Pick the Right Native Plants for You -- Method 2: The Pre-Mix Seed Packet Method (easiest/cheapest)

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Tell me what native plants to choose! In this video we look at Method #2: The Pre-Mix Seed Packet Method. This is probably the easiest and cheapest method for planting native plants in your yard/garden. You simply buy a pre-mixed native seed packet, spread the seeds, and walk away!
Upsides:
• Spread seeds and walk away
• Don’t worry about learning different native plant species
• Don’t worry about planning out a garden design
• The plants that will do well in your garden will grow, the ones that won’t do well in your garden do not grow
Possible downsides:
• You will get a prairie/meadow look and not a “tidy” garden
• You do still have to “prepare” your site
• You have to be VERY CAREFUL about the seed packet you buy so you don’t purchase non-native or hybrid seeds.
Here are the safe companies that you can buy pre-mixed native seed packets from that contain all native seeds:
Seed-balls.com (shop.seed-ball...)
Wild Seed Project (shop.wildseedp...)
Seedles (growtherainbow...)
Wild spaces Land Care (www.wildspaces...)
Prairie Moon Nursery (www.prairiemoo...)
Natural Communities Native Plants (naturalcommuni...)
Prairie Nursery (www.prairienur...)
Native Wildflowers and Seeds (ionxchange.com...)
The bad companies containing non-native plants and/or hybrid plants:
American Meadows (sold on Amazon) party favor seed packets
Back to the Roots Organic Wildflower Mix (sold at Target and Amazon)
Bentley Seeds (sold on Amazon)
BUZZY (sold on Amazon)
Earth Science (sold at Home Depot)
Eden Brothers
Free the Ocean
The Gardener’s Wife
GevaGrow
Gurney’s (sold at Home Depot)
Hancock Seed Company
HOME GROWN (sold on Amazon)
Hudson Valley Seed Company
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Miller and Boo Paper Company
Modern Sprout
Mountain Valley Seed (sold on Amazon)
Seed Geeks (sold on Etsy)
The companies that have some pre-mixes that are only native plants and some that contain non-native plants, which can be confusing:
American Meadows
Territorial Seed Company
The Vermont Wildflower Farm
Wildland Seed Co.
Nail Polish Seen in Video:
"Coral Reef" by Colores de Carol (www.coloresdec...)
"Pixel Pink" by ILNP (www.ilnp.com/)
All video and images are created by the Native Flower Power channel creator, unless otherwise noted.
Chapters:
0.00 Picking native plants steps
1.00 Method 2: the Pre-Mix Seed Packet Method description
1.31 The upsides to Pre-Mix Seed Packet Method
2.37 The downsides to the Pre-Mix Seed Packet Method
8.14 The good, safe companies selling only native plant pre-mix seed packets
20.00 The companies to avoid that sell pre-mix seed packets with non-native species
27.20 Why native plant hybrids aren’t a good idea

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16 окт 2024

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@marky3131 3 месяца назад

Timely video. We are a new group with the goal of creating native pollinator gardens across our county. Current project is a local high school who has allowed us to develop a garden with various types of native gardens including a prairie. Exciting stuff. Thanks

@nativeflowerpower9942 3 месяца назад

That's VERY exciting! Oh I love that you're working on making native gardens across the county!!! What an impact that will have! Do you have the budget for putting native pollinator garden signs up with the gardens so that people will know what's up? Also, how did you make that happen? Who/how did you contact in the county to convince? Was it difficult or easy? Did the county give you a budget at all? So many questions, but it's such an amazing project that you have!! Also, for that highschool, in my Method #1 video (Keystone plants: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YGCkoSi_99I.html), I show you a website where you can find the keystone plants for your specific local area (zip code) -- that has a huge impact, but also could help highschool students feel more connected to their local native plants and understand/learn them.

@Easy4u2-xi4nu 25 дней назад

Your presentations are great! Thanks also for the helpful information. Including what you have in the description.

@nativeflowerpower9942 24 дня назад

Thank you so much for saying so! I aim to be helpful and am glad to be achieving that a bit! :-)

@trixyk295 3 месяца назад

I’m just in the planning stages and was wondering why you might not want to have a mixed garden situation. Like having native plants as well as non-native (as long as they are not invasive) in your garden. Maybe different areas for each or something? Should I be avoiding non-native at all costs? Or is it ok to have a mix?

@leon22081994 3 месяца назад

The concept is to promote indigenous biodiversity as native plants will always benefit local wildlife far more than non-natives. Natives also do a lot better to your region and require less work. Of course, you are free to grow whatever you want as long as it isn't some horrible invasive. For example, zinnias and cosmos will still feed pollinators and seed-eating birds but need to be replanted every year. Something like a coneflower would do 1 more thing where they are host plants to certain butterflies/moths, and is perennial. Another thing is that local wildlife may not recognize non-native plants as a source of food. For example, in my part of the world, I have grown a lot of aster, but not a single bee has every visited them. There are also specialist pollinators that depend on only 1 or 2 plants for their entire survival.

@marky3131 3 месяца назад

Another point of view - my prime directive that guides my gardening 1. No invasives. Don’t plant them and if u have some remove them 2. Straight species 3. Native cultivars. I do avoid cultivars where the leaf color was changed (especially from Green to a dark color and no double flowers) 4 non invasive non natives that you love and are needed for your garden design.

@nativeflowerpower9942 3 месяца назад

I love the answers that others have given here. I'll add my own two cents too. Non-native plants are really only for our enjoyment. Native butterflies, bees and pollinators often don't recognize them, or if they do and use their pollen/nectar, the pollen and nectar don't have the appropriate carbohydrate to fat to protein ratio for our pollinators. This ends up harming our native pollinators, unfortunately. Do you know what I mean? Because most yards are filled with *nearly all non-native plants, I feel like that's enough of those and we should be focusing on just native plants at this point. I guess my own personal rule is to only plant native plants (no hybrids -- I explain my reasoning on that at the end of this Method #2 video), and the only exceptions to that would be a non-native plant that I absolutely ADORE. So, I'll keep a non-native plant if I have specific adoration for it, but otherwise, native plants are beautiful, smell good, bring oodles of pollinators and are better for those pollinators, so why even bother with non-natives? To help you decide what you think on this question better for yourself, I might suggest three things packed with info/ideas: 1. Look up on RU-vid, any talk given by Dr. Doug Tallamy. Or just read his book, "Nature's Best Hope". 2. Watch the first part of my video on the difference between native and non-native species. I know you already know the difference but I talk about more detailed reasons of why it matters: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jYeR8ERbV_I.html 3. Watch Rebecca McMackin's RU-vid Ted talk: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qxgE0q1_m6U.html