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The Common Milkweed
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Hey everyone! We are Jennifer & Steve of The Common Milkweed. We live and restore natural communities in north central Ohio and recently purchased 10 acres in Highland County, OH (southwestern Ohio) to also restore and eventually donate to the Arc of Appalachia. We love to get out into wild nature and explore. You will find videos highlighting some of the fun things we do that we think are worth noting. We love to hear from our followers, so please let us know what you are up to and if you have any questions. You can find us at thecommonmilkweed.blogspot.com/ or www.thecommonmilkweed.com/ or on Instagram @thecommonmilkweed. Thanks for watching!
Finding Calm in Nature
Folks, we cannot tell you how much going outdoors into nature helps us restabilize ourselves and come back into who we are and what really matters. It's essential. It's critical. It's really the only thing that works for us. Nature immersion flatlines the chaotic energy of the overwhelming challenge and allows room to breathe and to remember who we are, where we are and where we came from.
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Wildflower Fireworks, Oooooo...Ahhhhh!
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Wildflower fireworks are our favorite kind of fireworks, by far! Shrubby St. Johnswort, Hypericum prolificum, is a gorgeous wildflower firework. Just stand by them and you can ooh and ahh. We do! :) They offer resources for insects, especially bumble bees, and for different caterpillars. Sometimes low nesting birds like to use the small shrub too. www.illinoiswildflowers.info/prairie/plantx/sh_...
Swamp Rose Knocking it out of the Park!
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Swamp rose, Rosa palustris, is a showstopper and a wildlife superstar plant. We are so impressed with their resiliency, ability to grow well, offerings of resources for insects and great nesting habitat for birds. We love this native rose! www.illinoiswildflowers.info/wetland/plants/sw_rose.html#:~:text=Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris)&text=Description: This is a shrub,terete, glabrous, and prickly.
Is Common Milkweed Invasive?
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We are often asked if common milkweed, Ascepias syriaca, is invasive so here we give you our observations. This plant is hugely beneficial and absolutely gorgeous. It's a must grow native. 💚 www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/cm_milkweed.htm#:~:text=Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)&text=Description: This herbaceous perennial plant,pubescent (less often glabrous).
Fields of Fleabane
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The native fleabane, genus Erigeron, is a beautiful, beneficial early successional plant we embrace in our meadows and prairies. Learn more here: www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/an_fleabane.htm
Climbing Rose, Climbing Rose, Climbing Rose
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Should I say it again? Climbing Rose! Rosa setigera. It's totally captivating. This native climbing rose is beautiful and offers so much to so many. Don't be afraid of her wild child ways. She's a great candidate for bird nesting sites. Let's help her make it happen; if she will let us. ;)
Shade Loving Bottlebrush Grass
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Bottlebrush Grass, Elymus hsytrix, is a gem of a native grass. It's beautiful, is easy to grow and offers food to butterfly and moth caterpillars. The seeds are eaten by small mammals and look so cool....just like a bottlebrush! www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/bottlebrush.htm
How Did We Rewild Our Front Yard?
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Process and lessons are always important to share. Here I talk through how we rewilded/restored our front yard and the things we did right and wrong. I also talk about letting go of super control at some point and trusting nature to do what nature knows best how to do.
It's All Happening! Woodland Trail Tour
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The lushness of the plants, the resiliency of the land, the fruition... it's astonishing! Tending and stewarding land back from suppression is a wonder to behold and a gift to self to undertake.
Red Elderberry Propagation from Seed: In Situ Forest Method
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In this video, Steve illustrates red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa) propagation from seed using an in situ forest method that we've tried successfully with bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis).
Transplanting Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia)
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In this video, Steve shows how we are expanding our population of common blue violet (Viola sororia) into new areas on our nature preserve.
Using Plant "Sculpting" to Encourage Sedge Meadow Expansion
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In this video, Steve explains how we use plant "sculpting" (strategic cutting and pruning of plants) to encourage vegetation (mainly lake sedge - Carex lacustris) from our sedge meadow to expand into a new area.
American Persimmon Frost Recovery
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Almost all of our American persimmons were zapped by a freeze at 28 degrees F. They leafed out early due to above average temperatures and did not handle a freeze within our frost free date well. The leaves all froze, turned brown and fell off. A few genetically diverse trees had not leafed out yet and they were unscathed when they did leaf out. The ones that were zapped, releafed out because t...
