Haeley, Hi, your native plants are doing so well. Really pretty. Are the berries and sage plants edible? What grades are the girls in this year? Pat

Thank you for sharing!

Yeah! I’m in San Antonio too and love that you’re cultivating natives. The black land prairie has some beautiful plants to choose from.

Thanks for the tour! Your daughter did a great job on the video. Everything looks so healthy and happy. And the metal sculpture is a perfect accent for your native plants. I dug all my woodland oats out this spring in my efforts to reduce the amount of garden work I have to do. Even though I'd cut all the seed stalks off before the end of each summer, I'd still find it coming up everywhere.

Wondering how much you water. I’m in CTX, and my yard has no irrigation set up.

Lovely video about a lovely plant!

Late questions Haeley. Sorry. We've made a determined effort to introduce Frog Fruit into our backyard bird and pollinator sanctuary. So far, we've planted about 40 four inch plants. Some of these are in the same beds with our Turks Cap, Mistflower, Beautyberry and other native shrubs/plants. In those beds, I've used native hardwood mulch(from Natures Way) to maintain moisture(we live just north of Houston) and to keep out weeds. Plus, it gives the yard a tidy look. So, with that as background, here are the questions. Will the Frog Fruit be able to spread properly with the hardwood mulch in place? In other words, can they/will they be able to root through the mulch(maybe 1-2 inches)? If not, what can I do, short of removing all the mulch, to help the Frog Fruit spread? Thanks very much. Again, very sorry for the late comment.

Seems like the perfect groundcover for a butterfly garden. I'm very surprised this plant isn't in southern garden centers.

How long from germination to maturity? Can I expect seed heads the first year?

Just discovered you and love all your information! Question - should i fertilize Turks Cap and with what and how often? Thank you!

How do propagate Turk's Cap?

Hello from Roseville Michigan near Lake Saint Clair Detroit area Zone 6b,new subscriber,I raise monarch butterflies and black swallowtail butterflies. I added the Mist Flower to my Arsenal, already have the seeds, hopefully everything goes well 🙏

Just bought 8 of these plants for our SC yard. Planting all natives so I’m glad to find your channel! 🌱🌎✌️

I’m in the Conroe, TX area. My husband and I created a new flower bed in the backyard this weekend. Trying to use mainly native species and chose Frog Fruit as a ground cover option. It’s our first time to have any kind of landscaping (much less to have built it ourselves) so I’m hoping it does well!

Definitely my monarch favorite! I just gave away a ton of cuttings & I'm going to root more to give away. ❤

Im trying to plan a line of plants along a church parking lot. Would this work?

Will frog fruit kill crab grass?

Do you have any idea why mine would be flopping over and trying to just lay on the ground? (Houston)

I'm in San Antonio / Leon's Valley...will it grow and flower under a tree? Also is it deer resistant?

Is it edible?

Great video! Thanks for sharing. This is exactly what I’m looking for

This herb can cure blood clot in the posterior or forebrain, called stroke. Strokes lead to semi paralysis of limbs distorted mouth and eyesight. Grab a handful of this herb, cut into short length and blend it. Extract the juice and place it in a half cup. Place it in the wok with two inches of water or more and cover it and steam for one and a half hour. The colour will change after steaming. Take it out and if you can take rice wine pour 1:1 and drink the lukewarm concoction before sleep. The blood clot will thaw in about three weeks and the limbs will start moving. Continue the herbal intake until you recover as much as possible. CT scan after one and a half month will show the clots cloudy and dissipating. Skepticism is good but try it as it was used 2000 years ago to cure blood clots and long time internal injuries. A big lawn of this herb is good and can benefit thousands of people. Written in good faith.

Thoughts on pruning them in late spring, early summer? Mine have been full of blooms since spring and now at the beginning of spring many of the blooms are drying out. Suggestions on pruning the spent blooms?

Just found some at an abandoned old cafe and now hopefully they will survive the transplant

did you know it is a water plant to? I am growing it in my garden and my pond.

If you want this composted to be effective, locate it in direct sunlight all day and not in an alley way. The heat will dramatically speed up the process

An online search of nurseries in Arlington, TX for Phyla nodiflora was useless. Any suggestions as to where to find either the plant or seeds?

