BORING LAWN To DIVERSE POLLINATOR GARDEN - Ep. 121
It's hard to believe that around 10 months ago, this was nothing more than a lawn, but now this pollinator garden is planted up with close to 260 different varieties of plants-many of them native and that provide pollen sources for specialist pollinators, like solitary bees, for example. We'll take you through a meditative tour of this lawn-turned-pollinator haven.
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This was heart warming. I adore pollinator plants and herbs as I am a herbalist. Too many people mow too many areas thinking that they want to neaten up the gardens. We need more wild. Some high grasses are what fireflies need to breed and find mates. The more pollinator plants the better. You’ve done a heroic job. This isn’t even a year old but you couldn’t tell. More please. Love these videos.
I've noticed the fireflies love our shade gardens too - trying to expand them more to give them some more living space! (and so I can squeeze in more ferns :D)
Love love love your kindness, gentleness and love for gardening and teaching us along the way. 🌷🙏🏻🌷
Lovely! It makes me smile...be a red Dahlia in a sea of pastel 😊
This is my dream. We have just under an acre, lots of lawn and I'm slowly converting as much as I can into native gardens. So inspiring to see this!
Same with us - fun and a bit daunting all at once!
Filming this before real sunup was magical:)
Nice dress. It’s for perfect for the occasion. Lovely garden! Excellent job. Thanks for showing us the nice scenery.
Have you considered making merchandise? T-shirts made in an ethical way would be amazing 🤩
I love your meadow gardens. So beautiful and natural. Thank you for including the perfect music to fully appreciate it. 💕 🌼
The unexpected sunflowers really worked well with your masterful purplish scheme
Such a beautiful garden. Always special when giving back to nature
You pollinator garden is looking so beautiful and whimsical even! I have been following this channel since you first announced it, and I know you say that it will take a long time to get the land to where you want it and there is much more to do, but it is absolutely amazing the amount that you all have accomplished in just a couple of years with this property. It really is becoming something special and I am so excited to continue to follow your journey as you continue to shape the land into a nature wonderland!
Nice to see your excitement about these plants.
Beautiful. I am just going to start a Wildflower Garden. Slowly, since I broke my hip. Time heals all. Thank you for sharing.
Every time I plant some flowers, the deer eat it - except for the mints, like catmint of course. All my sunflowers got really tall (planted by the squirrels and birds, from the bird feeder) and got decapitated also - right before they bloomed. I blamed the deer. On the plus side, I do appreciate that the deer chomp down my blackberry bed when it gets out of control and I open the fence for them. I get Japanese beetles, so it’s not like I eat the blackberries anyway. Unfortunately we also have a lot of builder fill dirt. At least I have a good container garden on the deck. I need to learn more. I wish I had more time. But I love this channel so I can live vicariously 😊
New subscriber. I’m enjoying all your Flock Finger Lakes videos. This pollinator garden is amazing! Thank you for all your zen like inspiration and for you love of the Natural World. 🌿
Good luck. Beautiful cultivars. Ours is zone 8/9 finally after 8 years of struggling we have majority indegienous species.
What a beautiful idea to try and get to 100% specialist pollinators! I will have to look into doing the same in my own garden 🤩🥰 very inspiring, thank you for sharing
Love your garden! I’ve watched a squirrel eat the heads off of volunteer sunflowers.
Wonderful video. I like seeing the names of the plants. Thank you!❤️❤️❤️
This is by far one of the best pollinator garden tours I've seen on you tube! So much in bloom! So many native plant gardens look like a hot mess, but this looks like an actual intentional garden that just so happens to embrace natives. Very inspiring. I wrote down some names of plants I intend to try. Thank you
you're most welcome.
I love this type of gardening. Thank you for sharing and for caring for our relations. ❤️💛🧡💜💚💙🪶
Thank you for presenting such a DELIGHTFUL video, btw you picked the perfect dress for the settings.
Absolutely glorious‼️
I love the way you are gardening. Very good job, May you be an inspiration for many people.And I like it that you mention the plants by their Latin names so that People in other countries know where you are talking about.
Beautiful!!!!
I'm not sure if it's the plants themselves, your wealth of information, or the videographer that makes these videos so captivating but I love them!
I think it's "yes" "yes" and "yes" 😄
I’ve been following this since this channel started. Time passed so quickly. This is absolutely beautiful and inspiring. Can’t wait to see how it would look like in the future
You guys have put such hard work into this, it's so heart warming to see it all start to pay off. 👁️ am so glad you're spreading the message about our beloved pollinators. Keep up the amazing work! 💚
I'm so inspired by this tour, thank you... I live in a relatively unique environment being a Maritime Forest on the coast, that was very sadly once a wetlands that was drained for development in the early 70's. So, it's very sandy soil here, and buggy, and horribly the town I live in blanket sprays for mosquitoes. But I still try to provide sustenance for all the pollinators and wildlife that I can. I'm slowly building the soil and adding more plants that I see get a lot of interest from the birds, bees, bugs, and butterflies. I love the wild, peaceful, wabi sabi, yet orchestrated, look of your gardens. Thank you for the inspiration and knowledge that you share.
