"I'm going to wrap it it because we've spent 15 minutes looking at a wall of plants." I'd watch 30 minutes looking at a wall of plants. Your property is a great inspiration.

I found caraway growing on a roadside the other day. No idea how it got there but it was happy in that space.

I love your 15 minutes looking at a living wall. Helps me so much to understand the importance of diversity. Especially 3 or 4 types of elderberry. Brilliant! Thank you.

jesus, thats dense but so damn awesome. i want more people to design their gardens like this, it looks so much better imo. many people want their super tightly mowed lawn without any weeds and then they put these useless shrubs next to their fences. nature wont find a way like this. im baffled why people find this attractive, especially because the summers get super hot and they have like 0 shade on their property. makes my blood boil honestly. thank you for providing us with insights and inspiration as to how it can be done differently

The chickens look great. From the driveway entrance, one can barely even see the dry miscanthus grass woven onto the fence! That is lush. "Good fences make good neighbors." The birds and all kinds of life must love it!

I love that smoke bush (?), but the shot of your lamppost in all that sunchoke or wild sunflower (?) is just heavenly. I felt so "Narnian" lol. I just love the living wall.

I will be beginning a wetland restoration project on a salt flat in Nevada, I plan to document it.

Your steady camera work is so welcomed to my eyes !

wow!! so much growth and change in 4yrs; I remember watching your channel when you were first starting out! you're an inspiration!!

Continual play on your channel today as I repot in seed room and prepare bee boxes. So relaxing to listen to you. You have stirred a deep sense of gratitude in me today, for the land we have to steward.

thick, lush growth 'self- mulching & providing drought tolerance. Chop & drop for self feeding with only hedge plants needed & no other inputs. permaculture at its finest... Has bee n a real pleasure following this project over time & seeing the progress. I really like the chicory & queen annes lace border. I have hard clay soil to deal with & chicory is established in some places already. Be Well

Viewing from the subtropics, this is subtly beautiful on a level we simply cannot cultivate here.. divine 💖

Guys, I cannot tell you how much I love this video. To see the abundance and the way you work with nature is wonderful; I am actually emotional watching this as it truly beautiful what you have created for yourselves and the whole of nature around you. It makes me believe more that we can all make a difference to our world and I will continue to grow as much of what I can in a sustainable way. Thank you for all your content and what you do for this world.

Beautiful video! I could watch this for longer than I'd like to mention. Many thanks!

Wonderful! I love the wildflower edging, it really is beautiful.

Nature & man working together, it looks amazing & has so many great purposes. Everyone should be doing this

I let what had been my front lawn grow last summer. I think I’ll go for a living wall next year! Yours is inspirational.

A beautiful wildflower meadow vibe. I love it!

Thank you so much for the information you provide! So inspiring. I love what you do!

Looks amazing! Such a change every year. The flowers bordering the road are really beautiful. Elder is so common in the UK, springing up pretty much everywhere, it never occurred to me that there were several varieties. Although I recently pinched a small cutting from a garden hedge I was passing of a purple one with pink flowers. I think it's called black lace and is sold in garden centres. It seems to have taken root and will get planted in the autumn.

Lovely, thank you.

I love your jungle! Thank you for sharing your project with us.

Love all your content. Together we can make this a more natural and inviting world. Thanks for all you do!

Great video. You guys inspire me.

I remember when you first planted it. Look at it now! Stunning!

So inspiring! I've got 2 hazelnuts waiting to be planted & now I'm considering planting them in my thicket rather than standing alone!

Just beautiful.

Thank you so much for putting this video together and sharing it great work my friend god bless you, kind regards Roy from Australia

Well done

Wonderful space. Thank you for sharing

I would love to have this. We bought 4 acres in NW Virginia 2 years ago. We have about .85 acres on the southern side that is a sloped, wooded streambed that opens up to an old pasture in the back. When we bought it two years ago it was a wall of green because of vines mostly but also various things growing up to about ten feet in height - I trimmed the vines to save the trees and cut some of the tall plants by hand but it comes right back. We removed a bunch of old farm wire fences and farming equipment left behind by the original owners. The first neighbors next door were original home buyers in this rural development and they sold 8 months after we moved in. Now in their place we have new neighbors next door and they are clearly either mad at our little wilderness on their periphery or perhaps wanted to have it because they walk back and forth daily looking at it, or encroaching on it or trespassing on it or making mad gestures in front of the property from the road. We have no HOA but we do have covenants that run with the land and are enforceable in law or equity by owners and require that "all lawns be seeded, watered and mowed and all shrubbery be pruned and cut all in such a frequency and manner in accordance with good property management." We were the first people to live here as the house is new and the developer who bought the lots never cut this area or disturbed it at all. So given that, do you think I could have a living wall like this safe from a covenant lawsuit? We trimmed all the vines killing the trees and now it's pretty wide open and we lost a lot of privacy. We made a 3 acre lawn and mow it regularly. But I am a bit skittish of the new neighbors who wont talk to me when I try to engage them in a friendly manner. And I dont want to ask as it may give them the power to say no. Do you think our covenants support such a living wall?

This is why we say, may all your weeds be wild flowers!

As you spoke of thinking of things as mulch my inner Foamy the Squirrel chittered "It's not a weed! It's Green Manure!" ;)

Great ! So full of life...

Most beautiful.

Thank you for such an informative and inspiring video. I live on a corner block. Council laws say I can only had a three foot high fence, but I can grow a hedge as tall as I like. Yup, Australian bureaucratic nonsense! It is currently planted with juvenile Pittosporum. I was tempted to rip it out, but now I think I will just interplant small hedge plants I raise from seeds and cuttings. See how it evolves.

