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Im so happy to hear your business is growing! Once youre able to focus on it more and make it even better and grow it even more

Im interested in trying arbutus too!! I heard of a nursery selling them in biodegradable pots so customers can bury the whole thing and skip all the potential user error when planting

I didn't know we had a native chickweed, I've only ever seen the eurasian one growing near where I live. I have never seen that for sale anywhere either, did you have to collect the seeds from the wild? Good luck with your madrones! I have one that is about to go through its 3rd winter, seems to be making it in my backyard so fingers crossed!

Love you ate still growing!

Howdy, as someone who is up on year 1.5 of starting a strictly native plant nursery, your videos have been very helpful and I'd love to see more. Keep up the great work.

feels like Josh cries everytime he talks about his buisness

Good stuff mate. One famous farmer in Sweden makes his money selling ridiculously overpriced courses, he was selling tickets to one weekend course for £850, to learn how to grow vegetables! Read the packet for free, dammit! You could see The Rolling Stones five times for that money! Another way he profits is by using 'interns' - basically slaves who work for free: something nobody should EVER do! He says they gain an education but, do they? He's not accredited like a university and working as a modern slave on his smallholding does not look impressive on your CV. Great to see someone on TH-cam doing it for real!

Clover are always so fascinating even though most of them we have in the north east are invasive, many of them survived our 40 day drought along with our native pollinators! Just sucks they don't benefit our tiny plot cause the lack of needing to maintain them isn't worth the miniscule amount of nitrogen they can lay down cause violet is much much more aggressive and does it better with the benefit of feeding a whole family of deer..

have you tried root cuttings from the silverweed and clover?

Great to hear about the progress, Josh. Learning what and how grow it is so different than other businesses because you only get one shot per year. It is like farming that way. The stuff I got from you last summer has done very well and I'm super happy with it. Keep up the good work and best of luck for '25.

Ranuculus repens, the invasive one is the creeping buttercup -- western buttercup usually refers to Ranunculus occidentalis which is native (and has been one of the easier native things to come up from seed for me, I have uber clay poorly draining soil and it tolerates that really well). Love the Cascade penstemon, that is one of the penstemons that actually grows for me, did you do those from seed or were they cuttings? I've never been able to get any seeds to germinate.

How did you afford supplies and things early on? Did you take out a loan? Starting a nursery and it's been a journey.

What up Josh. Great video

You remind me of my son 😊 Your family must be so proud of what you’ve accomplished

Exactly! They’re part of the ecosystem.

Very inspiring. Humble beginnings. I’d like to start a native plant nursery here in Mojave desert

Yes yes and yes! So much wisdom. Thank you for sharing.

Omg I love candy flower under cultivation. I didn't expect it to do so well, I guess I thought it would be a more sensitive plant because I only see it in the wild? I just have one corner of shade and our summers get pretty hot -- but just with a bit of supplemental irrigation it flowered like crazy and reseeded like gangbusters, it was a nice surprise, and it flowers for a long time! I have my first baby reseedlings of fringecup too this year; they reseeded in like the tiny narrow band of shade I have on the north side of my house. My vanilla leaf died though almost immediately...

Great video, just the list of understory plants I've been looking for!

Have you tried growing devil’s club? I’d like to get some

Gallium aparine, which this is, is a native plant, a weedy native, but a native.

Just came across your channel. I bought a little Sea Thrift from you a month or so ago that is doing great in the full sun and is currently sending up lots of flowers. Sad to hear about the overwinter mortalities, but it looks like you still have lots to work with and also have the right attitude! All the best.

Love this content! I realized I need more early blooming natives here in the Seattle area, especially because I host native mason bees. Indian plum is definitely one of my top plants. And I'm also on the search for beaked hazelnut, as I've heard it blooms as early as January!

Thanks for this! I tried sowing a bunch of native seeds directly into the soil (March) it's now May - still no germination. I stored them in the fridge for a few months before sowing them. I hope I didn't kill them. I think I'll try your method next time...see if I have better success. Will take a look at your site too!

