When i moved here i was determined to have a "perfect" garden. I spent my first couple of years here digging out violets, until I finally realized that i was losing that battle and started trying to learn more about my "weeds". Now i cheer for every scruffy weed that hosts fritillaries!
Same! I had no idea they were so necessary, and once I changed my perspective to see violets as free, no-fuss green and living mulch, I’m so happy to have them take over certain areas. Not to mention their flowers are lovely and so welcome.
It is so great that you have highlighted the importance of host plants, and not just pollinator plants, in several of Flock's videos. It is a differentiation that most of us don't make unless someone draws it to our attention. It is an aspect of gardening that I have become much more aware of and interested in pursuing and have found resources supporting our insect populations here in Colorado. So thank you so much. Also wanted to say that I love the summer outfits that you are wearing in your recent videos. I look forward to being able to break out that clothing when it gets hot - colorful skirts and little tops and sundresses - it is a sign to me that the real heat of summer has finally arrived and I'm here for it.
Glad that you are picking up on the insect videos here and that you share that in your regular day-to-day out west. I'm an entophile myself, so I like doing informative videos like this. And thanks on the clothing compliment. All of my stuff is in boxes at the moment with renovations, so I'm lucky if I can even find all my stuff to wear; and sometimes I forget even what I have!
I don't live in the US but despite that I enjoyed to learn about your native butterflies and I learned so much. You have so many beautiful ones over there! If there are any natives that aren't present in your area have you considered buying native caterpillars online, raising them up and then introducing them? I think that would make for an incredible video!
We floated the idea of creating a little butterfly garden here, so folks can interact / see the caterpillar phase, but think that may be an activity down the line when we settle in more here. And thanks for watching even though this is different from your region!
Thank you Summer for sharing your knowledge and happiness with us! The excellent photography paired with your enthusiasm is a joy. I’ve been following you for quite some time, and the your video’s continue to entertain and educate. I always look forward to listening to you; it’s been fun to follow you on your journey. 🌻🌱👨🌾🦋🐝🐛
This is going to be one of my favorite videos. The year is waning. This will be good horticultural therapy, in December. We hadn't seen butterflies, for years. Maybe it was the drought. Now, I've seen 2 different kinds of butterflies, flying closely, in view, on the same day. Something has dramatically changed. It's like another Wall, has come down.( My neighbors have planted a new small, down-trodden Japanese Maple. The leaves are brown, dried and shrivelled. The older ones are still elegant and lush. I hope that they can save that poor stick.) Your garden is surely a nurturing oasis, for any travelling butterflies and is a joy for us to see. We spent our childhoods, in the fields and this reminds us of that. We had lots of chicory, milkweed, iris, snapdragons and another flat flower, made of tiny parts, with a dark spot in the middle. We had mostly Monarchs, cabbage butterflies and a rare Swallowtail.
Has anyone been to the zoo lately. They have these sad little butterfly gardens. Maybe three types of plants and not a single butterfly. I think someone at the zoo should listen to this video
Pipeline swallowtails rare up north. The plant will run at the root. I never had one till I planted the host plant and now they area abundant here. Central GA
Always love your videos! Great info on all the host plants. I always recommend that people look up their native butterflies and get their host plants. It's a very sad season here in NC for our butterfly gardens. I'm lucky if i see any butterflies other than skippers. Nothing at all like last year. Very dry season too.
SW Tennessee here. Anything in the mint family does very well, even in drought. Seeded out a small envelope of Wild Mountain Mint a couple of years ago. Spreads well, tall , lots of white flowers. Pollinators love it. Transplants well. I got mine from Prairie Moon.
Excellent video and very informative. Interesting to know about wild violets. I have them everywhere. I always learn so much from your videos. The content is amazing.
I really enjoy watching your videos- you are a lovely fashion model, in a very outstanding Style of your own.While expressing my dream, like many viewers , of a simple country lifestyle. I luv the crochet sun top On you , with skirt. It is a perfect garden Look, yet natural and becoming, on you and in your garden !and thx to your partner, Soder🐝
Just got caught up on your latest videos, this one really made me think differently about planting for pollinators, so thank you! I'm guilty of thinking about nectar and neglecting caterpillar food, so I'll look into what plants to introduce for our native butterflies too. On a butterfly theme, I presume your top / dress is designed to look like a butterfly? It's a beautiful outfit, themed to match the video (or perhaps not, just a coincidence!)
