Shows techniques used in planting a drought tolerant California native plant garden. Sheet mulching with cardboard, wood chips, compost. Landscaping by Bay Maples in San Jose, CA, plants from Native Revival in Aptos, CA.
Grass sucks. hats off to you for supporting native landscapes! Would have been nice to see what the project looked like after a couple of years growth. I find these kinds of videos always fall short of being effective / convincing if they don't show a mature garden.
I really like your video. please watch Doug Tallamy's video (with the jaguar) and you will be even happier to be planting Native Plants.. it's so awesome and the wildlife needs us to because butterflies are very specific where they lay their eggs, and mama birds only feed the baby birds catapillers. They really us to not plant and the japonicas and non natives, but rather to Plant Natives. 🙂 Thanks
Mushroom compost is awesome, and they usually give it away for free! I've gone through 150 cu yards on my property and only had to pay the dump truck driver to deliver it. The water retention of the soil where I've composted is easily 3-4x better than the native soil, meaning I water about 1/4 as often.
Many of you have asked about how the garden looks today. Here it is: https://youtu.be/Hbpx7hyzguI The cost was about $5000 for plants, irrigation amendments and labor. I could have done without the irrigation. It leaked so often, I just pulled out most of it. Many plants rely on our natural water. I water the buckwheats once a moth in the summer to keep them greenish. Never water the Manzanita, Elderberry or Gooseberry/ Santa Clara County, CA offers rebates for removing a lawn.
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Those rounds will dry up and crack inside a year!
Grass sucks. hats off to you for supporting native landscapes! Would have been nice to see what the project looked like after a couple of years growth. I find these kinds of videos always fall short of being effective / convincing if they don't show a mature garden.
so is it against the law to bring native Californian plants to Florida?
Libtard losers hiring Libtard losers and illegals!
Great choice in music x)
Invest heavily in weed killer. The grass will keep trying to come back.
Totally digging this video. More people should be planting natives in their gardens.
awesome work ! need to see some after pics, polka music is outstanding!!!
I really like your video. please watch Doug Tallamy's video (with the jaguar) and you will be even happier to be planting Native Plants.. it's so awesome and the wildlife needs us to because butterflies are very specific where they lay their eggs, and mama birds only feed the baby birds catapillers. They really us to not plant and the japonicas and non natives, but rather to Plant Natives. 🙂 Thanks
Mushroom compost is awesome, and they usually give it away for free! I've gone through 150 cu yards on my property and only had to pay the dump truck driver to deliver it. The water retention of the soil where I've composted is easily 3-4x better than the native soil, meaning I water about 1/4 as often.
i would like to do this for my lawn but am unsure if my city would even allow it. What is the cost of such a project?
Love this video👍✌🙏 good hard working honest folks
Um was that the finished look? It looked better with the patchy grass 😂
Is it possible to add costs, where to purchase material (hopefully not Amazon) please?😭
Would love an update on how the plants are doing today
Whats its look like 6 years later
Yeah, sorry I am not feeling it, one good rain all of the mulch will be in the gutter, yeah it rains a lot there.
Great video! Where did you dispose of the sod that you cut out? I want to do this for my lawn, but I don’t know where to dispose the waste.
Awful looking garden
Many of you have asked about how the garden looks today. Here it is: https://youtu.be/Hbpx7hyzguI
The cost was about $5000 for plants, irrigation amendments and labor. I could have done without the irrigation.
It leaked so often, I just pulled out most of it. Many plants rely on our natural water. I water the buckwheats once
a moth in the summer to keep them greenish. Never water the Manzanita, Elderberry or Gooseberry/
Santa Clara County, CA offers rebates for removing a lawn.
How much does something like this cost for?