Adding At-Risk Plant Diversity
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A friend gave us three species of At-Risk plants as designated by United Plant Savers and we are so excited to plant them in this front bed right by our sidewalk. Steve weeded out some unknown onion family plant and added in: Purple Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea Butterflyweed, Asclepias tuberosa Yellow Wild Indigo, Baptisia tinctoria unitedplantsavers.org/species-at-risk-list/
Don't Forget the Plant Layers!
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Adding layers to your home habitat is critical for more diverse life and is part of the magical recipe for biodiversity. It's so fun to think in layers, plant layers and then sit back and watch the life celebrate. A Cape May warbler sang from the grouping of spicebush and wild raspberry beneath the black walnut and a rose-breasted grosbeak sang from the tree tops. Thrilling y'all! And to think,...
Holy wow, Redbud for the Pollinators!
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Holy wow, Redbud for the Pollinators!
Spring Planting Bareroot American Persimmon
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Spring Planting Bareroot American Persimmon
I think the Black Headed Grosbeaks have moved on here in central Cali. I know they had families, as I saw a Scrub Jay chasing and bullying a family of them. The Bluebirds had a hatching in one of my boxes, and I saw a pair of unidentified Flycatchers living in another house. The other day, I was watering new shrubs and I saw a pair of Brown Towhees hopping around on the ground near me and chirping a lot-- I couldn't figure out what they were doing, till I saw a Gopher Snake slithering around right where they were. I saw Scrub Jays doing the exact same thing when a HUGE Gopher Snake came into my back yard a few years ago. AND, a few years ago, I saw a small hawk catch a dove on my property-- I then saw a pair of Scrub Jays attack the hawk and chase it away, while the dove got away. I've never even HEARD of this behavior before, let alone seen it! Nature never fails to surprise me.
To try and help, here are the lyrics to Children of the Sun by Dead Can Dance: "We are ancient, as ancient as the Sun, We came from the ocean- once our ancestral home. So that one day, we could all return-- to our birthright, the great celestial dome. We are the children of the Sun, our journey's just begun, Sunflowers in our hair. We are the children of the Sun, there's room for everyone- Sunflowers in our hair. Throughout the ages, of iron bronze and stone, we marveled at the night sky, and what may lie beyond We burned offerings to the elemental ones, made sacrifices for beauty peace and love. We are the children of the Sun, our kingdom will come, Sunflowers in our hair. We are the children of the Sun, our carnival's begun, our songs will fill the air. Etc."
Your troubles are my troubles my friend! I've been overjoyed by the local wildlife here-- I see lizards, tree frogs, field mice, voles, Etc. everywhere I look. The baby lizards are SO cute!! And I'm finding out how great White Sweet Clover is for pollinators-- simply covered with the smallest bees I've ever seen! Some so small I can't even tell WHAT they are! I've grown many types of "regular" clover before, and I might see some Honey Bees on them, but this plant is a revelation! Love you guys!
I live right across the border of El Dorado County and Amador County-- Fireworks are illegal here in El Dorado county, but you can buy them just a few miles away, and a few years ago on July 4 our next door neighbors set off something that started a wildfire- the wind was blowing directly from them to me at 30 mph. We called 911, and Cal Fire was here in minutes fighting the fire-- they used a helicopter to take water from our pond and drop it next door. I wrote a letter to the editor of our paper to tell of the incident and hail Cal Fire efforts. Fireworks should be illegal, or July 4th should be moved to January.
Had no idea about the fireworks. Horrible
Yeah, all that exploding fireworks stuff is....pathological. Sigh.
I planted a shrubby st John's wort this spring. I love how the flowers look. So happy and sunny 😊
Did I see Illinois Bundleflower? Is that the right name for that plant? 💜 It helps me to get out there. Perfect advice!
OMG YOU’RE HUMAN!!! Even Unicorn’s poot sometimes. 😂🌈❤
Unicorn Manure is the best organic fertilizer of all time! Too bad it's so expensive.
@@Pam-jr2sv word 😞
We had two winters in a row of non winters. I see this was posted in 2023, so it corosponded to the winter of 22-23. Also a non winter ( 3 days of cold at XMas though)
Yes, two rows of very easy winters, other than two separate stretches of hellacious cold here. Single digits and below zero. That is atypical for here. EEK.
