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😅do you have a pullerbear for roots?

I’ve been wanting to do this at my Villa Park IL house for some time… ideally what you ware doing in the back and then wondering if there is a shorter option in the front .. I’ve read about sedges that would work possibly but there are many kinds. Do you know anyone for hire, not a crazy expensive lawn service but someone who could help me plan the change? I am in construction so I have some guys who can help with the labor but I need guidance. I could just go off of this, but I need help in the areas that can’t go so high like the front yard. I’ll check for the land trust but not sure if they have that closer to the city. Thank you for this. ❤ I am a good researcher but my time is limited and I dont want to keep putting this off. I am grateful for this information

I feel like Sarah is the kind of person that I would meet randomly at an event and then spend a very long time talking to about native plants. Thanks for all the great info!

Unfortunate you felt the need to pull the Canada goldenrod - by far the most important type of prairie plant for the ecosystem …

Thank you. In addition to being interesting, this was a helpful informative presentation.

What would you plant in place of it after cutting it down in the spring?

useless video. Wanted to know how to deadhead.

Mine just stopped having flowers. How do I pinch it back, or should I ?

That will be a forest unless it's mowed every few years.

What zone are you in? I'm 7a I think, (in Canada)

Great presentation! Thank you!

Definitely planning to do this down here in Mississippi once I move out of this subdivision.

Indian grass has been the most aggravating aggressive thing in my native prairie

Yeaaaa I feel I might have a problem with my project lol. I didn't lay anything down, covered a quarter of the area with just good compost/black dirt, quarter of lawn clippings and dirt on top of that, and the other half I currently have lawn clippings on. I'll add black dirt/compost in the fall before I seed the winter sowing seeds. 🤷🤔 Ps. I aslo planted on a 15ft by 90ft sand berm to prevent a basement from flooding lol. So mowing will be a problem also 🤦😅

My senators are illiterate.

Rattlesnake master is related to carrots not yucca. The yuccafolium reference in the Latin name refers to the way the leaves look. Not a yucca/agave.

How much seed did you use?

Great experience based information on this channel. I'm in the Chicago area too and can vouch for some of these observations. I tried New England aster for three years and, yeah, nope.. not for my yard, just not possible to keep them looking nice, even with multiple hard prunings to reduce the height, and they get white mildew every year. I moved them to nearby train tracks where sparse natives grow and no maintenance is done. It will be nice to see them as I drive past.. I picked up a packet of aromatic aster for my easement prairie instead, and they look very cool in October with the little bluestem. Will have to keep the rhizomes at bay until the other stuff gets a foothold. But asters are great for starting out because they're pretty much weeds, they grow like mad and they're tough as nails. That's why I got the NE aster in the first place - local nursery stocks them in their native section, but imo they should stock aromatic instead.

I guess if you are designing a meadow you need to be away from agriculture using this plant? Does it change the soil to inhibit all monocots?

Very beautiful

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Interesting about the petals melting with heat - thanks for this quick tips video!

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Please don’t take this the wrong way, but your delivery is my favourite thing, you sound like a professor that had a few glasses of wine and forgot you had a lecture, and quickly hopped on zoom. Made the whole video and content more enjoyable and fun. Thank you for your informative content!

This is the first and possibly only time I’ll ever say this, and I don’t wanna hear about later…yaaas queen!

Where is the proof of the increase storm events?

No one ever says what state they are in. How are viewers supposed to know where in the country you are?

Awesome video. So much information.

Sarah is such a good presenter!!

Where did you get your seed mix from?

I normally buy my wild flower seeds from the Dollar Tree or Dollar General they got these packets that are like pollinator flowers and hummingbird flowers and some other stuff mixed into the packet I just throw them on the ground and let them grow

I noticed almost everyone she almost been talking to their name starts with a J☺

I wonder if there's anything like that for Peoria County

I buy my wildflower seeds from Dollar General for a dollar 25 a packet they got all kinds of seed 4 for $4 dollar 25 for 14 G

fantastic content and information thank you

How does it look few months later?

When should germination occur in spring after sowing in the dormant season? It's mid April and soil Temps have eclipsed the 55 degrees F threshold I'm seeing minimal emergence I water just to ensure seeds don't desicate, damp light spray.

This helped me alot. I have bee clearing a lot of invasive honeysuckle from the grounds, something my HOA isn't aware of yet. Been using Black Chokeberry and Spice bush so far as replacements.

One of the best video on native plants on TH-cam.

We bought 4 acres in a rural area subdivision zoned for farming and one acre is along a property boundary. It includes a sloped, wooded streambed and opens up to a uneven and sloped terrain that is is covered in pasture grass and dead trees and wood. I love it. The deer love it. The owls and woodpeckers love it. Last summer it looked beautiful and had lots of butterflies. Even so, I want to try to make it look somewhat more presentable as we have new neighbors now who bought the house next door despite the way it looks but now are encroaching, weed whacking and otherwise trespassing on our property and trying to take it. We have cut all the vines like bittersweet, kudzu and others, kept the grape vines, and removed an old wire farm fence. They seem undeterred. Our conservancy is not interested in coming out to help or advise as this area is only about .8 acres and there are no target species they are interested in. The people next door came from a town home HOA and have called the county on us who have said nothing because we are not out of compliance. We have general restrictive covenants but no positive covenants meaning as long as we dont violate the language we are okay but I thin they think they can just order us to clear terrain that has never been disturbed at all. This woman is so lucky to have nice neighbors. She has a beautiful yard.

Awesome! thank you for the info dude!

Great work! So glad to see this beautiful prairie

You give the best info thank you!

Great info Thank You!

Thanks for sharing and fielding all the questions.

Here I come!

Ok…I think I may have a non native Viburnum trilobum. I may send some pics in the spring to you if that’s ok. I’d hate to remove it if it’s native. Thank you.

Thank you for this video! I have used it as a set-by-step guide to start my own meadow and am looking forward to seeding this winter!

Good video on natives. Very disappointed that directions on using herbicides were given to kill plants to plant natives. With so many other methods available, I would discourage any use of herbicides. Goodness you can get some free exercise and pull out the weeds rather than put chemicals on the ground.