Doug Tallamy: You are the future of conservation!

Doug Tallamy’s vision and his ability to translate this worldwide problem into something we can address ourselves is unsurpassed. What a treasure he is!

Thank you Dr. Tallamy for (1) sounding the alarm of our losses, and (2) giving us hope that even the smallest garden can help make a difference! You have inspired me to strive towards a better tomorrow by providing habitat for insects, birds, native plants, mammals, trees, shrubs, amphibians and all the other wonderful creatures who support our very lives and future! THANK YOU!

I'm happy to say that I've transformed my yard so much the past few years. My goal is to have no kentucky bluegrass at all. I have about 25 native shrubs and trees in my yard. My property sticks out like a sore thumb, alone in the green ocean of kentucky bluegrass of every orher yard in the subdivision. My next door neighbor has begun putting up a tall spite fence so they won't have to be subjected to the sight of my 'wild' yard (lots of joe pye, goldenrod and milkweed), since their frequent complaints against me to the weed police haven't gotten them the results they wanted. 😊 I get ridiculed at work for my efforts to help the planet. My boss told me that it's like the war movies, you dont waste morphine on a dying soldier. The biggest roadblocks are in getting people to stop the apathy and truly care about protecting the Earth, and to educate people about changing their mindset. Most people I know believe that bugs and critters on their property need to be gotten rid of because they're intrusive pests.

Excellent. I forwarded this to my wife, so she can share with her classroom.

THIS video was an eye opener for me. I watched it over a week ago and have been telling everyone the things I learned from it ever since. And I am going to be planting native plants as soon as I can.

Thank you so much! We moved last year to a city that sprays for mosquitoes and we assumed that was why we had no bees or butterflies until we watched the first video!!! We bought a few tiny native plants and our minds were blown!!! The variety of bees we had never seen before was amazing!!! Not to mention the butterflies! We were hooked!!! We have now removed almost all the invasives and are replanting with natives. We are telling all of our neighbors and hoping the spraying will stop as we educate folks through your channel. Thank you, Lourdes, for making all this available! We are on the map!💕

Tallamy's very last comment is right on: Native Plant Channel and Mount Cuba Center: yours is a great service to society. Thank you. I continue my quest, all alone here on 17 acres of lawn, horse pastures & invasives, practically a senior citizen, still working fulltime. I bought this property in Indiana 2 years ago but have known about native gardening in California for 6 years prior (and was wildly successful in my yard!!!! Then I sold the house and they RAZED IT ALL including 2 80- ft trees. Boy, won't those many, many Monarchs that laid eggs there for 5 years be surprised - and the host of thousands of others). First here, I was overwhelmed entirely. Now I am just overwhelmed almost entirely. I have to set aside one area, that I know, and make that one small area good, before I move the the rest of the 17 acres. That one small area is what I will put on the homegrown national garden website. But at the end of the day (at the very end, lol), I am glad I am already 65, and I am glad I leave no offspring. But I will act every day of life as if I DO have hope. I am riding on Doug Tallamy's hope - and yours. Thank you.

I always felt comfortable knowing that nature was out there and I could visit it whenever I wanted. My eyes have been opened when I 1) flew across the country and saw very little wilderness 2) realized that the trees along the highway are mostly just there, if you go beyond them, it's towns and roads. I did have 3 monarchs fly by this year. They do find you if you grow what they want when they want it. Video showed me I have the wrong Ironweed. Mine is finished blooming by August.

Another nice presentation. Been working on my own homegrown national park for a long time. I was noticing the absence of bees and other insects about 15 years ago. I didn’t know what the heck I was doing though. Thanks to several books, and Dr Tallamy, I figured out what direction to go. I’m also grateful for Prairie Moon Nursery, whose seed offerings have made it affordable for me to convert my tiny 2/ 10ths of an acre. If you plant close, about a foot apart, you can put in massive amounts of native plants. I have a 70 foot long privet hedge that has to come out to be replaced with a mixed hedgerow of native shrubs and small trees like dogwood, wild plum, hazel nut, witch hazel and I was so exited to actually find a dwarf chinquapin oak for along the hedge and there is a pyramidal shaped swamp white oak that only gets 30 feet wide, a Mike Dirr the tree guy offering called Beacon “Bonnie and Mike’ swamp white oak. We lost a 70 year old black maple to a small tornado and do far that oak is getting established . God bless all of you who care about your little Eden!

Good info. I can hear Dr Tallamy talk all day long. With his knowledge, I pray that we would be more conscious about the nature and environment. Thanks o much for this video. We need more nurseries to promote the benefits of the native plants .

I’ve been seeing a lot more houses with native plants. It seems to be a real trend to get rid of your grass here in Colorado.❤️

This is excellent, thank you! I have watched many and many an interview of Doug Tallamy, but this is no interview. This is much more informational and inspirational. I am totally onboard with homegrownnationalpark and will sign up my property. This is our only hope, as Doug states in Nature's Last Hope. If we have any chance to save our wonderful planet, it is because of Doug Tallamy and the likes of native Plant Channel.

Hi! Thank you for another wonderfully informative video! I am the lady who had my awkward star struck intro when I saw you filming. Apparently I am also in the background of the video lol. So great to meet you both and THANK YOU for all your efforts. They fill me with hope and motivate me to keep learning and making an impact with my garden.

Dr. Tallamy is smart. His books are good and his many webinars are on youtube.

Loved this video... I am so inspired to put a pond in my back yard! I'm going to look into it. Thank you Dr. Tallamy and the Native Plant Channel.

Nice video. Mr.Tallamy, you are very correct. I am already teaching my great grandchildren about butterflies insects and pollinators. Fla and central coast of California both have their own indigenous population of monarchs. I have monarchs year-round in my central Florida zone nine Garden. However, I do not have them in near the numbers I saw 15 years ago.

Another great video, thanks so much for sharing Dr. Tallamy's wisdom with me. I will be picking up his new book as a holiday gift for my niece.

Absolutely amazing ideas. Thank you for this video. Something, everybody can do. Restoration diy. Hope, we will see such gardens soon everywhere 👍

Please come back. Please make more. I can volunteer help. I can film and edit from home. We need this channel back. ❤

A wonderful video! Thanks for sharing it with us. I learn something new every time I dive into native plant videos and books. I so so want a pond! I'm just trying to decide where I should put it!:face-red-heart-shape: