Last year this was all invasive bramble. My neighborhood decided to create a roadside wildflower patch here.
Bees, moths, and other pollinators are flitting around that weren't here before.
I know I'm sharing this project a lot. But of all the things I'm trying to do, all the things I'm trying to do and only making marginal progress, it's nice see a few flowers that I KNOW wouldn't have been planted.
“In an effort to create gardens free of insect problems, most gardeners have used a recipe perfect for cooking up insect outbreaks: alien plants, lack of plant diversity, insecticides. Would we not better achieve our goal of a pest-free garden if we employed nature herself to look after things? We have spent the last half-century proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that a sterile garden does not work. “ - Doug Tallamy
@redcrew Can someone in like..official #Horticulture circles please start renaming common names for north american plants so they don't include words like "weed"? Like "Joe Pye Weed" should just be "Joe Pye Flower", milkweed should be like "Monarch Flower", etc.