Great video. Interestingly here in Europe we have similar (or same) butterflies and hostplants. Swallowtails and fennels are one example.
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I have learned to plant a wide range of host and nectar plants. Many species seem to have preferences based on a range of factors. So I try to provide a large range of host plants. Or at least a couple choices. Whether multiple species of milkweeds for monarchs or multiple genus like Carolina wild petunia, lance leaf frog fruit, and snapdragons for common buckeyes.
It would be downright rude should people watch without liking and subscribing to your channel. The quality you guys provide is really fantastic.💪The Aquilegia canadensis is absolutely beautiful, never seen it before. I will definitely buy this one. Thanks! I still wonder how you guys are able to maintain all those plants and the whole property, besides your other activities?? Despite a large piece being extensively managed, it really seems like a full time job to me. Great work nevertheless. Greetings!
Can i get some seeds?! 😂 Great video! Glad to know my azure butterflies that visit everyday year are gonna like the native vibernum i just planted. What a happy accident
We are in our third year of extreme drought. I love asters and was sad to lose all my tall asters last summer because i didn't know native plants needed water. This year I've replanted asters and I'm watering them!
I had a ton of the non native plantain all on the side of house and tons of common buckeyes…before I knew the connection, I had weeded them and they haven’t yet returned
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Summer is almost over in the Finger Lakes ain't it? I clearly remember fall starting by the first week in August. Just teasing. Lol.
Could you please identify feeding on plants? Eg. My comfrey has round holes eaten into the leaves. I think this indicates leaf cutter bees. It would be helpful to know the various eating styles because it is another level of connection with the locals. Thanks! 🦋
I love all of your videos. They are always filled with good information and beautifully shot. For whatever reason, perhaps the lighting, this one felt as if you were in front of a green screen for much of it, as if you were presenting the weather for the local news. 😂
In my region (USDA 4-5) we don't have wild lupine in the nature, but we have a huge amount of melissa blue butterflies and they like our wild sage plant and nepeta in the garden when they are blooming.
You're probably aware of this, being a taxonomy aficionado, but there has been a bunch of controversy over the placement of skippers. I think they are now formally classified as butterflies but used to be considered intermediate between butterflies and moths. Also, apparently planting tropical milkweeds in the wrong areas can spread disease to monarchs? Looks like all of yours are regional or approximately so. I haven't dug into that much but definitely could be something to investigate. (Would be a bummer ... some of the tropical varieties are so neat.) And finally ... boneset! The best pollinator plant I have seen for small native flies and bees. They just swarm them ... easy for their short tongues to access. And so beautiful, if perhaps a little weedy.
Side note: have you ever thought about creating a website where you sell various seed mixes by microbiome or by pollinator type? I know American Meadow does this but when I read the seed mix, there always seems to be filler speeds or non native seeds mixed in with them. Also, many of us on the east coast deal with clay soils. Would be super helpful to get into how to get some of these seeds to germinate successfully. Anyways! Great video, just adding my several comments to help with the algorithm😂
Maybe down the line doing some seed varieties. At this stage, we're really just focused on getting the land and the buildings in tip top shape. But I agree with you: I don't typically get pre-mixed seed mixes for those filler seeds, so often just get individual seed and then make mixes myself. Only way around it!
This is a video I will certainly watch many times as I take notes. The photos are my best way of remembering the various caterpillars and butterflies Thank you for posting this exceptionally useful video👍 I will now go back and watch your other videos from your playlist. This year my garden was invaded by the Spongy Moth caterpillar which defoliated many trees other than all of my Oaks. I am assuming that this is the reason that for the first time I have mainly the greater Spangelled Frittilari and have not seen any of the other usual inhabitants here. Very sad about this. The Red Lily Beetle forced me to remove over 100 Lilies as the invasion of the RLB was worse this year than any previous year. Is your gardening zone moderated by being in the Finger Lakes? What is your native soil like? Thanks for this very useful video?
