When gardeners get a little too enthusiastic about "native plants good, invasive plants bad", they miss a crucial fact; very few plants have zero value to wildlife. An abandoned urban lot full of invasives still offers some options for shelter, habitat, and food...sure, the species who make best use of them are going to be the resilient generalists quickly adapting to urban life, but it's something. A barren parking lot offers pretty much nothing except human waste scraps.
So when you're managing an area with a large number of invasive plants, you have to keep in mind that in the short-term, you'll actually decrease the complexity of the ecosystem by removing plants. Obviously you're going to make up for it in the long-term with plants better-suited to your region, but some of those will take years to reach maturity. A lot of experienced native plant gardeners will recommend tackling a large space in sections so you don't turn your entire yard into an empty expanse of wood chip mulch all at once.
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Really sad bc on my way down for the papers in the morning I pass a house that has a rock in the front garden that’s incredibly rat shaped, and that’s twice now I got my hopes up looking at it </3
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help im playing the sims and my sim hired a gardener and it's magnus bane 😭😭😭😭😭 biblically accurate magnus bane appearance, one thing about him he will be there. where is "there"? well that doesnt matter. he's there
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man, depression/executive disfunction/a general dislike of wet grass/whatever the fuck else really don't jive with gardening. like I know gardening is supposed to be good for the brain bc it's outside and it's like "look! I did this work with my hands and now I can eat it!" but not when fucking squash beetles get involved!!!! bc now it's just like what is the point!! nothing I do matters bc they Won't Stop Killing My Plants!!
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heart stopping moment thinking i had lost mum's dog when actually he's been sleeping under a shrub in the back garden for an indeterminate amount of time
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This hockey night in New England did not need a mouse in our house if I'm being real with you all
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I don't know if it's because she is now the only cat in the house or because my sister is away or a mix of both but miss blurry has been so so lovey and talkative lately. I love her. But girl please it's 2 am it's not time for a petting session
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brainstorming loure for vanpire :)
i like the idea that the nightclub itself is his body as much as his actual "body" is. its all one unit. he could make a chair kill you if he thinks your ass doesnt deserve a sexy vampire death. + haunted living buildings are sexy
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