I love that you have amazing flower B-roll! I feel like it's rather obvious, but a lot of garden RU-vidrs just film themselves talking (makes no sense!). Show us the FLOWERS! Thank you for all the high quality videography
Hyssop, goldenrod, blazing star (liatris), Brazilian vervain (aka tall verbena), and any type of salvia are also huge pollinator favorites in our garden! We tried the Mexican torch sunflowers last year and while they became ginormous, they were a grand slam for bees and migrating monarchs. If you haven’t tried them yet, these pink and red tubular flowers: pineapple sage, agastache, penstemon and and cardinal flower are all crack for hummingbirds, lol Fellow Kentuckian here! I am a Lexington native but now live in just a few hours up the road in rural southwest Ohio. My husband and I are huge into gardening organically for pollinators. We grow tons of cutting flowers, fruits, veggies and herbs and started keeping honeybees last year. Our property has undergone a radical transformation since we moved in 3 years ago from a bland monoculture to a landscape bursting with blooms, birds and pollinators. It is so much hard work but being able to live this life and raise our preschool age daughter among the garden, to teach her things about the natural world and see her love for it is incredible. Keep putting out these wonderful videos! Zinnias are my favorite cut flowers too. ;)
I've seen a huge increase in the number of pollinators &predator insects since I stopped spraying chemicals, & I only spray of I have a serious infestation. (Whixh is rare because some kind of predator usually comes along & tales care of them!)
Another thing to try if you end up getting aphids every year is to plant "trap crops". The aphids will stay on those plants you've designated to be eaten by the aphids, and stay away from the others. A good one is Calendula. Not only do the Aphids love it, but it also has nice flowers that make a great lotion!
So excited for my tithonia this year. Added bonus is the privacy screen, I didn't even think of that. Maybe I'll start more than I originally planned... ha
Lovely garden in bloom! One likely reason the bees are so attracted to the alliums - they also use herbs and healing plants for their own medicine!! So planting herbs in general can help our boost our pollinators' health - especially in Chemical free gardens! (Tip from An herb grower on Charles Dowling's no dig channel)
Honestly, every time you make recommendations, my seed list grows. I thought I was done and then I had to go find celosia seeds after watching another recent video. Must gain control! Your flowers are so beautiful!!
What I like best about your videos that I have watched is you don’t have to have your face covering 97% of the screen telling us to look at the flower. Ofcourse I don’t mind seeing you lol but I’m saying I appreciate your editing. I hope this doesn’t read rude because I don’t mean to be :)
The bees go absolutely crazy on my salvia and russian sage. Not just bumblebees but it brings in the honey bees too. By the way, if you are concerned about wasps, don't be. We have family members that are allergic but I still welcome them. They are amazing at eating all the harmful insects that normally would devour your flowers. Just keep a very close eye out to make sure they're not nesting in your yard. They tend to make nests in any ground hole they can find. Cover holes immediately because wasps are very territorial and can come after you if you're near their nest. If they're just visiting the flowers though, it's perfectly fine. They're too busy to bother with you.
I just love watching your videos. I love how many pictures and video footage you include in them. I've been gardening since my early childhood, but just started selling bouquets last year. Your videos have helped me learn alot. I'm in zone 7b.
The combination in the garden looks very pretty. Just make sure to put the tithonia in the back, because they can get extremely big. I learned that lesson the hard way this year!
Oh no!!! I didn't know celosia attracts wasps!! (tears up) I was sooo looking forward to having these on my patio. I actually bought seeds for that first variety you showed.. :( :( :( And I just started my garden last year... I was doing something (maybe just watering) and something startled me.. It was a humming bird at the sunflowers!! It wasn't very close to me, but I hadn't seen any out there, so I thought a bee was by my ear or something because of how loud it was! hahaha
I planted the native bee balm a couple of years ago and they came up in several places in my yard. The ones that came up in the shade had a problem with mildew. Luckily the are very easy to transplant! I also have Jacob Cline bee balm and it seems to be traveling too.
