No sand spurs here, thankfully 😄 Both pictures show groundcover under low tree or shrub branches, so no humans step there. These type of plantings are meant to be soft landings for pollinators.

Violets can handle moderate foot traffic and mowing, especially when mixed in with grasses like nimblewill, but not heavy play.

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!

Especially us over at !nolawns@slrpnk.net 🌻

I 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 😆

I love these update videos! Most of the stuff I planted two years ago finally started to look like something this summer 😆 but seeing all the monarchs, sootywings, fritillaries, skippers, and so many different bees made the growing pains worth it.

The link in the post body has some tips on how to do so responsibly. Might be worth sharing with your neighbors!

Mr. Trash Wheel is pretty cool:

https://www.mrtrashwheel.com/technology

They don’t want most of the crap people plant trying to be Eco friendly anyways or so the landscape architect told me.

Keystone Plants by Ecoregion

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.