Ms. Que BanhJun 20, 2024

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 😀

#Saanich #GrowPlantsNotLawns #Nature #GardeningForClimateChange #VancouverIsland #PNW #YYJ #AntiLawns

Show threadMs. Que BanhJun 21, 2024

I am seriously glowing with personal pride over some areas of our backyard bursting with more #biodiversity now! Took awhile to see the efforts pay off. Gardening, with intention, really helps to hone your patience ❤️

It really self motivates me to keep on, keeping on, with more #rewilding work in our yards. It also helps me to keep joining local #community #volunteer work parties to create more #rewilded #greenspaces in suburban areas here! Since I have seen what the efforts produce.

I hope you can join local rewilding efforts, wherever you live too!

Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸

@PhoenixSerenity #rewilding #wildscaping #naturescaping

My mom started this and I’m taking over with my own ideas, as I can with my fatigue. She got rid of the lawn, but her way obsesses a bit with being tidy about it which requires more upkeep we haven’t been able to keep up with. This is only a small portion of the yard, so I’m trying a more cultivate and let it do is thing approach.

Thanks, I was itching for an excuse to take picture #1. The others are from various times this spring.

Jun 21, 2024 at 1:24amWeb
Show threadMs. Que BanhJun 21, 2024
@corbden Looking good! I so want to stick several stonecrops into them rock walls!
Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Jun 21, 2024
@PhoenixSerenity A million years when we get to that I’ll try to remember you know things and hit you up! Brain can’t hold anything new today alas.
Show threadMs. Que BanhJun 21, 2024
@corbden I understand & am patient 💗
Show threadMs. Que BanhJun 21, 2024
@corbden That's a banded alder beetle in your photos 🙂
Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Jun 21, 2024
@PhoenixSerenity Yep! I’ve lived in Washington between Seattle and Tri-Cities (desert side) for 46 years, was intensely interested in insects for the first ten of those, and never once saw one till this two weeks ago. I IDed it and was pleased and surprised to find it’s native. Tells me I’m doing something right by not doing (not cutting down that half dead maple). It became my first entry on iNaturalist.
Show threadMs. Que BanhJun 21, 2024
@corbden It is happy in the ecosystem!
Show threadMx. Luna Corbden 🐸Jun 21, 2024
@PhoenixSerenity Very! My mom wanted me to kill it asap 😔 I’m trying to teach her differently. If it’s not bothering anyone and not invasive or harmful, leave it alone. She’s very upset right now about an “ugly” pile of sticks that she can’t even see most of the time. She’s starting to get some of it. Decolonizing that whiteness right on out of both of us.