Landscaping Design Ideas for Your Native Plant Garden | Webinar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2020
- Join TCF's Nancy Cinatl to learn about how to design your native plant gardens to not only help your plants thrive, but also give your home that "curb appeal".
I don’t live in the Midwest, but I really enjoyed this presentation. I especially appreciated the focus on the subjective attractiveness of various designs (“charming”). Many presentations I have seen seem to focus only on the the plants and don’t mention the feelings that various designs or plant arrangements would foster. Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback! Happy to hear you enjoyed it.
Wow, excellent presentation! Host Jamie makes excellent points in the questions and answer time, and Nancy put together a fine presentation that follows a plan, presenting design looks as well as pointing out the names of some excellent native plants. The main point of this entire garden-with-native-plants idea is to serve the planet and support its life. Nancy makes that point early on, about how, if you want birds, you must provide them with the plants that will attract their food. Nancy mentions in the questions and answer period that we must avoid pesticides entirely ideally, and I would add, especially neonicontinoids, which stay in the environment way too long and are more destructive than we know. But Nancy’s answer is perfect about how to control insects by keep planting more natives that will attract the predators. Jamie is right on about more reasons to avoid cultivars (less pollen but also shape of flower, color, season of growth all may also deter or prevent pollinators or leaf-eating insects from taking advantage of the plant. I also first heard here Jamie’s term, ‘biologically inert” referring to the zero wildlife value of non-natives. Well put. I hope to find more information on recommended books, sources of plants (a few were mentioned here), times of the year to plant, and books on rushes, grasses and sedges. I will be new to Midwest native gardening in spring 2021, as I am moving to a 20-acre homestead from a life in Southern California. So I especially enjoyed hearing about the worst non-native invasive, and some ideas as to how to treat them. Happily, this also tells me what I can do with my moving boxes. Oh, almost forgot, as I have successfully used this cardboard layer method to kill Bermuda grass here in Los Angeles: don’t forget to remove the tape!! You will either remove it now or be pulling it out of the ground later. That has been my experience here, anyway, where the climate with no rain in between March and December or January means your cardboard will decompose in 5 years, not 3 months. ; ). Indiana, here I come. Thank you, Conservation Foundation, I will look forward to donating to your wonderful organization that supports us all in our determination to help save the planet, and ourselves.
Thanks so much for watching the webinar and sending us your enthusiastic comments and your willingness to support our organization! Here are titles of books that you and others might find useful:
The Midwestern Native Garden: Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants Paperback by Charlotte Adelman & Bernard L. Schwartz (2011)
Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded by Douglas W. Tallamy (2009)
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts In Your Yard , by Douglas W. Tallamy (2019)
Best wishes to you with your move to Indiana. While our organization doesn’t have a presence there, we are always willing to answer questions and thereby support efforts to restore native plants and wildlife to Midwest ecosystems.
I hope to see webinars specifically on habitat gardening, where the plants are 99% native in the pictures and also mention is made of taking into account the needs of different life stages of the wildlife we seek to attract, for example birds, native bees and butterflies need nectar but also nesting sites and for bugs, host plants for eggs that will hatch to caterpillars. More mention of evil neonicotinoids and perhaps delve into the (potential) controversy of feeding hummingbirds (are there hummingbirds in the Midwest?) sugar water, plus spreading of bacteria and virus among birds when those feeders are not properly cleaned and sanitized. Also the damage wrought by non-native milkweed. Thanks for pointing out the evils of treated plants in killing caterpillars here. Thanks again for a great presentation.
This was a wonderful help, thank you so much Nancy!
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can you suggest native species for ther shrubs and trees in the pictures ?
This video don’t show Native Plants, there are beautiful native plants gardens that would have been a great example. If you’re not promoting the use of Native plants, please don’t put native plants on the title.
This webinar was intended to give design ideas, like color, structure, and placement. While many native plants were used in the plantings shown, it's sometimes hard to find a photo that illustrates the exact design element we wanted to show that also has all native plants in it. Other webinars we've done include more specifically the native plant choices. We absolutely encourage homeowners to use native plants in their gardens.