Planting A WILDLIFE-FRIENDLY PRIVACY Fence — Ep. 251

Yes!! Please do a video on the host plants of North American butterflies and moths. I love your content and learn so much from you. I’ve also seen some videos about making a puddling station. It’s a simple project: shallow dish, sand, manure, and water. Helps them drink and get nutrients. Would also EAT up a video on butterfly and caterpillar identification.

Host plants take attracting butterflies to another level. I've never seen (or heard of) a Zebra Longwing butterfly, until it showed up after I planted its host plant, Maypop (Passiflora incarnata) vine.

I learned something new, I had no idea that it was possible to graft multiple apple varieties onto one trunk. I had only ever heard of regular grafting. That fence is going to look amazing once the vines and trees have really taken hold! As always you've made very thoughtful selections with the plants you've chosen.

Yes!!!!! Any videos we can have from YOU on native and host plants would be gold! Thanks to you both!

May beautiful plants decorate your fence.

Nice idea to have the fence function like a green wall, especially, with the trained apple branches. Will it act as an activity decoy, to drive the deer crazy, trying for fruit, while your garden remains safe? You've solved a mystery for me, in this episode. As a child I found a dead creature, which looked like a Humming Bird, without a beak. I'd never seen such a thing. Now, I believe that it was the moth you mentioned. Cool. My picture books couldn't have everything in them.

Oh man, vines are lovely but I would totally be planting trees, especially small "groves" of evergreens along that fence line. Tree lined roadways always look wonderful and provide such a great shelterbelt for yards.

Passionvine hosts gulf fritillary, variegated fritillary, and zebra longwing caterpillars.

This is very much what I have envisioned for the roadside of my new property in Kentucky as well: deer fence and espalier trees! It's part of the overall Permaculture design I submitted as my final class project for certification. My additional parameter was being near a powerline right of way, so I can't have trees growing too tall or spreading out as the main path under the powerline has to be accessible. Keeping them in a plane on either side of the powerline made the most sense. Thanks for the additional plant suggestions! 👍😊👍

Love watching your videos! I live in the city and your videos transport me out into the countryside =)

I really like that quality fence. With deer it seems that its necessary to do it right. In my experience, vines in particular should be planted on the posts more than the wire for fence longevity. Don't want too much wind loading on the wire. In the future I feel you should consider removing any vines that become too massive. An eight foot fence is essentially a sail when covered with large vines. Unfortunately few native vines evolved to be small. I look forward to every video!

That fence looks pretty light to be a trellis for trees or vines.

This channel and the way its content is presented, brings me so much peace, I wish I could afford this life style🙏🏽 God bless you🙏🏽

Thanks for the usual great content. We would love a host plant video.

Very good video

I am sure there is a local resource recovery site that has mulch and compost as opposed to getting organic supplies shipped in bags. OCRRA has a site where you can drop off woody material and vegetation and pick up into containers trucks and trailers. Love the series thank you!

I often end up with too many bare root trees to plant at once so I just dig them into a annual bed (though our ground rarely freezes hard) then they can stay in the bed until they start to bud, sometimes a few months. Never had an issue with this method. Pots should be fine too if you get frozen ground.

I love your widnes of understanding the space around you❤❤❤

WOW! I hope you get Pipevine Swallowtails in the near future - they're spectacular. And who doesn't love a Tree Swallow? They are great insect eaters ... I can see the conflict there ... but butterflies and Clearwings are not the targets of swallowtails; mosquitoes and similar hideous biting insects are.

You're welcome for the fence idea