I just planted four butternut trees on my property in western Washington. How are yours doing?
We planted them in a river valley and two are doing great and one promptly died. They are far away from water, but in rich soil. We hope yours do super well!!
We have a milkweed patch with common, swamp and some purple milkweed that has stayed strong since 2020. Each year the Common comes back better. Our patch is about 10 ft by 4 ft and surrounded by stone, the old foundation, stones set along driveway and it’s not receiving competition from other non-asclepias plants. Maybe that helps? This year I thrilled bc I have many seedheads so I can share.
I bet you are right. So Asclepias can coexist well together it seems. That's cool!! We will just need to encourage that here and pull out other competition.
The tiniest of pollinators love this plant and so do I!
Yes, yes, yes! The quinine is the same right now. I love watching them because again, the tiniest of pollinators and unusual wasps and flies. Fascinating!
I planted 13 common and 13 showy milkweed in my backyard...cant wait for some big patches
Ooooooo!!! That will be so lovely!! We wish your plants great luck growing and now you know they might need more tending to ensure their thriving. Thanks for giving them that. :)
Beautiful roses!! I hope to grow some of these up a trellis on my garage some day.
Ohhhhhh, that will looks sooo gorgeous! These roses stop me in my tracks everytime. SO impressed with them. :)
@@thecommonmilkweed In my area, they seem to be done blooming now, I think. Looks like they are starting to make the hips!
I have a huge section of it, but I love it. I planted one from seed, started it indoors, actually. And from that one plant, it has rooted out many. Something eats the blooms off, but haven't found out for sure who. Mine get lots of earwigs, but I don't know if they are eating the blooms or not. Overall I love this plant. I probably encouraged it by weeding out invasive non-natives as well as creating a new garden directly next to it and did so by digging up the lawn grass. This was a heavy disturbance, and so it makes total sense. Thanks for sharing! Love your insights.
That sounds exactly right. Disturbance lovers they sure are. It took us so long to figure this out, but now we have a clue why it keeps fading out and that it needs a bit more tending from us. We will do it!
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My milkweed love growing among my lambs ear.
How interesting! Do you keep it weeded to just the milkweed and lambs ear? Does the lambs ear has some big open soil patches amongst it?
@@thecommonmilkweedjust the two , they pretty much choke out the weeds
Cool relationship! Thanks for sharing. :)
This points out how similar flowers can be VERY different in how many insects they attract-- I had a Frost Aster come up in my front yard a few years ago, and the flowers LOOK just the same as a Fleabane, but while I had a Fleabane flowering not fifty feet away, NOTHING came to the Fleabane while my Frost Aster was covered with bees, butterflies, Etc. all summer-fall-early winter. I eventually replaced the Fleabane with a Valeriana officinalis and I'm happy I did. I don't mean to knock Fleabane, I love all flowers-- just reporting...... You decide!
In prior years, the fleabane has been covered in pollinators...something is totally up this year. We are starting to see many more bees and we saw them very early in the season, but wow. Something is amiss. Frost aster doesn't flower at the same time as fleabane here. Fleabane also is a very, very short lived plant....just the first stage of succession.
I started with one Common Milkweed many years ago in a half-barrel and it's still there, but it's starting to not do well at all-- it's already looking sick in mid June, and I don't know what it wants. The flowers die just as they form. My Swamp Milkweeds are doing just fine. I have NEVER had any problem with the C.M. spreading in any way.
Oh challenging!! They do seem less tough than I thought, except for roadsides and farm field edges. They need our support it seems and we will give it to them. :)
@@thecommonmilkweed This is an interesting story-- I was in Martell Ca. the other day, and on a dry road siding I saw several stands of flowering milkweed! I wanted to stop and check them out but parking and walking there is iffy-- I do plan on going again, as they must be a native type.
“Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.” Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Split the stems for?? Contemplation? It's a gem of a plant. We really miss the big patches so we will work to get them going again.
@@thecommonmilkweed Its a mystery :)
Common milkweed is pleasantly aggressive but try and transplant it and the plant is a wimp. 😭🤣
It seems like such a wimp in everyway unless it has full sun and very little competition. Long ago we thought this was such a tough plant. Wrong as you notice too! We will fight for the ones we have...trying to make them happy. :)
I totally agree with your take on common milkweed. I love it, and the smell is amazing. I have happy stands of butterfly weed and swamp milkweed, but as far as the "common" milkweed, I have not been very successful. I broke down and bought some plugs that I have been weeding around. Maybe this will work?
