Sunflowers and Zinnias for Birds, Bees, and Butterflies
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- 400 foot long bed of Zinnias and Sunflowers. Cutting garden for Wildlife.
If you would like to share seeds for me to try:
Mark's Garden Life
P.O. Box 72 Street MD. 21154
Found your channel yesterday. The camera person does a great job. Your videos are high quality!
Zinnias are always a favorite. I’m going to try your dwarf sunflowers next year. Love your channel handsome. 👍
So easy going. I enjoy listening to your voice and your explanations. Would love to come see the garden in person. Love watching you in those overalls too...very handsome!!!
What a beautiful garden!
Thank you!
Hi Mark. I love the colorful flower beds. I like how you have the sunflowers in the back of those beds. Also, I'm seeing a lot of winged beauties flying around those blooms. Holly at the end is a nice touch as always...she's adorable. BTW, nice feet.
nothing I love better than zinnias & sunflowers, except maybe daisies - such happy flowers - and they make so many other creatures happy as well !!! How wonderful is your garden - thanks for sharing with us. And how awesome is it to be able to garden barefoot - yee haw !!!
The more I see of your gardens the more impressed I grow. There was one point there were so many butterflies around you it looked like a scene from a Disney cartoon. A piece of paradise there.
Mark, I really enjoy your channel. I live in the Metro Atlanta area, and grew up on a farm in NE Ga. Have been a gardener all my life , so I appreciate the hard work you've put into the planting beds and your artistry with flowers and vegetables. Look forward to following you through the seasons.
Those borders are fantastic!! So full of life and beauty!!
Hi MSCO!
Thank you! I am enjoying them a great deal. Thanks for watching/commenting!
Best, -Mark
A few years ago a storm came thru and blew my sunflowers over, right as they were fully blooming. I cut off all the flowers and put them in a 5 gallon bucket. The goldfinches went crazy over them for about 2-3 weeks! It was fun to watch them. They also like echinacea's fading flowers and the dries seed heads.
Every time you show your food garden, you've stepped it up in some way, and it's awesome! Having pollinators in the garden makes it even more enjoyable. Thanks for sharing 🙏
My zinnias have bloomed for years get about 4 feet tall. Always get powdery mildew here in Texas. And now they are all pink orange and reddish color. The yellow color has just gone away. Lol I love zinnias they make so happy. I planted blackened Susan’s to get my yellow color back in my beds.
When I lived in northern california on the bank of the american river, outside Chico... I grew the biggest sunflowers... Love them!... I would put them in huge decanters around the house.... The vegetables were so tasty and HUGE.. The river would flood the banks enough to make the land fertile... We would go to the coast and collect Beryl wood.Drift wood. make furniture with in the floral shops we had... sunflowers rule!
Hi Billy!
I visited northern CA 3 years ago (along the coast) and loved it. I love sunflowers too. I actually have a really good video coming up shot at Sunflower farm. I did see a lot of drift wood on the beaches here and there along the coast. I saw some wales too which really thrilled me! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Billy, you have a wonderful week!
Take care, -Mark
@@marksgardenlife5971 Hey Mark.. We love the education... Thanks... I hope you got to go see the Redwoods while in Cali.. The smell is intoxicating.... You have inspired me to get my hands deeper in the soil... My BF owns a cannabis farm and his tomatoes are off the charts... I'm leaving the veggie's to him.. I want to grow flowers again.. In the heat of Palm SPrings I have even grow tulips outdoors... I was so glad to see you do flower episodes as well... Thanks again You're Great... Relatable....
garden looks great as always thanks Mark
I noticed the butterflies on those Zinnias. I'll definitely consider them next year. It is an old flower that I remember my grandmother raising.
