Try These NATIVE NORTHEAST SHRUB Alternatives to These 10 Non-Native Shrubs - Ep. 160 

I believe one problem with burning bush is that birds love the berries but there is no nutrition in them for the birds. I’m told they load up on the berries before migration and then don’t have the fuel they need to make it to their destination. It is illegal to plant them in NH and MA (and others).

In a previous home I grew our native beautyberry. I put about ten plants against a south facing side of the house. The soil was terrible, rock and clay. This plant performed beautifully and got better every year. I wanted this plant to stay compact so I cut it all the way to the ground early in the spring. Nothing compares to this plant when it's covered with purple berries. I would highly recommend it for a sunny, hot location.

This is such helpful and valuable information as I transition from non-native to native plants. Thanks once again for your articulate style!

Another native alternative to butterfly bush: baptisia. Gorgeous blue or yellow blooms and a shrubby habit too. Interestingly, the Japanese use their azaleas in a close clipped boxwood-type way. I guess our native deciduous azaleas have a more open habit. Anyway, very informative video. I learned a lot.

One that didn't get a shoutout is the elderberry. The pollinators are obsessed with it. We also have a lot of native blueberries that have flame red leaves in fall

The purple or dark leaves varieties of ninebarks shrubs have anthcyanines in them and prevent insects from using them . Better to go either green native variety. I think what your doing is showing good land stewardship. I applaud you for all your hard-working efforts. This video is very valuable to people that don’t have an understanding of how native plants help the environment. Thank you for all your hard work.

This is so exciting! I've been 'wilding' my urban lot in central Ohio for a few years now (I only have about 0.25 acre). I have at least seven Asian bush honeysuckles that have crept in and I've been looking for Ohio native alternatives. I'm lucky to have an amazing native plant nursery less than five miles from my house, so I'm going to go there & get black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) & common winterberry (Ilex verticillata) when they open in April. I also have quite a bit of vining Japanese honeysuckle, so I'm thinking of replacing it with crossvine (Bignonia capreolata), which I haven't found a source for yet. Anyway, I love love love your channel & appreciate your attention given to native plants and how they benefit nature (most especially specialist pollinators like solitary bees). Thank you for all you do!

I love your videos. So much good info. I was born and raised in Carbondale and now live in Portland Oregon. I noticed the newspaper article was about work done in Jessup. Coal mines left a horrible legacy such as the Carbondale mine fire that was finally put out when I was in High School. Such a beautiful area. Thank You for contributing to the healing of the land in NEPA. ❤

Love these informational videos with native plant suggestions! So useful and informative.

We don't live in NY, but our now elderly, actually professional 'hobby' gardeners, in the neighborhood, have chosen many of these plants. I can now appreciate the thought given to their fine choices, even more than before. I see that they wanted their gardens to maintain the original plan, to be a nice vision and to save work. Most schrubs are already flowering with just some tiny encouragement, from fleeting rays of the March sun. The area has lost many of the older trees, so there is less shade to interfere. These bushes have survived the drought of 3 years, as well. Students have walked right through thorn hedges, with those reddish-green leaves and red berries, around school grounds and have made lasting paths...city deer. These plants are really into the Spring season, which makes a freezing dog walk that much more enjoyable. Flowers popping out of bark, is amazing. Most of the berries, in all colors are not eaten by the birds and hopefully not by children either. One Winter the birds did go after dark blue berries, otherwise they remain as decoration. I guess that most are poisonous. An old spiny wild rose blooms beautifully, in a piece of earth, surrounded by cement block walkways. That way, it can't spread. The scent is special and reminds me of old-fashioned roses from my Grandmother's garden and of wild delicate pink roses found in fields where we used to play. You can't pick them, the vines are ferocious. Thanks for the video and the nomenclature, for the eventual search at the garden center. I am curious. What is your goal beyond all of the uprooting and planting, or do we have to stay tuned to find out? 😅Hope there is no great erosion when the great melt happens. ☃️⛄🌊☀️

