Don’t miss some of these beginner friendly garden design ideas! I work with native plants but these garden designs are easy to use with any kinds of flowers, shrubs, grasses, and other parts of the landscape.
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And yes, those yellow flowers at the end are definitely Goldenrod- but I still think there's some rudbeckia submentosa in there! 😂
Counting down the days until spring, friends! 🌱🌱🌱
Loving these videos! From Ontario Canada, lots of overlap in our native plants and I wish more people know how beautiful they could be 🌱
Awesome ideas , this is going to help me for my newish garden bed. Do more😂❤ 🦋🐛🐝🐞
This is great! I like seeing the thought process with the different houses!
I absolutely loved your last video! It gave me really great ideas and kind of gave me permission to put things where I want them and not just have the traditional border gardens around a plain green yard. Boring! I also loved that you also said what you would do as a much more advanced gardener. I am a huge fan of your channel!!
Lisa, you’ve inspired me with this video and I lived the last one too!
13:21 plus, if you want butterflies and lightning bugs, a lot of baby bugs need to drop from the tree and burrow in for their pupation. They have a harder time doing that with grass, so putting in shade plants helps on multiple fronts. (I love a fern for this, they look so prehistoric)
What program are you using that gives you the different plants and ability to remove stuff? I’m working on some ideas for gardens for my new house and also for a few customers and this would make visualizing it all so much easier.
Love these videos. So many great ideas.
As always, love your videos! Keep on going with this series. It’s so fun. Also love that you’re normalizing having the cages around plants. I too learned the hard way about serviceberries. Felt weird about it the first couple years but they do eventually outgrow the cage.
I'm getting lots of inspiration from your videos, but have a suggestion for the first house in this video based on my previous home where I rented. Move the garden from underneath the roof overhang and put the path there.
Unless you use drought tolerant plants, you have to water that spot more often than you realize because it doesn't get rained on, and that's annoying and seems wasteful. It also gets less sunlight, so unless you're lacking in shady spots to garden, why not have the plants where more sunlight can reach them.
Plus, if you put the path there then you will have some cover when coming to your front door in the rain. If the path ends up being longer because of this change, then you have more path to garden along- so I see that as a positive too.
I was frustrated with gardening under the roof overhang where I previously lived. It was also where my spicket was, so the plants ended up being in the way of the hose and getting smooshed when I watered my vegetable garden if I wasn't careful. It ended up being filled with hardier plants that could live with less water and survive more disturbance from the hose.
I am hoping to have my roof overhang extended when I replace my roof, so that I can have a wider path around my house and catch more rain; but I don't know if I will be able to afford to do so, or even if it can be easily done by the average roofer.
It’s very satisfying to see design ideas for different houses. I have deer & rabbit pressure. I don’t understand what hardware cloth you’re putting around new trees.
I am loving this series. I can't wait for spring!
I would like to hear more about how to plant for both wet and dry areas. I have some of each!
More fun! Thank you!
Love this series! I agree grasses make any planting look better. Especially in winter, all the leaves fall off the wildflowers but the grasses stay full all winter.
Could you explain how to mulch around a tree that currently has grass? I've heard that you have to allow the exposed tree roots to breathe so you can't just add a bunch of mulch,, but it's difficult to remove the grass because of all the roots underground. I don't understand how to accomplish this without damaging the tree or working too hard trying to get rid of the grass.
Your videos are always so fun and colorful. I love your visions and seeing them come to life with your editing skills. Your channel is definitely unique. That is for sure. 💙💚💛🧡💜 Liz
Hi! What types of grasses do you recommend planting among wildflowers? Thanks.
I totally replaced my carpet junipers that came with the house with dwarf winterberries for the birds.. finding a male varietal that survives and has enough flowers has been tough, even after 3 years in the ground.. and the birds totally ignore the berries..
When you tell people to make a mulch ring around the tree, PLEASE advise them NOT to do the volcano mulch around the trunk.