Since getting my own place I can actually have a more natural garden, removed so much concrete. So many bees! I can even hear them from inside now that they are swarming around the poppies. Sage and to some extent chive flowers got a few bees earlier in the year but those flowers have died off now.
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Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My neighbor HATES me because I’ve been converting my backyard into clover. We have fireflies, Butterflies, bees, bunnies, all sorts of wildlife. It smells beautiful, but we are an oasis amongst upper-middle class lawn zombies… Mowing, edging, pesticide spraying, weed killing zombies.
Meanwhile, I have milkweed, clover, chive, snapdragons, black eyed susans, grapes, raspberries, lilac, echinacea, chamomile, lavender, hydrangea, coreopsis, and salvia. I welcome wasps that eat pests, I buy bags of ladybugs, I compost… I’m really trying. It’s only 1/4 an acre, but I’m trying.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
spicehoarder@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Hey, that’s pretty cool! Just make sure they’re not actually starting to build a hive inside your walls
Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 months ago
From 1 internet stranger to another, thank you. It really means a lot to me that people are doing what they can at their own level like you. I know how demotivating and isolating it can feel to be the only one doing the necessary work.
krolden@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Spray your neighbors lawn with salt water
wieson@feddit.org 2 months ago
The cartago treatment
Sheldan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dislike the mowing robots because they seem to encourage the Flatt grass only gardens and I hate them.
waxy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I love this and I’m working towards a no lawn/native plants setup as well. I hope your neighbour’s hate fuels you. Keep at it!
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Please keep doing it. As a poor landless peasant I celebrate your attempt to preserve some of nature. You’re buying time, which is vitally important