Howdy neighbor! I’m building a Florida native container garden with aquatic milkweed, seaside ageratum, and brown savory to bring in bees, butterflies, and monarchs. This easy pollinator pot shows how to match native plants with the right sun, moisture, and container for Florida gardens.
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21 Comments
So excited to get here under 30min!!
Love, love, love Sweet Bay and they love you down there too. You’re the reason I found out about them. Thanks so much. Good luck with your new plants, stay warm, and keep up the great work.
My favorite topic, native plants. The pot is going to look pretty cottagy when it gets full. Why dont you plant some natives inside that stump? I bet that would look fantastic. Love your videos!!!
I put a thin piece of rebar through the holes of the pots and into the ground. They won't tip then as long as you leave enough of the rebar to about half the top pot . I just let it come slightly over the top because you don't see it with the plants anyway..
Oops! I did it again …watched your video and headed to the garden center 😂😂😂 acquired mulch and some annuals for pollinators since everything was laid to waste in the freeze so it's legal 🤣😂
Actually really enjoyed your trip to the native nursery and the plan to use them in a container together Jacqueline brilliant idea!
You booped a flower! I think we could be friends 😊
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If you have a chain saw or borrow one, you can cut that tree stump lower or get a guy to grind it down to mulch. We did that when we lost a tree in the hurricane. It made a great bed.
It makes me want to go down there to get native flowers! I have too much to clean up in my yard first.😢
Always watching from Daytona 😊
Is your mulch outside pine straw? How do you like it?
Nice joices. 💚 I’m waiting for this cold weather to be over to replace all my plants that didn’t make it! 🥶🧊😳
I should think you would put a pot right over the stump.
So cute. I like it.
Can you make a container garden with drought tolerant plants or which specific plants would you have choosen to make something similar to yours just drought tolerant
I have buried rotted logs in almost all of my raised beds to act as sponges, make pockets for aeration and drainage, and add food for microbes. Perhaps you could move your bed over that stump. It looks very old and dead, so it shouldn't tie up nitrogen to help it decay.
Larry wanted to go to Home Depot to get a new tool….hey, I'm in, lol…you should see my collection of Ryobi tools, so of course I hit the garden section. They didn't have much of a selection of herbs, so I only came home with a couple of Italian sage, the very last flat they had of lavender, a pot of lavender and two pots of Mexican Heather. Those two went into the concrete planter that Is took some dying thorny plant out of. The lavender I just set out along the sidewalk to repot later. When I went out this morning the bees were already all over it.
All my plants are back outside, and I took the hibiscus out of their cold frame. They are so beautiful that you would never know we had the slightest cold weather. Now I am eyeballing it and wondering what I can do with it….thinking miniature greenhouse. You know, ….I think I was somewhat sane until I started gardening again, lol.
Consider Stoppers for your hedge! I created a Spanish Stopper hedge, knowing that particular plant is slow growing. However, I am excited to see it fill in over the years. I have also created a White Stopper hedge. Slow growing as well, plus mine gets considerable shade; but the amount of berries for the birds, OMGosh!! And lastly, my Silver Buttonwood hedge grows super fast. I trim it from time to time, but it's basically a tree hedge at this point, and I am not complaining! I also considered the Sea Grape as I have seen those hedged before. I just know how huge they get and wonder how far that root system spreads. In the end I went with the Stoppers and Buttonwood.
Enjoy watching, can you show us how your frog fruit did after the cold snap?
Ive got violets in a pot and a small plant in the ground. I like that I can move the pot around to follow light and let seeds drop
False rosemary, pennyroyal, and blueberries are all great for this time of year and especially this year when southeastern blueberry bees are desperately looking for flowers for both pollen and nectar.