Tough Natives For The Northeast - Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Highlights Plants For Our Gardens

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Published 2022-08-22

Learn about many tough and beautiful plants for your garden! Andy Brand, Director of Horticulture at the amazing Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens discusses a plethora of plants that attract pollinators and are suitable for many garden situations. Many of these are surviving drought and haven't received water in over 6 weeks! These include native shrubs and perennials for both sun and shade, native grasses, plants with berries to feed the birds, others for the edge of a pond, and even learn about paw paws! See several caterpillars and learn how human activity has impacted them. Get ideas for planting hell strips as well. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is a fun and beautiful place to spend the day while seeing many native plants and how they can be used in your garden to create habitat for our insects and birds. #pollinatorgarden #nativeplants #butterflygardening #nativeplants #droughtresistantplants #gardentour #gardenideas

All Comments (21)

@kb_100 9 months ago

I'm in Quebec. This is super useful for me too! Am working on getting rid of my turf bit by bit and replacing with natives. I can't wait to banish my mower to the shed forever! 😛
@Tofog22000 1 year ago

Nice to see the Paw Paw tree in the video. It's also the host plant for the Zebra Swallowtail butterfly and has nice yellow Fall color.
@arthursarahhernandez6853 1 year ago

This is an excellent video! It's extremely informative and helpful. I would love to view tours of this garden with this host in each season! Thank you.
@drivenmad7676 21 days ago

As a Maine gardener, i would love to plant more natives.
@Bandaid17 1 year ago

Thank you so much. We were at your garden several years before covid and we were blown away!! I have been to the biggies but I couldn’t believe what you all have done. Especially the children’s garden. I want to go back to see your progress. I am in awe!!
@pigeonmanof180 21 days ago

Andy is very knowledgeable and well spoken, and we love the CMBG. I was very glad to see some of my favorite natives highlighted here and also disappointed that some others weren’t mentioned like hobble bush, ostrich fern, sweet gale, pagoda dogwood and witch hazel, lamb kill and rhodora, both red and black elderberry, blue flag iris, and June berry. I have had great success growing these in Downeast Maine, and they are truly under appreciated. I could add several more....perhaps Andy could come back and do a part 2.
@kitty4tify 1 year ago

Hi Lourdes. I’m watching from Ontario Canada. We share the same native plants here. I wasn’t aware of the suckering of paw paw. What an amazing place. Please make more videos of this place. Thank you ❤
@martinezcolonh 1 month ago

Love the video, straight to the point, and lots of information. Love that the plants are the main focal of attention and not the speaker. Learn a lot from a video like this.
@lornadunne526 1 year ago

Great channel beyond words. After going through all videos today, I now have three pages of native plants that I want for my gardens! And your demeanor and voice are truly attractors! Thank you so much!! You get an A+!
@boc8245 1 year ago

This is excellent. Informative, beautiful and inspirational.
@elenapolenichkina6460 14 days ago

Great information! Thank you!
@MaineOffGrid. 1 month ago

Great information here. I’ve been looking forward to transforming my property into one full of plants that attract bees, birds, butterflies and other beneficial creatures. It’s nice to hear AND see what things I can possibly grow successfully on my property in central Maine.
@adrabruzzese7610 2 months ago

Wonderful video! Thank you so much!
@hivicar 5 months ago

Lourdes, well done! Your guy is one of the best vocalizing our appreciation of these species, flora & fauna.
@janetcorrao5072 1 year ago

Absolutely love the way Latin names drop in his talk!
@dianepuskas6362 1 year ago

I am going to have to rewatch and have my notebook ready! I have read about several of the bushes that were featured, it was wonderful to see them in their natural settings.
@eschwarz1003 3 months ago

thanks! great valuable info
@janblencowe 1 year ago

Wonderful video! Thank you. That bush honeysuckle in the parking lot was pretty amazing in such a hot, dry situation.
@Erik_Dalton 3 months ago

That Joe pye weed at 19:00 is definitely pushing 12 or 13 feet 😅 Beautiful
@adz5bneweng589 1 year ago

My favorite native grasses are panicums (switchgrass). Love the way the seed heads capture the sunlight. Twinkling in sun. Absolutely amazing grass. Panicum. Any variety although 'heavy metal' is probably my favorite. 'Totem pole' is a close second.