Mark! I’m gonna try direct sowing next time like you did. I’ve always done them in trays and then place them out. I think the way you did them makes for a more natural and dense presentation.👍🏾
Damn Mark. Why can't my flowers look like that. Beautiful
I’m growing sunflowers 🌻 for the first time this year and they are over 7 feet tall. Just starting to form flowers. They were a great choice behind my canna lilies as a backdrop. Very inspiring videos. Thanks for the update of your gardens. I’m going to try some of your suggestions on tomatoes 🍅 next year. South Jersey Shore weather can be iffy . Wish me luck 🍀
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Fantastic planting for the pollinators and for beauty as well. Love it. If you want butterflies and bees later in the year plant asters as well as the zinnias and sunflowers. New England Aster, Aromatic Aster, all varieties. They will be covered with pollinators. Also tall garden phlox are butterfly magnets from the moment they begin blooming.
Verbena bonarensis. Monty Don has them in his garden which made me try them. Will spread everywhere but I love them and so do the butterflies. 💜
Beautiful perfect weedless rows!
Hi....this is my first comment after "catching up" on some of your videos. I was not going to add another YT platform enthusiast to my personal list. However, I am so impressed with your garden philosophy, i.e., in creating a "mecca" for our wildlife, and impeccable creativity in vegetable and flower gardens design. Your gardens are absolutely beautiful, healthy and abundant! So Mark, last but not least is dog, Molly. I'd say she is charmingly mischief and lovingly wants attention! To say, I'm with Molly! (lol)! Your gardens deserve the praise and thanks for sharing all with the world!
Hi Edna!
Wow! You are to kind! You're going to give me a "big" head! I appreciate the kind words very much. Thank you!
Holly is mischievous for sure! lol Thank you so much for watching and commenting too! "Spread the word" of my channel if you would. Thank you!
Edna, you have a wonderful day!
Best, -Mark
Those sunflowers are so, so cute.
I always appreciate the accuracy of the pro cut series. They always do exactly what they are supposed to do. Congrats on passing 8000 subs
GORGEOUS🥰! Thank you for sharing !
Hi HC!
Thank you! Sharing.....It's all my pleasure! Thank you for watching/commenting!
HC, you have an incredible day!
Best, -Mark
Great, great, just great! These zinnias are gorgeous and so simple at the same time, wow! The end of the video was so sweet - monarch and Holly with that cucumber))))
Hi!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I appreciate you watching and of course, thank you for commenting.
-Mark
Mark I have learned so much after finding your channel today. I watched on and off all day after sending you the email. Excellent Excellent job on everything thing I have watched so far. I know each one is going to be great! I’ve got to go back and rewatch the tomato 🍅 videos to take notes. Zinnias I came to love from my mother. Love how you planted with the Sunflowers 🌻 behind the Zinnias. Can’t wait to see the Fall look around the greenhouses on the retail side. Take Care! 🌺
Lovely garden🌻🌺, learned a few things. Thank you and blessings to you and yours !
The border plants look beautiful
Hi Rajish!
Thank you!
-Mark
Your garden is just amazing!
I love the dog at the very end of the video lol. 😉
Happy Birthday 🎈🎂🎁 to your cousin. Beautiful garden!
I planted zinnias and dahlias for the first time this year and the pollinators have been fun to watch. Butterflies, humming birds, bees, and golden finches have been constant friends in our back yard this year! Great looking flower beds, Mark.
Such a beautiful garden..
Mark I love sunflowers, they're simple but beautiful and I also love sunflower seeds 😁
Hi Derrick!
I totally agree with you! I eat them too! Thanks for watching and commenting as well.
Derrick, you have a wonderful day!
Best, -Mark
You have such an amazing garden
Hi Lata!
I'm glad you are enjoying it. Thank you! I appreciate you watching and of course, thank you for commenting. If you would, spread the word of my channel. That helps a lot!
Lata, you have a great day!
Best, -Mark
I am really enjoying your videos, Mark! Thank you for making and posting them. I like to watch gardening TH-cam channels like You Can’t Eat the Grass, Epic Gardening, Self Sufficient Me, Flower Hill Farm, etc, when I am working long hours in the office. Your channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites, so it is no surprise that you keep getting more and more subscribers. Keep up the great work! Also, I hope you don’t feel obliged to reply to every comment. I know that you do that because you’re a kind person, but it takes a lot of time and work to get back to every comment.
Hi Brad!
