Our city banned pesticide use a few years ago. The boulevards and lawns are now covered in wild flowers. It’s beautiful. Insects are coming back slowly.
I would KILL for that! Here in 'Murica, in the South at least, the screams would be deafening.
Told a customer at Lowe’s that I didn’t use any sort of poison on my lawn, only excepting hydramethylnon for fire ants. They looked at me like I’d grown a second head, the idea utterly incomprehensible.
What shocked me was the dandelions. In the oldendays they were a scourge, blanketing lawns and fields and growing right back after getting mowed. But now they have a little bloom in the spring then are gone. Replaced by species that stick around longer and often duck under the lawnmowers. Always blew my mind that people would rather the latter.
We hardly have them in the South, at least not in NW Florida. Growing up in Tulsa, they were considered a scourge. Wonder if they still have them back home?
Is there a trustworthy website that I can use to find what’s native to where I live?
Check with your local library. Mine has a bunch of information on their website. And they run a program with popups around the city to educate people and give out seed bags in the spring.
If you’re in the US, we have a pretty robust “agricultural university extension” program, in a whole lot of places, that both will have more information than you’re ready to digest about your local ecosystem, and will also generally be thrilled to hear from you and answer your questions. Some even have entire projects devoted to “rewilding” (my word, not theirs), so to speak. Offering things like free “seed bombs” of local plants!
See if you’ve got one nearby and drop em a line about the questions you have! In my experience the folks that staff these are the best kind of nerd, the old-school variant that pre-dates even the word. Think about it - these folks are all over the place, and most of us never hear about it, even on one of the nerdiest places on the Internet. The ag extensions and the folks that staff them are a real American treasure.
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Why are you just posting AI slop all over the place? I’m pretty sure your a real person copy and pasting from an LLM chat, not a bot. Here you accidentally posted the comment you were responding to (as if you had it highlighted to copy it into an LLM chat) and then responded to yourself with clearly LLM generated comment.
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Wtf is the point of this thing? I think every reply from different users in that thread is bots with basic ass slop
