you did a fabulous job in that strip of your property. just crush the dried up seed pods and scatter the seeds in the same planting strip for next year's show.
Just a little tip for anyone else that wants to make a hand-sewn poppy/ wildflower bed: MIX SEEDS WITH SAND. This makes them so much easier to sew, you can see what ground you’ve covered with the sand, and it ensures seed coverage is more consistent. Hope this helps :) loved the video
I finally grew poppies this year in my zone 6b garden. First ths oriental poppies bloomed. Then the breadseed poppies with amazing silver grey foliage. The shirley poppies are blooming now. Wish I could share pictures here. If interested, check them out on my Instagram. Look for "home_and_garden_stories".
You know the best part of growing flowers is not just for yourself but for other people to enjoy too. When you said people are taking selfies of it that made me smile. Such a good feeling. Thank you for this video and I’m looking forward to grow my own poppies this year.
Exactly. If I have flowers growing in the strip of land by the sidewalk, maybe people will stop throwing bags of garbage there after they’ve parked their cars. 🤞
The only thing I can imagine is about 50 dog walkers a day letting their dogs Pee all over them! Because everyone has to own a dog and everyone has to walk their dog in front of your house! 😡
i have no clue if this is already a thing, but cities and towns nationwide should encourage their people to grow flowers in all devils strips. Imagine how beautiful the roads would be.
I agree! I planted my and it looks so nice, except for constant dogs' urine, which really impact some of the growth. Watching this video makes me want to suggest that my neighbors plant poppies, since it looks easy.
Problem is that they are invasive. I want them in a part of my garden, but you have to be careful. Some parts you want to have clean lawn, some you want no vegetation at all... keeping them just whre you want is hard. In Denmark, in many areas, authorities do not cut the public "lawn" areas, such as sides of the roads or open areas. Instead, they let it grow wild and it is full of these flowers everywhere. Great for nature. But this has to bep lanned, if you simply let it go wild, it will look bad and be a bed for all sort of insects... and not exactly the ones people would think like bees... ticks and mosquitos are absolutely not welcome anywhere.
I laughed out loud at the “sorry when I’m working the garden I have resting you know what face” 😂 great tips and your garden turned out absolutely stunning!
This is the exact example of what a little bit of knowledge and love can create together = magic! you're a beautiful soul bringing life to your neighborhood! Wish I had neighbors like you.
I grow poppies in my "parking strip" in Oregon. My poppies are so beloved by my neighbors that when people walk, ride or drive by they will comment on how they can't wait to see for them to bloom and that they look forward to them every year! People stop by to take photos and ask questions all the time. I've even had people drop off cards of thanks and one lovely woman gave me a bouquet of flowers out her yard as a thank you! Like you, I feel good about what I'm doing. Its nice in these dark days of strife we can give back a little bright light of cheer to our fellow man and members of our own community!!
Why don't you give them some poppy seeds so they can do it themselves? I have a whole jar of old poppy seeds to cook with I'm gonna broadcast and see if any of them come up. Who knows what color or variety they. It will be a total surprise.
My husband and I have been trying and failing to get a ‘wild flower’ garden going on our front for about 8 years now. Still trying, still failing, still inspired, in fact even more inspired now.
I'm just getting ready to plant all kinds of poppies here in Vermont. They are frost resistant, and I prefer the Opium poppies the best. I do save most of my pods, because I love sharing them with my friends, and it actually does save me quite a bit of money. I have enormous flower gardens and use a lot of seed. I sprinkle them everywhere between my perennials and hope for the best. Thanks for a fun video.
@wendylavery8456 depends on your state for legal reasons, so research your local laws. But you can normally find poppy seed right now on clearance in big box stores and possibly online. Good luck!! ❤
@@wendylavery8456tractor supply i mean ive heard as long as you dont harvest you are fine which thank god the idea that they think they can make nature can be made "illegal" is just stupid. They are too pretty tonget ruined by stupid people.
A trick for spreading tiny seeds: mix them into a cup of fine sand, then spread the mixture as you would seed. This helps to distribute them more evenly, and also helps you keep track visually of the spots you’ve already sprinkled seed onto
I grew a large section of papavir somniferum in the front yard. I had so much opium tea last year. It felt fantastic to drink and looking at the beautiful flowers was amazing. Why in the WORLD would anyone make opium poppies illegal. They are a gift from earth, truly.
Because opiate addiction happens suddenly and only after a couple or uses and you are physically addicted!! You can die in withdrawal, it's no joke! Not just a plant to play with at all! If this was legal there would be double the amount of addicts then usa already has
God gives us beautiful flowers that can double as something to help us feel good. Darkness wants to take that away from us. Darkness is an absense of light and love. They are greedy and also paranoid. They create Hell on Earth for us. If it was really a government 'by the people for the people' then the govt would not be trying to suppress so much. I can understand controlling synthetic shit that destroys people..but there is nothing evil about Papavar Somniferum. The USA is about greed from sea to shining sea. They hate competition from even GOD.
If you grow some dandilions(Yes I know) they will till the soil for you and they work as a nutrient uptake plant..they bring nutrients up to where other plants can use, and they also are edible! Love your garden!!
I absolutely loved this video. I am new to gardening. I just planted my first poppies in the garden of our new house. I cannot wait to see them grow! Thanks for such a lovely video showing the sowing and the full season of bloom.
I love what you've done here. May I make a suggestion? Try leaving the spent flowers be, so they can self sow for next year. Also, leaving spent plants means there is food for birds and other wildlife. And the dried leaves and stems are used by birds as nesting material. Through trial and error, I've learned the only time to remove them is in spring, which allows the new growth from underneath to grow more easily. Thanks for the video!
Do that here in UK and you would get done for vandalising the pavement. I think this looks lovely and colourful. I have mixed flowers in my flower bed for the Bees.
It’s council property not his.Having said that it would be great if we were allowed to convert this, maybe in the future the councils will get involved too
The point was that this isn’t part of the home owners property here in the U.K. and he’s right if you do that here you’ll be in trouble with the local authority. Perhaps laws are different where this guy is, it isn’t clear.
@@Euclidean3141 for less then a tenner of seeds I say the risk is worth it, plenty of gorilla gardeners in the UK and often they can inspire a change in heart from the local authorities
I'm in NZ and I think that if we did this to the burms (that's what we call these strips...) the council probably wouldn't bother to complain, even though it's their property. It saves them from mowing it, after all.
Cool! I harvested 1000’s of seeds last year and I spread them just all over when I’m walking the dogs! I shared it with my parents en sister en peeps in the street everyone is waiting to see the flowers bloom. Good times are coming! 🤗❤️
That was an exceptionally good video! The music, editing, choices of which shots to use, so well done! Even ending it in the soft backlighting the last of the Batchelor Button flowers, so good! Thanks for the experience.
I love my garden, it brings a man of 57 who if you saw me never would you think my love of vegetables flowers any kind. I became a green thumb. Good job.