We're in central Wisconsin (5a) and purchased our farmstead from an avid gardener. I've been doing the research, though, and it turns out more than half of the plants on the property are invasive species! To add insult to injury, many of them are on the prohibited/restricted list from our DNR, so getting them out is a priority this year. These videos have been SO incredibly helpful as a starting place as my partner and I are trying to decide what to replace existing plantings with in a way that's truly beneficial to pollinators and our local ecosystem, so thank you for making them! Loving this series, and so appreciative of your channel! Reminds me of the gardening and horticulture programs on OPB growing up.

Thank you for this video!!! We have been looking for native alternatives for a few of these. Love your content ❤

Thanks for the useful video. The previous owner of our property actually put rosa multiflora in the garden beds. I ripped those out (with the help of some strong young men) and am working on the edge of our wooded areas. In addition to spreading like crazy, these roses are a vector for rose rosette disease. There is also a lot of Japanese knotweed in the area -- ugh. I see it in ditches but on my property it also grows on a dry slope and in the crevices of retaining walls. Unfortunately I have found that only chemical means can eradicate this pest and it's a laborious process of cutting the canes and spraying the stubs. I also pulled out the butterfly bushes from the beds and am working on their progeny elsewhere on the property. There are some beautiful cultivars that are sterile, but you have to do research to identify those. There should be warning labels on nursery plants. My fantasy is that we use genetic engineering to cause deer to eat only the invasives! I have planted many of the natives you suggest and am going to try some of the others. I am experimenting with blueberries as a substitute for burning bush (my husband loves the fall color of the euonymus). Thank you again for encouraging people to grow our wonderful native plants.

What a treasure your channel is!! I’m trying to use permaculture principles to revitalize the native ecology on my sloped, shady lot with an over population of deer due to development and destruction of habitat. You are a great resource. BTW My mountain laurel was decimated by deer. So frustrating.

This is one of the very best, informative, and sensible videos I've seen to educate myself about native shrubs. Thank you so much ❣️

Ilex crenata is taught to us in university to plant in exchange of our beloved Buxus sempervirens. Cydalima perspectalis has ravaged a big chunk of our Viennese trees that once were planted in front of all the castles and in the parks. They are also dioecious, so you can just get a male one. People that don't know much about Buxus don't even see a difference

The native rose suggestion is so interesting. Talk about under-publicized plants! I never hear anything about them.

You're a really good speaker, and you handle the pronunciation of all the many species with such ease...

I love ninebarks also, however, there is a real problem with powdery mildew....

really enjoy these types of videos, since i've tried to research a lot of this myself tbh. paying the most attention to the buckthorn and honeysuckle sections because oh my GOD those two families of plants have spent the last several years driving me insane. only last year have i finally seen my efforts to remove them pay off with some native elderberries pop up, but i definitely need to look into what you recommended more, because i need something to help refill those spaces. those plus the occasional euonymus, like i swear i didn't even know what any of our native shrubs looked like until i got into gardening because there were none in this yard beyond some hidden dogwoods and sumac

Almost everyone in this neighborhood has a row of invasive barberry in their front yard and I decided to opt for the physocarpus opulifolius (ninebark panther). It had an upright growth habit and beautiful deep purple foliage. Unfortunately, it quickly succumbed to powdery mildew. My guess is it needs an area that gets more air movement and it wasn't getting that here in the valley. ..?

I like to be in awe and you really do it for me. Been watching quite a while

What a wonderful video, Summer! I’m taking my list to the nursery as soon as the snow melts!😊🌻🌾🌲

This video was very helpful. I live in north east Indiana and I’m trying to turn my property into a native landscape! I’m trying to start New Jersey Tea and Black Chokeberry here for my foundation landscape. Cheers!

hi summer, you are certainly right about the deer loving the native plants. we have a few riparian areas with pretty dense stands of mountain laurel. even though, as you mention, they are slightly toxic the deer have completely stripped them up to about 4' high. we would love to put in some more native rhododendrons but so far the deer have killed all that we have planted. i will have to try some of the other plants you mentioned and see if we have any better luck. thanks for another great video!

