I don't know if anyone has pointed this out but this video and potentially entire channel is helpful for maryland as well! A lot of, if not all of them are native to MDs wetter clay. Thank you for these incredibly informative videos!
Thank you for commenting, yes, Native Plant Channel is made for states in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. We share many similar growing conditions and therefore plants, as plants don't operate according to our borders.
I just discovered your channel. I live in a trailer park in the woods of South Jersey and now that I’ve been here a bit I want to build a nice pollinator garden in my yard. Thanks for the great information. I didn’t even think about blueberries
I have been seeing less and less bumblebees, butterflies, and fireflies in my neighborhood. Native plants are beautiful. I have planted so many native plants only to have it being pulled out by my families and neighbors. They see it as weeds. You need to make more video and educate the public. Thank you.
Thank you for the informative video. I live in Virginia on a lake where native plants are encouraged. So hard to find them locally, though. Keep making the videos please!
I love me some anise hyssop and blunt mountain mint. The mountain mint just started blooming last week or so, and the activity on them is beyond compare!
@@NativePlantChannel Thanks for the reply. I had lots of Asters and Salvias last year. they were totally alive with Bees. Am trying a good few other plants i have seen here, and sure if they fail, it is the price of a packet of seeds. Just love these type of videos. Thanks.
Hi, I built up several boxes of honeybees, planted clover, fruit trees, blueberries, honeyberries, anise hyssop, sunflowers and other various plants as food sources for pollinators. I planted buckwheat in the grass along the road and the neighbor chopped it down stating it was weeds. Even growing lavender in containers, hybrid coneflower has not attracted the bees. Going to grow some Mountain Mint over the winter to transplant because it looks like a winner. .
Interesting video until the part about not disturbing the leaves. I pile leaves on my strawberries in November and take them off in late April (when the bees are busily pollinating my black currants and fruit trees.) I also plant sunflowers, catmint, Mexican sunflowers, melons, etc for the bees. Last year there was an article on the internet that said don't clean up your garden until the temperature is constantly above 50 degrees or you wouldn't have any pollinators. Nonsense, of course. And if I wait until temps are constantly above 50 degrees, (mid July), I might as well quit gardening. I guess all these seed packets that say "plant as early as soil can be worked" should be ignored. I am going to eat lettuce in late May and not wait until mid August as your advice suggests.
Thanks for commenting, Native Plant Channel is focused on growing native plants to improve our ecosystems, your interest is in growing food which is a different topic.
I found this wonderful channel and have enjoyed a few of the videos including the very helpful one on species vs cultivar natives.. I am establishing a native plant ecosystem in Pittsburgh, PA. I just had a goldfinch visit for the first time and am hoping for ruby-throated hummingbirds and Monarchs, etc. soon. Thanks!
Hi, I have a question about the fall leaves; I know you shouldn't burn, mulch (shred) or remove them completely, but I was wondering if it's okay to gently blow them to the very back of a yard against my fence? I live in a city with strict ordinances and they don't allow us to leave our fall leaves laying in the yard, they have to be removed (or otherwise out of sight). If I used a rake to rake them to the back yard up against my back fence I'm afraid the tines of the rake would either injure or disturb the larva and other pollinators, so I was wondering if it might be less disruptive if I gently blew them using a leaf blower to the back fence while the leaves are dry and very light so they would fly across the yard as if it were a stiff breeze blowing them?
Hi Zully, thank you for the positive comment. Here are some plants for dry shade: asters, geranium maculatum, false solomon’s seal, crooked stem goldenrod, Christmas fern, marginal wood fern, native pachysandra
What a wonderful and informative video! I would like to suggest that you include a list of the plants you discussed in your video description as many people like myself are bad note takers. I will watch again with a notepad. Again, wonderful video! :) Do you recommend a particular plant for the end of May through June?
Great video! Do you propagate the mountain mint? I'm also in New Jersey (Bergen County) zone 7a and would love to get my hands on a starter plant or seeds of that variety for my pollinator garden.
I know this is an old comment but Everwilde is an amazing source for native seeds if you're still wondering where to get various seeds. Joyful Butterfly is great for butterfly attracting native seeds too.
Cultivars of native pollinator host plants can be detrimental to them. Pollinators may love the nectar, but can they recognize the plant as a place to lay their eggs? Has the plant been changed in ways that make them not suitable for the larvae to consume and thrive upon? These should be considered. It's better not to choose cultivars.
I'm doing my best but my next-door neighbors spray for mosquitoes. I've seen almost no butterflies this summer. I quit planting host plants when the neighbors started spraying, but I don't know if this spraying is keeping the butterflies away or not. Don't waste your time telling me to talk to them. I've tried already.