We had spongy moth the first two years that we moved here and this is now the first year where our trees have caught a break, so we're feeling you on that. We have some useful spongy moth videos if need be. And we too have the RLB, but for whatever reason it wasn't bad this year and the lilies made a major comeback, though I removed them rom the planters because they are easy picking. Native soil here is silt-loam with around 20-24% clay. It's got stones in it; but the area used to be old grazing area and was heavily trampled, so we're just slowly building back soil. And we've augmented beds heavily.
in the tropics and I really struggle to keep caterpillars off my Hoyas, aroids and adenium and onto the planets they are 'supposed' to be attracted to 🙂
I love your outfit in this video! You used a word to describe where you were planting your lupinums--it sounded like "depotherate?" I tried to look it up but couldn't find anything. Mind elucidating us? I probably just misheard and got the spelling wrong. Time stamp was 15:29. I love expanding my vocab :) thanks in advance!
Oh yeah, sorry. I said, "depauperate" - and it's more of an old world phrase meaning "impoverished"-so referring to the soil as "impoverished"... Note, however, that depauperate also has a botanical definition (not ironically) that means more "imperfect" or "incomplete"....
I quit deliverately planting host olants when my new neighbors started spraying for mosquitoes. Ive been relieved to still have lightning bugs, despite their spraying.
Do gray hairstreaks use plants in the legume family in general? I’m pretty sure I saw their larvae on my garden beans at the end of the season last year.
@@FlockFingerLakes It was the third picking, so I wasn’t too worked up about it, and once I realized they might be the babies of the cutest little butterfly I ever did see, I was ok with it. I’ll just plant more beans.
Love to see this wonderful lady make a real difference to local wildlife.... so thank you...
seeing that chipmunk just running around in the back 😂
He'll be making more cameo appearances for sure. They are very friendly and bury sunflower seeds throughout my planters and garden. :)
That just made my morning!🐿
When i moved here i was determined to have a "perfect" garden. I spent my first couple of years here digging out violets, until I finally realized that i was losing that battle and started trying to learn more about my "weeds". Now i cheer for every scruffy weed that hosts fritillaries!
Same! I had no idea they were so necessary, and once I changed my perspective to see violets as free, no-fuss green and living mulch, I’m so happy to have them take over certain areas. Not to mention their flowers are lovely and so welcome.
So glad that you came around to it! Thanks for sharing the important story.
I love the chipmunk making a guest appearance at 05.09
They are really friendly here and will come right up to you !
I love this channel because we don’t have to worry about the content..nothing awkward or controversial..thank you
Glad you enjoy.
Thanks for the reminder of host plants 🌱
It is so great that you have highlighted the importance of host plants, and not just pollinator plants, in several of Flock's videos. It is a differentiation that most of us don't make unless someone draws it to our attention. It is an aspect of gardening that I have become much more aware of and interested in pursuing and have found resources supporting our insect populations here in Colorado. So thank you so much. Also wanted to say that I love the summer outfits that you are wearing in your recent videos. I look forward to being able to break out that clothing when it gets hot - colorful skirts and little tops and sundresses - it is a sign to me that the real heat of summer has finally arrived and I'm here for it.
Glad that you are picking up on the insect videos here and that you share that in your regular day-to-day out west. I'm an entophile myself, so I like doing informative videos like this. And thanks on the clothing compliment. All of my stuff is in boxes at the moment with renovations, so I'm lucky if I can even find all my stuff to wear; and sometimes I forget even what I have!
Summer.. you look adorable
Ahh thanks.
Well stated; great video Summer!
Thanks so much. And thank you for watching!
I don't live in the US but despite that I enjoyed to learn about your native butterflies and I learned so much. You have so many beautiful ones over there! If there are any natives that aren't present in your area have you considered buying native caterpillars online, raising them up and then introducing them? I think that would make for an incredible video!
We floated the idea of creating a little butterfly garden here, so folks can interact / see the caterpillar phase, but think that may be an activity down the line when we settle in more here. And thanks for watching even though this is different from your region!
Thank you Summer for sharing your knowledge and happiness with us! The excellent photography paired with your enthusiasm is a joy. I’ve been following you for quite some time, and the your video’s continue to entertain and educate. I always look forward to listening to you; it’s been fun to follow you on your journey. 🌻🌱👨🌾🦋🐝🐛
Thanks for leaving such a thoughtful note. So glad you find interest in the videos.
