Love the video, straight to the point, and lots of information. Love that the plants are the main focal of attention and not the speaker. Learn a lot from a video like this.

I'm in Quebec. This is super useful for me too! Am working on getting rid of my turf bit by bit and replacing with natives. I can't wait to banish my mower to the shed forever! 😛

This is an excellent video! It's extremely informative and helpful. I would love to view tours of this garden with this host in each season! Thank you.

Andy is very knowledgeable and well spoken, and we love the CMBG. I was very glad to see some of my favorite natives highlighted here and also disappointed that some others weren’t mentioned like hobble bush, ostrich fern, sweet gale, pagoda dogwood and witch hazel, lamb kill and rhodora, both red and black elderberry, blue flag iris, and June berry. I have had great success growing these in Downeast Maine, and they are truly under appreciated. I could add several more....perhaps Andy could come back and do a part 2.

As a Maine gardener, i would love to plant more natives.

Nice to see the Paw Paw tree in the video. It's also the host plant for the Zebra Swallowtail butterfly and has nice yellow Fall color.

Thank you so much. We were at your garden several years before covid and we were blown away!! I have been to the biggies but I couldn’t believe what you all have done. Especially the children’s garden. I want to go back to see your progress. I am in awe!!

Great information! Thank you!

This is excellent. Informative, beautiful and inspirational.

Hi Lourdes. I’m watching from Ontario Canada. We share the same native plants here. I wasn’t aware of the suckering of paw paw. What an amazing place. Please make more videos of this place. Thank you ❤

Great channel beyond words. After going through all videos today, I now have three pages of native plants that I want for my gardens! And your demeanor and voice are truly attractors! Thank you so much!! You get an A+!

Lourdes, well done! Your guy is one of the best vocalizing our appreciation of these species, flora & fauna.

Great information here. I’ve been looking forward to transforming my property into one full of plants that attract bees, birds, butterflies and other beneficial creatures. It’s nice to hear AND see what things I can possibly grow successfully on my property in central Maine.

Absolutely love the way Latin names drop in his talk!

I am going to have to rewatch and have my notebook ready! I have read about several of the bushes that were featured, it was wonderful to see them in their natural settings.

Wonderful video! Thank you. That bush honeysuckle in the parking lot was pretty amazing in such a hot, dry situation.

Wonderful video! Thank you so much!

Fascinating, gratitude!

My favorite native grasses are panicums (switchgrass). Love the way the seed heads capture the sunlight. Twinkling in sun. Absolutely amazing grass. Panicum. Any variety although 'heavy metal' is probably my favorite. 'Totem pole' is a close second.

thanks! great valuable info

That Joe pye weed at 19:00 is definitely pushing 12 or 13 feet 😅 Beautiful ❤

Thank you so much for this video!

Love this channel. Thank you!

this was great! I have a good list of plants to add this coming year. Thank you!

Fantastic video! Thank you for the great information!

This was great. Thank you!

Great video! Thank you!

omg i wanna visit!

I have a lot of these plants, but this year, this drought has been terrible. My mountain mint hasnt bloomed yet, I hope it does. It has buds, but it is already August 22nd. Monarda fistulosa also only bloomed for a short time. Asclepias incarnata just a few short days of blossoms too. I'm hoping for next year. This drought has been bad and I hope we see some discussion of how plants protect themselves during droughts. That would be intersting to me. Thanks for the info.

i need to see more of that statue at 5:56

Which Joe Pye weed is it?

Natives to New England? I didn’t think so.

NPC? what an unfortunate abbreviation.