00:00Man, this mulch is a little rich, I think, it might be too rich.
00:05Too rich?
00:06Yeah.
00:07We're in Miami, everybody's too rich.
00:08Or too poor, you know?
00:09You like that?
00:10Beautiful in its new home.
00:11There it is.
00:12It's so happy.
00:13Another lead plant restored.
00:14Planting at Charlie's has made us want to see what this yard will look like in 20 years.
00:23So Lydia told us about this guy, Dr. Arold, who's got an extensive native plant garden.
00:27So this is a Morpha craniolata, a critically endangered lead plant.
00:31And these were rescues from the late 90s from Miami.
00:35The population there is extinct.
00:37Really?
00:38What happened to it?
00:39They built something there?
00:40Just housing.
00:41Just suburbia.
00:42Suburbia came and just took it all away.
00:44I love what you're doing here.
00:46It's really important.
00:47You don't see many people taking this time and dedication to planting native.
00:50And you know everything, too.
00:52I can tell you love it.
00:53It's my hobby and my therapy.
00:56Yeah, thank you so much for showing us around your garden.
00:58Amazing work.
00:59Decades of planting and tending to it.
01:02And thank you all for doing what you do because it brings all these things to people's minds.
01:07After a week of hard work, a little slice of native pine rockland habitat emerges from Miami's manicured streets.
01:15So one thing about the forest is like you see tiny little specimens of so many species.
01:19Like in an area that big, you could have like 75 species or something.
01:22Yeah, that's crazy.
01:23So you kind of emulate that in the garden.
01:24Yeah, this is so packed.
01:26It is like having gone out to the Everglades to see how dense it is.
01:29This is that same density.
01:31I know these plants are on the small side now, but give it some time.
01:35Besides, it's better to plant more smaller trees than a few spaced out big ones.
01:39Because when clusters of saplings have to compete, they grow faster and develop stronger root systems.
01:45I love it.
01:46This is going to be really good.
01:47Let's see.
01:48I hope you'll send me pictures in six months.
01:49Yeah, for sure.
01:50I mean, I'm really happy with how it came out.
01:51And six months from now, it will just be a blaze of color.
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