That’s it, that’s the post. Get a good uv light, head into the garden at night, clip branches and remove any unwanted visitors. You can bring them to a non threatening spot across the land or down the road where they wont bother anyone else’s garden.
We moved into a place with very visually appealing landscaping. I'd like to start replacing the non-native ornamentals with native plants as we're able. However, I'm experiencing guilt over removing and killing the existing plants that are just hanging out, not hurting anyone, living their lives.
Has anyone dealt with this? It's weird, I know. I'm weirder than I'd prefer to be.
I found this in side of the road in country where I'm there's no much flowers due to high heat temperature and dry land and few rain i can't believe that this lil peace of cotton did servived this really happy to see a flower in reality
Central MA - After having our grass look the best it ever has this spring, it has gone to hell after our fertilizer company applied their second treatment of the year. It was completely green and then this happened almost immediately after their service. I’ve never felt so defeated by grass.
I was sitting in a work meeting today and received the pictured text from the lawn guy. I honestly could not parse what I was seeing, an entire 250 sq ft of native planting was completely gone, and the guy was asking if he "damaged any plant"
Yes dude. You damaged many hundred of plant.
I don't have too many photos of the garden, but found one from a couple months ago before much had bloomed for some comparison.
I honestly cannot believe this happened, we have had the same lawn guy for three years, he cut our lawn over the entire period that I solarized this patch of lawn, installed metal edging, mulched and sowed hundreds of native seeds and then grew them for two years. He literally would have had to lift his mower over the edging to get it into the plants, and today he just decided to do that.
The foxglove beardtongue was in full swing, along with golden Alexander, a couple coreopsis were out, a few purple coneflowers were in bloom, I even saw some fireflies bumbling around in the area, and now it's just all... Gone.
I'm not generally an angry person, but right now am livid. Couple of questions:
I'm not going to assume malice here, but I think it shows such an extreme lack of judgment that I do not want him in my yard again. This is definitely fire the lawn guy territory, right?
Is there anything I can do to help this spring back? It's a couple years old, and I'm hoping it will respond to this like it would a burn. Anything I can do to help the natives get back in action before weeds take over?
While rotating, she fell. Please, what do I do from this moment? Can I save it? Gets regular lamp light, kept room temp or above, watered as needed.
Recently picked up the following young plants to plant near my existing collection of blueberry plants:
Vaccinium ovatum / Evergreen Huckleberry (Cal Flora)
Vaccinium membranaceum / Black Huckleberry (Native Foods)
Vaccinium parvifolium / Red Huckleberry (Native Foods)
Vaccinium ovalifolium / Oval-leaf Huckleberry (Native Foods)
With the exception of ovalifolium which is rare in California, the rest are native here. Also, shoutout to Native Foods for the awesome packing job and of course Cal Flora in Santa Rosa (Fulton) who always have something worth buying.
A good overview of species: https://nativefoodsnursery.com/categories/huckleberries/
Most of these should be grown in shade to partial shade and not subjected to full sunlight like Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush) or Vaccinium ashei (rabbiteye) as they're all understory plants. They can handle some sun but prefer shade to be mixed in.
We'll see how they fare post-transplant into 1gal containers as they're known for being temperamental.
I got these from two different nurseries and they were labelled dudleya farinosa. Was one mislabelled or is the yellow-green one just a more juvenile version?