#HealAll - #PrunellaVulgaris
#WhiteClover - #TrifoliumRepens

Both are #edible & #medicinal #plants. Both are much better than lawn grass. They attract a lot of #pollinators🐝 👍🐝

Heal all is used in a lot of #ChineseTraditionalMedicine & #Chinese #HerbalTeas. Wong Lo Kat is a commercial canned herbal tea with heal all as a main ingredient.

In North America, the #Nlakapamuk #Salishan #Indigenous peoples make cold infused, refreshing drinks with them. Several other #FirstNations in #BritishColumbia & #PacificNorthwest areas also harvested it for medicinal uses.

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Lots of different native plants, some introduced beneficial plants, some edible & medicinal plants - closer to ground & not visible in vid. The mixed tall grasses, buckwheat, alfalfa, buttercups & dandelions are between 2-4 feet tall now. I'm doing ongoing soil remediation as part of my longterm rewilding project. Aiming to create a suburban backyard food forest - pollinators/wildlife friendly gardens will be part of it all 😀

Vid of grasses & dandelions swaying in the wind:

https://youtube.com/shorts/FMgvC9VgmNY?si=DNBByW9jLLCSUg1m

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5 years ago, this spot was just useless colonial lawn. Now, it's full of #biodiversity & attracts multiple pollinators, birds & beneficial insects. There's lots of buttercups, nettles, clovers, miner's lettuce, wild violets, sedges, buckwheat & tall grasses growing now. You can even see some self seeded chive flowers in background.

#Rewilding takes longtime, consistent efforts, over a few years. It's worth the time & effort! Rewilding is one way that I actively & personally contribute, locally, to essential #ClimateAction 🙌 I believe in living true to your core values & ethics. I love hearing/seeing/discussing #rewild subjects with folks - offline or online 😀

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Visuals of some local, suburban #rewilding efforts in #RoyalOak. Much of the area has been heavily developed. There's lots of fab rewilding work being done in some areas - almost all due to local volunteers/nature stewards & kind donations from public.

The efforts have paid off, after several decades of community volunteer efforts. Many wildlife & pollinators have safer habitat to live in. There's enough food for them to share in rewilded areas.

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3 years ago, this patch was almost all hard clay & only thing that grew was lawn grass. I've spent lots of time/effort remediating the soil as part of my longterm #rewilding personal project.

This patch is now doing quite well & has many different perennial & some edible #plants growing out of it.

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#Peach & #pink pretties in the garden.
My 2nd peach coloured #lily - a pink lace cap #hydrangea - some pink #MountainHouseleek flowers.

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So many #plants blooming in our front gardens 🥰

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Moving on to #transplanting some of my #flower #plants for evergrowing #PollinatorGarden now 😊 I'm creating mixed flower pots with these ✌

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#Backyard #rewilding #LongtermProject update. More #daisies & #clovers are overtaking the old all grass lawn ✌ I'm scarifying more useless old lawn & sowing more #beneficial #CoverCrops this weekend - over about 3/4 of backyard & on both side yards.

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