The Top 10 Things New Native Plant Gardeners Need to Know 

In situations like that I think it just takes vigilance- keep pulling it as soon as you see sprouts and eventually the root will starve. As for the tool, look up 'dutch push pull hoe'. Good luck!

Correct. I misspoke. Thanks for the correction!

Same here. I don't have swaths of color in my garden. I have a kaleidoscope of color. I like that it looks wild. I guess the landscaping edgers surrounding it are the way people 'read' that the way it looks is intentional.

You have to consider the native gardening movement as a whole. Native gardens that look untidy or ugly make the general public want to pass laws limiting them, while neat and beautiful native gardens make the general public want to join in. Like he says in the video, go crazy in your back yard, but treat your front yard like the public display that it is.

Echinacea purpurea, or purple cone flower is my guess. Definitely at least in the genus echinacea.

It's a cone flower. I leave my dead stalks up all winter so the birds can eat the seeds, so I'm quite familiar with how they look!

This is true. In cases like this the client demands it. Getting them to accept this method was an accomplishment. I don’t know of studies about the survival of those eggs in plant residue on the ground, but I’d think it gives them a better chance than in a prairie burn. Thanks for the input!

I don’t know, but it’s bad to have plants blocking the sidewalk.

A lot of great plants are illegal ragweed , Canada thistle, cannabis etc My favorite weeds are prolly burdock, ragweed and waterhemp Neighborhoods are filled with jealous haters

Prairie smoke

@@jimgraf1720 Thank You, what a wonderful fun name. Your reply is much appreciated, as, well as your uplift outlooks found treasured in native grown plants!

I love goldenrod , in the fall the seeds float away light as cotton , beautiful

You have to consider the native gardening movement as a whole. Native gardens that look untidy or ugly make the general public want to pass laws limiting them, while neat and beautiful native gardens make the general public want to join in. Like he says in the video, go crazy in your back yard, but treat your front yard like the public display that it is.

@@pendlera2959 untidy and ugly are very subjective. What is untidy or ugly to one person is a beautiful rare prairie plant to another. Someone's unrefined garden might be a stepping stone in their growth and might mature into a more refined space the following year. We need to stop being so judgemental and let people use the land they live on to experiment with growing whatever native non-invasive plants they want. I had an elderly friend complain to me for over an hour about how messy a free library was that her neighbor had recently put up. The library was not messy, it just didn't fit my friends style.

It is West Cook Wild Ones. That’s the location. It’s in Illinois. It’s in the title, Faith.

He mentions Chicago and the Chicagoland area as well as his exact county in Illinois numerous times throughout the video....

​@@jdy1054 Not everyone knows that West Cook is in Illinois. Williams' guidance is valuable for me as a novice gardener and I will return. However, I only just moved to Crescent City, CA, and the word "West" in the title is why I chose this video.

@@rawlsrules hence why I added the clarification, or should I say amplication. I did not know exactly where this person was, either.

Google is your friend. Use it. And listen. He’s mentioned Chicago area several times.