I have started echinacea from seed i have 40 seedling but i Don t know, because i find different informations,Will they Bloom the First year starting from seed? I Hope so because i love them so much . It Is a plelasure to see all this beautifull flowers during this last days of Gray Winter days. Thank you for this video😊
Whenever I plant echinacea from seed, it very rarely blooms the first year. However, they grow very fast, so it's possible. I'd say that it probably depends on the weather and how early the seeds were started. Thanks so much for watching! :)
I can see why they look at your yard going by, your flowers are amazing, might cause a accident one day😂 I can’t wait to try and grow some of these pollinators, I loved that Pom Pom looking one with the green and purple. Loved your vid and subscribed! Aloha and God bless🤙🏽🍻
I wonder if each of us puts in 3 comments could we get to 101 comments? Which would then get the attention of the algorithm? Who would then distribute this video out there to the masses... Which would then be ever so helpful to this fun channel! Where else are we going to see such beautiful photographs of flowers, and all those Bees?!! We could just toss in a Bee, or 2, or 3 of our own! 🐝
I've never tried that one. However, I really like anything from the ProCut series. A variety called 'Double Delight' was my absolute favorite last season. Thanks for watching!
Good to know that even the pollenless sunflowers are attractive to bees. Do you ever grow other colors of echinacea? I'm trying a few different colors. Green twister is my favorite. I'm trying scabiosa for the first time this year. I got seeds in a swap so not sure what color they are. Borage and chives are my top pollinator attractors in my garden.
I've never tried any of the other echinacea colors, simply because I always feel so worried about using my growing space for perennials. There are some really, really pretty double varieties on my "wish list' though! LOL!
@@TONYAwiththeflowers Wait so the other colors aren't perennial? I thought they were. I guess I'll find out if they come up again this year. Last year was the first year I tried some new colors and thought all of them were perennial.
Thirty percent of our native bees pollinators can’t survive on nectar alone. Like monarchs need milkweed , these bees must have certain plant pollens to provision their larva to survive. Many are in the aster, family, so plant native sunflowers, goldenrods and asters.
Love all these flowers. How many flowers do you grow to have a season of cut flowers. I bought a batch of seeds hoping to have bouquets to give away, I'm now thinking they'll have to be small bouquets.
I grow a lot of different types, but they all bloom at different times. Sometimes, I might only have one or two varieties of plants actually flowering - but others in active stages of growth. You really can get a lot of flowers from a small space, but it seems that timing is really important. :)
@@TONYAwiththeflowers Gotcha, I started sowing in a south facing back bedroom, I'm now thinking I maybe didn't put enough soil in, some are looking leggy. Not sure if you mentioned that, Nicole at Flower Hill Farm or Laura at G.A.
Do you have any tips on soil for flowers? I have an L shaped bed in my front yard that I want to dedicate just for flowers. It already has a trumpet vine along the fence and a pink rose bush, but I want to try literally every flower you've mentioned (lol) but it's just loose dirt right now. I would want to dig it down and empty it a bit, but would a regular soil do? Thanks for the video, this is just what I needed since I'm in 8b and it's just about time to start gardening!
All of the flowers should do well in native soil, provided that it has been amended. Flowers like zinnias and echinacea seem to be especially adaptable. Good luck! :) :)
@@TONYAwiththeflowers Thanks! I grew zinnias in the tiniest container last year and they took over, grew out into other pots as well, so I want to grow dozens more this year. What would you recommend as far as amending?
I think my next scheduled video is about zinnias. I've heard that black spot can be seedborne, which helps to explain the reason that I can never seem to get rid of it - even after pulling and disposing of infected plants.
Did your coneflowers bloom the first year with the winter sowing method? I have a packet that I've been wanting to plant, but I'm not sure I want to devote prime space to them if they're not going to flower the first year.
