Love this! Changing up a typical yard to a flowing, biodiverse space!

You are such a great teacher and practical in your approach. Love it!

Don’t know how else to reach you,.. I am praying for you my youtube friend,.. I see the weather alerts and I am hoping you and yours are well!.. Stay safe!…

How many garden designers would come into a space and divide and relocate what's there to use what the homeowner already has? Love this project ... simple, approachable, great lessons. Thanks for sharing.

Wow. Jeff Golblum's back yard is nice!

Where the beef?

It's so true about moving things ... or if volunteers pop up, that's where they need to stay ... for new gardeners. I'm learning that no, I can transplant things and right some of my earlier mistakes. Always learning!

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That Molinia Edith Dudszus is gorgeous in autumn and the stems are a beautiful purple black

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I try to do my own leaf mulch each year, but it is predominantly oak. I mulch it with a riding mower. Some I scatter in the fall. Some I pile up in the “back 40” and use in the spring. Is there any concern with the high degree of oak?

Looking forward to future videos

Looking forward to seeing the team at work! I purchased my Dutch hoe on a trip to Northwind last July. It’s been great so far this spring.

Love your videos, Roy. You're so inspiring . It's an honor to steward my backyard flower gardens, and I welcome every moment, every season, every creature who comes to enhance this sweet sanctuary I'm so lucky to be a part of.

I enjoyed the video. Where do you recommend buying a dutch push pull hoe online? And what brand do you recommend? Thank you for the informative and inspiring content!

I consider myself a steward of the environment and especially my large garden. I have never used toxic chemicals and pesticides. I have failed at finding any answer to killing the huge invasion of the voracious Red Lily Beetle in my large garden. I have over 100 Lilies of many types and varieties. Hand picking is not possible( I have tried), and Neem oil every few days was a negligible success on a few plants. I have gone to every state site, read most of the published articles, contacted garden sites and the sites of each chemical company such as Bayer re their pesticides. No answers. Do you know of anything that can be used as a soil drench now to kill the inground larvae? ( I would have used something sooner had I found any answer). I dread removing all of my much loved Lilies, but fear that I too, as every other New York gardening friend has already done, must dig them out and destroy these bulbs. Help🙁

My heart melted when you mentioned Erin, I love watching and learning from you both!

Love this message!

Habitat and wildlife were so much healthier when everything was native. I have talked with others about only native and some only look at what’s pretty. The truth is native plants are much prettier than non native/invasive and wildlife and pollinators increase the health of your property when everything is native. People don’t understand this until they watch it in action.

Paid to play in the dirt... that's living the dream!

🎈🎈🎈Happy Birthday Roy‼️🎈🎈🎈🥲🥲🥲🥲

Would enjoy this more if all the plants were native.

Today is my 40th birthday and I asked myself who would I want to listen to in my ear while I’m in the garden? Of course I wanted to hear from my “uncle” and soak in the positivity of Roy! I couldn’t have picked a better talk to inspire me today. Thank you!

Definitely more fun than golfing. 😁

Excellent discussion. Thank you.

This episode is really good!

It doesn't get any better than this!

Interesting. The leaf looks unhealthy, though.

I want to be un-stoppable!

I tried the Dutch push pull hoe, found I prefer my stirrup hoe. Highly recommend trying the stirrup hoe. Can find one fairly inexpensively at hardware stores. I ended up investing in both the large and small versions from AM Leonard (they offer replacement blades too).

Does the C.albicans tend to stay green though a Zone 8a/b winter? I have an oak tree in the front yard that I planted some C.pensylvanica under, and enjoyed that it has a little bit of green during the Autumn and Winter. I'd like to add more in the coming weeks, but I'll scatter in some C.albicans if I can find it at the nursery.

Really helpful!

Hi Roy, this is fascinating. I have a question about having two Echinacea species together. I had been told that they will hybridize and then there will just be the hybrid. Is that true? I was thinking of using E. tennesseensis and E. purperea in the same planting.

Hi Roy, thanks for your sharing. I like to know how to plan a long and narrow garden strip without beeing too choppy and without choosing only few plants. My garden strip is 4-6 ft by 85ft on a slope along a curvy road.... please share some thoughts about long and narrow strip

Hey, Roy, very interesting to see how you do this in advance on paper! Did map all the existing perennials last year? English is not my native language, but I understand that you imagine how plants will develop. I am very curious how you make a difference on the drawing between the mapped existing plants and the new planned plants. Love your style of gardening!

Agreed. If a garden doesn't look decent Nov-April, it wasn't properly thought-out. Summer design is a piece of cake. Why no short shrubs or evergreens?

I think it takes some education to see the beauty in that. The more plants you know, the more you see, the more colors and textures stand out to you.

The sedges I planted at my parents' looked so bad, after 3 years I removed it all. :( forget which kind. This drought is the pits.

There is something soothing about hearing you talk about plants. You are like the Bob Ross of plants.

Would be great to see a full detailed video on this. Awesome content

It's wonderful to see Northwind again n hear your voice! Happy hoeing! See you soon, woo hoo🎉!

Invaluable Roy- and as a former clarinet player(loved that analogy😂)and now “recovering gardener”, I will be looking at my garden plans with new eyes! Nice to meet you in Delavan at our favorite coffee haunt - Boxed!

Total workout for sure! 😅 🏋🏾

Hii Roy, where do you recommend buying a dutch push pull hoe? Thank you for another informative and inspiring video!

Thanks Roy! As you know, Piet is famous for “colorizing” his designs. Do you ever do that to help get a feel for the overall plan of a garden?

I was super excited to visit this today since we were in Chicago just for the day, but sadly it was closed still!! I did get a peek in through one of the gates, and I’m excited to see how it fills in. I’ll have to revisit it often as inspiration.

No numbers and based on an emotional feeling, I absolutely love that. Your videos are so informative but also humble, open and honest. When you work in the horticulture industry, i find sometimes it requires you to know so much that you can forget to be intuitive. Thank you so much for sharing.

Very Mien Ruys. 😊

The best from Poland. I love your philosophy.

What Dutch push pull hoe would you recommend because there seems to be different types out there?