I don't know if you've cut or dug them up yet, but you should do chop and drop with these poppies. That way the taproot stays in the ground, breaks down, and helps to loosen the clay soil over time 🙇🏻 Also instead of weeding just cover the weeds with a sheet of plain cardboard and mulch on top of it. More organic matter gets added this way!
Good job! Poppies are quite possibly my favourite flower: delicate, yet, robust. Your neighbours are very lucky. I've already planted lots of poppy seeds but I think I'll go out and buy some more tomorrow!
So pretty and inspiring! I took on the task last year of developing my own devil strip, the neighbours absolutely loved it, and I received awesome comments throughout the summer. I hope to develop it further and fill it out more this year…you’ve offered some lovely, beautiful inspiration here. Guerrilla gardeners unite - let’s beautify our communities and offer much needed spaces for struggling beneficial insects!!
OMG, I loved this video! It appeared in my recommended views, and I'm so glad it did because it came at perfect timing. I purchased a few packets of poppy seeds not long ago, but I realize it's too late to sow them now here in Central Florida. Your poppy garden was gorgeous! Not only did it bring joy to the insects that help the world as pollinators, as well as those people fortunate enough to see it in person, I was thrilled by its beauty even in your video! ❤️
My Grandad who was a journeyman after WWII said poppies grow best in recently disturbed ground. He said that’s why it became so synonymous after WWI as it was seen growing en masse in the bombed battlegrounds. VERY NiCE display BTW. .😊
Hi there! I did almost the same thing last year. Planted corn poppy seeds with a tri clover blend mix in the strip of grass between my sidewalk and the road. We had just bought this abandoned house and I had tons of projects so I just threw the seeds around over top of the area after roughly raking. So the seeds were competing with crab grass and whatever else was out there. It was just a ratty area full of garbage I had to pull out. Another difference is we have a medium sized maple tree blocking some sun. Planted in spring, by July I had beautiful poppies and clover through most of the area plus some "native wildflowers." I'm in zone 5B and read I could plant in fall for an early spring showing. So just a few months ago, in fall, I dug up the entire area which was a lot of work as a lot of the poppies and corn flowers had very deep dandelion-like roots. I planted dozens of bulbs. On top of that, I sprinkled a mix of corn poppy seeds, California poppy seeds, and pandora poppy seeds. This time though I mixed all of the seeds in a big bowl with nice soil and then dispersed the mixture as evenly as possible over the buried bulbs. On top of this, I put a nice layer of hay. We'll see how it goes! Looking forward to spring. I should add that last year I didn't water as we didn't yet have lengths of hose long enough to reach out front. Poppies didn't come up in the area that was most shaded by the tree but the crimson clover plants did. Depending on how this year's experiment goes, I may have to amend next year with another seed that will tolerate some shade.
I am so glad someone else has trouble growing poppies. I've planted thousands of seeds using many different methods. What worked best actually was transplantation. I started bunches of them in one gallon pots. Transplanted them when they were about six inches tall. Planting directly in the soil was okay as long as I covered them. I live in east Texas zone 8b. Thanks so much.
@@susanflanagan5906 Hi. Thanks for getting back to me. I covered some of them with native soil. Some I didn't cover with soil and all. Some I used row covers over. The one I covered with plastic row covers and planted in January and February did the best. The ones I started in pots (and kept under cover) did best of all. I translated them carefully and did mostly oriental and California poppies in pots. Bit I planted all varieties in the ground. This idea that they're "easy" to grow is just not my experience. Definitely have to plant in late fall early winter to stand a chance. What about you?
I know this video is 3 years old, but I loved it from beginning til end. Very informative. I’m barely started growing some poppy seeds, hoping they grow as nice as yours!
How big are yours now 2 months later? I was late planting my seeds this year but in Canada, it was cold the last two weeks. Winter coat cold. This week it's 113°F! So my seeds ending up sprouting this year! Last year I sewed on schedual and not one grew.
LOVE!!!!! Your voice is so peaceful! I have some poppies starting from seed here in Nova Scotia! Last full moon in june and they will be in the ground for summer! I wonder how mine will turn out! Xoxo Bri
Uhhhh...clearly you have never dealt with the limestone caliche soils of Central Texas...which formed under sea beds eons ago. There is generally fossilized shells along with them, so this caliche soil is NO normal "clay". What we are taught in the master gardener program is to add organic matter to the caliche. It took millions of years to form, and will take at least that long to change the composition into the future.
I lived in Amarillo for a year and that looks like the same dirt I had there. It was awful clay. The only place in Texas I’ve ever seen such horrible soil. You did a very good job! So beautiful!
Eastern Colorado has terrible soil for poppies and other plants too! I've gotten one or 2 poppy plants that come back every year, but I want a poppy patch like his! I hope you finally got good results!
Trust me, Amarillo isn't the only place in Texas with really hard clay soil. I live in Austin and in many spots the soil is as hard as a rock. That's the case where I live. I'm wondering whether I can do this where I live.
Well Corpus and Houston also have horrible, horrible clay.... Any garden or flower bed soil I have had has always been from a garden center. I laid a thick layer of wood chips all over every bed at my last house, hoping for improvement the following year, but then we had to move. Now we are in the woods in NE Texas and hopefully will have better soil luck here. If not, I am getting a chipper😂
Just wanted to thank you for your awesome inspiring video on wild flowers. I was so inspired that I had create one myself and I did just that. Everyone who passes by love it and so do the insects.
Wonderful ! If everyone cares about its neighborhood as you did, the world will seems like heaven. Thanks for the bees and butterflies. Greetings from Belgium
Red poppies and blue cornflowers my all time favourites since a little girl of 4yrs. Now I'm 70 yes , and I want to grow my childhood lovelies once before I die..But like you I have hard dry clay soil in my part of Australia. Might add some lime and compost and basically learn from your growing of simply,humble field flowers. Thanks for sharing I'm reaally motivated to have a *NATURE STRIP* like yours (that's what Aussies call that strip by the path and road) yours turned out to give so much pleasure to people,bees, insects, beetles, and birds. What fun..,Polly Parrot.
Yeah. My local city council will slap me with a fine and a demand for me to reinstate the grass or they’ll mow over it and increase the fine. We’re not even supposed to park on our nature strips.
@@ameliarose727 i'm in Michigan, and local cities have different ordinances regarding low grass. My local town lets you have flowers and natives, while next one over is not yet. You have to start contacting your local govt and tell them that this is beneficial to the eco systems and make them change the laws. Ours has changes and lots of people are doing just this. it's really nice.
I used to work mowing for the council and one thing we could never beat were gazanias. They will survive a mow and flower again within a week. Now here's the thing, many old types of Gazanias look a bit ugly, but the new types are pure colours like orange or yellow or mixed. If you look around the neighborhood you'll find some really nice types and they grow from cuttings so easily and spread from seed. so you can grow them amongst your lawn. Other lawn flowers include Salvia verbenaca, cape weed, ixias, woodland freesias, and Lippia, if you're lucky you'll be able to grow English daisies and Self-heal. All these pretty flowers will handle being mowed. Some of my other favourites include the dwarf bread-seed poppy, oxeye-daisy, cosmos and Viscaria oculata.
