Tour of 25 NATIVE PLANTS for Eastern USA 

Great video. I always try to plant native whenever possible. More and more nurseries are becoming atuned to this (except the big box stores). I have several mom-and-pop greenhouses near me that specialize in native plants. The Dept. of Conservation in my state (Missouri) also makes it easy to buy native plants. They've operated a state nursery for more than 60 years and only sell native trees, shrubs, and other plants to the public. They're also super cheap. Trees are only a dime each/10 for a $1. They want the whole state filled with native plants.

Thank you for sharing this info.

Devin, thank you for this video! I was walking through my woods tonight and was able to spot and identify May Apples. I never wouldve known about these had it not been for you. Im moving some to my shade gardens and will make sure they continue and thrive!

Very interesting. Great video.

Thanks for providing this content. Wonderful video. Will try to visit The Cuba Center and plant more native plants.

Appreciate you speaking about alternative plants! Wish they were easily accessible at local nurseries.

I love the enthusiasm in your voice!

This video is a joy. Thank you.

Love your enthusiasm!

Very serious subject I wish it were taken more seriously throughout the country. What took hundreds of thousands of years to happen we can wipe out in a day. Keep up your positive way of encouraging people to use natives in their areas.

Gloved your coverage of native plants. I learned about a few I was not aware of. That raspberry was new to me.

good evening, buddy- Omg-breathtaking sharing~see u around.=))

Thanks for the great content! Love your real enthusiasm for natives. I learned about 2 plants that Ive never heard of.

Absolutely fantastic video featuring Eastern North America native plants! What a delight! Thanks for sharing!

Really learned a lot! Another great video!! :)

Great job! I am visiting in a couple of weeks, this video was very helpful.

Wonderful video! I have been adding more and more native plants to my property in Northern Virginia since reading Doug Tallamy’s excellent book, “Bringing Nature Home.” I will definitely be adding some of the plants you highlighted here. Your knowledge and enthusiasm will help many others accept the importance of natives. Thank you!

That was an excellent presentation and a great mix of the more uncommon varieties. It is great to see a younger person so interested and knowledgeable ,as a native plant specialist. I myself am a specialist also . The city of chicago knows my love of natives and how we incorporate them into our beds and native areas. I like elephant foot, big leaf aster and beautyberry to name a few.

I very much enjoyed watching this video, and learned a thing or two. I grow in zone 6B, Lansdale, PA an hour from Philadelphia. This video gave me alot of useful information. Thanks for sharing with us. I hope you will continue to put up new videos centering in our our gardening zone.

Thanks for the tour very interesting plants.

Great tour and information! It's wonderful to see your passion for plants!

Wow what a beautiful place it is.. If you need some pure oxygen it is a perfect place for this.. 😌😌😌😍😍

Thanks! Yay Delaware! Grew up near there! : )

Such beautiful native plants! I'm surprised you didn't include the gorgeous Heuchera, my favorite Virginia native plant.

That spigelia is amazing. I already have some coriopsis ( tickseed) and physostegia (obedient plant), and bee balm by my home, and I really want to add those. Thanks,!

Young Sir, your passion is infectious! Love your work. Great communicator and educator! ❤ Instant subscriber!

Sorry I’m late to the game, but I loved this video. You are a wonderful teacher, and your enthusiasm for plants is infectious. Lots of good info here. 💙🌿

I bought some wild ginger to plant once. I think at a plant sale at Bartram. Gardens. I didn't know how to plant it or take care of it. But tastes great.

Very well done. Bravo!

Amazing video Such a beautiful place thank you for sharing. Take care and God Bless

I really enjoyed this video of native plants!!! I would like to know where I might find plants that are native to Ohio! I do have some beautiful trillium plants that bloom in the spring. I've Watched them increase in numbers over47 years and thoroughly enjoy them as their blooms go from white to pink and then to a dark lilac color! They aren't ready to start blooming just yet but I will post a photo to you when they bloom. Thanks for all of your wonderful advice on how to take care of the plants we love so much!!! Well done Devin!!!

*EXCELLANT* video Devin ! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Was this a Master Gardner Class? as you know, I encourage everyone to plant "Beautyberries" ps. the Magnolias are in full bloom at the moment.. my entire yard smells like Lemonade :)

I enjoyed your video very much. I am a recent transplant from western Oregon (zone 7) to Minnesota (zone 4) so am re-learning my garden plants. I would love it if you included the Zone for each of the natives you have described. Great video!

Great video. I do love those asarum too. I’m in coastal San Diego, zone 10b (bordering on 11), five minutes’ walk to the ocean; so while we’re blessed to have tropical plants outside year-round, I still love exploring the aroids from hardiness zones BELOW 10 or 11! Heart-shaped leaves… dead giveaway usually… it’s an aroid! Plus the name says it all; “as-ARUM”, like titan arum, green arrow arum, etc. Hehe, I’m just geeking out, my mind is just blown the more aroids I discover. Same with Piperaceae, and especially Apocynaceae (milkweed, hoya, plumeria, jasmine, etc.) Seems that there are quite a few temperate and native aroids to the eastern/SE US. Besides the heart leaves, the spathe “bloom” shape is consistent across the family Araceae. Basically they look like weird corncobs! And on monstera, it’s a edible when ripe. Same with Thaumatophyllum bipinnafidense (selloum philodendron)… Peace lily, calla, zantedeschia, monstera, philodendron, alocasia, taro, anthurium, etc. Corncobs with heart leaves. Haha. 🌱🪴🌽

What a wealth of information you are imparting!! Truly invaluable!! Just getting into gardening and I definitely want to plant more natives. I’m in Kansas, zone 6a. Would a majority of them perform well in my area? Your love for plants is contagious!! Keep up the great work!! Outstanding channel!

I'll have to research if any of these are native in my CT zone 6. Great info thanks!

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A video by Overdevest Nurseries said the Spigelia marilandica is slow to establish when propagated by seed; but when its cultivars are propagated vegetatively, Spigelia marilandica 'Little Redhead' and S. m. 'Ragin' Cajun' will establish more quickly. The latter features a red-orange tube rather than the red tube. Tony Avent (Plant Delights Nursery in NC) found it in Louisiana and then Walters Gardens developed it. Some retail garden centers, especially in the mid-Atlantic states, can order plants from BOTH Walters (bare root) AND Overdevest (one gallon landscape ready plants).

Black Cohosh is Bumblebee candy. Insane how they are on it and I’ve not noticed a foul smell at all.

I’ve struggled getting spigelia marylandica to grow on our property. What conditions do they like? Great video. Cool haircut!

Awesome. What course are you doing? I would love to learn in Georgia 🙏

Loved this. Do you have a really good ordering source for these plants?

Could you please share the course you are taking I am interested in it. Thanks

My neighbors spray for mosquitoes and the spray comes into my yard. Consequently i have quit planting host plants.

do they all produce oxygen?

What's up with the haircut?