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2·10 days agoEspecially us over at [email protected] 🌻
These communities may be helpful:
Look out for seed or plant swaps in your area. Gardeners are usually very willing to share lol. As for specifics, it would depend where you are in the world.
0·27 days agoI love Wild Geranium! The leaves just started emerging here in the Mid-Atlantic (with some violets waking up in the periphery):
After planting these last spring, I found Carolina Geranium growing in a sidewalk crack a few feet away 😆
Most of the flowers are divisions of plants, some volunteers and others I got as plugs in summer 2022. I decided to start small and expand over time. The coneflower was four plants last spring which I divided into 12, then into about 30 this spring. Rose milkweed and late boneset are just as prolific.
I have spread some seeds around and others have blown in. The groundcover in the second photo is all volunteer.
The mulch was leftover from a chipdrop. I used it to make the beds look “intentional” when everything was sparse and muddy back in February :) The plan is for everything to grow so dense that I won’t need to mulch it again.
They don’t want most of the crap people plant trying to be Eco friendly anyways or so the landscape architect told me.
The research of entomologist, Dr. Doug Tallamy, and his team at the University of Delaware have identified 14% of native plants (the keystones) support 90% of butterfly and moth lepidoptera species. The research of horticulturist Jarrod Fowler has shown that 15% to 60% of North American native bee species are pollen specialists who only eat pollen from 40% of native plants.
Dense plantings help keep it at bay. For flowers and grasses, cut in half the recommended plant spacing that you’ll find on gardening sites.
I have orange coneflower bordering a pocket prairie, planted one foot apart (center of plant to center of plant). Bermuda grass grows around the edge, but rarely enters it.
0·10 months agoIt is done :)
I don’t mind teaming up if you’re still interested, it’d be nice to have some help.
Neat! No problem, thank y’all for all you do :)
I’d like to help with [email protected]
This is awesome! Love seeing the younger generations getting involved and that your SO lost his mind when he found out lol.
So glad you chose solarpunk as your home on the fediverse :) It was a big reason I chose this instance and I’m happy to be part of the team!