Thank you! It's all my pleasure. Sounds like I am in good company with the channels! The growing subscribers....I think I'm more than surprised than anyone. I just didn't expect that. I feel so lucky and thankful. The comments..I can see in the future, there is no way I will be able to keep up with them, but I'm going to do what I can for now. Probably down the road, I will go through and answer every so many and do some on camera. I appreciate you watching and of course, thank you for commenting! And get a break from that office too!
Brad, you have a wonderful day/evening!
Take care, -Mark
Also once again you keep getting a lot of new subscribers and the count is now over 8K woo hoo, Congratulations.
Hi Gabriel!
Thank you! I just keeps surprising me! I just feel so lucky and thankful.
-Mark
Hey Mark,hello from a cold Winter day here in NZ..Although I love Zinnias I havnt grown them for past few years but seeing your great display has got me interested in growing again,great for cut flowers,plus good garden display through to the Autumn..thanks for sharing,love your show,spreading the word amongst my friends to watch,enjoy and subscribe,cheers Mark,look forward to more postings👍🌻
Hey Matthew!
Don't talk about cold! lol How cold does it get in the area you live? Zinnas...for the money invested, they probably put on the best show of flowers. My channel......thank you! Very kind of you. Thanks for spreading the word. I appreciate that. If I get a large enough audience in New Zealand, I'll come and visit and film. Looks like the UK will be coming up next year. I'm going to have several meet and greets over there next year. I appreciate you watching and of course, thank you for your comments!
Matthew, you have a great day/evening!
Best, -Mark
I love sunflower 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻❤️
Butterfly, Something special is the"Giant Yellow Swallowtail" about 1/3 larger and wing motion of an hawk almost always flying such as a hummingbird.
Yes I have 4 type and bees love them and earwigs too, Thanks Mark
Hi Mark!
Hope you're doing well
Everything looks beautiful, it's all doing so well, i love zinnias i plant them every year and this year i will be growing more like Zinnia 'Scabiosa Mix, CA Ultra-Giant, Dwarf Multi-Colour Mix and Lilliput Mix, also i will be growing some sunflowers too like Sunflower Solstice (POT), Evening Sun, Sunbird, Teddy Bear and a new one for me the Mexican Sunflower.
I was going to suggest if you would like to grow 'Rosemary' that will attract more pollinators like the one i showed you which gets full of honey bees and also looks beautiful, full of blue/purple blooms, and what about 'Alyssum' in-front of the Zinnias that would look beautiful too like a filler underneath and will attract honey Bees and possibly Butterfly too.
Have you thought about Hydrangeas? All round a very productive and beautiful Garden edge.
You have done very well Mark! 😃
And at the end of the video with Holly Which i remember that video when you caught her with the cucumber and she gave you that puppy dog eye's look lol! Ooh Holly 😝
Looking Forward to tomorrows video 😃
Best Gabriel.
You do good work! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Stephanie!
Thank you! That's very kind of you to say. Sharing....It's all my pleasure! I appreciate you watching and of course, thank you for your comments too! Spread the word of my channel if you would. Thank you!
Stephanie, you have a great day/evening!
Best, -Mark
Love your videos. Very informative.
Hi Mark!
I just stumbled upon your channel and subscribed. The sunflowers and zinnias are beautiful along your fence line. I too grow zinnias from seed. I actually was visiting a restaurant in the NC mountains a few years ago and nurserymen were cleaning out zinnias and planting fall plants and I simply asked permission to pop off some seed heads of the zinnias and the rest is history. Currently mine are about 5.5' tall. I did want to suggest that the verbena may be the lollipop variety. I have those in my garden as well. Blessings....happy gardening!
Hi Beth!
Welcome to the channel! Thank you! 5.5' tall! That's amazing! I appreciate you watching and of course, thank you for commenting too!
Beth, you have a great day/evening!
Best, -Mark
Very pretty flower patch. There is some research out there that shows that sunflowers have medicinal value for native Bumble Bees. Definitely a good one to have.
Loving those zinnias!
Beautiful!!
