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happy ides of March
yo why is this on my dash its august
Yeah, why is this getting notes? It's August!
It's knife day
This is actually 100% true. Lawns arose out of 17 or 1800s-something England, from the middle classes wanting to emulate royalty and their swathes of unused land, by creating their own patch of green grass that isn’t utilized for anything except recreation.
In England, keeping grass green is whatever. It rains so much and so often that grass more or less stays green on its own.
In North America, however, where it is both much dryer and hotter, keeping a lawn green requires a criminal amount of water, fertilizer, and other garbage.
just say NO to lawns.
And all of that for what?
“My property value” because they don’t treat their house as a home, but a future sale.
Okay, I'm about to lay down some garden history.
1. People in acient Rome, Byzantium, and the early Renaissance had gorgeous gardens with all sorts of flowers and plants and pots and even greenhouses made with selenite.
2. In the 1700s, people wanted to recapture the Renaissance and ancient cultures, which was when a lot of neoclassical architecture popped up. One way people were doing this was by recreating gardens.
3. Some dipshit (can't remember his name) saw gardens all overgrown with greenery and thought that those were the plants they had grown in those beds, and started this trend of greenery-only gardens.
4. This is where hedge mazes and lawns comes from, not because "I'm rich and have nothing better to do with it." It wasn't about emulating royalty, it was about emulating the great thinkers of the past, but in a fundamentally flawed way.
5. At the exact same point in time, games that required open spaces like golf, and bowling started moving out of their grassy homelands of primarily Scotland (but other games like tennis were a thing, too) and started integrating with the rest of Europe as the melting pot that was the American and Australian colonies mingled them together.
6. This turned greenery gardens into much flatter areas as they needed the space for recreation. However, it wasn't a monoculture.
7. Lawns were very diverse spaces. Low-growing vines, chamomile, thyme, clover, as well as various grasses local to the area (sedges, hays, crabgrass, etc.) were all common and created something much more similar to a prairie or a forest glen.
8. After WW2, poison manufacturers needed a new product because no one was buying mustard gas anymore. They reworked their various poisons to become "nontoxic" to humans in small doses but killed plants and insects, and herbicides and insecticides were born.
9. However, they couldn't figure a way to kill prickly weeds like prickly lettuce without also killing all the other broad-leafed plants, which includes clover and thyme and chamomile, so they launched a campaign to tell everyone that multiculture lawns were bad and if you wanted to be a good suburban homeowner, you wouldn't have any weeds like clover in your yard, so buy this weed killer and get the flawless grass lawn you've always wanted.
That is how lawns were invented, a bunch of miniature steps and if you wanted a lawn for golfing and lawn bowling and tennis and croquet, you could absolutely do it because there are dozens of walkable plants that can be symbiotically grown and also don't denigrate people in the 1800s when it was clearly the fault of the 50s.
Sheriff David: we got a call you have pot in your car.
Zelena: *pulls out flower pot* oh you mean this?
Sheriff David: *laughing* my mistake, what are you growing?
Zelena: weed
Zelena: This particular weed is a morning glory.
Zelena: They're practically impossible to kill.
Zelena: I'm going to plant it in Regina's flowerbed.
heres to the other dandelions out there
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It's just very important to me that you know prairie-style gardens exist.
Ok. Thank you. Carry on.
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As promised, some budget advice for absolute beginner garderners! It's a slow process to fill a garden while spending little money, but it makes the pay off all the sweeter, and isn't it nice to slow down in this day and age?
Also, find the garden swap groups in your area- gardeners are very generous(aka, every one I've been to had multiple people giving away plants without wanting trades), and by getting plants for free you know you're getting plants that do well in your area.
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Here is a picture of J.R.R. Tolkien looking at some flowers in a greenhouse. Apparently, he was the worst person to take walks with because he liked to stop and observe every tree he passed very carefully. We can only assume that he did this because he was waiting for them all to reveal their true Ent nature and speak to him. Ents do speak slowly, after all. They were probably between words while he was watching.
As a society, we need to return to plant symbolism, but not the obscure and arbitrary stuff—a lot of plants' meanings were connected to their medicinal properties or other properties. More of that, and include the ecological roles and values too. More plant symbolism where plants "mean" things because they really do literally mean those things
Red poppies came to symbolize remembrance of fallen soldiers and hope for a peaceful future because they flourished in the fields after WW1 due to the disturbance caused by the bombings, which created the perfect environment for an early-successional-stage plant. Do you see what I'm saying
Cedar symbolizes purity which probably has something to do with its insect repelling properties
Plants and suggested meanings:
Dandelion: Resist Annihilation, hope, anarchy, anti-authoritarian
Oak: Strength, protection, providing for others
American Sycamore: Resilience, Survive Extinction, Stay Hydrated
Allegheny Blackberry: Be nice but have boundaries
Osage Orange: Don't make yourself palatable to others
American Pokeweed: Make the best out of a bad situation, Loud Colors
Bradford Pear: The ideal of American suburbia is hostile, false, and will inevitably collapse under its own weight
Kudzu: The danger of limitless growth
Amaranth: Fuck Around, Find Out
Oak does mean protection, also fertility, healing, potency, etc., in paganism. I love how people will find their own uses and meanings that have significance in their lives and times.
Fertility you say?
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That's HILARIOUS
You can eat Pokeweed if you cook it right. Tastes oniony.
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You can eat these petals. I think they taste like apricot.
Cory Lee has visited 40 countries on seven continents, and yet the Georgia native has never explored Cloudland Canyon State Park, about 20 minutes from his home. His wheelchair was tough enough for the trip to Antarctica but not for the rugged terrain in his backyard.
Lee’s circumstances changed Friday, when Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources and the Aimee Copeland Foundation unveiled a fleet of all-terrain power wheelchairs for rent at 11 state parks and outdoorsy destinations, including Cloudland Canyon. The Action Trackchair models are equipped with tank-like tracks capable of traversing rocks, roots, streams and sand; clearing fallen trees; plowing through tall grass and tackling uphill climbs.
“I’ll finally be able to go on these trails for the first time in my life,” said the 32-year-old travel blogger, who shares his adventures on Curb Free with Cory Lee. “The trails are off-limits in my regular wheelchair.”
Georgia is one of the latest states to provide the Land Rover of wheelchairs to outdoor enthusiasts with mobility issues.
In 2017, Colorado Parks and Wildlife launched its Staunton State Park Track-Chair Program, which provides free adaptive equipment, though guests must pay the $10 entrance fee. Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources has placed off-road track chairs in nearly a dozen parks, including Muskegon State Park. In 2018, Lee reserved a chair at the park that boasts three miles of shoreline on Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake. “It allowed me to have so much independence on the sand,” he said.
Mobility FTW
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