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I’m starting a native seeds online shop - this is super helpful.

Which variety of Milkweed is best suited for Monarchs? Will they lay eggs on? Will those caterpillars eat every variety. A question for your entomology friend. I have grown swamp milk weed and common milkweed. They feed on both I noticed eggs on common. Never any sign of caterpillar munching. I wonder if European earwigs get at them.

Great video but I wish you had a little bit more into detail about which types of plants are each type, why and how to use them in the design with visual aids

Lots of question, no useful answer nor research!

Thank you for this. I "accidentally" have been using some of these techniques as a newbie land owner and completely ignorant gardener. So just have asked the Land to show me plus I work (more than) full time and work haphazardly. I have multiple sections coming sort of together so now want to learn and be more deliberate. Please to the hosts and other native landscape specialists, significantly involved and integrate indigenous experts. The section in the presentation highlighted 3 white men. I understand that these men have learned a lot but I found it very problematic. And completely oppositional to your presentation. See Linda Black Elk, Joseph Pitawanakwat, or Zoe Todd -- a wide variety of work represented in these three and they would have best referrals. But the point is that these white guys as experts of indigenous diversity is why we're in the boat we are now. Even in instruction, we teach way more in from the systems than we can know. This is why land back is crucial for actual, substantive survival and thriving.

What native plants can you grow over a septic drain field?

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Great presentation!

Thank u for this video . I was looking for CA native plants when this video popped up. Had to convince my partner (who loves a nice green lawn) to do native plant landscaping. I’m so glad to see other regions of the US are also putting efforts into restoring nature in their communities

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Wow very informative and how important natives are wow!!

Starting a channel focused on Native Landscaping in Northeastern US. This video is FULL of super useful content. Thank you for posting!!!

fantastic, thank you

Thank you! I'm sharing this with my "Friends of the Park" group. We're looking to turn part of our neighborhood park into a meadow area.

Great video. Lots of material presented very clearly and concisely.

good talk, this may be me just being stuck on this, but I really want to see a presentation on native plants that exclusively focuses on plants that are truly native to the area being covered. Our definitions of native landscapes are too broad and don't do enough to honor truly native local plant communities and rarely ever consider how the plant communities and landscapes we design fit into the larger local ecosystem. For example, this talk is for Ottawa so Echinacea, Rattlesnake Master, R. triloba, etc shouldn't be included. The diverse flora of the Ottawa Valley should have been highlighted, with mentions of histroical sand prairie and oak/pine savanna, the blending of southern and boreal species, list of common native species that people can use without impacting their environment, etc.

Excellent video. Great guidance for a large project we’re getting ready to undertake. My only wish is that you would’ve given an example or two of the different plant types as you listed them off: a feature plant vs a scatter plant, etc. This would’ve helped me better understand how you are using the terms and how I can better visualize the native garden. But that’s a picky critique of a very helpful video. Thanks!

Very excited to learn from experts who are inspired by works of Piet Oadalf! Am still searching for experts who plant this way and like to use as many different plant families and maybe lesser known species in the north Texas bioregions, but these principles and inspirational pictures are fantastic! -kat (the wife)

Rudbeckia triliba isn't native to Ontario.

Thank you very much for all the information, I am adding for native shrubs and perennials to our yard. It has been rewarding to see some of them do well.

Excellent presentation! ✨

Absolutely wonderful stuff mate. I'm in the process of building a business here in southern England based on precisely this approach. I had the idea and then subsequently discovered others are already at it. I haven't had terminology for what you call block planting and matrix planting, but I shall use these terms here on in. A blend between block and matrix is what I'm going for with my first project. Same principles, just different species of course. We've lost 97% of our native perennial wildflower meadows over here. Reforesting is well known of, but other habitat loss is less known in the public consciousness.

thank you! very informative

Thank you for sharing this presentation. Very well done, extremely informative, easy to follow and understand. I wish the two of you much success with your business venture. MRM

Loved it

Great video!

Best video on praerie garden planning - thanks

Thank you for this beautiful presentation!

Wonderful information, I am so glad that there are places where natives are propagated. There needs to be even more education on invasive plants that are ruining environments.

Can she start her own weekly native plant series? Even after 15 years of professional conservation work, I still can't remember as many species as she can. You can tell she really loves this. Great video!