Designing Native Gardens

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Native gardens are lower maintenance because you don’t have to do a ton of enhancement to your soil as most natives thrive and adapt really well. Native plantings will spread and provide their own mulch and green cover as they age. Native plants are often tall and different than a more structured ornamental garden, so artwork or structure in the space helps people understand it is a purposefully designed area. Connect with Mary Phillips: Mary Phillips is the head of Garden for Wildlife™ at National Wildlife Federation. Mary will share about why it’s vital to grow native species, reveal the perfect plants for every region, and provide tips on how to cultivate the optimal home for local pollinators. Garden For Wildlife National Wildlife Federation Code GARDEN22 - 20% off wildlife sign and certification Code EPIC22 - 20% off plants and pollinator packages Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We all know that I have this huge curb in my front yard that is now totally clear.
0:19.7	It's actually bare.
0:20.7	Well, it's covered with a little brimutic grass now, but it will be bare soon.
0:25.4	And hopefully it will be the first truly native California native garden here at the Epic
0:31.3	Gardening headquarters.
0:32.3	You know, a problem is I'm more of an edibles guy and I'm more of a geometric style garden
0:37.2	designer.
0:38.2	And I'm not the best at designing things.
0:40.2	And so we do have Mary Phillips back on the show.
0:43.0	She's the head of Garden for Wildlife at the National Wildlife Federation.
0:45.8	You know, I'm sure you've seen hundreds of thousands of gardens at this point.
0:51.7	And so you must have some fantastic principles for designing a native garden.
0:54.9	I guess the first thing I'm curious about is how does it differ from the edible garden
0:58.5	designs that we're all familiar with.
1:00.8	Well, I think one of the misnomer's about natives is that people don't understand that
1:07.8	you don't have to do a ton of enhancement to your soil.
1:12.7	Mostly the natives will thrive and adapt really well.
1:16.0	So you don't have to do real heavy kind of humus or enriched soil because it, I mean,
1:25.0	if it's really hard clay, obviously you need to break it up, but they really are adaptable.
1:30.6	So you don't have to, in fact, if it's too moist or too, you know, depending on the plant,
1:35.6	it doesn't always work so well.
1:37.2	So I think that's probably number one, which is different when you're doing the kind of
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