Three Little Video Lessons

Hey Y’all Out There,

This morning on the farm, the soundtrack is of an aviary. Knowing nothing about birds doesn’t keep me from speculating that the five days of storms and five inches of rain had them all huddled down, so now they’re thrilled to be able to use their wings and voices.

We have a group of Master Gardeners coming today who’ve already asked to see some of our alternative groundcover and lawn replacement plants. Perfect timing as today, part of the crew is installing a small alternative lawn for a client. On top of that, we’re organizing for a huge, 5,500 ft2 lawn. So we’re covered up in frog fruit, my favorite eco-friendly lawn plant.

So I’ve done no writing this week. Here are three little videos that I pulled from the Sub-stack notes page. Substack Notes happens in their app and website — if you don’t ever go to the website, you miss them.

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Gardening on a Higher Level. Rooftop Garden Installation

We’ve been working on this elegant ‘warehouse’ condo about 30 feet off the ground. What you see in the video took weeks to prepare, and of course, it will take weeks and years to grow in.

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A Secret of Southern Gardening Pro-tip for Planting a Privacy Hedge

Intern Mickie explains how we use our understanding of latent buds and plant growth response to make a hedge grow together faster than it normally would.

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Favorite Alternative Lawn Replacement Plants, including native Mimosa, Frogfruit, as well as tough Carex, Liriope, and other weeds.

The last little bit of this is our eco-friendly farm lawn with an Ibis hunting for insects. Just to prove that I do occasionally get to stop and pay attention to the birds. Also, you’ll see poor puppy Coco bout give herself a concussion trying to catch that impudent ibis.

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