Aesthetically pleasing my ass.
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Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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YaxPasaj@lemmy.eco.br 5 months ago
It’s not even aesthetically pleasing.
stanleytweedle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There’s a guy on youtube that talks about bringing back native plants to an area and all the benefits that come with it.
He usually just does a controller burn and comes back a while later and it’s back to natural plants. Dude has a lot of cool knowledge but it’s funny the format is basically explain-burn-check back later.
frezik@midwest.social 5 months ago
Don’t know the channel, but wouldn’t that result in a bunch of invasive species creeping in, too?
One of the things with natural lawns is you can’t just let your yard do its thing. Lots of the plants you’ll get with that are invasive. You do have to do some kind of planning and maintenance.
Liz@midwest.social 5 months ago
He’s almost certainly in America, where a lot of the ecological systems are supposed to burn every once in a while. It’s also common that the invasive species can’t handle it. We’ve messed up a lot of our ecosystems by suppressing wildfires, and it’s causing multiple kinds of problems.
anon6789@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Down with monoculture! Down with monoculture!
BurnedDonut@ani.social 5 months ago
I might have anger issues because any time someone tells me to touch grass I want to just violently make them eat the said touching grass.
suction@lemmy.world 5 months ago
…touch grass, you internet tough guy
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Unpopular opinion: I like my pure grass lawn and work hard to keep it nice with clean edges, no weeds, and comfortable barefoot walking. My flower garden I also work to keep nice on between plants. The vegetable garden is the same deal. The back of the property can grow whatever it wants. I have less than 1/4 acre and if I can have it all so can you.
You will never convince me that a lot with a house that is overgrown to shit looks nice. We can have both.
pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 months ago
You can maintain a natural yard without letting it get overgrown.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I passed through a natural lawn sub Lemmy the other day and it didn’t look like that was the norm. The normal seemed to be just don’t mow, which really brings a “this is an abandoned property” vibe for me.
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 5 months ago
euclidean micro-zoning sounds like a terrible idea
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Jokes on you, my back yard is a non euclidean space.
Tinks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My husband and I tried so hard to just let our lawn be what it wanted to be. All the clover, dandelions, wild strawberry, wild onion and ginger absolutely took over. In the back, it’s completely fine. We get a lot of brown spots and mud during winter when it dies back, but come spring it’s back to thriving. In our front yard though, enough of it died back that a heavy rain washed a lot of our yard into our driveway. We tried to manage it for a year before giving in.
So now, our front yard is an ugly but pristine monoculture grass hellscape. The back though is much larger, and still full of the awesome native plant goodness. I know nature is thriving back there because I pretty much cannot use my yard during summer due to the insane amount of bugs. There is a thriving ecosystem with all sorts of wildlife, from bunnies, squirrels and chipmunks to cardinals, robins and owls. Occasionally even a stray fox or mallard can be seen around the creek. And I live in the suburbs of a major metro area, and can hear I-35 from my house. It really is quite remarkable how natural ecosystems can thrive with just a tiny bit of encouragement.
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t know where you live but where I’m at you will be eaten alive unless you are literally wet with deet spray(in areas that have all native plants and grasses). I don’t mind visiting but as far as my backyard, I’ll pass.
Routhinator@startrek.website 5 months ago
Eaten alive by mosquitoes and blackflies, which do well even with grass. As someone who also live in an area like that (Ottawa) I was amazing when I moved across the river to Gatineau where they let their green spaces be wild and was amazed I was biking along the same river at the same time of year and there were very few bugs.
Naturalized ecosystems allow predators of mosquitoes and flies to thrive and control their numbers.
ynazuma@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Please let the Pemberton area of BC know this. As wild as it gets, I have never seen so many mosquitoes in my life.
boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You have ticks and chiggers up there too? I bet they spray the god damn dog shit out of those green spaces and make sure any standing water has been treated if it’s a yuppy area like you are describing. Plus your cold winters kill a lot of them off right? You ever been in the deep south near Louisiana? Even better, South America?
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I see all this about grass not being native, but to where? It must be native somewhere.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Grass is native to lots of places, lawn that’s meticulously kept clean of every other plant species? Not so much.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 5 months ago
The meme doesn’t say that grass isn’t native, but that they want to replace it with native plants. I do get your point though, it sounds like it excludes grass. According to Wiki, Lolium perenne (hugely cultivated grass worldwide) “is native to Europe, Asia and northern Africa”. I think why people explicitly say that they want to replace their lawn with native/local plants is because less knowledgeable might replace their lawn with introduced and widely cultivated species. This would not be as effective in bringing back wildlife. Introduced plants are often not great host plants for pollinators for example. So it is great when people specifically replace their lawn with plants that are native to their region.
GluWu@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I hope the city has figured out by now I’m not cutting my “weeds”. Gave me shit last year. The ordinance is so vague and allows the city to just go onto your property and cut everything down and bill you for the time. I fucking dare them.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Most of the time these local ordinances have exceptions for raised beds, and their definition of “raised bed” is so vague you can just line your yard with decorative bricks and declare the whole thing is a raised bed.
Alternatively you can have your property designated as a wildlife preserve, even in residential neighborhoods.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Where you live I’ll come help mow your shit for you. Barely any cost.