This was SO fun to watch
It's here!❤ I watched the planting videos and just now got a notification for this! It's beautiful.
Thank you for this episode, the garden is stunning! The things you all have done, are amazing! I always look forward to the next video, both here and on your other channel.
We are loving how quickly the three of you are transforming your property. I think we'll be asking for plant advice as we move forward with our own farm transformation just down the road. :)
What a beautiful garden. My wife and I were blown away you forgot a name! Just kidding we know you are human too. BTW someone had to say something about that dress, WOW!! So pretty. Like a Klimt painiting. GREAT job guys. Thanks for the inspiration
You're probably the person to ask: how do you choose newer cultivars in confidence that they will be beneficial for some bugs? I'm not talking about specialists necessarily, I've just heard from some entomologists that a lot of new plants offer nothing to bugs, even many that are advertised as pollinator plants. People can't just assume because it is a cultivar that comes from a good pollinators plant that it will also be good, but of course there are so many plants out there beyond the original species. Is there something you're looking for, or do you simply research every cultivar you are considering? And do you have a complete list of all your plants here and in your meadow? This is absolutely beautiful. Gorgeous garden and light. -kat
I don't mow and plant with abandon, hand weed only a few noxious interlopers and have been rewarded with clouds of butterflies, moths, skippers, bees of all kinds, wasps of several kinds, beetles, mantids, spiders--Yay! the argiope garden spiders are splendid!--hummingbird moths, sphinx moth, hummingbirds and song birds!--all on 1/8th acre in suburbia! Thank you for getting the word out! It can be done!
Love your garden. It is perfect. My favorite style. Looks absolutely amazing.
Nice garden, its great fun to watch your adventure unfold. Thanks for posting.
I'm building a pollinator garden specifically with monarchs in mind. Quickly falling in love with the idea that our yards can be conservation sites if we want them to be💚
Wow! Just beautiful again, this is so uplifting and inspirational. Keep it up it looks great! Love and peace from Cornwall xxx
Such a beautiful and inspiring pollinator garden!
I've been following you since starting this garden, and am happy to see your success! If you want more specialist bees, you might consider Summer Poinsettia plant, aka Fireplant Euphorbia. Mine is covered in LOTS of different bee species. I got the seeds from my grandmother before she passed.
I appreciate your naturalistic, light-handed way of planting, and have taken up many of your ideas in my own garden.
An inspiring garden. Thanks for sharing.
just breathtaking! thank you, this is such great inspiration for my future gardens. I love getting the names of each plant, as I often don't know what to look for or what a plant may look like at it's full size (vs a bedding plant baby - or a seed). Also love that dress, amazing colour!
What a stunning garden
Thank you so much Summer! Dazzling!
Looks awesome! Love what you did. Enjoy.
It’s beautiful!!! Screenshot a few for the wishlist 😍
It's turning out sooooo nice!!
It looks absolutely stunning... What a gorgeous place it became...is woow...like a wonder garden 😍😘🤗
Great tour, Summer, and that DRESS is bangin’
Loved watching this tour and the garden is just beautiful.. I aspire to convert my backyard into this slowly! such a great inspiration ❤
Just tore out my back yard as it was five foot high in goose grass, brambles and creepers. Used a tiller to turn it all over one I had removed the top layer. Had many roots to pull out but seems I got most of them. I'm doing pretty much the same and planted it with meadow flowers to promote the ecology of where I live.
Mountain mint is a wasp magnet. So many amazing wasp, all so chill. (O;
Awesome Thank you, I paused video to write down the names of some of the pollinators lol love this concept of bringing pollinators into the landscape!!
I cant believe that i started out gardening trying to establish an English garden. As i've gotten older and less able to dig, i've become infatuated with native plants!
Loved it!
It's great to see the huge transformation in your property; you have put in an impressive amount of time and devotion into your projects. Thanks to Summer for your perennial vigor and perpetual smile. Thanks to Sander for the skillful videography; for example the early morning backlit plants make for a surprising showcase I'd never expect in a pollinator garden. Thanks to overseas Joey for making films that matter. Wishes for continued success to all . . . .
It's looking spectacular! Love your dress too!
So beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I love how your videos are filmed and edited
Your meadow is so beautiful.
Your garden is very beautiful and so are you
Wow Summer , the pollinators garden is soo beautiful, and every year would be fuller, thanks for sharing!!!
Beautiful, beautiful pollinator garden!!! I love how attentive you are to the plant, insect, and mammalian world right in front of you. Would you have a list of the 260+ varieties you have there?
Gorgeous !! My dream lawn!
I love your pollinator garden & meadow---after I get my dream rose garden done, I have a perfect area on my property for exactly something like this, & I'm hoping I can get it done before I get too "vintage!" A tip to chase away the gophers/voles/chipmunks from areas where you don't want them---put a couple of dog turds down the hole. It seems to send the message that this is not a good place. There are areas of my property where almost all things are welcome to exist b/c they were here first---and those holes do aerate & loosen our nice (!) clay soil---but NOT under my roses!