Great video with very useful information. Thank you so much🌻🌺🦋
My pleasure! Thanks for taking the time to watch.
Beautiful presentation , photography & valuable information ! Thank you .
Glad it's useful. Thank you for watching.
Very inspirational and knowledgeable! Thank you for your work!
Thank you for your videos.
Thank you Summer!
really great information👍🏾
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You're so welcome!
I like your outfit,garden looking good, it inspires me to plant more also, and learning same time.thank you
Have you never seen a zebra swallowtail? My favorite! Plant a bunch of paw paw trees. Host plant and has delicious fruit.
I have yet to see a zebra swallowtail here.
This is going to be one of my favorite videos. The year is waning. This will be good horticultural therapy, in December. We hadn't seen butterflies, for years. Maybe it was the drought. Now, I've seen 2 different kinds of butterflies, flying closely, in view, on the same day. Something has dramatically changed. It's like another Wall, has come down.( My neighbors have planted a new small, down-trodden Japanese Maple. The leaves are brown, dried and shrivelled. The older ones are still elegant and lush. I hope that they can save that poor stick.) Your garden is surely a nurturing oasis, for any travelling butterflies and is a joy
for us to see. We spent our childhoods, in the fields and this reminds us of that. We had lots of chicory, milkweed, iris, snapdragons and another flat flower, made of tiny parts, with a dark spot in the middle. We had mostly Monarchs, cabbage butterflies and a rare Swallowtail.
Hopefully this will give you some plants that you can dot around for host plants and bring back more of those butterflies!
Thanks!
Adding to the vid description a plant list mentioned in the video is super useful. Always appreciated on hort channels
Noted and added to the description.
Really interesting!
Got another interesting episode. My heart and soul is full of joy. Gotta replant flowering plants here later.
I just learned to crochet, and what great inspiration you gave me🍒
Excellent video. You are so knowledgeable and a wonderful presenter. Thanks.
Thank you so much and thanks for watching!
Did you make that shirt? I love it! Looks crochet. You are a beautiful human . Thank you for helping those unseen by most....❤
Has anyone been to the zoo lately. They have these sad little butterfly gardens. Maybe three types of plants and not a single butterfly. I think someone at the zoo should listen to this video
There’s lots of zoos…
wonderful.....Thanks Summer
Pipeline swallowtails rare up north. The plant will run at the root. I never had one till I planted the host plant and now they area abundant here. Central GA
Fantastic!
your knowledge is always so impressive
Wow bravo !! Tes connaissances sont extraordinaires..merci xxx
Glad you enjoyed. Thank you for watching.
Always love your videos! Great info on all the host plants. I always recommend that people look up their native butterflies and get their host plants. It's a very sad season here in NC for our butterfly gardens. I'm lucky if i see any butterflies other than skippers. Nothing at all like last year. Very dry season too.
Do you think the drought has something to do with not seeing so many butterflies this year?
@FlockFingerLakes very possible, also I've been hearing things are blooming early here in NC and other places too. Def an odd year.
SW Tennessee here. Anything in the mint family does very well, even in drought. Seeded out a small envelope of Wild Mountain Mint a couple of years ago. Spreads well, tall , lots of white flowers. Pollinators love it. Transplants well. I got mine from Prairie Moon.
We get some pretty interesting moths that use our mountain mints as host plants. And as you shared, once they flower, they are great for pollinators.
So enjoyed your video ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video and very informative. Interesting to know about wild violets. I have them everywhere. I always learn so much from your videos. The content is amazing.
So glad the videos we produce are useful. Thanks for watching and letting us know.
I can’t watch the video now, but I’m already giving them a thumbs up.
Such great information! Your delivery and vast knowledge is very inspiring. Your vocabulary stimulates my garden brain 😁🌺
Well that was nice to say. I'm glad you get so much out of the videos. Thanks for watching.
Another great video. Now I need to find out where to get the seeds for the host plants!
