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We had a crabapple tree when I was growing up and it was beautiful and didn't get too big. Highly recommend ❤

Is there a way to tell the difference between yews and Alberta spruce? My parents had Alberta spruces and they looked just like the yews in front of the first house in your video. Alberta spruce is a cultivar of white spruce which is native to North America

I just LOVE your work!!❤❤❤

Thanks so much for sharing a wonderful inspiring video. Thank you so much for sharing how we could really jazz up our garden.

You're my favorite native garden content creator. And when I tell you how hard I laughed with you stumbling in your robe begging us to stay… omg 🤣… sending you native garden love from Central PA! ❤

Just say "No" to Trumpet Vine anywhere. Trust me!

I never thought of using a wood-burning tool to melt the holes in the bottom, which is a great idea, but omigosh what if you also used your wood-burning tool to write the names of the seeds on the sticks?! I have one, too, and I am very excited to try this now, haha!

This was fun to watch! I'm glad I found your channel! I've had gardens of all sizes. Design is so much fun!

I too have lots of random, unidentified mom plants. Love your garden and all the info!

Love your channel. You have the perfect content/style combination. Its such a fix for my need to obsess, over plan and never actually get started.

Do you have any front yard shade ideas like this? I have three very large oaks in my small front yard facing east. The grass doesn't even grow, but I have some moss patches I really like. I'd like to do an under canopy thing but I don't know how to design it with the house and dig around the oaks. You make good inspirational garden ideas, thank you!

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I've been dealing with another autoimmune disease ulcerative colitis for over 10 years now and found a more carnivore diet meat/eggs makes it better and eating plants makes it worse. Sunlight and exercise too but supposedly there are compounds in plants that misfold the proteins in the body that makes the immune system recognize them as foreign. It's ironic that I spend so much effort growing all these native plants to stare at but at the same time I've drastically reduced the amount of plants that I buy to eat. My immune system is pretty strong now even with the immunosuppressant medications that I still take, I don't even really get colds or flu anymore. I could probably get off my medication if I cut out plants entirely but fruit and pasta gets tempting although less so as time goes on. The big downside I've found is losing electrolytes faster especially without bread and less things to compost.

Hi! I’m in Ohio , zone 6. Do you have a favorite redbud?

The rabbits came and ate ALL of the flower blossoms! No lie. 😢

Loved your video… could definitely use some suggestions for our front yard… a long overdue project because I can’t decide what to plant.

"There's a lot of us that move our garden out about 6 inches each year and other people in the house may not notice that we're expanding the garden." 😂🙋‍♀️🫣💃💐 Love your videos. This is a really interesting format. Thank you.

Nicely done. Agree one would want to see a smaller native tree for such a small yard and the power lines. The design is really wonderful.

What are free, easy (I'm not computer savvy) AI tools? I have SO many landscape plans but feel like I need to resort to taking pictures/ enlarging them and drawing plants by hand over those on an erasable clear film. I can see exactly what I want down to specific cultivars, in my head...but I really need to get this put on paper or a computer somehow so when I need help, it's clear to others what the plan is. Also...I stupidly planted a dwarf pear under the power lines running to my house...but it's all the more motivation to keep that bugger pruned. That "AI" house reminds me of when I did landscaping for people that wanted ground fabric/ plastic edging/ river rock and generic bushes installed all around new homes. BARF! I did it. Broke my back but wish I could go back in time with what I've learned over the last decade and advise them.

Excellent video in every possible way ❤ Anyone just starting doing something in their yard has all important inputs 👍 I LOVE that someone finally started to accent that there are other trees than maples 😂 ...and that trees actually grow! The damage that root system of a tree can do to the house is enormous (if we use the ground level to mirror the tree into the soil we can get a perspective how big the root system actually is!) So, yes to the trees and not close to anything we dont want damage by their roots (water pipes, gas pipes, house foundation, basement walls, driveways, inground pools,...) Choosing a tree might not look easy but picking a native species that thrive in our climate is always the safest choice - and by all means usually the most economical. I live in a city where we need a city approval to cut the tree in our yards so picking a wrong species can be a start of a very long and bumpy ride in more than just one way. And in my case as well: the grass surface is getting smaller and smaller 😂😂

You are so funny and energetic. Thank you for that

Such a wonderful and cozy video. I love how calming it was just to watch you create designs.

