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Excellent video!!!

My wife is of the lawn cult in America, they are rabidly committed to their own tiny flat,fake green, water wasting, energy wasting, imitation rich Englishman’s estate. I cannot budge her off of this poisonous fantasy and even if I divorced her and moved out over this issue she would happily go on worshipping lawn, wasting horrific amounts of water here in the southern desert. Her excuse is that meadow is “so ugly and buggy”. Help!

OTTAWA CANADA WE HAVE TO MOWING OUR FRONT LAWNS, ITS A WRONG LAW, SHAME

Amazing!!

How beautiful. Winter interest and useful.

Wowww

Great video. Thank you for this wealth of information & your time.

I wish grass lawns would become a thing of the past. So bad for the environment and wildlife. Just make the whole thing a wildflower lawn. Do you have an HOA? I know certain entities won’t allow you to do this because it can lower the value of neighborhood homes. Do they have rules or fees for this sort of thing?

We are from St. Joseph Missouri. We love this video would we be able to use this video in a court case about our prairie. Please and thank you for your time ❤

Oh my neighbors are going to be upset if I make our front lawn look like the backyard. Oh well.

Why would you use tropical milkweed? I can think of quite a few reasons. It's annual here so it's not gonna send up runners and seeds don't overwinter and it blooms year one profusely unlike natives. You need to remember people garden for all kinds of reasons and in all kinds of conditions.

Where can I find out the sociability of a plant?

That looks terrible.

Thank you. It pisses me off too

Great, the pathetic American grass yard must go. Wildlife habitat is beautiful

How do you deal with neighbours or bylaw enforcement thinking you have overgrown grass? Especially as a grass replacement.

I live in a town that gets 17 inches of rain annually and is naturally prairie land but most of our citizens couldn't tell ya the difference in a zero-scape and a xericsape. They all have bluegrass yards with zone 7 plants in a zone 6 USDA zone Your beautiful landscape would immediately get me a code violation letter with a fine.

My opinion year two-four looked good wild but not unkept thereafter it looked too unkept and almost 'abandoned house' look for my taste. I'd suggest doing this in the backyard first.

If done well it looks amazing if done poorly it just looks messy and unkept ... and if your neighbors move can actually lower their resale value ... I am a firm believer of planting natives and planting closely HOWEVER I am also a firm believer of being considerate of your neighbors ... Frankly I plant some plants I rarely see so my property looks attractive from the viewpoint of my neighbors. It's great to be ecological but please also be nice.

I just got this pushed to me - and just so great. Will share all around. Great info and ideas

Really appreciate your response. If a sod cutter is used, can the sod be flipped over and planted into?

Can burning be used as a site prep to get rid of turf before sowing native seeds? If so, what time of year for burn? What other steps? Really hope you can answer this for me! Thank you!

Very cool, but I feel like this would take the entire neighborhood to look good. Otherwise it looks like an abandoned house.

What chemical would you use for spray killing a lawn?

Never understand why you don’t move out to the country. Noticed how you conveniently only show close up shots so you don’t see how ridiculous it looks driving thru the neighborhood - but hey you do you. What’s next a thatched roof to do away with those nasty asphalt shingles?

I decided to pursue this path out of frustration with the cost of hiring someone to mow. Coming out of winter it was good timing. I was surprised to discover this subculture of meadow cultivators. In a short space of time my property is now boasting ground covers that flower and attract bees, and I'm able to use my push mower (not power), for a few paths within my new meadow inspired landscape.

Amazing examples!!!

We need to find ways to to make the economics work to do this conversion.

Well done video. Informative and straight to the core of why we all should be planting natives.

I love seed heads!

Thank you I have been on a CRUSADE to convince my family that grass isn’t the way to go! I just started converting our yard to a native paradise that is welcoming to the birds, butterflies, frogs rabbits & deer! My parents were sitting on our back porch last summer & they commented on how beautiful & peaceful it was! They couldn’t believe all the birds! Sometimes it’s just easier to show people- that’s how I won over my family at least & YES THEY ABSOLUTELY LOVE the beauty & less work! Not to mention it’s a wonderful teaching environment for our children, they get to see frogs, newts, baby birds & owls - to see their joy is amazing. They are learning to appreciate nature & respect our environment right outside their back door! Those are lessons being lost on too many young people these days.

Great info! Im going to do this with my front lawn. Transformed the back yard from monoculture to wild life garden (including a wild life pond) based on the channel of Joel Ashton (Brittain). He is also very inspirational. My yard is brimming with life! (Ordered your book!)

The image at 51 seconds really shows what the choice is! Obvious which is preferred by pollinators and better for ecosystem (including human) health!

Out of curiosity, wouldnt it be better to have more diversity in your base matrix? Help hedge agaonat disease and looks better year round? Sorry in advamce if youve addressed this in othwr videos

No mention of NW ohio... major monarch habit.... biggest week I'm birding happens in NW ohio.

just ordered this yesterday

really good stuff!

Adore it🥰🌾🐝

Exactly! so much beauty and habitat, even in the winter!

Not de-lawn? Or Wildify?

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Great talk, but really wish you hadn't advised planting tropical milkweed without advising people to check their native varieties. Planting non-native milkweed, specific to your region, is helping to spread disease among the monarchs.

Great video! Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge. 🐰 bunnies have def loved the tender new growth of my agastache, milkweed, liatris and asters. Maybe that new growth is build differently than the older growth 😄

My wife and I bought a house in December of 2022, and the roughly .25 acre backyard was all turf grass with 2 medium sized Dogwood trees in the back corners. I went to town and in one season built a path that twists and turns around the perimeter, planted 4 small native trees, over 40 shrubs, and too many perennials to count. I created a large area reserved for milkweed to help the Monarchs. And I've dug out two ponds. Looking forward to year 2.

I didn't set out to do this five years ago, but here I am...~3/4 of my front lawn has been converted to mostly (not all) natives. Some intermixed traditional (i.e. non-native) plants (daffodils, iris, tulips, lavender, et al) temper the anxiety of passing neanderthals.

Well done 💚🦋🐛

when is the best time to preform the annual mow (Texas 100 miles south of Austin)

The origins of a lawn came from royalty while the peasants grew food. As far as a leaf blower idling for 10 minutes being worse than a pickup truck going 200 miles doesn't seem accurate to me. How do you know. Did you test it out yourself.

An input from Ireland: congratulations on calling out the ridiculous situation with suburban lawns in the USA. 100% agree with what you have to say about that and good luck with your campaign; we have a less severe but similar situation in this country. But from here we must differ. It became obvious during the course of the video that you are not so much into garden rewilding, but landscaping - albeit with a nod to the former. The clincher was at 1:07: "What's in the weed seed bank? You don't know. Could be some native plants -- likely aggressive seeders -- definitely going to be aggressive exotics". This is altogether so wrong. We have, and still are, establishing natural meadows here. Unlike you we do NOT use plastic or glyphosate (even once) but rely on the Cut and Lift method to reduce soil fertility to suppress grass growth and give the natural seedbank a chance. It works. Restoring nature is not about planting what you personally see fit but allowing an ecosystem to revert to what it always did before we interfered. Sorry to sound confrontational but it had to be said.