What’s growing in our pond? Lets take a look at the native plants we’ve boosted our pond with! In this video.
5AM next morning edit (before video went live – and yes, I woke up early with a dream about my food forest, then I couldnt sleep because I was thinking about this and couldnt stop): I had a sinking feeling that the haory plantain ID was wrong so I have done more research. Broad leaf plantain looks very different to Hoary plantain, and varieties of plantain can look very different from eachother, but even still, I didn’t like the bottom of the leaf shape.
I won’t know until it flowers, but I’m now pretty sure that this is actually Canadian Fleabane, Erigeron spp, and it would make sense if it was because I collected seed last fall to spread. If so, I may do a video on it this summer, because it’s a plant that is despised and called a weed by many, but is a fantastic plant and attracts many different moths who feed exclusively on it, and do not harm other plants. I.e. exactly what you want to be doing… bringing in insect food for birds and other insects, in ways that don’t cause them to eat your fruit.
Erigeron is also a fantastic bee plant, and absolutely has a home in any pollinator garden, and is very welcome here. It looks very much like a daisy, and I spread this everywhere last fall. I’m excited to see it join the wildflower hill guild!
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5AM next morning edit (before video went live – and yes, I woke up early with a dream about my food forest, then I couldnt sleep because I was thinking about this and couldnt stop): I had a sinking feeling that the haory plantain ID was wrong so I have done more research. Broad leaf plantain looks very different to Hoary plantain, and varieties of plantain can look very different from eachother, but even still, I didn't like the bottom of the leaf shape.
I won't know until it flowers, but I'm now pretty sure that this is actually Canadian Fleabane, Erigeron spp, and it would make sense if it was because I collected seed last fall to spread. If so, I may do a video on it this summer, because it's a plant that is despised and called a weed by many, but is a fantastic plant and attracts many different moths who feed exclusively on it, and do not harm other plants. I.e. exactly what you want to be doing… bringing in insect food for birds and other insects, in ways that don't cause them to eat your fruit.
Erigeron is also a fantastic bee plant, and absolutely has a home in any pollinator garden, and is very welcome here. It looks very much like a daisy, and I spread this everywhere last fall. I'm excited to see it join the wildflower hill guild!
I love your channel mate 😎
Tryna grow a food forest of my own here in Sydney Australia
I only rent my house though 🤣
Sounds great!
Incredible what you have done! Congratulations!!!
Appreciate the tour.
Nice to see the Service Berries – now I know what to expect when my ones grow older (my teachers used to talk about them in horticultural college, but no garden I ever worked in had them).
Bought my first batch of 1ft high Service Berry plants early last Spring and half of them fruited that summer, very impressed with the taste. Really sweet, surprised they're not cultivated more often. Curiously, the birds in my garden didn't bother with them.
I bought 6 more larger plants this Spring and they have a bit more bloom on them. Enough to fill a jam jar I reckon.
So Canadian, apologizing on the audio when it sounds great
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Fascinated by the pond and added ecosystem it provides.
When you say ponds attract predators, you don't mean those flying death machines at the beginning do you?😂
"Hello thumb" – I love that you leave these kind of things in the videos and even point them out and get a laugh at it. I have really come to love not only your channel but your spirit.
Also, you may be the best youtuber on mixing permaculture and activism, and saving the insects but actually doing it not just saying it. Another reason to love your work. Legacy leaving indeed. Consider me thoroughly infected. I am 67 years young and you have completely changed the way I garden.
Really love my saturday mornings with a coffee and a CPL video. Today is going to be a good day. Thank you for making my day just a little better.
Quality info as usual, thanks C P
16:20 is not alfalfa (Medicago sativa)
Just beautiful.
Little bit of trivia; "The dragonfly is the most proficient predator on the planet with a 98% kill rate. The Cheetah is the next most proficient with a whooping 36% kill rate".
I am looking to build a similar pond on my acreage in Kelowna. Would you be willing to share pond diagrams and technical aspects like material list and quantities along with pump sizes, flow rates, filtratiin methods/mechanisms?
Always love your tours, thanks so much! Beautiful and exciting time of year with everytbing waking up!
Nice pond content
Love the tour videos, just watching some guy show us his plants, what's not to like! It's amazing what you've done with that pond , such a shame that stream is polluted and can't be incorporated into the system. I would KILL to have a natural water source in my land, we are very parched on our hillside. I wonder if you could set up some sort of natural filter system to clean out the pollutants before releasing it into your land (for canoeing!! :))? I dunno, active charcoal, reed beds, that kind of thing? That plant, if it was fenugreek wouldn't it have quite a distinct curry-esque aroma, I was waiting for you to sniff it. I didn't even know fenugreek could grow in temperate climates, I have some seed I could scatter.
Love waking up early on a Saturday morning and seeing a new CPL video. You’re an awesome advocate for nature and sustainable living. Thank you, Keith, for all you do.
Beautiful place,I love it.
what happens to the pond if the pump stops running long enough?
Do you have any opinions about bamboo? There’s a lot of conflicting information out there right now. (Specifically North America)
I think the plant you thought may be fennel greek…I think its black medics (Medicago lupulina). Gotcha cover homie 😉 great video yet again! That pond is awesome!
Soapwort is pretty cool…we have it at our place too. Interesting tidbit, museums at least used to use it to clean fragile linens. The modern day detergents are way to harsh for them. Heads up if you haven’t noticed already, It does tend to spread aggressively if you ignore it. Lovely fragrant pink flower, but it’s the saponins that are concentrated in the root, leaves and stems that give you the soaping sudsy action.
Plantain is great to have around for medicinal purposes.
Thankyou for the plant tour…I’m working on a list for our pond we are building. 🌱💚
Happy Permaculture Day Keith! Thanks for all your great content and ideas.
If I tried that it would be solid lamb's quarters, clover, and wild violets in no time! They just come up everywhere in a solid carpet where I am, on any open bit of soil.
Having water on your property is such a blessing. We have a half acre pond on our farm and the diversity of wildlife it brings in is truly amazing. Sometimes it feels like we live on the set for Animal Kingdom.
Last year was the first year I really started setting aside area for planting flowers, and one of the surprising benefits it had was to inspire me to spend more time in the gardens.
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The best cold weather permaculture channel on youtube! Keep up the awesome work inspiring others!
That soapwort is neat. Have you tried making soap with it before?
I want one!
I'm raising geese for my pond now, it is no where near as epic as your pond but I still enjoy it. This last year we had a drought and the wildlife really started coming in for the water.
Great video, Keith! I absolutely love your pond! We have a 2.5 acre pond built in 1952 and we love it, but your features are amazing, great planning! One would think having so much water around would promote mosquito issues, but we also notice a huge population of dragon flies and damsel flies. They must keep the mosquito's down bc we don't really notice them until after dark.
Very interesting content. Love how much diversity you have around your pond. Can't wait to see it when the plants are fully flowered.
Did you seed all of these different herbaceous plants in or plant them from plugs?