I really enjoy watching your videos- you are a lovely fashion model, in a very outstanding
Style of your own.While expressing my dream, like many viewers , of a simple country lifestyle. I luv the crochet sun top
On you , with skirt. It is a perfect garden
Look, yet natural and becoming, on you and in your garden !and thx to your partner, Soder🐝
This video is great! I’ve been working on increasing my host plants. ❤
SO good to hear!
Good luck with those tornados 🌪 today. I b praying for you
Just got caught up on your latest videos, this one really made me think differently about planting for pollinators, so thank you! I'm guilty of thinking about nectar and neglecting caterpillar food, so I'll look into what plants to introduce for our native butterflies too. On a butterfly theme, I presume your top / dress is designed to look like a butterfly? It's a beautiful outfit, themed to match the video (or perhaps not, just a coincidence!)
Great video. Interestingly here in Europe we have similar (or same) butterflies and hostplants. Swallowtails and fennels are one example.
I have learned to plant a wide range of host and nectar plants. Many species seem to have preferences based on a range of factors. So I try to provide a large range of host plants. Or at least a couple choices. Whether multiple species of milkweeds for monarchs or multiple genus like Carolina wild petunia, lance leaf frog fruit, and snapdragons for common buckeyes.
It would be downright rude should people watch without liking and subscribing to your channel. The quality you guys provide is really fantastic.💪The Aquilegia canadensis is absolutely beautiful, never seen it before. I will definitely buy this one. Thanks! I still wonder how you guys are able to maintain all those plants and the whole property, besides your other activities?? Despite a large piece being extensively managed, it really seems like a full time job to me. Great work nevertheless. Greetings!
Right now we're working two full time jobs for sure! Land + regular work! We'll do that while we can. And thanks for the kudos.
Can i get some seeds?! 😂
Great video! Glad to know my azure butterflies that visit everyday year are gonna like the native vibernum i just planted. What a happy accident
We are in our third year of extreme drought. I love asters and was sad to lose all my tall asters last summer because i didn't know native plants needed water. This year I've replanted asters and I'm watering them!
I generally water the plants for weeks after planting them (if it's not rainy)....It just gives them an easier time to root.
I had a ton of the non native plantain all on the side of house and tons of common buckeyes…before I knew the connection, I had weeded them and they haven’t yet returned
Summer is almost over in the Finger Lakes ain't it? I clearly remember fall starting by the first week in August. Just teasing. Lol.
Could you please identify feeding on plants? Eg. My comfrey has round holes eaten into the leaves. I think this indicates leaf cutter bees. It would be helpful to know the various eating styles because it is another level of connection with the locals. Thanks! 🦋
I love all of your videos. They are always filled with good information and beautifully shot. For whatever reason, perhaps the lighting, this one felt as if you were in front of a green screen for much of it, as if you were presenting the weather for the local news. 😂
It's probably because I had to have a stationary shot b/c Sander couldn't be behind the camera this time as he was working.
@@FlockFingerLakes Makes me realize how vital Sander has been in creating your great videos.
In my region (USDA 4-5) we don't have wild lupine in the nature, but we have a huge amount of melissa blue butterflies and they like our wild sage plant and nepeta in the garden when they are blooming.
You're probably aware of this, being a taxonomy aficionado, but there has been a bunch of controversy over the placement of skippers. I think they are now formally classified as butterflies but used to be considered intermediate between butterflies and moths.
Also, apparently planting tropical milkweeds in the wrong areas can spread disease to monarchs? Looks like all of yours are regional or approximately so. I haven't dug into that much but definitely could be something to investigate. (Would be a bummer ... some of the tropical varieties are so neat.)
And finally ... boneset! The best pollinator plant I have seen for small native flies and bees. They just swarm them ... easy for their short tongues to access. And so beautiful, if perhaps a little weedy.
Side note: have you ever thought about creating a website where you sell various seed mixes by microbiome or by pollinator type? I know American Meadow does this but when I read the seed mix, there always seems to be filler speeds or non native seeds mixed in with them.
Also, many of us on the east coast deal with clay soils. Would be super helpful to get into how to get some of these seeds to germinate successfully.
Anyways! Great video, just adding my several comments to help with the algorithm😂
Maybe down the line doing some seed varieties. At this stage, we're really just focused on getting the land and the buildings in tip top shape. But I agree with you: I don't typically get pre-mixed seed mixes for those filler seeds, so often just get individual seed and then make mixes myself. Only way around it!