If you wanna live in the woods live in the woods, you live in town and your property drives value down… Well you’re gonna get what you get.
cobra89@beehaw.org 5 months ago
After a certain height your weeds aren’t providing any extra value to pollinators and are just inviting creatures that carry disease to hold up there. That’s why the city insists on cutting them. Just keep your weeds to a reasonable height, it still helps the pollinators and keeps rats from breeding incessantly. Untended to yards are shown to increase rats in the area. You don’t want the plague do you? Cuz that’s how you get the plague. (The last two sentences are hyperbole obviously.)
flora_explora@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Our city (in Germany) gave us shit a few times, but it was because of our hedge growing onto the street. At a certain point I get it, you are responsible for your plants and if they obstruct traffic etc. Another hypothetical scenario would be where you have a bunch of invasive plants that the city tries to eradicate? But if they just complain about the aesthetics it is really pathetic…
GluWu@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Its purely aesthetics. They put it in because like a third of the “city” (like 5k people) is abandoned so they want to go on to those properties to cut everything down. Which is dumb because you have to poison the invasive weeds that are here to kill them. They just pop right back up if you cut them. But I guess thats how they keep the money coming in, they charge like $400 per hour. I manage my garden, its far away from the road, I pull or poison any invasives. But I let native plants grow. Old people just see plants that aren’t perfectly manicured and call the city. And nobody has lawns here, they want the entire city to just be bare gravel.
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Aesthetically pleasing like a blank canvas, a bare concrete wall, a block of clay, an empty manuscript: Brimming with potential to become something.
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fun fact, naturally growing grass in Midwest is generally of the phalaris species, you can extract a very powerful hallucinogenic drug called DMT from it in three very simple steps.
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I did some cursory research, and it looks like the leaves also contain toxic compounds, such as gramine, that can cause organ damage, including brain damage.
DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
how
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cut it into really small pieces, soak it something that extracts the fat cells from the grass, then use and acid and a base to neutralize your bucket of shit and all the DMT sinks to the bottom in solid form so just separate it from the liquid.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Just scalp it and you have more native weeds thsn you want
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bugs don’t care what type of green you have in your lawn. You can even mow.
Just don’t spray insecticide on your lawn.
Madison420@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s just simply vastly and easily proved to be untrue.
Insecticide is a lot of it but lack of variety, lack of height, lack of pollinators, lack of pollinating plants and light pollution are all compound factors.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve seen a lot of opinion pieces about the matter, but they never cite any research that definitely pins substantive loss of biodiversity on lawns. It’s an issue globally, but as usual the individual is the scape goat instead of the exponentially greater impact of corporations.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Grass monoculture lawns are basically deserts. You are not hurting anything by ripping it all out and letting native plants take over
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I mean I’d rather have my entire yard and have no bugs live close to me and not have to worry about the grass. Would absolutely love getting rid of all plants near me except maybe having one little greenhouse to grow some weed in. Insects and bugs of any kind are not welcome anywhere I might encounter them.
sirico@feddit.uk 5 months ago
No mow summer
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Followed by HOA intervention fall!
sirico@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Haha I’ve never got that as a culture when it’s your land. Tell them to get in the compost bin
Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 5 months ago
aesthetically pleasing
it’s literally 1 single species of grass fertilized till it looks nintendo64 green
Infamousblt@hexbear.net 5 months ago
Kill your lawn
prex@aussie.zone 5 months ago
The couch we have is all but unkillable. You can nuke an area with glyphosate but its just a matter of time till it spreads from nearby. Doing the front, back and neighbors place means too much collateral damage. On the other hand our council has (at our request) planted 3 indiginous trees for free. They coexist with the grass just fine.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Saw a man watering his yard the other day omw home from work. I drive through a ridiculously bougie area on my commute and see so much weird and out of touch shit
suction@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ridiculously bougie in the US means “no meth zombies running to to your car when you stop at a red light”, correct?
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No, bougier. Like mansions and supercars and garages the size of my house and gigantic yards with topiaries. Absolutely crazy shit that screams “We have fuck you levels of money”
It’s honestly kind of disgusting, tbh.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yet you won’t. You will just post memes about it on the internet.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 months ago
I literally just planted a bunch of native seed bombs lol.
clearedtoland@lemmy.world 5 months ago
We replaced about 60-70% of our backyard with native plants, trees, and shrubs. It was a shit ton of work but I saw a hummingbird for the first time in my life! And moths mimicking hummingbirds. And friendly bees. And weird beetles. And other birds galore. I rarely have to water.
Now our preschooler has room to roam and so so much to explore (and weird bugs to chase mom around with).
henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Such a heartwarming story. Thank you. Reminds me of my grandfather and his garden when he was alive.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What all did you do to replace it? I’m starting to reclaim my yards in my new place (finally getting dandelions!!) and my initial attempt at clover didn’t take as much as I wanted it to. Really want to get my yard to as close as native and wildlife friendly as my city will allow.
GentriFriedRice@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not op but I grow pollinator gardens in my community garden which typically attracts bees, hummingbirds etc.; check with your local nursery because there should be a native plant seed mix you can buy.
You may be a little late in the season (assuming northern hemisphere) for most seed mixes because I’ve mostly seen suggested sowing in fall or late spring
megabat@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Depending on where you live the common dandelion may not be a native plant. They were introduced to North America from Europe.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 months ago
My friend they grow in the film of construction dust that has built up in the gutter of my shed
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 months ago
DM me with your location and I can pass you some resources. :)
Dandelions are the best. I try to harvest them when I can get a bunch. Nitrogen affixers. They help heal the soil.