Watched this with my 6 year old daughter (who absolutely loved it)! We're planning our landscaping right now, and this answers SO many questions!! Thanks Jo! :)

This video marries education with art and storytelling. This is so nurturing for both my mind and spirit 💗🕊🤓

I became interested in birds last spring (because of being at home during the pandemic) and found your videos shortly after. This video made a huge impact on me. Since I first watched it, I’ve been learning, learning, learning about native plants, conservation, and the environment. Thanks so much for what you do!!

After years and years of doing what you are speaking of I would never go back to barren ground. letting life thrive around me is so rewarding.

Thanks for such a beautiful video, Jo. You are a top notch story teller. I belong to the Native Plant Society of Texas, and have been trying to learn more about native plants so I can improve my yard. My goal is to provide a suitable habitat for our local animals, birds, and insects, and convince as many people as I can to do the same. Thank you for all the great plants, and resources, that you provided in your video. You’re a gem!

Very beautiful video. Spectacular scenery and narrative. Thank you.

Another FANTASTIC video! I love how you provide the names of each plant pictured AND ideas for using them in the home landscape 🌻🌳

You’re an incredible gift to us all. Thank you for these amazing videos❤

Beautiful with great info. Thanks for sharing. Superb like.

So glad that I found your channel. Gold! I live close to you too!

Thank-you so much for this, and thanks to everyone who assisted you in making this video. I am glad I've found you!

Just great newbie, & thanks for all the resource notes. We'll be getting on board, thanks to you & your kind. Big XO

Your husband gardens are beautiful 😁❤️

Thank you for the most beautiful videos. Such pure beauty we have here in Missouri eh? I live in Hollister and begin bringing native plants home as soon as the daisies sprout and until the asters stop blooming :)

So interesting, Jo! A lot to think about. My yard is probably about 90% native, but I’m fortunate enough to live in a rural area surrounded by woods. I like how you were able to offer solutions for those in the suburbs too, without offending their neighbors or getting the blight officer ticked off! 😬😉 If you need any wood ticks, we have extra!

Thank you, i love your videos

Can you do more videos like this showing what to plant where. My biggest problem is knowing the heights and blooming times to make the garden look like something other than a bunch of flowering weeds! Thanks

these videos relaxes me, thanks

As always Jo.. You are a wealth of information. Thank you so very much..God Bless You ❤️

Lovely.

I do declare your voice is most soothing, but most importantly, your videos are extremely informative.

My wild ones chapter has a native plant sale every May and I go hog wild buying up plants. My yard in the middle of my subdivision in a big city in Illinois looks different from every other yard around. I still have some non natives that I love, but they're far outnumbered by the natives. I hardly have any grass in the front yard because I've smothered most of it with mulch. No one else around has 2 spicebush growing in the middle of their front yard! I have so many different bugs and birds. I do, however have a big problem with the neighbors because of my yard. Any unwanted animal that wanders into our area is blamed on my yard. We had opossums and foxes this Spring and Summer and their appearance was blamed on me. I need to live out in the middle of nowhere so I can plant and grow whatever I want, wherever I want.... sigh. Thank you for spreading awareness about natives, Jo!

*We agree too to keep the tall plants stems for the birds to perch and sit on them near our feeders mainly, gives them a place to get out of the weather too* I agree about being this lazy gardener. I see it will die back and can be cleaned up at time of new mulch the next season.

Wonderful information, definitely working on making our yard more pollinator friendly. We let it grow wild for a while, and the backyard war a weedy, thorny jungle. I took care of some of the issue last year, now introducing more native (non invasive) plants. You mentioned Prairie Willows, which I am interested it. Not sure where one could buy those, we live in the Midwest as well, Northern Illinois.

This information was very helpful. Thank you.

Oh I love part 2 as well. Chokeberries can handle shady spots in my area, but it could be because I'm down here in the south. And I do love tall goldenrod. I know..I know..I can't help it. I saw the pollinators on it and I fell in love. The bright gold, too! Gorgeous! I've heard you can trim them down ahead of their flowering to keep them a little shorter. I think I'm going to try that this year. :) But they are in my backyard, so there's that, too. ;) I have a love for the aggressive native plants. I can't help it. I have bermuda grass lawn and it's very hard to push back unless you plant aggressive natives. I think it's a southern thing, bermuda grass. It's a terrible invasive lawn grass. And it's hard to pull. It acts more like a vine. Anywho, so glad I got to watch these! Can't wait to watch more of your videos soon. ☺

Wonderful to watch Jo, a fantastic resource. Excellent information, beautiful images, and your love of nature speaks volumes. If only I had a yard (lol).

Love this , Thank you Jo!!!

“In our best moments we are no less than a garden, that serves life, not ourselves.” ― Benjamin Vogt, A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future

Thanks Jo!

Lovely green creature I enjoy to see and hear them. yellow spotted bugs are interesting, I've not seen them here lots of golden rod in bloom now for sure. Granddaddy longlegs and butterflies are all spectacular.

I have oxeye! I heard you can prune them at a certain time and they won't get so leggy. In spring. I'm going to attempt this with some of mine

Wow, Jo that was a fantastic video! I've been wanting to start planting some things on m property after spending nearly three years taming the beast! It was a terrible mes, but it's ready now! Thanks for all the great info! I'll be referring back to it, I'm sure!! Hope you are doing well!

yo those bugs are lookin tasty i had to click off my mouth was just salivating so much

Your negative outlook on the human species only serves as a detriment to your videos. While being better custodians to the environment is certainly must, maybe you could preach that without getting all human hating leftist on us. Thanks but no thanks id rather not listen to your politics.