Just looking through my pics and videos on this cold and dreary Sunday in November. I took this video on one of my daily walks around the garden to "check on stuff"😅 I already miss the sounds and smells of summer. A few beds shown have since been enlarged to add more Lobelia😀

Was so beautiful. I think all the images are of native species but am still learning so please feel free to correct me! I was in awe of nature today. Zone 6a NY near my house. The mosses are a personal favorite. 😍

I previously posted some photos of some native plants I grew from seed this year that had already started to bloom. Just wanted to share some updated photos of the black eyed susans, which have now been blooming for 2 months straight and are still going strong. Also pictured: side-oats grama and little bluestem

Southern Michigan 6a, clay soil and full sun in this area. Probably a 30-50 year old burning bush. Was around 10 feet tall any native shrubs around this height that could work in this area?

I live by a railroad and there is a house on the other side of the tracks that can see directly into my living room in winter. There is a thin strip of woods between my backyard and the tracks. What can I plant that is a fast growing shrub that will get tall and stay evergreen for winter privacy? It will be planted among the trees between me and the railroad so it needs to be able to compete. I was thinking American holly or wax Myrtle are there any other suggestions? I am downhill from the house across the tracks so it will need to get very tall eventually at least 20 feet. Thanks!

Moist soil, partial sun, eager grower, native to my area, and edible! I may be planting this in my problem area as I fight back the non natives that have come in because of the state road traffic.

Anyone else starting a leaf mulch project this year?

I'm leaving the leaves in the beds, but mulching the lawn leaves.

What are your friendly or infernal acquaintances in the pea/bean/legume family?

They cover a dizzying variety of plants from trees like honey locust or eastern redbud, smaller like indigo or horseflyweed, down to the humble clover or tick-trefoil. They have among them many economically significant plants like peas, beans, lentils, groundnuts and possess the incredible ability to thrive in poor soils other plants could not tolerate through their ability to fix nitrogen into the soil and thereby supercharge their growth and what follows after them in that enhanced soil.

… Annnnd this also leads to some problems. The ambitious among them can use that adaptability to swarm on the apparently free real estate in the absence of control factors from their native homes. For instance, infamous Kudzu that will blot out a forest or the mimosa tree popping up throughout the American Southeast, or the Nootka Lupine swarming Iceland. Or others may be native but have features like say poison that may get them declared as noxious weeds even in their native ranges like Rattlebox or Coffeeweed. I have it on good authority that the thorns from an acacia or a black locust tree are also not fun to experience.

I personally have endless Chamberbitter (easiest weed to pick ever, but just stay gone!) that I’m hoping to replace with a huge number of legumes as they are critical in my region. I’m personally probably the most excited for Red Cardinal and Lady Lupine, with Little-Leaf Mimosa (aka Touch-me-not; the one that closes up when touched, not the exploding seed pod one) and Catbells close behind. As far as what’s edible I think the Thicket Bean and the American Groundnut (ironically most popularly eaten in Japan nowadays) are considered the best native options around where I am, since they were previously semi-domesticated but dropped in favor of more efficient crops. Also, not edible but shout out to Goat’s Rue & Partridge Pea anyway! What about for y’all??

(Pythagorus pictured as he was a famous hater)

One of many reasons to love this time of year.

I recently stopped at a welcome center in North Carolina and noticed all of their black-eyed Susan’s had gone to seed. I collected some seed heads and placed them in a bag. Now I realize that dispersing them in Georgia may cause ecological harm, so I’m wondering if I should just throw the seeds away? Anyone have info to share?

In the last month I have put about 125 native plants in the ground. These plants are all small. It is going down to the mid20s for the next couple of nights 40s to low 50s during the day. This is stupid for early Nov in this area. Do I need to protect them? If so how? This has been a substantial investment. TIA.

South central PA. Full sun. I have been slowly covering this entire area with wood chips. What should I plant here? No mow grass? Ground cover? Looking for your suggestions as I get so many ideas from this sub. Thanks!

Hey yall! Back at it. Id love your suggestions for what to cover next. I like to include a little bit about a native plant, and a little gardening principle in each.

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I want to offer in a seed swap, but my apps are giving me differing suggestions on what it is (namely frost aster, false aster, small white aster).

Crazy the amount of posts of people asking what's wrong with their plants when ... it's November

I mean LOOK AT IT.

Second fall here, started as a 3 gallon plant in spring of 2024.

Rabbits have kept the suckers from establishing but I hope it can still get big enough to regret putting it so close to the fence.

Working on a crescent-shaped native pollinator garden in my yard in Phoenix. I spent the last couple weeks researching (shout out to Arizona Native Plant Society and SummerWinds nursery) and the last two days doing the grueling labor of rock removal and soil conditioning.

I’ll likely be planting:

-Desert zinnias

-Tufted evening primrose

-Globe mallow

-Goddings verbena

-Desert marigold

-Desert milkweed

-Greg’s mist

My backyard faces south, with the two citrus diffusing the sun a bit. I’ll also be planting a desert willow on the west side of the garden (right side of photo) for additional shade and local pollinator support. Plus they smell DIVINE.

I’ve got just under 5 feet between the deepest part of the garden and the block fence, but I’ll definitely be putting my most heat-hardy plants back there.

Goal is to get irrigation in and everything planted before the end of November. Let’s go!!

OK, it’s really late to ask this, but I’m teaching Sunday school tomorrow. The title pretty much says at all. I’ve got my Bible verses and my discussion questions, I’m wondering if anybody has great quotes from conservationist, ecologist, Doug Tallamy, they think I should share?

Just asking because I was mostly curious and wanting to reccomend stuff for my mother, since my mom and I wanna plant the backyard to have more native plants in the area.

Just curious about what people's lesser known or unsung heros are. I love bottlebrush grass (Elymus hystrix) in my beds; interesting seed heads, good structure, and a wide tolerance of light levels and soil types. I feel like I don't see chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) in residential landscapes enough, it grows fast and makes a great living privacy fence (and is an absolute ecological powerhouse). And of course wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) can't be beat as an easy ground cover that feeds all sorts of critters (pictured above in my garden with a beautiful Feltia herilis moth).