Great video. If you want to rehabilitate another piece of land like that, I suggest getting a large load of wood chips and spreading them on thickly - I mean like 12 inches - and letting it sit for a year. Some townships here in PA give them away, all you have to do is go to the township yard and pick up. The chips will break down on their own, but if you throw on a little dirt and water it occasionally, they will break down faster. Then you'll have some soil to work with. I know most people are in more of a hurry and don't want to wait, but if you have the time and patience, it really works. I planted a dozen different kinds of poppies this spring, still waiting for them to come up as it's been unseasonably cold here in PA. Last year I grew California poppies and they came back, so I'm hopeful about all the new ones. I think you're really onto something and hope experiment with planting other areas. Thanks for sharing your experience.
So many beautiful posts !! You made a wonderful video, it showed how much you love your flowers. You have a very calm and peaceful voice also. Thank you for sharing your beautiful flowers
I grow poppy's long years, usually most of them self seeding,digging the soil end of the summer and trow the seeds where ever I want to grow them its really beautiful show for few weeks, some times they come up some odd places planted by wind, poppy seeds never die 10 years later some seeds have been germinated, when they seedlings not to mistaken them as weeds ,, you have made a lovely garden for yourself and your neighbour's , if you keep digging that soil every year eventually gets much better results, but poppy's not that fussy really,Good luck and happy gardening,
hi will you mind to share some techniques about these. will you mind if I want ypur gmail to get connected. I want to speak something about it.seriously I need some help
Just found you! And this video has given me hope and not to give up on poppies! This fall it's on! I'm so happy I found you because you are Texas based and our backyards are tricky to figure out when to grow flowers and if they can at all. I'm in zone 8a in Metoplex area.
This is the best video I've ever seen. Thank you so much! I've been intimidated by poppies for years, having failed several times to grow them. I'm going to try again.
I live in Austin too and it’s a dream of mine to have a successful garden patch like this! It’s so inspiring, I can’t wait to start planting this fall. Thank you for posting!!!
Well done! I am an inveterate wildflower gardener. Unfortunately this year the bunnies have decided that they want my red poppies, so it was nice to see someone grew some that went the full cycle!
Gosh what a beautiful video. I was absolutely captivated. I'm in Australia and I planted some poppies last week. They have sprouted but I live in an apartment so they are in pots, not sure how they will go. I found the cheapest way to buy poppy seeds is from the baking/ spice section in the super market. No idea what variety they are, can't wait to find out.
I bought a pound of them at the supermarket for a few dollars. I think they are opium poppies. I'm going to try them, I have read they are viable seeds that will grow just fine and cost almost nothing.
sarcasmo57-I used the baking poppy seeds. They are somniferum. They all turned out purple. Not my favorite plant-big raw boned coarse plants. I prefer the little poppies like in this video (papaver rhoeas or Shirley poppies) Such pretty color mixes available.
My little girl spilled some Chia seeds that I threw into the soil instead of the garbage can and they are starting to grow nice and sturdy - will see how they turn out 💚
the part that starts at 10:54 describes exactly why i love gardening. its so rewarding to realize you've created a tiny ecosystem. I really love that i finally know the word for this strip of grass hahaha. i would love to see something like this is my neighborhood!!
Wow is right. I can only imagine the number of people whose day you have brightened with your creativity, effort and of course such a beautiful end result! I wish you were my neighbour.
It’s so nice you grew flowers for your friends and neighbors to enjoy! I got a surprise poppy this year in a neglected planter. I was amazed they look so similar to the crepe ones the vets sell. I buy my vet Poppy every year but this year I didn’t see anyone out there. I must have been gifted by a bird to experience the real flower this year! 😁 Thank you for sharing! 🤗👍♥️🤍💙
I'm going to try seeding them like that. They never grow for me. I bought Amazing Gray poppies from floret flower and have been afraid to sow them, because I don't want to waste the seeds!
I've re-watched this a few times. Besides being a feast for the eyes, I am thoughtful of the difference a few flowers can make for the environment, the bugs, and the people. Hope they reseed and you have a lovely strip of flowers, again.
The bachelor buttons are terrific! These are gorgeous. Good work! I have bright orange oriental poppies in my front yard-- no idea where they came from, they were just beautifully there one day. i rather rudely dug up a few and moved them to another part of the yard-- they just flourished. In dry Utah summers, i find they're incredibly tolerant. I just wish they bloomed more often than once a year!
I also live in Texas, and have experience with clay soil, so I wanted to share a great tip: GYPSUM !!! It is a natural product, so great for organic gardens. And it comes in either a powder form, or granules. Either product works the same. Of coarse, it works best if you can till it in, or turn it into the soil somehow. But if that is not possible, simply apply it on top of the soil, and scratch it in. Or with grass, just broadcast the granules. Don't try broadcasting the powder with a broadcast spreader tho! The powder gums up the whole works! Also, it may take longer to work if just putting on topically, but it still finds its way down into the soil. It does take quite a long while to produce results tho. Usually a minimum of 2 years!! So it's a long term project for sure! But the benefits are how it breaks up the clay soil, helps to make the nutrients already in the soil available to plants, and helps somewhat with moisture retention. There are many other benefits too, but it's better to look it up for the whole list. What it does with clay is truly a miracle! I've been using it for 5 years, and I still add it to my soil, grass too, at least 3 times a year. My soil is now soft, and crumbly, and 100% easier to work with! You may have to wait a long time to see the results, but it is Nature's answer to hard, compact soil. Hope this helps! ♡ And your Poppies are AWESOME!!! ♡♡♡
I completely understand your not wanting to raise your PH any higher! If gypsum does change the PH in any way, it is only in a small way. AND it is said to LOWER the PH, if it does anything at all (to the PH). Personally, I have never found gypsum to be a factor in my garden soil's PH. I heard you mention you are in Austin, and I now live just outside of Austin, at the North end of Lake Travis. So we are definitely neighbors! Before moving here, I lived in N.Austin for many years. The soil structure is similar in both places, but not exactly the same. Most of Austin is stuck with the same type of soil as The Blackland Praire here in Texas. Heavy on the black, clay side, but not the same kind of clay as say, the orange, sticky kind they have in Georgia. Texas clay is often referred to as caliche, which is loaded with calcium rock deposits. You can actually see all the white calcium stuck in the black dirt clods! This calcium comes from all the limestone rock which Austin sits on. Unfortunately for our plants, this calcium in the soil is not always available to our plants on a metabolic level. In other words, the calcium is bound up in such a way that the plant life cannot take advantage of its wonderful, and much needed nutrition. Gypsum is a great way to un-bind some of these soil borne nutrients. One of the great things -besides being a natural organic material- is how gypsum works on making calcium more soluble to our plants on a microscopic, or scientific level. I am not a scientist, so that is about as far as I go on that! But having used gypsum in all my gardens, I can honestly say it is a magic ingrediant! The breaking up of the caliche is the only magic part I can physically see, unless you count healthy plants too! I don't mean to imply that compost, especially leaf compost, is not needed if you use gypsum, nor any other soil improvements for that matter. I am simply saying if you have soil that is hardpan, caliche, clay or some other reason the soil is tough to work in, gypsum is like waving a magic wand that takes a long time to work, but definitely worth the wait! I'm sorry this is such a long reply! I just get going about soil, and I sometimes can't leave out all the good details! I enjoy watching your gardening! ♡
I completely understand your not wanting to raise your PH any higher! I heard you mention you are in Austin, and I now live just outside of Austin, at the North end of Lake Travis. So we are definitely neighbors! Before moving here, I lived in N.Austin for many years. The soil structure is similar in both places, but not exactly the same. Most of Austin is stuck with the same type of soil as The Blackland Praire here in Texas. Heavy on the clay side, but not the same kind of clay as say the orange sticky kind they have in Georgia. Texas clay us often referred to as coliche
I loved watching this. When I lived in CT I made a border along the road similar to this and just loved all the plants in it. I never had a poppy though! So beautiful! And isn't it rewarding to grow from seeds? So much more rewarding than buying plants someone else started , but sometimes that works, too! I planted pansy seed a few months ago and they are just getting their first set of true leaves! Hoping for flowers! THANKS for posting !