I bet if you keep weeding around them, that will work. I hope, hope, hope! For all the insects and you! Fingers crossed.
Magical! I want some fleabane! 😍
If you are in range of that plant and you have a disturbed area, they will find you quickly, but enjoy the magic because then they will fade away quickly. I guess we must all be in the present moment, yes? Everything changes so quickly.
Find one on a walk, they’ll pull and replant easily. In a year or two you’ll have them popping up. A neighbor was pulling and chucking and I asked if I could have some.
Thank you for the video! Sorry to hear about the honey crisp...just planted one last week😒lol. When was the plum tasiest to pick and harvest? I didnt catch that. Looks very productive, thanks for sharing
Hi there. Sorry about the honeycrisp. We are all always living and learning it seems. :) I cannot remember when the plums were ripe. They are still green as grass right now so maybe August?
I have a huge amount of Black Headed Grosbeaks right now, more than I've ever seen before-- they LOVE sunflower seeds! I also have more Bumblebees this season than I've ever seen-- including the golden fuzzy bumblebees-- sorry, don't know the species. I just ADORE my bumbles! It's interesting that there are very few European Honeybees coming to my flowers, even though I saw thousands when I was putting out sugar water for them this spring. I have one "new" milkweed plant flowering right now-- the flowers smell like cheap vanilla cologne- exactly like Pinaud Clubman!
How cool about the black headed grosbeaks! We always hear and see the rose-breasted grosbeaks here and they are so loved by us. The bees are starting to pick up now. So many bumbles were out and then we hit 28 degrees F this spring and I think that hurt many bees and butterflies.
@@thecommonmilkweed 28 degrees?! We never hit that once all winter long! I think climate change is helping out a lot of insect species, which is good, but we never have Gopher killing temps, which is BAD!!
Those look amazing, I have planted a dozen or more of these at my garden and try to propagate a few more every year. The short week or two when they're in bloom is among my favorite times of the season, they are usually swarming with all kinds of bees. The first few flowers have just opened on mine today in SW Michigan, 42 N. latitude, seems early this season (like everything else). Enjoy! ps - your Cup Plants and American Plum are also doing very well this year! We had a lot of rain this Spring and many of my plants grew like they never have before, because my site is sandy and drought-prone. Very few plums on my trees, likely due to a late frost.
Oooo! Sounds lovely! These roses are just smashingly beautiful. We had lots of rain early in the season too so everything grew quite lushly. Our last rain was June 6 and we are quite hot now so it's time for more moisture to fall abundantly. Fingers crossed. Yes, the Growing Degree Days are ahead here this year too. Thanks for sharing what's happening in your part of the world. :)
i planted a climbing rose about 3 years ago. still waiting for them to pop 🙃🙃🙃
Good for you! We sure hope it's soon. Sometimes the waiting is such a practice in patience; that's something we are working on. :)
The climbing rose I planted in 2021 is finally blooming 🌸
Yippee! Interesting to hear the planting date. Thanks for sharing that. Plants like to get settled before they flower it seems. Smart!
That is so beautiful
Thanks. Sharing space makes a difference in all of our lives, truly. :)
Love it! Your front yard is like a peaceful walk through a nature center.
Thanks. That's what I feel like when I go get the mail. :)
How will you get rid of the walnut tree? Dig it out? Cut it? When I want to remove a tree I wait until it is leafed out until around the longest day of the year and then cut it leaving a 3 foot stump. As it sprouts out along the stump I break them off, hopefully exhausting the root’s energy. Love your project and video!
Hi. Thanks so much! We will just cut it off at the base along with the other woodies. They can resprout and we will cut them in a few years. When they are small like this, it's so easy to just use hand pruners.
it is amazing that we, in our stupid artificial culture, call so many wonderful plants weeds. fleabane is a prime example along with great mullein and many others that are environmental champions and provide herbal medicine and food while improving the soil and bringing balance to the ecosystem. and like idiots, most people spray chemicals that kill them while poisoning the ecosystem. ignorance is resolved through education, reason, logic, and an open mind. persistent ignorance? well, that is resolved by dying from (fill in your favorite hated poison) use.
