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4·30 days agoAwesome! Sometimes all neighbors need is to see it in action, to not be the first on the block. Like it gives people permission in a way 😊
Direct link to the Maryland bill passed: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0322f.pdf
No sand spurs here, thankfully 😄 Both pictures show groundcover under low tree or shrub branches, so no humans step there. These type of plantings are meant to be soft landings for pollinators.
Violets can handle moderate foot traffic and mowing, especially when mixed in with grasses like nimblewill, but not heavy play.
This is awesome! Love seeing the younger generations getting involved and that your SO lost his mind when he found out lol.
So glad you chose solarpunk as your home on the fediverse :) It was a big reason I chose this instance and I’m happy to be part of the team!
I love Wild Geranium! The leaves just started emerging here in the Mid-Atlantic (with some violets waking up in the periphery):
After planting these last spring, I found Carolina Geranium growing in a sidewalk crack a few feet away 😆
2·6 months agoNo, just a fan! I found out about them recently through another channel I follow, Black Liberation Media. One of the hosts of the main Red Nation podcast, Nick Estes, has been on Democracy Now! quite a few times.
The same! Though this conversation is focused through the lens of settler colonialism and discussed by Indigenous leftists.
The newest episode in the series covers the Heaven’s Gate cult from a similar perspective.
I don’t think so, unfortunately.
I love these update videos! Most of the stuff I planted two years ago finally started to look like something this summer 😆 but seeing all the monarchs, sootywings, fritillaries, skippers, and so many different bees made the growing pains worth it.
2·8 months agoDid you know they’re edible? I found out from this video last week, but it seems like a lot of work.
Awesome resource :) I’ve been looking into soft landings too! Nearby me, there’s a corp owned commercial lot that’s been vacant for years, bare-bones maintenance. The street trees out front are Callery pear, which I can’t do anything about, but the ground under them isn’t tended.
There’s also two very sad trees in the middle of the parking lot and one empty tree well (which recently inspired me to rewatch this video lol).
Your point at the end is crucial. I heard a local story about a bunch of people rolling up in a neighborhood, planting trees, never to be seen or heard from again :( Kinda gross and presumptive.
The link in the post body has some tips on how to do so responsibly. Might be worth sharing with your neighbors!
Mr. Trash Wheel is pretty cool:
The local cottontail raised her litter in my yard and the family didn’t care for them, other than using them as a hangout spot. They did eat all the Virginia spiderwort and there’s a bunch of violet stems around with no leaves, but mostly they stick to the plantains (Plantago sp.) in the lawn.
I had no idea deer lived in the city until I started doing this. Sometimes I’ll catch one sleeping in my backyard which is a surreal sight. They munched the sunchokes, hazelnut, and chokeberry to the ground, but all are bouncing back.
Most of the flowers are divisions of plants, some volunteers and others I got as plugs in summer 2022. I decided to start small and expand over time. The coneflower was four plants last spring which I divided into 12, then into about 30 this spring. Rose milkweed and late boneset are just as prolific.
I have spread some seeds around and others have blown in. The groundcover in the second photo is all volunteer.
The mulch was leftover from a chipdrop. I used it to make the beds look “intentional” when everything was sparse and muddy back in February :) The plan is for everything to grow so dense that I won’t need to mulch it again.
They don’t want most of the crap people plant trying to be Eco friendly anyways or so the landscape architect told me.
The research of entomologist, Dr. Doug Tallamy, and his team at the University of Delaware have identified 14% of native plants (the keystones) support 90% of butterfly and moth lepidoptera species. The research of horticulturist Jarrod Fowler has shown that 15% to 60% of North American native bee species are pollen specialists who only eat pollen from 40% of native plants.
Dense plantings help keep it at bay. For flowers and grasses, cut in half the recommended plant spacing that you’ll find on gardening sites.
I have orange coneflower bordering a pocket prairie, planted one foot apart (center of plant to center of plant). Bermuda grass grows around the edge, but rarely enters it.
Maryland passed a bill doing just that:
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2021RS/bills/hb/hb0322f.pdf