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Photo from yesterday, as I basked in the sun sipping wine and enjoying the sight of solitary bees and hoverflies in the dandelions. All around me I heard the buzz and roar of machines, as my neighbors were mowing their lawns.

I love the smell of cut grass as much as the next person, but seeing with my own eyes, how much life my "weedy" garden (now blooming: dandelion, ground ivy, wild strawberry, forget-me-not, wood anemone) supports, couldn't help but feel sorrow.

#Wilding #Villipiha #NoMow

Sunny meadowlike yard, focusing on a dandelion in the foreground.

" 🎶🎸I fought the lawn and the lawn won🤘"
#noMow #bloomScrolling #silentSunday

Last year, I didn’t mow the backyard because my old riding lawnmower went kaput. This is what it looks like the second year with no mowing. I’ve kept trails mown so I can get around. One thing that I noticed is that it keeps down the dandelions quite a bit. #nomow

Grassy field with long grass and a variety of other plants with two paths mown through. There are a lot of trees surrounding the lawn area.

Dielema Tribüne am Sportpark - alles grünt und blüht 🤩

#Dielheim #Sportpark #NoMow

Im Vordergrund der Anfang von roten Laufbahnen mit Zahlen. Nach einem grauen Stahlgeländer ein stufig aufgeschütteter Hügel zum Sitzen. Der ganze Hügel ist bewachsen mit Gras, Gänseblümchen und Löwenzahn.

I am drunk on the beauty of #dandelions. THIS is the #perfectLawn! I practise #lazyGardening = let animal #gardeners work and sit beside 😁 ▶️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-07-when-gardeners-run-wild-part-1/id1630784381?i=1000606747381
And everything is #eatable! As salad, vegetable, caper substitution, flower honey, flower liqueur ...

#gardening #PollinatorFriendly #biodiversity #dandelion #bloomScrolling #lawn #noMow #wildHerbs #nativePlants #kitchenHerbs

A lot of dandelion flowers in the sunshine.

Some single flowers: they are strong individuals.

One single flower, Macro: It's still not completely open but already shows their pollen to pollinators passing by.

A fully opened dandelion flower presenting their pollen to a lot of different pollinators like wild bees, flies, and spiders.

#Dandelion #beauty with #noMow and #lazyGardening. Comes after snowdrops, then violets. #gardening #pollinators #lawn #perfectLawn #eatable #cooking with #dandelions #bloomscrolling

A dandelion plant with lots of flowers. You can eat everthing: leaves as salad or vegetable, buds as caper substitute, flowers in honey or alcohol ...

A dandelion flower with a beautiful small spider.

A dandelion flower with a small green grasshopper.

@transitionalaspect Substitutes must be made to replace the role of the megafauna in the native prairie grass biome. As you note, there are issues with a fenced bison compared to a free ranging herd. We have spots of rewilded prairie in the yard. We have runner ducks in the role of eating greens and fertilizing the soil. We mow bits of the prairie in the spring, about a quarter, leaving some habitat, about three quarters. Part 1. #nativeplants, #nomow, #rewilding, #minnesota.

Rocznice:
»Mija 10 lat od śmierci Terry’ego Pratchetta«

Trudno w to uwierzyć, ale to już dziesięć lat od momentu kiedy w wieku 66. lat sir Terry Pratchett chwycił Śmierć za rękę i podążył przez drzwi w mroczną pustynię położoną pod bezkresnym niebem.

https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/aktualnosci/rocznice/mija-10-lat-od-smierci-terryego-pratchetta/

#Fahrenheit_zin #EqualRites #TerryPratchett #Nomów #ŚwiatDysku #Discworld #DługaZiemia #TheNomeTrilogy #JohnnyMaxwell #DobryOmen #GoodOmens #Nacja #Nation #TheLongEarth #Mort #Piekielnyinteres #TheHadesBusiness #Równoumagicznienie

Źródło: terrypratchettbooks.com/about-sir-terry

#HealAll - #PrunellaVulgaris
#WhiteClover - #TrifoliumRepens

Both are #edible & #medicinal #plants. Both are much better than lawn grass. They attract a lot of #pollinators🐝 👍🐝

Heal all is used in a lot of #ChineseTraditionalMedicine & #Chinese #HerbalTeas. Wong Lo Kat is a commercial canned herbal tea with heal all as a main ingredient.