I had a great success growing poopies in Georgia red clay soil. During fall and winter I was digging into the flower bed all my vegetarian food leftovers, like potato peels, broccoli and cabbage stems. I made sure to mix my compost with the original clay once a week. I mixed the same kind of poppies is that you are using with the wildflower seeds from Home Depot. I had sown the seeds in February. The results were giant flowers lasting all summer and deep into the fall. I didn't have to water. The rains went not so often in the summer as they are in the winter in Georgia. The organic material helps retaining water big time.
Well done, you did an excellent job. What a beautiful sight and I bet the neighbours are grateful. The combination of poppies and cornflowers is magnificent. I have success with cornflowers this summer and should combine them with poppies next summer. They compliment each other from what I have seen in your video. Keep up the good work.
Poppies have much a special place in my heart, they're the flowers that made me fall in love with gardening. I remember sitting in my granny's front yard with my dog and just looking at these bright red poppy flowers. When it was time to harvest the seed pods, I'd be the one who got the job of breaking them open and collecting the seeds. Then my gran would take half to re-plant and my uncle would take the other half and make these delicious buns with the seeds on top! It's crazy how one little flower can have such a massive impact on the memories of childhood. And now, thanks to you, I know how to grow them! Thanks! Thanks for attending my TedTalk. (oh, it turns out they're my birth flower too!)
Just curious, I always thought that land technically belonged to the city? I guess I never questioned cutting it, though... Does anyone have an answer for this?
Have you tried growing poppies before? Success/failures? Tell me your experience!
This spring I have planted this poppies. I was really excited until it bloom. After it bloom I was super happy. It was so beautiful
For my zone- it is a guessing game of when to fling the seeds down~ so maybe this November I’ll try- instead of early spring ❤️🌸
Btw aren’t the seed capsules fabulous little bunkers with windows?! Ha ha 😊
@@0U812. in my zone 5, the poppy seeds that fall on the ground sprout in late April, early May the following year. just be patient.
you did a fabulous job in that strip of your property. just crush the dried up seed pods and scatter the seeds in the same planting strip for next year's show.
Just a little tip for anyone else that wants to make a hand-sewn poppy/ wildflower bed: MIX SEEDS WITH SAND. This makes them so much easier to sew, you can see what ground you’ve covered with the sand, and it ensures seed coverage is more consistent. Hope this helps :) loved the video
Lance Gordon Great idea!
I finally grew poppies this year in my zone 6b garden. First ths oriental poppies bloomed. Then the breadseed poppies with amazing silver grey foliage. The shirley poppies are blooming now. Wish I could share pictures here. If interested, check them out on my Instagram. Look for "home_and_garden_stories".
I have colored sand. What a great tip.
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Thank you Lance Gordon for a wonderful advice that I will try Next time I grow poppy seeds 👍👍
You know the best part of growing flowers is not just for yourself but for other people to enjoy too. When you said people are taking selfies of it that made me smile. Such a good feeling. Thank you for this video and I’m looking forward to grow my own poppies this year.
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Your neighbors are lucky to have you, imagine if everyone did what you did the block would be incredible
Exactly. If I have flowers growing in the strip of land by the sidewalk, maybe people will stop throwing bags of garbage there after they’ve parked their cars. 🤞
I'm not even a Jesus man but amen to that.
The only thing I can imagine is about 50 dog walkers a day letting their dogs Pee all over them! Because everyone has to own a dog and everyone has to walk their dog in front of your house! 😡
Pedorosa Villales true. That’s when you set up a video camera and follow them home though
@@realproperty1012 the dogs pee will help if he's not allowed to pee all the time their
Wonderful act of neighborhood beautification and feeding the pollinators. Bless you! So beautiful.
i have no clue if this is already a thing, but cities and towns nationwide should encourage their people to grow flowers in all devils strips. Imagine how beautiful the roads would be.
Do you even know what poppy is ?
I agree! I planted my and it looks so nice, except for constant dogs' urine, which really impact some of the growth. Watching this video makes me want to suggest that my neighbors plant poppies, since it looks easy.
Problem is that they are invasive. I want them in a part of my garden, but you have to be careful. Some parts you want to have clean lawn, some you want no vegetation at all... keeping them just whre you want is hard.
In Denmark, in many areas, authorities do not cut the public "lawn" areas, such as sides of the roads or open areas. Instead, they let it grow wild and it is full of these flowers everywhere. Great for nature.
But this has to bep lanned, if you simply let it go wild, it will look bad and be a bed for all sort of insects... and not exactly the ones people would think like bees... ticks and mosquitos are absolutely not welcome anywhere.
@@bluemountaincorps7158 yeah pretty flowers that also help relieve pain. Calm down wannabe cop.
I laughed out loud at the “sorry when I’m working the garden I have resting you know what face” 😂 great tips and your garden turned out absolutely stunning!
What a great idea getting rid of that useless grass strip and using it for pollinators. It adds so much interest in the neighbourhood😀💕
This is the exact example of what a little bit of knowledge and love can create together = magic! you're a beautiful soul bringing life to your neighborhood! Wish I had neighbors like you.
I grow poppies in my "parking strip" in Oregon. My poppies are so beloved by my neighbors that when people walk, ride or drive by they will comment on how they can't wait to see for them to bloom and that they look forward to them every year! People stop by to take photos and ask questions all the time. I've even had people drop off cards of thanks and one lovely woman gave me a bouquet of flowers out her yard as a thank you! Like you, I feel good about what I'm doing. Its nice in these dark days of strife we can give back a little bright light of cheer to our fellow man and members of our own community!!
