[10/24/24]
Alveus is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization functioning as a wildlife sanctuary & virtual education center,
aiming to unite online users for conservation! đ Founded by twitch.tv/maya
Check out the 24/7 live cams on the Alveus Twitch Channel
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33 Comments
thank you for uploading this! I missed it but really did not want to deal with twitch's video player, big smooch to you đđ
im so excited for the pollinator garden!
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Watching this while Maya is live
This is so cool
Thank you Poki!
IM SO EXCITED TO SEE HOW A POLLINATOR GARDEN FUNCTIONS YIPPEE!!!!
yay! this looks very excited. and i am excited to see citizen science/research unfold
The mural might be an ongoing project that you can add to little by little, as a little periodic creative catharsis activity. Take it from a 35-year-old homeowner– if you're not going to be leaving from that location any time soon, you will probably keep tinkering with the space little by little over the coming years. You can leave the mural as an opportunity to occasionally get your future self a creative outlet!
Please do a lot of content with Dr Allison. She's just the best!
She can use my little brain any time
I love Alison so much
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This is super cool but why would Connor suggest replacing entomology with robots in conversation with their entomologist? Thatâs her job, man.
To expand on what Alison was saying at 33:00 about the garden looking "small" at first…
There's a (corny) saying we use in horticulture that goes, "First year is sleeps, second year it creeps, third year is leaps."
Basically meaning that within the first year of planting, they aren't going to do much at all, and maybe even die back early, since the plant is working on getting its roots in. Second year, it'll start taking in more energy, but for the most part, still look around the same size. In the third year, you can expect your plants to take off, and start growing larger.
Its all dependant on the plant type, as well at the environment. In some cases they just explode after the first year, and look amazing. But I've worked in gardens for over a decade, and that corny saying proves true the majority of the time.
This makes me so excited for the future of Alevus staff and Maya! I think it would be so cool, if later down the line when the pollinator garden is very stable, they can produce local honey to help with seasonal allergies and maybe sell at street fairs! Itâs so nice that this creating such a wonderful community and making friendships!
Allison my queen
It would be fun to have some artists who stream come in and paint the mural (and obviously walk around and meet the animals). Maybe even smaller artists too.
I love Dr Allison so much
I remember Pokimane promising to donate for an enclosure but at the time Maya wasnât sure what to let her sponsor. Iâm super glad they got around to picking something and didnât forget.
Using twitch for scientific research seems like a new concept. If thatâs true, then this project may eventually be a model that others use for their own pollinator gardens or other scientific research. I guess when Iâm trying to say is that this project is not just a great idea., it could be the genesis of a brand new use for Twitch that can help all kinds of conservation projects.
This is so cool!
Super hyped for the pollinator garden!! Alveus has such talented people on board!!! â€â€â€â€â€
P.s. weirdly enough, Connors jank ass mic makes him sound more professional???
I AM SO HECKIN PUMPED
This is so exciting!!!
I'm glad I can live vicariously through other people making big pollinator gardens and restoring prairies since I haven't had the ability to remove all (practically any) of the invasive weeds in my yard, or collect and trade seeds and sprouts half as much as I've been planning.
In my own yard further up in the central to northern Great Plains , there are lots of places with poor soil where spotted bee balm (Monarda punctata), milkweeds (Asclepias syriaca, incarnata, and verticillata), common yarrow (Achillea millefolium), onion (Allium), and some roses and a native hydrangea have been doing incredibly well.
Some miscellaneous red and white sage cultivars do well up here in various soils, the bushier white ones have been growing back really well in a shadier, slightly wetter area whereas the red ones have spread around a bit from their original spot next to bee balms, milkweeds, and a new obedient plant (Physostegia a.k.a. false dragonhead) and early figwort (there's Scrophularia marilandica down south). Purple coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) and sunflowers (Helianthus) spread like crazy in all the sunny spots every year and get more bumblebees than all the salvia and monarda combined, and I'm glad I got some Rudbeckia, Ratibida, and Bidens seeds for more potential diversity next year.
An anise hyssop (a.k.a. lavender or blue giant hyssop Agastache foeniculum) was doing well but got destroyed when we cut down several problematic trees; I wish I collected seeds from it or had found a yellow or purple giant hyssops (Agastache nepetoides or scrophulariifolia) nearby to collect and try sprouting some seeds over winter. None of them have really needed much water except when they were first planted and when it was really hot and dry, and they survive the aberrant winter weather we've gotten the past year.
Pitcher sage (Salvia azurea) can grow very tall and attract tons of larger bees. There are big stands of pitcher sage that get swarmed by bumblebees and cuckoo bees, and cover queen bee burrows along with tall and short grasses (Andropogon, Schizachyrium, Sporobolus, lots of others), bee balms (Monarda), tall boneset (Eupatorium altissimum usually covered in smaller bees, wasps, soldier beetles, flies, and ambush bugs), native thistles (Circium), liatris a.k.a. blazing star (Liatris, lots of cool ones all across the Great Plains that attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds; there's an amazing sandsheet blazing star Liatris elegans var. carrizana (a.k.a. Liatris carrizana, variant of pinkscale gayfeather/blazing star) endemic to sandy soil in southeast Texas but it might be very rare or difficult to find someone with seeds or corms), and asters (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae up here especially for bees in late summer to early fall).
It'd be great to see some locally-collected Engelmann's sage (Salvia engelmannii) or longer-blooming Texas sage (Salvia texana) seeds with some paintbrushes (Castilleja), another sage or two, those mistflowers (Conoclinium, C. greggii in Texas, C. coelestinum elsewhere) or mountainmints (Pycnanthemum), rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium), a big background joe-pye weed (Eutrochium fistulosum) or evening primrose (so many beautiful Oenothera species), patches of short grasses (buffalo grass Bouteloua dactyloides and plenty of others that grow all across the Great Plains, Texas, and Mexico), and a few cacti and yuccas or agaves.
There are so many cool milkweeds with so many different leaf shapes, umbel and petal and hood shape and color combinations, and water/weather and soil preferences (sand, antelope-horns/spider, green, green comet, whorled, slim, slimleaf, longleaf, plains, horsetail, purple, prostrate, etc.) that would also look great around some mints, shrubs, blanketflowers (Gaillardia), irises ("classic" wet-soil irises like Iris virginica, brevicaulis, fulva, etc., and lots of other members of Iridaceae occur in Texas including dry soil species), and buttonbushes (Cephalantus occidentalis, same family as that firecracker bush Bouvardia ternifolia you mentioned but more widespread and maybe easier to find seed or rhizomes for, attracts moths and possibly ducks rather than hummingbirds but needs shade and medium to wet soil like what you might see under the trees or in the rocks around creeks and rivers).
I propose the tree be dubbed Bertree
pollinators are so important. thank u poki and alveus for making this happen!!
You should consider a swale to catch and sink water into the land. You dig it once and it works passively.
Also I really hope texas kidneywood is one of the species. Native bugs absolutely love it! It's covered when it blooms in my north austin garden.
dr allison is visiting!!
Succulents and cactus please.
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Are you guys gonna add some of the isopods to the pollinator garden ?
Allison is so bubbly and cute. She's someone who could brighten anyone's day