Nice wall! I am going to do this.

Nice privacy thats why we planted our food forest hedge ;)

Wonderfulwonderfulwonderful!!!

Here in Edmonton, Alberta Canada we have zone 3 weather. The other challenge in my yard which had been neglected for a long time before I moved in is so many very tall trees everywhere in this mature neighborhood which were limiting the amount of sun which hits veggies and fruits which would be trying to grow. I am planning on cutting down a couple more tall trees in my back yard. I have already cut down 6 trees in my back yard which were around 12 feet high. I refused to cut down the tall overgrown apple tree too which already had 2 more varieties of apples grafted into it. After watching this video I will look into growing currants and elderberry adapted to this zone. In my front yard I will try growing chickory, babies breath varieties which are more appropriate for this zone.

I think that piece of road land area is beautiful

looks good. jah bless!

The Echinacea looks nice too.

the wild flowers are lovely beside the road i dont know why anyone would want them gone. keep them they are bringing beneficial pollinators and insects to your food crops. all plants are weeds to someone else. in Tennessee we have tulip poplars growing wild people buy them in Washington state and try to tell you they are a rare tree. they've never been to Tennessee. go figure. also chicory root is roasted a lot like dandelion roots and can make a tea out of them to drink it's really good too. i wouldn't use ones next to a road tho but something to consider. I've saved the seeds from my dandelions just so i can grow more for doing just that. wash the roots thoroughly and grind them up in a food processor to small bits place on cookie sheet in warm oven with door cracked open and let them dry then take them out and roast in a dry cast iron skillet till a dark brown cool completely and put into glass jars to store. very delicious and worth the time.

If in an urban setting & therefore limited space, would there be a few top picks of plants you would suggest for a combination of edible, medicinal & beneficial fence screening?

Great video! Would love to have seen this in early stage. Did you plant densely back then or anticipated the spacing required when full grown?

I'd do the same as you barging in, though the sunchokes would be most likely to get thinned.

Great advice much love xoxox thanks Ive learned how to garden with sunchokes they can be a nightmare but they can also be great This past dry spell the few sunchokes that i didn't chop and drop shaded the garden well tiny seedlings and hot dry weather is hard but shaded by sunchokes it was all good Now that we have had rain and everything is growing fast i can remove the sunchokes well chop and drop them and let the plants grow well :) We still have lots of sunchokes all over lol living wall with japonise knot weed and cherries and lilac We live right in a small town the sidewalk ends in my yard so i wanted food in here so people could have a snack :) our apples are fruiting i thought it was 10 years but its not one was 5 the other is 8 years old started fruiting at 5 its great to keep a garden journal :) We have crab apples mixed with other crab apples or other apples growing so they are a seed surprise we like that and the free food part to share with others is priceless :)

How do you keep the state from mowing the right of way. Around here it seems they wait until the blooming is at it's peek to come along and mow the roadways and in the process chop all of the lovely trash for everyone to see.

...and hear the birds!

Thank you for not being political in your videos!

Goregous With the hard work involved. But, let me ask, what's are you doing in the WInter, when the plants are "hibernating"?

Speaking of Amorpha fructicosa, I have never managed to multiply it, neither from seed nor from cutttings. Do you have any proposal?

It's like the secret garden

I noticed a fair amount of black rot on one of the grape clusters. I've also found a fair amount on my grapes (no fungicides or anything applied of coarse). Do you have any thoughts on this? I've sort of decided that grapes in my context are mostly for a visual barrier and not to be discouraged by the rot but curious how you approach it.

what are you saying at 6:25 ? planted garlic and ...."vibrous bouglas"... ? anyway thank you for the Videos im learning so much

I wish you could come to Texas and help me plan out some of this for my space. I have two acres and I would love to turn it into a green paradise.

is there any risk that willows will grow into and damage street-side gas lines? I know they're attracted to leaky water and sewage lines/pipes, but not sure if their aggressive albeit shallow root system good also damage gas lines.

wow! That miscanthus is crazy high from the last update. What's the time frame from start of wall to today?

I have a small yard. I think at most the furthest I can plant a tree from the house is 40 feet. I'm in hurricane country is southern Louisiana and would like to have some pecans in the yard. Is there a way to manage them while not having to worry about them falling on the house? We had a 60ish foot tree fall a few years back and got lucky it didnt hit the house or shed.

Dear sir! Take care and trim any hop bines away from the height of faces and wrists. Their trichomes are like sand paper. I've been injured a few times, eyelid to eyebrow. They hook on like teeth.... and when you walk they drag! Also, BEAUTIFUL GARDEN!

Do you really like to eat black currant? I tried my first the other day and had to spit it out. I love red currants but the black ones tasted like bitter medicine. Is my cultivar a bad one or are they mostly all like that?

I appreciate that you prune for visibility on the road farmers shouldn’t be able to plant corn all the way up to the road imo

I wonder how your wall looks like in the winter…

Great video as always. You might want to add more tags to your videos. When I search for "gardening" your videos never show.

Do ticks hang out in the thickets of the living wall?

Have the road crews ever came by and mowed the front? We live a ways “out” and they come through twice a year and mow all those beautiful roadside wild flowers down 😞

Would this keep the deer away when dense?

Man you must get many useful bugs from that jungle

The walnut will suppress or kill everything growing under it. Wrong choice for a living wall.

EVs will be quieter for you. ICE cars and trucks are a dying mode of transportation. Then you will only need to contend with tire dust... or Tesla will develop eco friendly tire. You adult children will inherit a marvelous, quiet homestead. Well done.

Love the Black Lives Matter sign