighborhood with strong HOA restrictions so I have limited natives in the front yard but predominantly native plants in the back. #DougTallamy
I live in PA so our natives look different than CA but I love seeing how natives can be incorporated into our gardens and different ways to remove turf! Great video!
Love this video! This couple's enthusiasm and knowledge is so inspiring! I'm taking notes for my Southern California yard. Can't wait to see more of these tours.
Wow, just fascinating! Big thank to Nick and Sandy …. Such knowledge and passion….I just love it! Can’t wait to see you meadow Janey….monty will love it ❤️❤️❤️
What a beautiful garden! They are so knowledgeable and this was a fantastic video. I wish this would become more mainstream. I'm fascinated by their grey water swale!
This was the funnest garden tour ever, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing what these two creatives have achieved and created in their own patch! I’m a huge fan of native gardens anyway, and in particular habitats that encourage the wildlife in, are my jam. Imagine having an opportunity to glean such invaluable knowledge from an amazingly talented couple like Nick and Sandy?! They’re a dream team. Thank you all for sharing this incredible garden with us. It is such an inspiration. 🙏🙌
I love it! I’ve had recommendations to avoid our backyard being taken over by weeds to do the meadow grasses and it’s lovely! I’d love to have this all over the backyard. I just adore the hawk moths! They love our red valerian! (As do the butterflies) we enjoy seeing them at dusk on a hot 100 degree summer evening 😊
Loved the tour Thank you Nick, Sandy and Janey for sharing this. Now we know how nice native plants can fill our yards.cant wait for the next tour Janey.
I love the use of heights and layers! The blue bush lupine is beautiful! I thought it was a buddleja at first. The black and white monkey flower is unique. I had never even heard of monkey flower until Janey did a tour last year. The grasses are beautiful too! I don't have any in my garden but I'm considering one or 3 after seeing this garden.
With Sandy being from S Florida, I'm surprised they planted bamboo. Is it not invasive there? You were talking about parasitic plants and not realizing there was a such thing, mistletoe is a parasitic plant! Does it grow in California? I loved their yard! I wonder how allergy season goes in their neighborhood and if the garden has any impact on the neighbors.
What a lovely couple and their garden. I've always loved a rock garden, never made one tho. Janey, those heat loving plants would be nice across your front, they'd love being near the rd. Thank you for sharing, and Thank you Nick and Sandy.
Being a person that collects rocks from all over’ even to the point where my significant other feels I might get in trouble 😂 I love their little rock garden ❤
2023 I made my first garden using both flowers and vegetables…. It was also the very first time I had ever seen and was visited by a Hawk Moth! I had to ask people what in the world they were 😂 I was lucky to see them again throughout the season. ( in my zone 6a6b 30 mins south of Columbus they were attracted to my ‘Proven Winners superbena sparkling amethyst’ 💜
Hi Janey 🌺.This garden looks so pretty with these native plants and it full of beautiful colors .I have two color from pretty Lewisia in container , the deep pink and peachy orange its flowers attract attention and I will get more plants from it and I love how he planted the Lewisia between the stones . . Have a wonderful day . 🌺🌻🌺
Thank you! Love your videos. This video was very educational, and interesting! Always trying to attract pollinators. Loved their rock garden it was captivating.
Ok this is amazing ! I will have to watch again to write down all the pretty things to find. I live in the CA High desert and use alot of native amongst my cut flowers.
Nick and Sandy have possibly changed my mind !! Love love love them and their home (and their dog) Even took notes . The rock garden is a great idea that hopefully will work for me in a difficult area (zone 9b , central coast) . Thank you for this amazing tour 💜💜🌸🌸
I found this totally fascinating.I'm in the UK zone 8 but this couldn't be more different to my climate if it tried. At the moment we are drowning in rain and have been for months! When you see them close up some of those plants are gorgeous. That little blue one near then end of the video (sorry can't remember what Nick called it) is particularly pretty. I doubt I'd ever be able to grow any of them, except maybe the bamboo!!!
Loved this video and the many many eye opening suggestions for trouble spots in our yards, whether it's dry, wet, high, low challenges we face. My first glimpse of the front garden left me with chest pain from the chaos, my OCD kicked in and I wanted to see space between each variety of plant, but as they began to move through the garden and point out all the different varieties and why they chose them my heart rate went down a bit LOL. The back garden was a complete oasis of calm and green and the little rock garden is a little world of beauty we can all replicate in our own yards. What a great way to spend some Sunday morning time, being inspired by these very hard working gardeners! Thanks Janey, can't wait for next Sunday! P.S. After years of mowing grass we said goodbye to our last lawn in 1999 and it was the best decision ever.
Everything was so beautiful, I need to find something like that here in South Texas (way south), I especially like those grasses, we get terribly hot 🔥 summers
I love this! I'm trying to grow many of these plants. My climate is a little hotter than your area and it's pretty hard to figure out how to properly water these plants when getting them established. A lot of information on California natives are from coastal areas which is so much milder than the central valley. I would just love it if you were to dedicate a corner of your property to natives. Thank you for this tour!