In North America, the #Nlakapamuk #Salishan #Indigenous peoples make cold infused, refreshing drinks with them. Several other #FirstNations in #BritishColumbia & #PacificNorthwest areas also harvested it for medicinal uses.

#Saanich #GrowPlantsNotLawns #Nature #GardeningForClimateChange #VancouverIsland #PNW #YYJ #AntiLawns #VictoriaBC #Backyard #rewilding #NoMow #PacificNorthwest #PNW #BritishColumbia #GardeningMastodon #DisabledGardeners #NatureLovers #BackyardClimateAction #BeTheChange #HerbalMedicine #Holistic #PlantIdentification #FlowersIdentification #SoilFixers #NitrogenBuilders #SoilRemediation #EdiblePlants #AsianMastodon

Patch of purple heal all plants in bloom, amongst white clover plants/flowers

White clovers patch, in bloom - with a few daisies mixed in.

Purple heal all tiered flowers, plant is growing out of a crevice.

Patch of all heal plant in bloom. Small purple, tiered flowers.

#bee on #WhiteClover #flowers 🐝

This lil dude was very busy in the clover patches.

#Saanich #Nature #GardeningForClimateChange #VancouverIsland #PNW #YYJ #AntiLawns #VictoriaBC #Backyard #rewilding #NoMow #PacificNorthwest #PNW #BritishColumbia #DisabledGardeners #NatureLovers #BackyardClimateAction #BeTheChange #AlternativeCoverCrops #PollinatorsFriendly

Lots of different native plants, some introduced beneficial plants, some edible & medicinal plants - closer to ground & not visible in vid. The mixed tall grasses, buckwheat, alfalfa, buttercups & dandelions are between 2-4 feet tall now. I'm doing ongoing soil remediation as part of my longterm rewilding project. Aiming to create a suburban backyard food forest - pollinators/wildlife friendly gardens will be part of it all 😀

Vid of grasses & dandelions swaying in the wind:

https://youtube.com/shorts/FMgvC9VgmNY?si=DNBByW9jLLCSUg1m

#Saanich #GrowPlantsNotLawns #Nature #GardeningForClimateChange #VancouverIsland #PNW #YYJ #AntiLawns #VictoriaBC #Backyard #rewilding #NoMow #PacificNorthwest #PNW #BritishColumbia #GardeningMastodon #DisabledGardeners #NatureLovers #BackyardClimateAction #BeTheChange

Linaria purpurea flowers with dandelions, daisies, borage & tall grasses, dandelions, fruit trees & cypress trees in the background.

White & purple bellflowers. Big willow tree in the background.

False St John's wort & patch of rose campion in the background.

It rained a lot the last couple of days ... this is what a garden looks like if you replace the (boring) lawn.

#nomow #garden #montreal #rain #wildlife

Wildlife garden surrounded by trees and filled with native plants. No lawn. After rain.

Our front lawn really getting into its stride with a lovely show of hawksbit. We mow the other half because we noticed the starlings preferred to forage in short grass. Not many insects about though.
#NoMow

A front lawn populated with bright yellow daisy like flowers.

She loves the long grass in our garden
#caturday #catsofmastodon #blackcat #nomow

Black cat sitting in the long grass facing away

My riding lawnmower won’t start so I only have the push mower and decided to only mow paths through the backyard. Is there such a thing as too much #nomow? Any advice on how to best maintain a large critter-friendly yard is welcome. I’ve been pulling unwanted vines and stickers by hand so far but am thinking I should mow at least once a year.

A mown path through extremely tall and green grass. There is a red barn and some cedar trees in the background.

#nomow. #NoMowMay

A good wildlife garden is more than just a corner of a garden left to go wild. Whether you are creating a new wildlife garden, or have an established one, think of it as a nature reserve and you as being the warden. This is going to be a fine year for the wildlife garden.

https://1001species.substack.com/p/wild-garden-species

#garden #gardening #wildlife #montreal #wildflowers #nomow #strawberries

Our #NoMowMay wildflower lawn, full of grasses, Buttercup, Cowslip, Primrose, & Plantain, so far with more to come; #nomow until late autumn
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