I spent the last six months anxiously awaiting the bountiful bloom of what I believed were gaillardia pulchella, or blanket flowers

Come to find out they’re lance-leaf coreopsis, but it’s still a good number of flowers, and the locals appreciate them either way

    • sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.worldOP
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      19 days ago

      Yeeahhh I know, that was there when we bought the house a couple years ago and I never got around to replacing them. We’re moving, anyway, and I didn’t have time to grow bushes to replace them

      • Fourth@mander.xyz
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        18 days ago

        Man I fuck with it big time! Showing up, making things better, and then leaving? Fantastic. World would be a better place with more people doing what you do.

        • sneekee_snek_17@lemmy.worldOP
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          17 days ago

          I really appreciate that! I made sure to make most of the things I planted look intentional, because my desire for wildness isn’t realistic in suburbia.

          So I labeled every species with sharpie on paint sticks and defined borders, in the hopes that the new owners don’t just tear it all out

          I did the math, though, and my gardens are roughly 1.8% of the lawn. Nowhere near large enough.

          I told my wife that it is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT to me that at least 20% of our next yard is native plants and (she doesn’t know this) a functional ecosystem.

          I read “Nature’s Best Hope” by Doug tallamy this semester and it gave me a glimmer of hope against my almost total conviction that things are beyond saving

          • Fourth@mander.xyz
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            17 days ago

            Hell yeah, I love all that. You get it. Bit by bit we can make things better. I’m doing a total overhaul of our yard probably 75% now for the animals. Big new thing for me is selecting plants based off host/supported species and wildlife value. It all does make a difference.