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🦋 Ben West - 🐒🌻kill your lawn, grow local plants
#nature #lawns #rewilding #indigenousPlants #meme #notFunny #butterfly #bees #pollinators #ecology #mycology #extinction
Blume, dieIt is even worse. Nowadays so many ppl have stone gardens. 🙄
Esme Ciredutemps@monkeyflower il me faudrait une version en français pour mes parents qui accusent les pesticides (oui ok , les pesticides but still)
Purple Trouble
Melis William 🎨🏳️🌈
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cultdev@mastomememakers @monkeyflower holy shit lol
@mastomememakers @monkeyflower i just came back and realized the “sire” makes this post incredible
that’s not really your garden though is it…mr. meme…😔
@cultdev @monkeyflower no it of course isnt. i d never show my proper garden without showing its center piece; the chevy pile XD
Dud (Mx)@monkeyflower Get rid of 2/3rds of the worlds Golf Courses. THAT would be more effective!
@BackFromTheDud both, all of the above.
But dont disagree, most golf courses are a big problem
@monkeyflower They are. "What's that, a drought? Ban people from using hosepipes and sprinklers on their gardens, but let the golf courses spray as much water around as they want!". 😡
CCR Feline Research Center@monkeyflower Green asphalt
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@monkeyflower living in a suburban area of England I only have a small garden, which I let grow mostly wild for months, every so often the maintenance chap from my work cuts the hedges/shrubs/tree (so it doesn't get into the neighbours gardens) in return for me detailing the van he uses - I've seen redlisted birds there, bumblebees and other wlidlife thats rarer in towns (undeterred by about 7 cats fighting for the garden as its also a good place for cats to prowl around in)
@monkeyflower none of the cats are mine (I've befriended some of them), they know a garden where there are 0 resident cats and someone who doesn't shoo them away is a prime spot 😸
@vfrmedia that's so charming. I once had cats that became good friends with a family of racoons that all loved the garden in our yard. It was fine until they decided to invite them into our house for dinner and I found them all chilling in the kitchen. hahaha
@vfrmedia sounds like a great set up. Even small spaces can be transformative.
Frustrating to see how in some cities or communities growing food or anything other than non Indigenous grasses is banned.
@monkeyflower in England we don't have as strict zoning laws as other countries, you can usually grow just about anything in the garden unless its cannabis or nuisance/invasive plants (that cause actual damage to adjacent properties); but growing food is less common these days and was last widespread in mid 20th century during and just after WW II (it is making a resurgence in some areas, especially the semi rural ones where older folk live)
@vfrmedia there are some great programs in Vancouver (Canada) that encourage elders from various countries around the world to do traditional gardening and grow food on their front lawns. Seeing the intergenerational and cross cultural exchange of knowledge, often without speaking the same language, was really fabulous.
Lightning Bjornsson* 
@monkeyflower is letting my lawn run neglected good for anything? or will that just cause a grass infection
@lightning im not an expert but i think the primary issue would be that its likely that the grass you are growing is non-native and likely not super helpful. Weeds and other things that might start growing on your land could potentially be good for local wildlife or be useful for pollinators.
Ideal scenario is the removal of the grass and replacement with indigenous species with some intentionality around including pollinators and grases or other plants that build up healthy soil and sequester carbon.
@monkeyflower understood thanks
Grifflion 🇨🇦 🏴 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🇪🇺@monkeyflower Our entire front yard is a Bee & Butterfly Garden. Many people don't like it and complain about it. F#ck them.
David Mitchell 
Funny how those complainers are so often the “FrEEdOm!!” types
barbara@monkeyflower I had a landscape teacher tell us that "grass should be a ground cover, not cover the ground" I thought that was excellent advice
Adrian Morales
HawkmoonThere was a fucklawns subreddit that I used to lurk on. They had a lot of great ideas about what to do instead of a lawn.
Grow clover instead and chaos gardening.
I forget the rest.
@Hawkmoon some great stuff from this guy.
https://youtu.be/2TkI0LJkVAA?si=PXWsnbQYSYmqz0Q-
Love his channel, its vitriolic and his language is filthy but hes very knowledgeable and often hillarious
zodarr@monkeyflower You woudn't "have" to grow local plants. Just let "weeds" take over. Occassionally mow to maintain a decent growth (height). Let them bugs comin'.
Virginicus@zodarr @monkeyflower Not around here. If I stop mowing, Japanese hops takes over everything.
PLASTIC = DEATH@monkeyflower Yet cash subsidies for fossil fuel consumption alone amounted to $440 billion globally in 2021. Once we include all assistance to the industry, we paid out $11 million every minute, according to no lesser authority than the International Monetary Fund. All this to burn up our planet faster.
Phillyinflorida
@blwinnemore nicely done!!
Mauigirl52 - Mimi Michalski@monkeyflower Thankfully, a lot of folks in my community are planting pollinator gardens. And our backyard is basicalliy a habitat - we have a small patch of grass and then the rest of the yard is full of a few perennials (day lilies and ferns) and a ton of weeds that just comes up out of nowhere that bees seem to like. Next year I'd like to plant milkweed.
@monkeyflower Unfortunately the Public Health and OSS professional community is very pro-grass. But I hope to secure the necessary variances when the time comes!
Cleanair Avatar@monkeyflower We use no fertilizer or pesticides and we wait until June to make the first cut, after all of the pollinators have been there.
Baron Vonskinnback
Alan Campbell@monkeyflower I would say the same of local reserves, I strongly disagree on their trees/grass ratio.
Lawrence Of Alaska@alaskacacher haha fair
Chewie@alaskacacher @monkeyflower our cars here in the UK used to look like that after a drive through countryside.
... not so much any more 😞
@chewie @monkeyflower in North America, you can’t talk without ten going in your mouth
@alaskacacher Eww :( that's too much in the other direction!
The Turtle@monkeyflower bees like catnip.
Julie Hodgson 
☕️🛀@monkeyflower Mt garden has an abundance of them :) 😀
Dana das Grau 🧙🏻🧝♂️@monkeyflower then I get a note on my door from the city threatening a $1400 fine for letting my lawn violate city ordinance. 10” maximum.