WALK WITH ME and tour MEDITERRANEAN PLANTS of ELEANOR PARDEE GARDEN in PALO ALTO (October 1, 2020)

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WALK WITH ME and tour MEDITERRANEAN PLANTS of ELEANOR PARDEE GARDEN in PALO ALTO during OCTOBER 2020.
ELEANOR PARDEE GARDEN is a public space that is composed of a few different gardens (Master Gardener Test Gardens, Community Gardens, Pollinator Garden, Mediterranean Climate Demonstration Garden).
In this video, WALK WITH ME and tour the DEMONSTRATION GARDEN full of MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE plants and CALIFORNIA NATIVES. I identify the plants with their BOTANICAL NAME and COMMON NAME and talk about how to take care of them.
In this garden, there's a section of ALTERNATIVE LAWNS - I talk about each one of them, PROS and CONS.
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@FLOWERCHILDGARDENS 4 года назад

I NEED GARDEN TIPS! Have you tried any of these alternative lawn options? What has your experience been? What are some of your tips to keeping the plants looking fresh and clean? How do you maintain them, and what's your irrigation setup like?

@Sakura-zu4rz 4 года назад

Slowly I am learning how to glow plants, flowers, fruits and vegetables, I am finding gardening very therapeutic and inspiring, spending time outside with my hands in the earth while observing nature grow.

@FLOWERCHILDGARDENS 4 года назад

Yes, I agree it is so therapeutic and healing! How is your garden like?

@Sakura-zu4rz 4 года назад

@@FLOWERCHILDGARDENS OMG thank you for replying my comments❤️🤗😁 Very nice video, ❤️🤗😁

@Nhoj31neirbo47 3 года назад

I enjoy your garden tours. I lived in SF for 27 years but never visited this wonderful facility. I’m in SD now but can apply much of your commentary to gardening down here. Thanks for sharing.

@FLOWERCHILDGARDENS 3 года назад

Thank you for watching the video! How is your garden in San Diego? Was it a transition planting in a warmer climate?

@Nhoj31neirbo47 3 года назад

@@FLOWERCHILDGARDENS - Yes, there are quite a few differences between gardening in summerless, perpetually cool, cloudy, heat starved SF and SD, the seemingly land of endless summer and blue skies. A plus down here is that many subtropicals and warm loving exotic species perform better than in chilly SF. Of course plants from cool moist areas do better in SF. Many flowering perennials and shrubs do better in SF, in that they flower for a much longer period. SD has the great climate but much of the county has poor to terrible soil and the tap water is extremely hard, 550 ppm. SF has very sandy soil but that’s easy to amend with organic matter. SF tap water is pretty good quality. The gardens I take care of here have unamended ‘hard pan’ clay conglomerate or the same with about 9 inches of so-so top soil that was dumped on top to plant grass on years ago. I have figured out that it’s best to choose plants that have thick aggressive roots that can penetrate the rock hard clay. The hard pan is virtually impossible to dig or amend so many folks resort to raised beds in order to grow choice plants and vegetables. What really thrives here are cactus and succulents. If you’re interested and can find the time I would like to share a new part of my garden that I created over the last year. I posted it recently in a video titled Exotic Cactus and Succulent Garden. Stay safe and well.

@umaumalei14 4 года назад

Another nice video, Susan. Appreciate the tour of Mediterranean plants. So important to feature low water gardening in CA. Especially enjoyed your highlight of the CA Buckwheat blooms with the contrasting grass in the background. Thanks for bringing up low water groundcover alternatives. I've been thinking about reducing my Fescue/Bluegrass lawn. I am intrigued by Kurapia but wonder how it would stand up to pee from my dogs. I like Dymondia, but have found it to be a pain to weed my adjacent lawn grass that sprouts within. I like Thyme. Did not know it tolerates light shade, which would be a plus in my part sun back yard. Not sure how it would stand up to my dogs though. Have you had much experience with Kurapia or Thyme as a larger scale ground cover for clients with dogs?

@FLOWERCHILDGARDENS 4 года назад

Thanks for watching Joel! How is your Fescue lawn doing? What type of irrigation setting do you have it on? I think Kurapia may be okay for the milder coastal climates. I'm still not sure if it will fare well inland like San Jose because of frost. I wonder about the deep taproots though - will it be virtually indestructable? Could that be a problem in the future? I heard that it's a happy spreader from a gardener in San Francisco... Not sure how it can take the dog pee! I imagine, it may kill off the foliage, but since it has the tap roots it will survive and flush back out.... Most of these groundcovers are like groundcovers and not really a true lawn alternative. Lawns are tough and can get walked on all the time.. In my opinion, Thyme and Dymondia are good for small crevice plantings, between flagstone or pathways. The Fescues and even Carex are good for mass plantings. Carex tumulicola seems to be really tough, but it reseeds easily.

@umaumalei14 4 года назад

@@FLOWERCHILDGARDENS Thanks, Susan. I think I'm narrowing it down to Kurapia to replace some of my lawn and decrease my water consumption. I just reduced watering my lawn from daily (1 min to wash off the dog pee and 6 minutes per station on alternate days) to 6 minutes per station 4 days per week. One challenge I have is that some areas are getting more shady and are still irrigated by the same station that waters other areas in full sun. Another is that the lawn shape is very curvy and narrow in places, making it hard for sprinkler heads to reach evenly. I look forward to finding a suitable lawn substitute that requires less water and maintenance!

@pacificpermaculture 4 года назад

I have not tried these alternatives.I would ask what is the purpose of the lawn ?? is there a reason that it has to be grass ?? If it is just a green patch in the yard,maybe something else can be grown.Bunch grass seems like would be a good edge for a garden.Thanks for the tour ! ! !

@FLOWERCHILDGARDENS 4 года назад

Some folks just want a "lawn" and others want an open space for their pets to play in... I took mine out right away.