Garden Tour: Native Plants at Westchester Community College NY

Take a tour of this New York garden and get design ideas for your native plant garden. Here are suggestions for replacing alien plants with natives.

[@phoenixrice-johnson640]

I'm learning to garden now and I'm so glad to have found this channel!

[@LongislandnativeSanctuary]

Your channel is a safe haven for me as I’m trying to choose the best native plants. Thank you

[@SandyKH]

No! The obedient plant means you can turn the blossoms, the petals themselves to make them sit in any order you want... That does work, but I don't know if it stays that way for the rest of the summer or whatever. A lovely garden. Thank you so much.

[@kitty4tify]

Beautiful. I love this municipality’s mandate.

[@kitty4tify]

Thank you for your inspiration. I like your philosophy and teachings about native plants.

[@Lilboozibert]

I missed some, but:
Inkberry
Obedient Plant
Hawthorne
Goatsbeard
Smooth Hydrangea
Virginia Sweetspire
Arrowhead
Marsh Marigold
Fragrant Water Lily
Aromatic Aster (fave)
Purple Lovegrass
Allegheny Spurge
Golden Groundsel
Fragrant Sumac
Viburnum
Goldenrod
New York Ironweed
Sunflower
Mountain Mint

[@NativePlantChannel]

Thanks for watching, there are so many possibilities!

[@alicebierhorst6712]

Great!

[@Gesundheit888]

How can I find the native plants for NH South?
I have a large back yard that we mowe only once a year and let anything grow that comes in by itself. Every year we get more and more flowers, grasses, thistles and of course birds. It is full of the little yellow birds (finches?)and a myriad of other birds and butterflies, as well as polinators of all sorts. Really fun to watch.

[@NativePlantChannel]

Hi, a good source for native plants is the Native Plant Trust in Massachusetts. www.nativeplanttrust.org/

[@Gesundheit888]

@@NativePlantChannel Thanks you!

[@angobansoar8174]

A fabulous video - well done.
Question. What is the plant at 7.40/7.44, it looks like it has pods or seeds (almost like Lupin, but not).
Thanks - keep up the good work.

[@NativePlantChannel]

Hi An Goban, the plant with the dark seedpods is baptisia, you can learn more about it in this video: th-cam.com/video/4mxqxxC3fyQ/w-d-xo.html

[@LongislandnativeSanctuary]

People are just not aware. Need more advocacy for natives

[@Lilboozibert]

I appreciate this! @7:38 Why would a wild lawn require mowing once a year (and not more mowing or none at all)? Thank you.

[@NativePlantChannel]

The reason for mowing once per year is to allow the perennials and grasses to grow but to cut down trees and shrubs preventing them from turning the meadow to woodlands.

[@rosekiki]

Where can I acquire the seeds for the native plants?

[@queen_sophie7515]

I wish the sound is better.

[@NativePlantChannel]

Thanks for commenting, the sound on recent Native Plant Channel videos has greatly improved!

[@PlantNative]

I’ve manipulated the individual flowers on Obedient Plant and they stay put.

[@jennetteoverzet2959]

Oh noooooo the bloom itself goes left to right for obidient plant 😅