You can easily imagine how grain crops developed from normal #grasses in neolithic times. I would have started breeding with this #grass ...

#florespondence #meadow #noLawn #BromusMollis #HordeumMurinum #Poaceae #naturalHeritage #gardening #BromusHordeaceus #NaturalBeauty

Lawn parking strip turned pollinator-friendly garden. It's a bit messy but full of flowers all throughout the growing season.

Besides hope for urban pollinator habitats, I took the picture as a reflection on this garden in relation to my mental health.

10 years ago a social worker made me realize I was in the midst of a deep, years-long "functional" depression. Functional because I could do the things I absolutely had to, but that was it. Knowing what I was facing I started seeking for help.

I tried many things, including something called "sound energy healing" where I had a vision of the parking strip covered in flowers. Painstakingly, I started the de-lawning process one plant at a time as "doing things" was hard.

Eventually I found a type of therapy that matched my needs and as I continued recovering, so grew the garden.

Right now, as I go through a bit of a low point, I look at the garden to remind me that even the little steps matter.

#pollinators
#noLawn
#MentalHealth

Big Bad Dog is a fan of this neighbor's lawn conversion.

We watched them cover the entire yard with cardboard last fall and it's paying off in flowers and bees now!

#dog #dogsofmastodon #nolawn #bloomScrolljng #gardening

Hey hey: a new ep of #ClimateTown is out! On #grass !

https://nebula.tv/videos/climatetown-americas-dumbest-crop

(You can also find it on YouTube, but Google is an illegal monopolist that provides critical infrastructure for genocide, so maybe watch on #nebula or #patreon.)

#nolawn

Since the weather has been so cool and wil be that way for another week or so. Put down more clover seed in bare spots in the front yard.

The existing patches are doing really well, mixing in with the turf. Excited to see more.

#lawn #nolawn

upside of this unseasonable cold/wet snap is that my clover seed has taken well and I should have a healthy patch before winter sets in.

#nolawn #colorado #denver

Ordering some more clover. Every bare spot in the yard is soon to be more clover. Can’t wait for it to more fully take over.

Keep trying Blue Grama but so far no joy.

#nolawn #denvergardening

I found an old picture that illustrates how much bigger and interesting an area becomes once you plant other things instead of lawn. Besides the vertical layers, you also get nooks with different environments, and so much color!

We started de-lawning this area on the spring of 2015. Now I have lavender, blueberries, lingonberries, rosemary, thyme, marjoram, sage, lovage, curry-herb, parsley and others (and lots of pollinators).

This is one of my happy places.

#gardening #noLawn

Tiny morning surprises in the "chaos" front yard. Common mallow and baby blue eyes (according to the ID app) amongst the sweet alyssum that self seeded from last summer and the clover!

#SKyard #Bloomscrolling #NoLawn