Great video! Here in Middle Missouri both Autumn Olive and Burning Bush are very invasive and I'm finding them in the woods on our new property. Autumn Olive sprouts rigorously after cutting so I do treat them with a small amount of herbicide.

Prayers for your surgeon & for you as you recover. 💕

I found your video while searching for shrubs that fit in my area (Zone 6, West Central Pennsylvania). So many of the same problems with the same or similar alternatives. Thank you for your work in the field and this awesome information!

I'm pleased to find out that Callicarpa Americana is a native!

Certain varieties of high bush blueberries have red leaves in the fall and make a good alternative to burning bush. Hoping more states make burning bush illegal to sell at nurseries. It’s a tough bush to resist after seeing it in the fall.

Thank you! Very informational. I've been looking for native shrubs.

Just removed all the shrubs in my front yard due to changes in light and cold.. love this video

Thank you for doing so much research!

Thank you for this very helpful informative video!

Really relevant here in New Zealand too. I'm planting natives up our vine infested valley and it very interesting to think of native equivalents to some common shrubs for the garden. However i do love a lot of your North American shrubs and have them in the flower bed areas.

Oh, I love these videos. I wish we had a similar channel with Finish or even just Scandinavian knowledge of what would work here in stead of the foreign cultivars we keep purchasing into our gardens here in Finland. Would be so valuable. I'd love to support those natural connections that happen in wildlife in a local level on our land. I should definitely get in contact with our local botanical garden. Maybe they could give me a good start in the game.

I enjoy your videos so much.

Thanks for sharing. I am from the lakes region in central NH. I have several Rhodies that I can identify now. Good to know they are native

Please dedicate an episode to the removal and issues around Japanese knotweed…love the videos

thank you

We literally have every single one of these invasive plants on our 4 acres in north NJ! ugh. Trying to clear them out in the areas we garden and live in, but have 2 acres of woods behind us that is daunting. Great ideas for alternatives!

Hey Summer ! Love the idea of planting native spiciest in my garden, I am in WNY zone 5b I was hoping I would be able to grow cranberries, not only do I love them ,but I think they would be a great ground cover in certain areas of my backyard any thoughts on them? And where can I get my hands on some? They are almost impossible to find ! As always Thank you for the inspiration ❤😊

I think plants on the side of track from animals because it’s active areas and everyone Wants mark

For colorful autumn foliage, there are several sumacs that also bear fruit for wildlife (and people).

It's very interesting that two of of the Rosa species you've listed as native to New York is also native as far south as Florida. Rosa palustris is found southward into Central Florida and Rosa carolina is found in north Florida. Rosa setigera was in north Florida but now believed to be extinct in the State. Unfortunately Rosa multiflora is found in a few counties in north Florida.

Me encanta tu canal. Y ver cómo sabes tanto de plantas!! 😮😮😮

Barberry is heinous. There's a very degraded forest preserve near me in Chicago and the understory is basically just barberry. If that weren't bad enough, they are beloved by ticks for some reason. I don't even really love them at landscape plants, though I've seen some of the cultivated varieties used as accent shrubs and that looks nice. They're not invasive everywhere, apparently. A useful medicinal as well. I love how you can see the yellow in the wood in your footage. Berberine!

A great resource to check if plants are native or invasive to your USA State and even County is BONAP’s NAPA (The Biota of North America Program’s North American Plant Atlas) I think I check the website almost daily.

Wow, you had Bohemian Waxwings on your winterberry. The slightly cooler winter nomad cousin!