I just moved to Portland and look forward to doing this next spring!
How delightful!
Do people stop by to collect latex from them?
Why don't you give them some poppy seeds so they can do it themselves? I have a whole jar of old poppy seeds to cook with I'm gonna broadcast and see if any of them come up. Who knows what color or variety they. It will be a total surprise.
I'm surprised antifa hasn't burnt your garden down yet. Portland has become the land of domestic terrorism. So sad
Such a beautiful flower bed. What you did to transform that strip of land is so inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
Nice touch with the bachelor's button. Made a stunning display.
You say batchelors button, i say corn flower 😁😁
Nice contrast
This warms my heart. Wish more people did this
As a young child i have the fondest memories of fields of poppies. Thank you!
Thank you ❣️
Fields of poppies?! Where did you grow up it must be beautiful!
@@moisesm9602 in greece
That's amazing those big plants come from those tiny seeds. The bachelor's button was the perfect combination with the poppies! Beautiful!
My husband and I have been trying and failing to get a ‘wild flower’ garden going on our front for about 8 years now. Still trying, still failing, still inspired, in fact even more inspired now.
Try Zinnias and blackeyed Susan's and daisys, cosmos, all pretty hardy and easy to grow
Where in the world are you?
Cosmos!!!
Part of the problem is that your ground may be too fertile. Look for information from google..uk planting a meadow
cosmos and zinnia are highly recommended, hardy as and easy to grow and will forgive a missed day or two of watering, even as babies
I'm just getting ready to plant all kinds of poppies here in Vermont. They are frost resistant, and I prefer the Opium poppies the best. I do save most of my pods, because I love sharing them with my friends, and it actually does save me quite a bit of money. I have enormous flower gardens and use a lot of seed. I sprinkle them everywhere between my perennials and hope for the best. Thanks for a fun video.
Where is the best place to buy all the seeds? Are they legal to grow?
@wendylavery8456 depends on your state for legal reasons, so research your local laws. But you can normally find poppy seed right now on clearance in big box stores and possibly online.
Good luck!! ❤
@@wendylavery8456tractor supply i mean ive heard as long as you dont harvest you are fine which thank god the idea that they think they can make nature can be made "illegal" is just stupid. They are too pretty tonget ruined by stupid people.
@wendylavery8456 I'm in Ontario Canada and all are legal to grow. Luckily my garden is on a higher balcony now.
@@wendylavery8456 .I get some beautiful varieties on Etsy.
I really enjoyed your beautiful garden. It’s as pretty as a painting.
Kerrie Logan very kind of you!
Prettier. Paintings are just canvas covered in paint. I find flower gardens more enjoyable than art galleries.
A trick for spreading tiny seeds: mix them into a cup of fine sand, then spread the mixture as you would seed. This helps to distribute them more evenly, and also helps you keep track visually of the spots you’ve already sprinkled seed onto
If you mix them in sand how would you know where the seed is?
I am truly glad that i am not the only one who love Poppies. Thank you!
I had similar soil. I watered it good, layed down straw, put a tarp over it, and the worms did the rest. Nice and soft after a few months.
I grew a large section of papavir somniferum in the front yard. I had so much opium tea last year. It felt fantastic to drink and looking at the beautiful flowers was amazing. Why in the WORLD would anyone make opium poppies illegal. They are a gift from earth, truly.
I’ve read Poppy /Opium tea can be dangerous!
BecUse people keep talking about it >> big pharma doesn't like it...get me?
@@jabohabo3821what you said - the more people call attention to it, the more negative stigma will occur
Because opiate addiction happens suddenly and only after a couple or uses and you are physically addicted!! You can die in withdrawal, it's no joke! Not just a plant to play with at all! If this was legal there would be double the amount of addicts then usa already has
God gives us beautiful flowers that can double as something to help us feel good. Darkness wants to take that away from us. Darkness is an absense of light and love. They are greedy and also paranoid. They create Hell on Earth for us. If it was really a government 'by the people for the people' then the govt would not be trying to suppress so much. I can understand controlling synthetic shit that destroys people..but there is nothing evil about Papavar Somniferum. The USA is about greed from sea to shining sea. They hate competition from even GOD.
You’ve inspired me to try this on my CURB-STRIP. Poppies, larkspur and bachelor buttons.
If you grow some dandilions(Yes I know) they will till the soil for you and they work as a nutrient uptake plant..they bring nutrients up to where other plants can use, and they also are edible! Love your garden!!
I have to tell you, I watched this video over and over and over again! It brings me so much joy! You did an amazing job!
I absolutely loved this video. I am new to gardening. I just planted my first poppies in the garden of our new house. I cannot wait to see them grow! Thanks for such a lovely video showing the sowing and the full season of bloom.
I love what you've done here. May I make a suggestion? Try leaving the spent flowers be, so they can self sow for next year. Also, leaving spent plants means there is food for birds and other wildlife. And the dried leaves and stems are used by birds as nesting material. Through trial and error, I've learned the only time to remove them is in spring, which allows the new growth from underneath to grow more easily. Thanks for the video!
Great suggestions - will definitely incorporate them in our newly planted wildflower garden 🌺🌻🌷
Do that here in UK and you would get done for vandalising the pavement. I think this looks lovely and colourful. I have mixed flowers in my flower bed for the Bees.
Think the same here in Aus. The nature strip is council’s property
It’s council property not his.Having said that it would be great if we were allowed to convert this, maybe in the future the councils will get involved too
The point was that this isn’t part of the home owners property here in the U.K. and he’s right if you do that here you’ll be in trouble with the local authority. Perhaps laws are different where this guy is, it isn’t clear.
@@Euclidean3141 for less then a tenner of seeds I say the risk is worth it, plenty of gorilla gardeners in the UK and often they can inspire a change in heart from the local authorities
I'm in NZ and I think that if we did this to the burms (that's what we call these strips...) the council probably wouldn't bother to complain, even though it's their property. It saves them from mowing it, after all.
Cool! I harvested 1000’s of seeds last year and I spread them just all over when I’m walking the dogs! I shared it with my parents en sister en peeps in the street everyone is waiting to see the flowers bloom. Good times are coming! 🤗❤️
That was an exceptionally good video! The music, editing, choices of which shots to use, so well done! Even ending it in the soft backlighting the last of the Batchelor Button flowers, so good! Thanks for the experience.
I love my garden, it brings a man of 57 who if you saw me never would you think my love of vegetables flowers any kind. I became a green thumb. Good job.
I don't know if you've cut or dug them up yet, but you should do chop and drop with these poppies. That way the taproot stays in the ground, breaks down, and helps to loosen the clay soil over time 🙇🏻
Also instead of weeding just cover the weeds with a sheet of plain cardboard and mulch on top of it. More organic matter gets added this way!
Wow, great no nonsense ideas! I’ll be hanging onto those extra scraps of cardboard now for sure 😊
Good job! Poppies are quite possibly my favourite flower: delicate, yet, robust. Your neighbours are very lucky. I've already planted lots of poppy seeds but I think I'll go out and buy some more tomorrow!