Amazing you have Baltimore Checker Spots! Almost extinct in GA. I've never seen one in my life. Plant some turtle head for it.
Really? Almost extirpated in Georgia? Why do you think that is? Habitat destruction?
This is a video I will certainly watch many times as I take notes. The photos are my best way of remembering the various caterpillars and butterflies
Thank you for posting this exceptionally useful video👍
I will now go back and watch your other videos from your playlist.
This year my garden was invaded by the Spongy Moth caterpillar which defoliated many trees other than all of my Oaks. I am assuming that this is the reason that for the first time I have mainly the greater Spangelled Frittilari and have not seen any of the other usual inhabitants here. Very sad about this. The Red Lily Beetle forced me to remove over 100 Lilies as the invasion of the RLB was worse this year than any previous year.
Is your gardening zone moderated by being in the Finger Lakes? What is your native soil like?
Thanks for this very useful video?
We had spongy moth the first two years that we moved here and this is now the first year where our trees have caught a break, so we're feeling you on that. We have some useful spongy moth videos if need be. And we too have the RLB, but for whatever reason it wasn't bad this year and the lilies made a major comeback, though I removed them rom the planters because they are easy picking. Native soil here is silt-loam with around 20-24% clay. It's got stones in it; but the area used to be old grazing area and was heavily trampled, so we're just slowly building back soil. And we've augmented beds heavily.
Can you crochet me a t-shirt that matches that tank top? So cute!
in the tropics and I really struggle to keep caterpillars off my Hoyas, aroids and adenium and onto the planets they are 'supposed' to be attracted to 🙂
Indoors, we struggle to keep the thrips and spider mites off our Hoyas and Aroids! ha. ;)
I love your outfit in this video!
You used a word to describe where you were planting your lupinums--it sounded like "depotherate?" I tried to look it up but couldn't find anything. Mind elucidating us? I probably just misheard and got the spelling wrong. Time stamp was 15:29. I love expanding my vocab :) thanks in advance!
Oh yeah, sorry. I said, "depauperate" - and it's more of an old world phrase meaning "impoverished"-so referring to the soil as "impoverished"... Note, however, that depauperate also has a botanical definition (not ironically) that means more "imperfect" or "incomplete"....
How about adding the common name, for us garden lovers.
I quit deliverately planting host olants when my new neighbors started spraying for mosquitoes. Ive been relieved to still have lightning bugs, despite their spraying.
Ugh, I'm SO sorry to hear that your neighbors spray. They should just try mosquito bits in their water. Maybe suggest that to them?
It is strange that no Spotted Lanternfly has been sighted in the New York City area and surrounding counties.
That's interesting. I haven't been back to NYC in a couple weeks, but I'll have to see if I see any when I return. We haven't spotted any here (yet).
If I visited the US, would you let me collaborate somehow and visit the Flocks?
I tried growing violas they never happend . Maybe because they are zone 3-7. Im zone 8 texas lol. Thanks again.
I know what I’m supposed to focused on but I feel like I need details on the outfit too lol
Hahah, vintage skirt; and handmade Granny square crochet top.
Do gray hairstreaks use plants in the legume family in general? I’m pretty sure I saw their larvae on my garden beans at the end of the season last year.
Yes they do. They are pretty gregarious as far as appetite goes on legumes. To the point that they can be considered a "pest" by some.
@@FlockFingerLakes It was the third picking, so I wasn’t too worked up about it, and once I realized they might be the babies of the cutest little butterfly I ever did see, I was ok with it. I’ll just plant more beans.
Can you grow Pentas lanceolata? Might be a bit cool where you are.
Just looked it up-we can't ... it would likely be an annual. Lowest zone it grows appears to be a 10 and we're 5/6.
What about the Barn remodel? I heard there's a video coming on this.
Slowly but surely!
Lupines will not grow well in deep south. The grey hairstreaks absolutely wipe out my beautiful hardy hibiscus.
Fascinating that they will go for your hibiscus!
Did you just drop the word depauperate into a sentence like it was NBD? Your vocabulary is insane.
Been waiting for this exact video from FLOCK!
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Hopefully more like this to come!
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