Here in Texas the American beauty berry grows well at the edges of wooded areas. The leaves are also somewhat of an insect repellent. Which is handy because my horse doesn’t want to eat it. Locals make jelly out of the beautiful berries. They don’t taste good raw.

Thanks!

Please remind us often of your zone. Love what you and the team are doing there and love that you share your knowledge and experiences.

Is there a Japanese Knotweed with the same look of flowering as the creamy white but in a vibrant pink? Is that one invasive?

I'm normally on team restore eastern Woodlands but I do believe in plant migration as well..with that being said I 100% acknowledge invasive potential here but man Chilean guava berry (ugni molinae) is so good and can handle a frost being from a cooler temperate south American climate zone. Strawberry guava (Psidium cattleyanum) and pineapple guava (Acca sellowiana) might thrive here as well. Pests and disease I dunno. Pink banana (musa velutina) is seedy but also has potential to bear edible fruit..I tend to bend the rules when it comes to food vs planting for cosmetics, especially when there is no similar species filling the void.

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REALLY Good stuff! 👍

Burning bush!! Uuugghhh. I can say with experience that it is indeed invasive in the woods. I’m constantly cutting it out of our woods. Yes it’s beautiful but it offers no wildlife value and frankly the native chokeberries are just as beautiful in the fall as is the Yahoo which is an American burning bush. And the non native burning bush does not get red or as red depending upon sun in the woods so it can be difficult to spot in the woods unless one looks for the wings on the stems. We are in central Ohio zone 6b.

Some sterile varieties of Barberry that are now legal in NYS are: Crimson Cutie, Lemon Cutie, and Lemon Grow

28:40 mark is a variety of Salvia, not Clethra (just a heads up!)

What are your thoughts on the Elderberry? "Native" Sambucus Canadensis... is there a place or use for those in the landscape? Do you guy's have any knowledge or experience with this type of shrub?

What is your soil ph?

Yeah I've always had the issue that you cant completely replace one plant with another. I quite like the density, flowers, and great health of Multiflora Rose, for instance. Kills me to see the rose thickets all ripped from our local parks. Native US Roses just can't compare. In my region they dry out and look terrible half the year. Also a plants invasiveness is very much regional. Multiflora is invasive and will displace other plants here, however many other non-natives aren't a problem. Like they've been eradicating Empress tree, and you barely see them in our woodlands. Just one less variety of plant I get to see on a hike.

How did you remove Japanese knotwood

It’s probably just me but my eyes really struggle with the blurred objects in the front .

Deer will eat clover to the exclusion of EVERYTHING else. They can become pets! (Also taste good cooked.) Bees love clover and is available in seed in huge quantities for that reason. Never hear clover mentioned in shows of your general type. ??? peace and love

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I wish you mentioned rose rosette disease to the list of problems caused by Multiflora rose. I am an avid rose collector so as you can imagine I am concerned about rose rosette disease which is spread with the help of this non native plant.

I thought all Rhodies came from a valley in China and brought back by a British horticulturist a long time ago….

Be so careful Knotweed is spread by mowing so easily.

Hashtag (native gardeners) trigger warning! 🥵

Sweet shrub is so invasive and pop up everywhere..hate it

I wish people would first look at plants, not for their beauty, but for their benefits to wildlife: this obsession with non native/invasive plants needs to stop. Don’t preach natives and then bring in those that are not. Go 100% native.

I do not recommend any cultivar that produces a different flower, leaf, or berry color from the straight species. I have 6 cultivar Ilex Verticillata that produce bright red and orange berries and the birds do not use these plants. Also, the berries of these cultivars are much bigger than the berries of the straight species and do not produce much flowers. So not a valuable plant for the birds or pollinators. The straight species I have, however, are used by the birds. The birds eat the berries, which are dark red and small, and I also see pollinators on the blooms.

"native" "north-east" this must be a US-american channel - no one else on the planet is so egocentric!

I can't help but not chuckle at the name of the area.