These are beautiful! I started my my first wildflower garden this year and I couldn't be happier.
So pretty and inspiring! I took on the task last year of developing my own devil strip, the neighbours absolutely loved it, and I received awesome comments throughout the summer. I hope to develop it further and fill it out more this year…you’ve offered some lovely, beautiful inspiration here. Guerrilla gardeners unite - let’s beautify our communities and offer much needed spaces for struggling beneficial insects!!
OMG, I loved this video! It appeared in my recommended views, and I'm so glad it did because it came at perfect timing. I purchased a few packets of poppy seeds not long ago, but I realize it's too late to sow them now here in Central Florida. Your poppy garden was gorgeous! Not only did it bring joy to the insects that help the world as pollinators, as well as those people fortunate enough to see it in person, I was thrilled by its beauty even in your video! ❤️
My Grandad who was a journeyman after WWII said poppies grow best in recently disturbed ground. He said that’s why it became so synonymous after WWI as it was seen growing en masse in the bombed battlegrounds.
VERY NiCE display BTW. .😊
Gods gift to the warriors of war
Very true my grandma and grandpa harvest the poppy for baking in the Ukraine they are so plentiful
"Also I had no idea what I was doing with this useless rake" haha! Great video!
Hi there! I did almost the same thing last year. Planted corn poppy seeds with a tri clover blend mix in the strip of grass between my sidewalk and the road. We had just bought this abandoned house and I had tons of projects so I just threw the seeds around over top of the area after roughly raking. So the seeds were competing with crab grass and whatever else was out there. It was just a ratty area full of garbage I had to pull out. Another difference is we have a medium sized maple tree blocking some sun. Planted in spring, by July I had beautiful poppies and clover through most of the area plus some "native wildflowers." I'm in zone 5B and read I could plant in fall for an early spring showing. So just a few months ago, in fall, I dug up the entire area which was a lot of work as a lot of the poppies and corn flowers had very deep dandelion-like roots. I planted dozens of bulbs. On top of that, I sprinkled a mix of corn poppy seeds, California poppy seeds, and pandora poppy seeds. This time though I mixed all of the seeds in a big bowl with nice soil and then dispersed the mixture as evenly as possible over the buried bulbs. On top of this, I put a nice layer of hay. We'll see how it goes! Looking forward to spring. I should add that last year I didn't water as we didn't yet have lengths of hose long enough to reach out front. Poppies didn't come up in the area that was most shaded by the tree but the crimson clover plants did. Depending on how this year's experiment goes, I may have to amend next year with another seed that will tolerate some shade.
Beautiful! This video is a nice break from writing a paper about poppies in my botany class!
i love poppies and like your sense of humor! keep it up and hope to see more of your creativity :)
I am so glad someone else has trouble growing poppies. I've planted thousands of seeds using many different methods. What worked best actually was transplantation. I started bunches of them in one gallon pots. Transplanted them when they were about six inches tall. Planting directly in the soil was okay as long as I covered them. I live in east Texas zone 8b.
Thanks so much.
Bea hi Bea, I live in Dallas with the same type soil. What did you cover the seeds with?
@@susanflanagan5906 Hi. Thanks for getting back to me. I covered some of them with native soil. Some I didn't cover with soil and all. Some I used row covers over. The one I covered with plastic row covers and planted in January and February did the best. The ones I started in pots (and kept under cover) did best of all. I translated them carefully and did mostly oriental and California poppies in pots. Bit I planted all varieties in the ground. This idea that they're "easy" to grow is just not my experience. Definitely have to plant in late fall early winter to stand a chance.
What about you?
I know this video is 3 years old, but I loved it from beginning til end. Very informative. I’m barely started growing some poppy seeds, hoping they grow as nice as yours!
How big are yours now 2 months later? I was late planting my seeds this year but in Canada, it was cold the last two weeks. Winter coat cold. This week it's 113°F! So my seeds ending up sprouting this year! Last year I sewed on schedual and not one grew.
LOVE!!!!! Your voice is so peaceful! I have some poppies starting from seed here in Nova Scotia! Last full moon in june and they will be in the ground for summer! I wonder how mine will turn out!
Xoxo Bri
brianinnis I bet they’ll turn out wonderfully!! Pls send me pics of how they do! Xoxoxo
Hey I'm from NS 🙌🙋♀️
I think we have to plant them in February up here, you just sprinkle them on the snow covered garden area. Takes six months to mature
One of my favorite videos of all time. I love the style, the progress, the everything.
I bet your neighbors love you!
And your garden would make their garden look dull.
Cute little hummer at 8:55 was glad you added the bachelor buttons!
Gypsum is what you need to start adding to that bed. It will break down the heavy clay and conditional the soil.
Uhhhh...clearly you have never dealt with the limestone caliche soils of Central Texas...which formed under sea beds eons ago. There is generally fossilized shells along with them, so this caliche soil is NO normal "clay". What we are taught in the master gardener program is to add organic matter to the caliche. It took millions of years to form, and will take at least that long to change the composition into the future.
@@joannathesinger770 uh oh. Fine line between intelligent educator and snarky know it all. Well not so fine of a line really
i have watched this video so many times, it brings so much joy to see a sidewalk strip transforming into a cheerful flower bed!
I lived in Amarillo for a year and that looks like the same dirt I had there. It was awful clay. The only place in Texas I’ve ever seen such horrible soil. You did a very good job! So beautiful!
Eastern Colorado has terrible soil for poppies and other plants too! I've gotten one or 2 poppy plants that come back every year, but I want a poppy patch like his! I hope you finally got good results!
Trust me, Amarillo isn't the only place in Texas with really hard clay soil. I live in Austin and in many spots the soil is as hard as a rock. That's the case where I live. I'm wondering whether I can do this where I live.
I’m in Odessa, Tx and we have caliche. It’s so hard to break thru all the rocks!
Well Corpus and Houston also have horrible, horrible clay.... Any garden or flower bed soil I have had has always been from a garden center. I laid a thick layer of wood chips all over every bed at my last house, hoping for improvement the following year, but then we had to move. Now we are in the woods in NE Texas and hopefully will have better soil luck here. If not, I am getting a chipper😂
Just wanted to thank you for your awesome inspiring video on wild flowers. I was so inspired that I had create one myself and I did just that. Everyone who passes by love it and so do the insects.
I enjoyed all the flowers, thank you for your efforts.
Poppy seed pods are beautiful - complex and lovely amongst the last of the poppy flowers. It looked stunning.
Wonderful ! If everyone cares about its neighborhood as you did, the world will seems like heaven.
Thanks for the bees and butterflies.