Your pollinator garden is so beautiful. I really like it. I agree, l see a lot of gardens, small plots, side yards etc that are just sort of abandoned, with only some dried up grass growing or just gravel. It's a wasted land and it's looking so sad. ☹️ My sister has a garden planted in the Chicagoland area and this year she barely saw any pollinators. It was a very quiet spring and summer, very concerning 😟
LOVE IT!
We've been noticing the same with the Canadian geese in Belgium, and Fall hit us with tons of rain since last week! Funny how these creatures seem to know better than us what is up ahead.
An idea. For those of us who want/need to do more of this as economically as possible.... maybe some simple seed starting videos for natives, pollinator plants, etc.? Regular window -sill or simple light set-up stuff.since only a few have greenhouses. Seems like it would be practical for a lot of folks. Thanksmuchly
Fantastic... I love planting wildflower seeds.... Yours looks stunning...
I have a very large balcony since this spring and I try to achieve a meadow vibe with lots of pots and native species. I was just trying and I was already overwhelmed with the amount of pollinators that came in. Very soon I will go for bulb and seed shopping. Next year will be even better
Is there a list where we can find what are specialist pollinator plants for different states? I’m in Rhode Island.
Check your local agricultural extension! I took a class through mine (Penn State) about supporting native pollinators and they showed us how to identify the different insects/butterflies and the kinds of plants to plant for them in your region!
Loving these. Beautiful job!!
Absolutely beautiful! You can feel like hustle and bustle and life from this area.
Awesome 🌸🌱
Your garden looks so good! This is so interesting and important to listen to. I really enjoy the way you present facts, flora and fauna. I really need to do my own research and read up on my own local pollinators. As an aside, you see a lot of the perennials you call native being sold commercially here and are sometimes really popular. Of course, "here" being Sweden, that also comes with its own issues regarding invasiveness so while I can objectively really, really like your garden, part of me is too used to seeing some of them take over in these parts. For instance, Lupines recently became (finally) blacklisted for their astounding talent to just spread, and spread, and spread until you have entire fields filled with them.
4:52 Pretty sure that's a Half-black Bumble Bee, cool to see one on video, I don't get to see them where I live. So cool that you have chipmunks planting seeds too! I'm going to be planting that Purpletop Vervain at 15:20 too, I saw it at my local botanical gardens attracting Monarchs like CRAZY and can't resist, even though it's not native to my region either. Might I suggest collecting seeds from the existing plants you have if you're going to plant more gardens? It's extremely easy and soothing I find, plus will save you lots. If you sow in the fall, you won't need to water in the spring :). Also, if you're looking to ensure that the pollinators with have food all season long, planting some columbine + golden alexanders + native flowering shrubs for the spring and asters + goldenrods in the fall would do the trick.
LOVE the garden tours including this one, thank you!
👍🎶🌺🇲🇾❤ Love that you refer to all the plants using their botanical names.
Just gorgeous! 💕 What an amazing job y’all have done, I so much enjoy following along on the journey and living my best gardening life vicariously through your videos. Thank you for sharing! 🙏✨
I always enjoy a garden tour: I especially appreciate the plant and pollinator information you share.
Absolutely love these tours! Well done!! Beautiful garden
What a lovely tour - your knowledge, passion and beauty kept me watching.
Lovely tour, you've done a wonderful job transforming the land and integrating it to the bigger picture of nature. Thanks for sharing
Bless you❤❤❤
I love your pollinator garden with all the beautiful colored plants. I hope to start something on a small scale next year also.
this garden is amazing! definitely inspired to plant a few hundred plants in my yard right now!!!
I've been watching and following you for quite a while, absolutely love the content. I'm about to do something similar as you did with my lawn. I was wondering if there's is a map, or list, describing your different gardens and what plants are in each ?
Such a lovely garden!
Thank you for these inspiring videos! This one in particular, audio and camera are so great.
This is so inspiring. Are there resources you recommend for figuring out what species are good in someone else's climate? I would love to find an easy go-to guide for Illinois.
this garden is so beautiful thanks for sharing
Sweet!! 💌
I have recently gotten really into researching our native plants both host & pollination plants. Collecting seeds and germinating them. Testing on plots, etc. I have been amazed at the difference in our native wildlife. Old bird nests are constructed from materials on our land vs from from other places. The amount of wild birds, rabbits, snakes, etc. And less of the things I don't want, like ticks & fleas. All from planting native plants and gradually eliminating non native lawns.
Gorgeous. You have such an eye for color. Love the idea of mixing natives in with other pollinator attractors.
This is so beautiful, i wish i had some land so that i could do something like that, also i would like to say that i absolutely agree with you when you say that it is wonderful to have the wild life using your space as if was their own. Congratulations and keep doing what you do.
Love your garden. Good job.
It’s all so beautiful!! You look so pretty yourself!!