Hi Mark, greetings from the UK. Just discovered your channel and great to see plants some of which are familiar to us here and some not seen before. The verbena near the end of vid looks like verbena bonariensis. There is a shorter variety v. rigida which grows to about a foot high.
Greetings from Spain🇪🇸💪
i just found you on youtube....great videos!!!
Hi Rourke!
Welcome to the channel! The videos....Thank you! That's very kind of you. I appreciate you watching and of course, thank you for your comments as well.
Rourke, you have a great day!
Best, -Mark
So pretty. Been trying to grow some here in Nashville
looks like verbena bonariensis
All your plants look so great Mark,you water a lot during dry hot weather?
What a man 😻
Wow look at all those pollinators! I'm still trying to learn about all the insects in the garden and trying to figure out which ones I should be afraid of and which ones not.
I leave a 50 x 300 strip pd Dandelions....yes Dandelions. The bees are in them and when they go to seed the Gold Finches are in heaven.
Hi ! Congrats from Spain, Mark ! I really fall in love with your channel , with those zinnias and sunflowers …. and I have a question… ¿why do you plant dahlias close tomatoes? 🤔
Loved your flower video today, I usually pluck sunflower seeds out of my love birds and conure seed mix I feed them so I never know what I'm going to get. Had a big planter full of zinnias not sure what kind I just planted 3 plants in may cant believe how big they got. I have a big deer rabbit squirrel and chipmunk problem.
Wow never seen so many zinnias. Can you let me know which sunflower varieties grow tall. I never seem to find any that grow more than one foot tall.
Very interesting stuff. This is my second year in a house with a smallish 1000m2 yard and I've been scouring the net for gardening videos so I can learn this this stuff. I really haven't touched annuals yet as the yard is a huge mess (completely overgrown with annual and perennial weeds) so I've been taking it all in small steps so that I don't get overwhelmed. It's slow going since our winters are pretty harsh and long (last winter we had temperatures down to -28 celsius).
I discovered your channel only today so this may have been mentioned in some of the previous videos but what zone are you in? I'm myself in northern europe and we don't use the same zone system here (i.e. our zone numbers go up the colder the area is) but I believe my area is comparable to USDA zone 5a. We technically have a continental subarctic climate but since there are over a thousand of small and large lakes in my area they buffer it a bit. This region actually has some of the warmest summers in entire country.
Loving your videos, do you wear overalls just because you like them or are they useful for your work? Just curious 🤔
Hi!
Thank you! I'm glad you are enjoying them. Overalls.....both. I love all the extra pockets on the front.
-Mark
Fantastic! Mark, what do you think of growing dwarf fruit trees in this part of your garden?
The gold finches are all over my cone flowers now here in 7a.
Hi John!
It's so nice seeing them, isn't it! Thanks for watching and of course, commenting too!
John, you have a wonderful day/evening!
Take care, -Mark
Can sunflower seeds be harvested from the procut variety.
Do you plant your marigolds directly in the ground? Or start them indoors?
Where can I order seeds. I would like to grow a harvest before the cold sets in and 60 days to blooms will work great.
Good morning sir I watching your video full i like and support channel thank you for sharing
Please stay connected
Idk my zinnias are getting eaten by rabbits
The Sun flowers were a happy accident in memory of Bob Ross (the painter) who never made a mistake only had happy accidents lol. Great update , your garden is amazing!
Beautiful!!!
Your garden is such a very dreamy and relaxing space. Both the vegies and the flowers are living their best life. Thanks for sharing Mark!
Nice! I would love to see more closeups of the plants you show.
verbena bonariensis! Fantastic plant that is really easy to propagate from cuttings!
I just wanted to write Verbena bonariensis as well. It is usually biannual here propagating by seeds.
Great information.. thanks.. you look so comfortable in your bare feet in your garden.
Cosmos, cleomes, and zinnias are my space fillers. And they will even self sow the following year if you chop up the plants and mulch in place in the fall
Good Morning Mark,
Thanks for sharing those flowers early in the morning. I know they'll be a beautiful addition to the birthday party 🎉. I know those feet are just excited to touch the ground underneath...... I like that picture with Holly and that cucumber... Her face said " oh no, caught red handed". Haha have a great day and thanks again. 🙂
I love the plant boarder and those sunflowers are huge! I'm definitely gonna emulate that in my garden. Good job Mr. Mark.