Greetings from Belgium
Red poppies and blue cornflowers my all time favourites since a little girl of 4yrs. Now I'm 70 yes , and I want to grow my childhood lovelies once before I die..But like you I have hard dry clay soil in my part of Australia. Might add some lime and compost and basically learn from your growing of simply,humble field flowers. Thanks for sharing I'm reaally motivated to have a *NATURE STRIP* like yours (that's what Aussies call that strip by the path and road) yours
turned out to give so much pleasure to people,bees, insects, beetles, and birds. What fun..,Polly Parrot.
It’s called the “Nature Strip” here in Australia
I might try using that phrase next time! :)
Where im from its called government property and they will mow it 😥
Yeah. My local city council will slap me with a fine and a demand for me to reinstate the grass or they’ll mow over it and increase the fine. We’re not even supposed to park on our nature strips.
@@ameliarose727 i'm in Michigan, and local cities have different ordinances regarding low grass. My local town lets you have flowers and natives, while next one over is not yet. You have to start contacting your local govt and tell them that this is beneficial to the eco systems and make them change the laws. Ours has changes and lots of people are doing just this. it's really nice.
I used to work mowing for the council and one thing we could never beat were gazanias. They will survive a mow and flower again within a week. Now here's the thing, many old types of Gazanias look a bit ugly, but the new types are pure colours like orange or yellow or mixed. If you look around the neighborhood you'll find some really nice types and they grow from cuttings so easily and spread from seed. so you can grow them amongst your lawn. Other lawn flowers include Salvia verbenaca, cape weed, ixias, woodland freesias, and Lippia, if you're lucky you'll be able to grow English daisies and Self-heal. All these pretty flowers will handle being mowed. Some of my other favourites include the dwarf bread-seed poppy, oxeye-daisy, cosmos and Viscaria oculata.
I’m so excited moving to my new home where I can plant my own poppy flower garden for the first time. Thanks for the encouragement
That was a beautiful job. We need more of that in our streets for our bees and wildlife S2
Great video. If you want to rehabilitate another piece of land like that, I suggest getting a large load of wood chips and spreading them on thickly - I mean like 12 inches - and letting it sit for a year. Some townships here in PA give them away, all you have to do is go to the township yard and pick up. The chips will break down on their own, but if you throw on a little dirt and water it occasionally, they will break down faster. Then you'll have some soil to work with. I know most people are in more of a hurry and don't want to wait, but if you have the time and patience, it really works. I planted a dozen different kinds of poppies this spring, still waiting for them to come up as it's been unseasonably cold here in PA. Last year I grew California poppies and they came back, so I'm hopeful about all the new ones. I think you're really onto something and hope experiment with planting other areas. Thanks for sharing your experience.
So pretty. This makes me want to try growing poppies again. I’ve had a tough time in the past, but I just love them!
So many beautiful posts !! You made a wonderful video, it showed how much you love your flowers. You have a very calm and peaceful voice also. Thank you for sharing your beautiful flowers
Amazing that you were able to grow anything in that rock hard clay! Maybe the tap roots helped. It looked lovely.
You bring a piece of heaven on earth.
I grow poppy's long years, usually most of them self seeding,digging the soil end of the summer and trow the seeds where ever I want to grow them its really beautiful show for few weeks, some times they come up some odd places planted by wind, poppy seeds never die 10 years later some seeds have been germinated, when they seedlings not to mistaken them as weeds ,, you have made a lovely garden for yourself and your neighbour's , if you keep digging that soil every year eventually gets much better results, but poppy's not that fussy really,Good luck and happy gardening,
hi will you mind to share some techniques about these. will you mind if I want ypur gmail to get connected. I want to speak something about it.seriously I need some help
Just found you! And this video has given me hope and not to give up on poppies! This fall it's on! I'm so happy I found you because you are Texas based and our backyards are tricky to figure out when to grow flowers and if they can at all. I'm in zone 8a in Metoplex area.
What a beautiful display! I'm excited to try growing Poppies for the first time this year.
This is the best video I've ever seen. Thank you so much! I've been intimidated by poppies for years, having failed several times to grow them. I'm going to try again.
Cold stratification is needed if you live in a cold zone.
I live in Austin too and it’s a dream of mine to have a successful garden patch like this! It’s so inspiring, I can’t wait to start planting this fall. Thank you for posting!!!
That’s awesome! We need more gardeners in Austin! I wish you the best of luck.
@@Baetanical would you sell any pods?
Well done! I am an inveterate wildflower gardener. Unfortunately this year the bunnies have decided that they want my red poppies, so it was nice to see someone grew some that went the full cycle!
Gosh what a beautiful video. I was absolutely captivated.
I'm in Australia and I planted some poppies last week. They have sprouted but I live in an apartment so they are in pots, not sure how they will go.
I found the cheapest way to buy poppy seeds is from the baking/ spice section in the super market. No idea what variety they are, can't wait to find out.
I bought a pound of them at the supermarket for a few dollars. I think they are opium poppies. I'm going to try them, I have read they are viable seeds that will grow just fine and cost almost nothing.
sarcasmo57-I used the baking poppy seeds. They are somniferum. They all turned out purple. Not my favorite plant-big raw boned coarse plants. I prefer the little poppies like in this video (papaver rhoeas or Shirley poppies) Such pretty color mixes available.
@@vgil1278 dose only the purple flower have the opium ?
My little girl spilled some Chia seeds that I threw into the soil instead of the garbage can and they are starting to grow nice and sturdy - will see how they turn out 💚
the part that starts at 10:54 describes exactly why i love gardening. its so rewarding to realize you've created a tiny ecosystem.
I really love that i finally know the word for this strip of grass hahaha. i would love to see something like this is my neighborhood!!
Remind me when I was young and use to run the fields in portugal full of flowers
Wow! you must had a dreamy childhood.
I’m so obsessed with your videos! The effort you put in these videos is amazing.
When I moved from California to British Columbia, Canada, I purposely planted California poppies to remind me of “home”.
Wow is right. I can only imagine the number of people whose day you have brightened with your creativity, effort and of course such a beautiful end result!
I wish you were my neighbour.
I got two plants last year that never bloomed, but they’re about to now and I’m so excited. Now I need to try seeds 😍😍😍
It’s so nice you grew flowers for your friends and neighbors to enjoy! I got a surprise poppy this year in a neglected planter. I was amazed they look so similar to the crepe ones the vets sell. I buy my vet Poppy every year but this year I didn’t see anyone out there. I must have been gifted by a bird to experience the real flower this year! 😁 Thank you for sharing! 🤗👍♥️🤍💙
Love this! Here in NZ we call Bachelors Button, Cornflower, so that threw me at first 😁.
Beautiful!!!
It's always tempting to take shortcuts. Your video is inspiring to do it right!
Those looked amazing! Now I have to plant something on my "devils strip"....or whatever u called it lol.
I’ve watched this video so many times. Just a beautiful project.
I'm going to try seeding them like that. They never grow for me. I bought Amazing Gray poppies from floret flower and have been afraid to sow them, because I don't want to waste the seeds!
They can only be wasted by remaining in the package too long. Scatter them!
