00:00Rancho Bernardo, California.
00:05Where wild habitat for native plants was destroyed by suburban sprawl and unnatural lawns.
00:13It's a nice bathroom in there.
00:15I love when they're freshly delivered. They're so clean.
00:18Nothing written on the walls yet?
00:20No.
00:21Today, a new wild space is rising.
00:24Where once there was just turf, today there's the Baja birdbush.
00:30The coastal live oak tree.
00:32The burguero cactus.
00:34And other natives that will all eventually grow into magnificent, reveal-worthy specimens.
00:40At once charismatic and ecologically important.
00:44You plant these things and they're not impressive at first.
00:46They're just these little one-gallon pots.
00:48And within a matter of five to six months, they just blow up. They just explode.
00:53This is perfect. It's perfect. Wow.
00:57It feels like us.
00:58It feels like us.
00:59Yeah.
01:00It draws your eye in.
01:01And it makes you interested in what's going on up here, you know?
01:06This is amazing.
01:07It's so good.
01:08It's such a good thing.
01:09Good stuff, man.
01:10We really love it.
01:11We just love it.
01:12It's all just, this is what was meant to be here in California.
01:16Everything it needs is in that soil.
01:18Yeah.
01:19It evolved there, Clay.
01:20You're thinking like an ecologist already.
01:21Ah, nah.
01:22You're going to be coming back.
01:23You're going to be coming back.
01:24You're going to be coming back.
01:25Threading seeds you collected from the hills.
01:28You're going to have like a little native plant botanic garden.
01:30And just the diversity is nuts.
01:31You've got like 25 different species of plants here.
01:34It's funny because we've already noticed like moths and butterflies hovering around.
01:39Birds.
01:40They come back quick.
01:41Yeah.
01:42Yeah.
01:43You'll get lizards hanging out here.
01:44You always get more diversity with the natives because they've been here.
01:46You're not going to erase 5 million years of evolution together.
01:5075% more pollinator diversity and bird diversity.
01:53You've got those owls coming through your backyard, right?
01:55Yeah.
01:56Yeah.
01:57Amazing.
01:58How does it make you feel when you come home?
01:59Oh, I love it.
02:00You see owls hanging out in your backyard.
02:01I got to see him sit on my wall there and he's doing the head bop thing.
02:02Oh, yeah.
02:03It's incredible.
02:04It's incredible.
02:05I want to thank you guys for hunting these down because I mean, you had to get out like
02:07a hound dog and sniff it out.
02:09It was entirely selfish.
02:10I just want to see this stuff in yards.
02:13You guys are the only native plant garden.
02:15On this entire street, probably in this whole subdivision.
02:17Maybe so.
02:18You know, when I drive by yards like this, it makes me feel better.
02:20Oh.
02:21Because people don't understand how soothing that is, you know, until they've done it.
02:25Yeah.
02:26I'm so proud of you guys.
02:28I'm so proud of you guys for doing what so few people until now have wanted to do,
02:33you know?
02:34And this transformation is only the beginning.
02:38In a couple of years, this yard will become an eye-popping, biodiverse paradise filled
02:43with full-grown native species.
02:46I'm so proud of you.
02:48To be continued...
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