How to start a wildflower garden 💐 Advice from a landscape designer

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I wish I had watched this before I bought those wildflower seed mixes, and just scattered them into the designated space. 🤷‍♀️ BUT, as you said, you live and learn. Things are going well, though. Things have sprouted and are growing. So I'll see what happens, and reassess next season. I'm new to the gardening world, and didn't want the stress of an "official" bed. I figured that if I could keep this little wildflower patch alive, I'd then branch out into the front yard. 😆🤞

This is literally the perfect native plant garden video I’ve been needing. I’m starting my lasagna garden this summer, so that I’ll be ready to plant some native perennials next spring. I’m excited!

I had an area in mind that I wanted to plant with wildflowers. It's in a spot where I don't care how it looks to my neighbors, so I was thinking about just planting among the weeds and not clearing the area. I live in Wild & Wonderful WV, so weeds are just a part of life here. The wooded area behind my property (and half of my lawn) is home to weeds. The foundation plantings around my home are more maintained, mulched, and weed free but this "wildflower area" I had my eye on is currently in my "no mow zone." I just wanted to add some colorful (and helpful) plants to this weedy area. From the 6 pages of native plants my search found, I swear I recognized half of them and they're already growing here. They are plants I would call weeds, but the list says they are native plants. Eye of the beholder, I guess. LOL! So maybe nature has it under control here and doesn't really need my help. ;-)

Eve, I just love all the information that you share. Even your voice and the way you speak gives me confidence that you are someone I want to listen to and be inspired by. You confirm all the things that I am already doing including searching for native plant resources. I also live the PNW (Vancouver, WA) and I've found some great resources that also have inexpensive options.

I super love your videos and wish they had existed when I first bought my house and started trying to garden/landscape it. It would have saved me a bunch of “lessons.” One tip I’ve heard to help make wildflower plantings appear neater or at least more intentional is to leave areas of mowed lawn/turf. Especially in an urban front yard. Maybe you mow around the edges or have mowed paths going through it. I suppose it doesn’t have to be lawn, it could be stepping stones or a wood plank path or something. But I think just a touch of traditional lawn goes a long way in making wilder spaces look less like “I just stopped mowing and weeding.”

I am an avid gardener, getting ready to remove a front lawn. Love your ideas and tips, very practical and inspiring! I always look out my window as you suggested to think about what I am planting in front of it. We are in California and looking to remove the lawn and replace it with a drought friendly landscape.

I really needed this video, at this time! Thank you so much. I have milkweed and black eyed Susan’s and some other native(ish) plants that I started in my basement and I’m hoping to start my (small, starter) bed in my front yard when the weather cools a bit here in southern New England! Thanks again. I’m so glad I found your channel!

Your information is really great! I wish I knew it four years ago, I learned the hard way, especially about starting small and the importance of mulch! Thank you for sharing your skills! And for caring about the earth!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Wildflower gardens is what I'm building on every year.

Thank you so much for sharing all the information on your channel! I'm slowly re-landscaping my yard, trying to move away from the monoculture of the very basic lawn that was already here when we moved in. We have an overall plan for shapes and locations of plants, but here in the Pacific Northwest there are just so many options for flowers, shrubs, natives and non-natives, perennials and annuals...it's really helpful to learn how to narrow it down, assess what will fit and where. Have started filling in the little awkward spaces I couldn't figure out before, with the help of your advice on this channel. Thanks again!!

As you stated you live and learn... I accidentally started a wildflower bed by buying the seeds thunking it was something else. Then did the research after just throwing them in one flower bed 😮. I'm hoping it looks nice but I'll figure it out as I go😢😂😂

Thanks for this wonderful primer on starting a wildflower garden!

Definitely smother for 6 months is possible. I tried to till twice a month apart to kill all vegetation in tje spring and the bermuda grass just came back and smothered out my wild flower seeds in a month

For annual wild flowers, visually contained space like a small fence is nice so people know its intentional 😂 also that first year you will really find out which are weeds when you let them grow because you don't know 😉

This is so helpful! Thank you so much!

Found your channel. Loving it. Thank you for taking time to make these videos for us.

Just try everything, woo! My sort of advice.

Hi friend! 😉 Love the video! Very helpful.

I'm seeing certain plants recommended for my area that aren't native specifically to my state, but to nearby states. They still can adapt well to my state's conditions, so they're still interesting to me. So, if you're new to gardening, you might look for plants native to nearby areas.