ICYMI: Rethinking Horticulture with Real Ecology presented by Joey Santore | Wild Ones
https://slrpnk.net/post/35569150
ICYMI: Rethinking Horticulture with Real Ecology presented by Joey Santore | Wild Ones - SLRPNK
>In the Wild Ones National Webinar Rethinking Horticulture with Real Ecology,
field botanist and science communicator Joey Santore, creator of Crime Pays But
Botany Doesn’t, examines how inherited design norms like straight lines, uniform
spacing, tidy edges, and color-grouped plantings shape expectations for native
landscapes. Thanks to @[email protected]
[/u/[email protected]] for posting a reminder a few days ago :)
SPIRITUALLY DEPRAVED & MISERY-INDUCING LANDSCAPES OF NORTH AMERICA Episode 1
https://slrpnk.net/post/35359050
SPIRITUALLY DEPRAVED & MISERY-INDUCING LANDSCAPES OF NORTH AMERICA Episode 1 - SLRPNK
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Webinar: Rethinking Horticulture with Real Ecology 3/18/26
https://slrpnk.net/post/35324879
Webinar: Rethinking Horticulture with Real Ecology 3/18/26 - SLRPNK
Event Details Title: Rethinking Horticulture with Real Ecology Presenter: Joey
Santore Date: Wednesday, March 18 Time: 7 p.m. ET | 6 p.m. CT | 5 p.m. MT | 4
p.m. PT Format: YouTube Live premiere, link provided with registration
Recording: A recording will be shared following the live event
Wild Ones: February Native News
https://slrpnk.net/post/35324871
Wild Ones: February Native News - SLRPNK
Lemmy
Free webinar: drought-resistant landscaping [in the Pacific Northwest] | April 7
https://slrpnk.net/post/35274529
Free webinar: drought-resistant landscaping [in the Pacific Northwest] | April 7 - SLRPNK
>An introduction to drought tolerant, Xeriscape design for the home gardener.
Learn through the 7 principles of Xeriscape how to plan, design, implement, and
maintain a decorative and sustainable landscape that thrives with little to no
irrigation.
My Finnish Wild Garden 2025 - Divisions by zero
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Are you into it? - SLRPNK
Stolen from: https://climatejustice.social/@lacybarry/116132309371603955
[https://climatejustice.social/@lacybarry/116132309371603955]
Kill your lawn - jlai.lu
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Wild Ones is doing another webinar
https://slrpnk.net/post/34374000
Wild Ones is doing another webinar - SLRPNK
Garden aesthetics and how we got here
They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war.
https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/26133956
They just wanted to grow food. Their suburban neighbors declared war. - Lemmy Myserv one
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/55494393
[https://sh.itjust.works/post/55494393] > In 2013, Nicole and Dan Virgil lived
in a lush, affluent suburb of Chicago. Dan had a good job. Nicole home-schooled
their two kids. > > Nicole decided to plant her own garden. She and her husband
Dan, an engineer, don’t do things by half-measures. They watched YouTube videos
on gardening, checked books out of the library and drew up plans. They built a
raised bed and dug a wicking reservoir under it lined to store stormwater and
drain the swampy, clay soils. They experimented with two plots. They dropped
seeds directly into the spaded-up lawn and other seeds into a fertilized raised
bed. Most seeds rotted in the clay soils of the lawn. Those that germinated did
not thrive in the nutrient-poor earth, but the seeds in the raised bed sprang up
in a few days and thrived, producing in coming months vegetables of deep vibrant
colors that were delicious. > > Autumn comes swiftly to Chicagoland. The Virgils
hated to stop gardening. On the web, Nicole noticed farmers in Maine extended
the growing season with long, plastic tunnels called hoop houses. You can buy
hoop house kits for a couple of hundred dollars, but the Virgils are DIY people.
Dan drew up plans for a wood frame connected with PVC pipes. He shored up the
supports so the tunnel could withstand 80 mph winds and heavy snow loads. He
carefully calculated the height and width of the tunnel to maximize the buildup
of passive solar heating inside. They located the hoop house in the middle of
the backyard, so it was not visible from the street. > > The one thing the
Virgils did not think about was the city’s zoning board. Dan and Nicole had
lived in Elmhurst for several decades. Elmhurst is a town of squat,
white-trimmed, yellow-brick ranch houses placed in the center of spacious lots
like iced pastries on a tray. Green lawns frame the houses. The lawns are
largely unfenced, rolling along block after block, connecting one neighbor to
another, a green communal thread. The Virgils saw neighbors build hockey rinks
in their front yards and assemble trampolines and outdoor living rooms in their
backyards. They figured the hoop house fell in the same category of a temporary
recreational structure. They didn’t count on one neighbor calling the city,
asking if the hoop house needed a permit. > > One day, they came home to find a
Property Maintenance Violation Notice on their front door. The city required a
permit for their “greenhouse.” The Virgils stopped building. Dan went down to
City Hall and explained their goal—to extend the growing season for a few
months. They were not building a greenhouse. They’d take the hoop house down in
the spring. He came away with the understanding that as long as the tunnel was
temporary, it was ok, like the skating rinks and summer cabanas.
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