Thanks for the video. I'm looking for large tumbler options and checked out your video. One note, you don't want to leave it open. It can't make compost that way. That's why it's taking you months to get any compost. The process requires heat to break down the material, kill seeds and insects. It also keeps from producing/allowing rancid odors emanating from the tumbler, drawing unwanted pests to the area. Good compost does not stink nor produce a swarm of insects when you open the hatch. I didn't catch everything you said you put in your tumbler. But keep in mind that you need a mix of nitrogen producing (green clippings, grass, etc...) and carbon producing material (dried leaves, wood chips, etc...). Most kitchen scraps are fine too but aren't good by themselves and require other materials to balance and break down. Thanks again.

Your scraps are not breaking down fast because it needs water, you must add water when it’s drying out or you will be waiting forever to get black gold.

Host for phaon crescent and common buckeye butterfly in my region.

Am I correct about the following: The text bubble which says the iNaturalist app is free does not appear to match what you orally say. Reading the fine print on opening an account, which asks for a credit card on a supposedly "free" account, it appears the "app" is not free for long. It must be cancelled in 5 days or will start charging over $30 per month to your credit card! This is at the least very disappointing.

I live in San Antonio too and would like to grow frog fruit. Where did you find yours?

I thought my Turks cap were all white blooms and today I look out there and there are red blooms also growing with this plant! Also,a little seed or rather fruit in red is growing. Now my Turks cap looks like a slight light pink… they are so hearty and they are attracting hummingbirds in a big way! Any thoughts on why the white blooms, have red blooms?

Is it pet friendly? Or doesn't tolerate that kind of traffic?

I just bought one as I was looking for plants to feed and attract humming birds besides the nectar I feed them I also live in San Antonio Texas and was worried about our scorching sun and heat here. I will try to see if it acclimate to the area I wanted in with the pot before planting in the ground as it looks like a beautiful addition to my yard thank you for the information

I am Going to try some soon! Beautiful

I planted some here in Florida in a pretty shady area. It doing great, though not as thick as it would be in a sunnier location. Now I’m planning to do a heavy planting in a more sunny location. Also, I have a largish are that has never been sodded (never had a lawn grass). I’m gonna try buying seeds and just spending them out to see what happens.

Is this a maze composter ?

i bought some bulbs from a guy in tennessee. Fort Worth here. planting instructions are confusing....june 1, 2022...should i plant in garden or pot and how ....he says lay em flat? i guess they are about an inch or 2 long..so lay em flat length wise? how deep? and then some say plant in sun but then say how the do so well in shade.

Loved the video. How far apart do you plant them? Looking to create a dense patch. Thank you!

They are relatively hard to transplant, I had many cuttings soaked in water and non survived in direct planted to ground even visible small roots are seen, I will try again first develop root in pot than transplant to ground.

Thank you for posting this video! I just moved a few of these plants to a shadier location today, as our hot Florida sun seemed to stress them out a little bit last year. I kept up on the water and they did great, I think they would have grown faster and more efficiently had it not been so boiling lava hot. We’ll see how they do in a shadier spot this year! Yours look wonderful! 👍🏻👍🏻 I used Espoma plant tone to relocate them because I was out of bio-tone. Do you know if they prefer a certain type of fertilizer, soil pH? Or do they just prefer to be left alone? Thanks again! Happy spring! 🌹🌱

Great video. I also live in San Antonio, I am going to try this in a portion of my yard.

How is the plastic nozzle holding up? I'm thinking about getting a Dramm watering wand in a 30" version. Thanks for making this video!

This looks like a very sturdy tumbler! I have been researching compsting for a while. I made a kind of compost bin with just chicken wire cylinder around stakes in the ground. I think it was a bit too small and hard to turn. This seems like it might be easier :)

never even heard of it before -looks cool

What a sweet video! I want to plant Frogfruit in the strip of ground between the sidewalk and street. The ground is super compacted. I wonder if I put a nice layer of compost there if that will be enough for the plants to root..? The other question is that is where my neighbor puts their trash can for the garbage truck. It’s only one and once weekly. Do you think it will survive?

If you pull the plastic stickers off of Amazon prime boxes you can throw them in the composter as well. With a little moisture and some green stuff mixed then, they break down pretty fast and help boost production

I could tell just by the design this would be a very good tool to have. Where has it been all my life?

I never heard of this tool either.