Pomegranate_Stew
The fiber installers left us a bunch of mud patches in our backyard, so today I tossed out a bunch of wildflower & clover seeds. Hopefully they’ll sprout and not all be eaten by the birds. 🤞
Apr 6 at 1:28amWeb
Show threadFuzz-Ra21h ago

@pomegranate_stew

<mumble> years ago the cathedral where I live ripped out a wide margin of turf along the edges of the fenced areas (see below) of the grounds and seeded it with chalk downland wildflowers.

More recently they started letting the grass around the graves of bishops grow to hay and letting the local schools take living-history day trips to learn about harvesting and baling it.

It's done wonders for the wildlife in the city centre.

Show threadFuzz-Ra21h ago

@pomegranate_stew

I'm told that the British are a bit unusual in how we interact with graveyards.

It's a normal thing for us to sit among graves with our friends or just enjoy the green and quiet space by a small church alone.

Show threadPomegranate_Stew20h ago

@Fuzz_Ra
Interesting! Here benches for grave markers are becoming more popular, so I wonder if there’ll be a movement toward that locally.

I’m glad there’s a movement away from manicuring lawns. There’s a house near us that put in what looks more like an English garden in their front yard and it’s really lovely.

Show threadFuzz-Ra19h ago

@pomegranate_stew

Ooh, my area is absolutely filled with lovely benches - if I'm willing to spend an extra minute to walk the nice way my route to the city centre follows a section of river between the new mill (Victorian factory type) and the old mill (water driven grain milling that has been rebuilt repeatedly over a ludicrous period) there's a secular memorial bench every half dozen paces.

They have carvings like <x> and <y> courted here in <sixty years ago> <life dates for the couple>

Show threadazteclady20h ago
@pomegranate_stew This is lovely--fingers crossed for many little plants to take root, and invite both insects and birds to your yard.
Show threadPomegranate_Stew20h ago

@azteclady
Thanks!

We leave about half the leaves in piles at the back of the yard and neither us nor our neighbors on either side spray our yards, so we always have wonderful displays of fireflies in the summer.

I actually saw two butterflies today! A white cabbage butterfly and a tiny purple-blue one. Fortunately, they had some dandelions to feast on and a few early blooming wildflowers from last year’s scattering.