For us, our best strategy has been to share the love for these plants and critters and share space with them. Here, they are safe. :) Here, they are loved.
@@thecommonmilkweed indeed 🙂
Huge fan! Just found your RUclips and subscribed! I need a mentor. And, I need some bottle brush seed! How is it for livestock?
Well, wow! Thanks so much. We love rewilding so very much. Hopefully our videos will offer much inspiration. We don't know how bottlebrush is for livestock. That's a good question that maybe someone else offers some insight into. We also have native beak grass (Diarrhena obovata) in this area and our elderly cat who needs to eat grass now and then LOVES it.
looks absolutely amazing!
Thanks. It feels amazing to be amongst. :)
Great job to both of you guys!! Y'all are amazing
Thanks! We just try to learn from the plants and the insects and the birds and the frogs, etc. :)
Dont like it.
i love it
Thanks. :)
It's beautiful! :)
I LOVE IT!! You all did a wonderful job. Great textures, wild beds, but still structure from top to bottom. Well done.
Thank you so much! It's wild, because we did one thing and Mother Nature guided the way that works forward. We know to add in the smaller tree species and shrubs, because seeds for them aren't around here. It's amazing how everyone just fit into their own niche because that's what they know how to do. Truly humbling.
@@thecommonmilkweed I love working with nature by allowing the volunteers that are native, along with my own plantings I've added myself. It's such a nice combo.
The Cup Plant provides nice screening! Thanks for always sharing your spaces with us 😊
The cup plant is soooooo one of our favorite plants! You are welcome. We will continue to do so...thank you so much for caring.
I just found one a few minutes ago. It was using its head to propel itself across the ground. Thought it was a grass hopper lol
What a great day! These are magnificent beetles.
Goodness, I have tons on my backyard, I thought they were poisonous to humans 🤷🏻♀️
Oh my goodness. Now you know. ;) Enjoy! You and the birds are in for some tastiness.
Kevin M here-- I seem to have a new YT handle, but whatever. Great to see you at last! My squirrels plant sunflowers all over the place, and they're just starting to flower-- I both love and hate them, but the gophers are out of control! They killed my only Texas Thistle, growing as a volunteer. I HATE them! The insect population here is astonishing- just bonkers! Bugs I have never seen and don't know what they are. Still working on my new email address, so I don't know if you want any Cirsium horridulum seeds- but I'll send all you want. They are producing millions of seeds! Is there anything more hopeful than a tufted seed blowing away on the wind?
Hi Kevin now known as Pam. ;) Glad to hear from you! I checked the C. horridulum range and they aren't native here and we haven't seen them here so we will admire from afar. Thank you so much for offering them. Wind blown seed is AMAAAAAZING!!!! :)
I love your spirit keep it up you guys rock
Thank you, thank you. :) We are so lucky to witness the unfolding of rewilding...greater than we ever thought.
Your videos are awesome! I live in north eastern Ohio, it’s nice to see some similar nature ! ❤
Thanks so much. Northeastern Ohio is beautiful. The wetlands around there are incredible!
Thanks!
You bet! :)
5 years later, Ima happy for the same reason on the other side of de world :D Even if I know that this friend is not with us
So glad you love opossums too. They are happy little friends. :)
You two are doing wonderful work. Stewards. Maybe thats the best role humans can take on.
Thanks! We agree with your sentiment:) We must remember where we came from and live as a member of the natural world.
@markpellegrin417 it’s what most Indigenous cultures worldwide consider humans’ role to be. all beings have responsibilities to one another, to Creation, and humans are meant to steward the land so that Life flourishes.
Agreed!!!
I need to sort out Caulophyllum thalictroides (Blue Cohosh). I have 2 nice mature small colonies but scattering and even direct planting in the ground around them so far isn't working. Haven't yet tried winter sowing in Jugs but likely will this season. Gorgeous plant. I need to step up my game.
Some of these woodland plants have super long periods of dormancies and we have failed many times. Let's just all keep trying. The plants need us!! :)
Ive been using violets as ground cover on my hillsides for a few years now. Some folks dont appreciate just how awesome they are as ground cover.
You are so spot on. They are so very, very, very gorgeous and so good at growing well. We have a lot of respect for Viola!