I've re-watched this a few times. Besides being a feast for the eyes, I am thoughtful of the difference a few flowers can make for the environment, the bugs, and the people. Hope they reseed and you have a lovely strip of flowers, again.
These will regrow back everyyear. Just like perennial because of the seeds fall down, regrow next year. It is one time thing to deal with
Self-seeding annuals
The bachelor buttons are terrific! These are gorgeous. Good work! I have bright orange oriental poppies in my front yard-- no idea where they came from, they were just beautifully there one day. i rather rudely dug up a few and moved them to another part of the yard-- they just flourished. In dry Utah summers, i find they're incredibly tolerant. I just wish they bloomed more often than once a year!
Amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing, this was super inspiring 💚🌱
Lovely flowers and video! Especially love that frame at the end where the sun hit the flowers, it was picture perfection!
I also live in Texas, and have experience with clay soil, so I wanted to share a great tip:
GYPSUM !!!
It is a natural product, so great for organic gardens. And it comes in either a powder form, or granules. Either product works the same. Of coarse, it works best if you can till it in, or turn it into the soil somehow. But if that is not possible, simply apply it on top of the soil, and scratch it in.
Or with grass, just broadcast the granules. Don't try broadcasting the powder with a broadcast spreader tho! The powder gums up the whole works!
Also, it may take longer to work if just putting on topically, but it still finds its way down into the soil.
It does take quite a long while to produce results tho. Usually a minimum of 2 years!! So it's a long term project for sure! But the benefits are how it breaks up the clay soil, helps to make the nutrients already in the soil available to plants, and helps somewhat with moisture retention. There are many other benefits too, but it's better to look it up for the whole list.
What it does with clay is truly a miracle!
I've been using it for 5 years, and I still add it to my soil, grass too, at least 3 times a year. My soil is now soft, and crumbly, and 100% easier to work with! You may have to wait a long time to see the results, but it is Nature's answer to hard, compact soil.
Hope this helps! ♡
And your Poppies are AWESOME!!! ♡♡♡
Thank you so much! Do you know if it affects the pH of the soil? I have alkaline soil and am trying not to raise the pH any higher.
I completely understand your not wanting to raise your PH any higher!
If gypsum does change the PH in any way, it is only in a small way. AND it is said to LOWER the PH, if it does anything at all (to the PH).
Personally, I have never found gypsum to be a factor in my garden soil's PH.
I heard you mention you are in Austin, and I now live just outside of Austin, at the North end of Lake Travis. So we are definitely neighbors! Before moving here, I lived in N.Austin for many years. The soil structure is similar in both places, but not exactly the same. Most of Austin is stuck with the same type of soil as The Blackland Praire here in Texas. Heavy on the black, clay side, but not the same kind of clay as say, the orange, sticky kind they have in Georgia. Texas clay is often referred to as caliche, which is loaded with calcium rock deposits. You can actually see all the white calcium stuck in the black dirt clods! This calcium comes from all the limestone rock which Austin sits on. Unfortunately for our plants, this calcium in the soil is not always available to our plants on a metabolic level. In other words, the calcium is bound up in such a way that the plant life cannot take advantage of its wonderful, and much needed nutrition.
Gypsum is a great way to un-bind some of these soil borne nutrients. One of the great things -besides being a natural organic material- is how gypsum works on making calcium more soluble to our plants on a microscopic, or scientific level. I am not a scientist, so that is about as far as I go on that! But having used gypsum in all my gardens, I can honestly say it is a magic ingrediant! The breaking up of the caliche is the only magic part I can physically see, unless you count healthy plants too! I don't mean to imply that compost, especially leaf compost, is not needed if you use gypsum, nor any other soil improvements for that matter. I am simply saying if you have soil that is hardpan, caliche, clay or some other reason the soil is tough to work in, gypsum is like waving a magic wand that takes a long time to work, but definitely worth the wait!
I'm sorry this is such a long reply! I just get going about soil, and I sometimes can't leave out all the good details!
I enjoy watching your gardening! ♡
I completely understand your not wanting to raise your PH any higher!
I heard you mention you are in Austin, and I now live just outside of Austin, at the North end of Lake Travis. So we are definitely neighbors! Before moving here, I lived in N.Austin for many years. The soil structure is similar in both places, but not exactly the same. Most of Austin is stuck with the same type of soil as The Blackland Praire here in Texas. Heavy on the clay side, but not the same kind of clay as say the orange sticky kind they have in Georgia. Texas clay us often referred to as coliche
gardengatesopen perfect - I’m going to get some! I’ll ask the nurseries about it too. Thank you so much!
I loved watching this. When I lived in CT I made a border along the road similar to this and just loved all the plants in it. I never had a poppy though! So beautiful! And isn't it rewarding to grow from seeds? So much more rewarding than buying plants someone else started , but sometimes that works, too! I planted pansy seed a few months ago and they are just getting their first set of true leaves! Hoping for flowers! THANKS for posting !
"there's something beautiful about the seed pods"
"Well I know it, but I don't think I should say it"
I had a great success growing poopies in Georgia red clay soil. During fall and winter I was digging into the flower bed all my vegetarian food leftovers, like potato peels, broccoli and cabbage stems. I made sure to mix my compost with the original clay once a week. I mixed the same kind of poppies is that you are using with the wildflower seeds from Home Depot. I had sown the seeds in February. The results were giant flowers lasting all summer and deep into the fall. I didn't have to water. The rains went not so often in the summer as they are in the winter in Georgia. The organic material helps retaining water big time.
that is gorgeous!
Well done, you did an excellent job. What a beautiful sight and I bet the neighbours are grateful. The combination of poppies and cornflowers is magnificent. I have success with cornflowers this summer and should combine them with poppies next summer. They compliment each other from what I have seen in your video. Keep up the good work.
TH-cam needs a why-am-I-only-finding-this-channel-now button. * subscribed *
Poppies have much a special place in my heart, they're the flowers that made me fall in love with gardening. I remember sitting in my granny's front yard with my dog and just looking at these bright red poppy flowers.
When it was time to harvest the seed pods, I'd be the one who got the job of breaking them open and collecting the seeds. Then my gran would take half to re-plant and my uncle would take the other half and make these delicious buns with the seeds on top!
It's crazy how one little flower can have such a massive impact on the memories of childhood. And now, thanks to you, I know how to grow them! Thanks!
Thanks for attending my TedTalk.
(oh, it turns out they're my birth flower too!)
Just curious, I always thought that land technically belonged to the city? I guess I never questioned cutting it, though... Does anyone have an answer for this?
I own the land but the city has the right to dig it up to work on utilities whenever they want. It’s called an easement.
Did you just turn that long-forgotten small area into a fragment of heaven?? Long live good man!
Very inspirational - just shows what can be done, not just to enjoy the lovely poppies and other flowers but for helping wildlife
Poppy seed heads are so enchanting. What a reward after the flowers die down.
I'm trying to get a wildflower chunk in my yard. Seeds are down...cant stop checking the area. Gardening brings so much happiness.