I couldn't agree more about protecting small trees... I planted 3 red oaks and put plastic spiral trunk protectors on them. A few weeks later, one of them was lying horizontal on the ground and I thought, 'what the heck?', turns out a vole had gone and chewed the roots off underground! Fortunately the other 2 baby oaks have survived. 🍃 Thanks for the video, great info!

What program did you use for this?

Thanks - this is the best video I’ve seen on cold stratification. If the seeds are really small and you can’t see them in the mixture, do you just spread the mixture around on top of the potting soil?

Gosh I love your videos. (And I would SO APPRECIATE A CHOKEBERRY PRUNING VIDEO) (And ugh, thank you for the push to protection before I pick up my serviceberry baby this spring.)

New Jersey tea would look great in the back boarder on the last house there. Really enjoyed this one! Do it again. 😄

You are just so fun -- I loved this video! Thank you!

This was really fun to watch! happy to find your channel and subscribe! I’m all for big gardens and pollinator habitats! love your ideas and plant recommendations!

This was a great video and a very clever idea. Now, to go door to door and renovate people's front yards to beautify the neighborhood. I'm sure some brand would sponsor it!

Ha! Those in the house 🏠 do notice that the lawn gets smaller every year! 😂😂😂 I don't care.

Shagbark hickories are awesome! Perhaps you have inspired me to plant one in my front yard. My grandchildren will thank me.

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I have never regretted putting in some daffodils (the bonus is they seem to deter deer a bit)

The snow keeps the ground warm just like bird feathers keep birds warm. Both trap air. If the snow becomes compressed or infused with water only to re-freeze again then it does not keep the ground warm[er]. Same problem for igloos, if there is no trapped air within the blocks it will no longer keep the occupants warm[er-ish].

This was really fun! Great ideas!

Love your Videos Lisa! I have a green house with it's own heat source(radiant heat). So I have to adjust your recomendations accordinly. Am in a suburb of Chicago and have a great fondness for the plants that you nuture. Keep up the great work!

Thanks. Great reminders before I start this year’s winter sowing.

I new to winter sewing and I’m trying calls off, but making sure they don’t dry out by checking often. Fingers crossed that it turns out well!

Fantastic job talking about soil!! I really wish there was a clear video like this when I first started about what soil to choose for this process. I also love that you mention the plastic and recycling issue.

Can garden soil with vermiculite work for this?

My first year winter sowing and so glad I saw this! thank you

My orange butterfly weed attracts orange and black insects. Do you know if the birds eat these?

A tip I recently heard and plan to use this year is to use toilet paper instead of papertowel for germinating seeds. The seed roots will tear the delicate paper instead of getting stuck to the paper towel and being torn off the baby plant. I've lost roots to paper towel before. I think it may mean being more careful to not oversaturate stuff with water. I've also got some really old perlite that has not been stored well, so I will sterilize that with boiling water. thank you for this video. I have seeds winter sowing but ran out of containers. Now I can get more seeds started. I knew about this method, but your video is easier to follow than some of the others out there which were making me anxious.

Somewhat off subject(!). I love seeing your sensible fingernails. I dont find long talons attractive and can't imagine how anyone could use their hands!

I have a pitcher on a bookshelf at the top of my stairs. I keep adding dried seedheads to it. I love the look of the seedheads.

I think the tree hitting the power lines likely caused the fire. Winter is the best time to have tree work done. You can negotiate better prices because the tree companies have no work. Just had my cottonwood removed. Such a relief!

I was looking for a winter sowing video as I will try it this year for my asclepias tuberosa. For for reason I have poor luck of growing these. The seeds germinate and die after transplant. Even my store bought 5 gal plant also died in 1 month after transplanted 😢.

"foraging" sounds nice but native species in natural areas in Ontario are seriously in decline. It's called poaching. please leave them alone in the wild.

Another tip is that many containers will have a date laser etched on the plastic that won't fade. If you collect the containers throughout the year, you will typically have unique dates that you can track on a piece of paper and which seeds they correspond to. Also, team caps off 😛. I use a pump sprayer which can be set to a gentle mist to keep the soil from drying out.