Mark you are for real man bare feet and all You should be proud of yourself for the work you put into your garden and the knowledge you offer us that don't know THANKS man.BUT my ? is where's Holly LOL Good Joe bud
I love these combinations, and wish I could do similar. Unfortunately most of my property is either shade or part shade. A video with your suggestions for those areas would be helpful.
I'm in a similar position and lavander does surprisingly well. Roses grow well but rarely flower.
You are such a genuine person Mark! Subscribed!
Your garden is lovely! Stress reliever.
I bought chocolate cherry sunflower seeds but, didn't get them planted this year!( Life happens) Hopefully, next year! Do you sell your seeds! If so, how can I see what you have to sell? I've used Burpee seeds in the past but I'm looking to expand my sources.
Mark, How what do you use to control Japanese Beetles from destroying your zinnias leaves?
Love your channel where are you from Greetings from Canada
LOVE Zinnias- they are my go-to ‘happy’ flower. ❤️👍 Love the simplicity of the zinnias and sunflowers. Your garden is fantastic, thank you for sharing it with us. 🙏 Looking forward to future videos. 👍🙂♥️🌈
Oh your flowers look so beautiful and your grass looks like a fluffy carpet
How did you get the zinnias so full? Mine never look like that.
I love zinnias. Your borders look beautiful!
I just came back from Alaska and the deer had been snacking on my sunflowers while I was gone. Yours look amazing!
Paula B. is afraid of sunflowers.
Mark, your gardens are beautifully presented, a pleasure to see. I love zinnias, I grow them here in Australia.
Hi Derek!
Thank you! I appreciate that! Zinnas are a lot of flower power for the money! That's for sure! You guys are just coming into spring now, aren't you? I appreciate you watching my channel and of course, thank you for commenting!
If you would, spread the word of my channel in Australia. I would appreciate that very much.
Derek, you have a great day/evening!
Best, -Mark
"if you're using open pollinated varieties... you can save the seed"
unless I'm mistaken, you can save the seed on patented varieties (provided it isn't patented under a "use", such as GE crops) so long as you are using them for yourself, on your own land (not selling or distributing) because that falls under PVP.
I do love Zinnia, they grow so easily from seed and just bloom and bloom.
I think you’re right about the PVP. I think he meant it not from a legal standpoint, but just because many hybrids don’t grow true to type from seed.
I planted zinnias in the Devil's Strip. That's what we call that narrow strip of sod between the sidewalk and the street. Cars slow down to look and neighbors walking their dogs or jogging stop and admire them. Zinnias are great, easy flowers and they self seed.
What is the variety of the sunflower you have? I like that it stays short and compact and I would like to get me some. I have a lot of the coneflower and the finches is making a playground out of my yard right now the color of mine are fluorescent green real bright almost like they're glowing. What's your location by the way?
Good morning Mark, gorgeous sunflowers and zinnias. Fairly new subscriber here from Chicago area. Really enjoying your channel. Where's the tank top T shirt today LOL. Take care and keep up the beautiful work. Rusty
It is always nice to start your day looking at beautiful flowers and butterflies...I can't remember the last time I saw a butterfly here in Phoenix....thanks so much!!!
about how many packages you used? I may do this next year, I have a huge backyard... I need to start filling in with shrubs flowers and trees
WOW!!! Are you kidding me? All those flowers were planted by seed and grew that fast!!!! I'm looking forward to planting some of my own watch the butterflies 🦋 and bees 🐝
Hi Patrick!
Nope, not kidding. It's my good soil! Thanks for watching/commenting!
Patrick, you have a great weekend!
Take care, -Mark
Beautiful! I want to plant a "hedge" of zinnias around my entire property next year as like a fence line.
Hi Candace!
Zinnas are excellent at covering a large area for little cost and they put on a constant show of summer color too! Thanks for watching/commenting!
Candace, you have a great week!
Best, -Mark
So beautiful! The sunflowers look spectacular!