Hey Josh! So cool to find your vids. I follow you on IG- I’m Vancouver Invasives. I grow a variety of stuff in my back yard for transplanting and was shocked at my losses to that cold snap. Def plan to swing by and see your stock!

I am so super excited for you! You look good, you seem happy and you are blessing us with good information! Thanks for posting, sharing species updates & growth patterns. I love your vids! Keep going!!

For the deer also.. stakes in the corners, twine between the stakes and cans on the twine to make noise in the wind.

One thing I noticed in my nursery was the bigger the pot they overwintered in, the more likely they survived that -20 week. Almost all our dicentras made it and are currently blooming. So maybe give bigger pots a try if you can? Good luck!

Love love, thank you for sharing.

My 3 yr old red flowering currant had only 1 limb come out of dormancy 😢 this year. Since it's past time for flowering I pruned it all back -- cutting into it, a lot of the tissue seems alive still? I'm hoping that pruning might encourage some new growth. It was so sad though I look forward to the blooms every year. Save seeds from the one that lived, we'll need hardier strains for the future.

Great to see that native plants finally getting some love in the zeitgeist. I am converting my yard to natives and one problem I am having is getting a male/ female set of diecious shrubs. Having to plant multiples of bushes that can get quite big then waiting till they mature, then hoping there is at least one male and one female in the mix, then having to remove the others because the space is not large enough is a big waste of time, money, and energy. I think there is a niche for selling sets. For example, Logee's sells a 4 inch pot set of winterberry for $ 35. It would seem a small nursery could have a niche selling a wider selection of rooted cuttings.

Love the tours! Thanks also for the private financial info- I can see how much nursery stock I’m going to need to make my financial goals (a bus load more). I also am passionate about native species and want others to enjoy wildlife and nature for years to come, but the reality is that I also need to pay the utility bills! Can you tell us more about how you stratify and winter temp fluctuations in the greenhouse? is it heated?

Great logo!

Great content!

Thank you for mentioning the less appreciated pollinators. Please tell us more.

Dude, your videos are awesome!

Where are you?

You're nursery is awesome, hope you keep at it! I'm helping my friend do the same thing in minnesota, this will be our 1st year.

Thank you so much for each of your vids. I am just starting a native plant nursery in southern MN and your tours of a working nursery are resonating with me. You often talk about your learning how to germinate this or that plant better - share HOW!! I am learning so much from you. Absolutely agree with above comment about Savvy Dirt Farmer and Frazer. Big big difference is that they are not selling natives. They have successful nurseries and i love watching them but as I am getting started there are many things that are different when selling natives. One piece of advice i got is to write down WHY i chose to open a Native nursery. It has been a good encouragement and reminder to myself on the days it feels futile (especially financially). Keep going!

Always love to see updates! Very exciting, I hope to get into taking some cuttings of stuff Im growing soon

❤ Collomia grandiflora. I had 1 come up from a wildflower seed mix packet, in the January after I seeded it in the fall. That one individual reseeded quite a bit. Last fall a bunch germinated and all the baby sprouts have been surviving the winter, which got insanely cold this year (for us, it was in the teens for a couple of days). I found collecting the seeds really challenging because the seed heads are very sticky. The best seeds will be around the outside as those are more likely to be out-crossed. The seeds on the top are selfed because the species is cleistogamous I guess? Mostly visited by bumblebees in my urban yard, not a lot else though their stems are pithy so I wouldn't be surprised if the small carpenter bees used them to overwinter.

Hi Josh! I just found your channel and am excited to follow another native plant nursery! We are a native plant nursery in Northern Michigan, this year will be our first year starting some of our own plants from seed. A few questions for you - are your hoophouses heated at all? How often do you water your overwintered plants? Lastly, what are your top native plants to start from seeds (for beginners). So glad we found your channel!

Yay Josh! So nice to see the fruits of your labour 🍊

That continuous mister is really nifty!

I hope the snow doesnt reach us down south ahahaha

glad to see you're back! the tours of the what you're growing is always a treat!

Wicked Josh!!! This is awesome.