Tiny Urban Wilderness

Midwest IA/IL. 56 year old Latina. Nature nerd. One acre mid-city. Certified wildlife habitat. Plant native plants to your area. Buy straight native plants online, garden stores are usually crap. I follow back with @sadderbutwisergirrl, this is a secondary account. On Tiktok, YouTube, and Instagram too.

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A barred owl was also hooting and a wolf spider scurried by while I was pulling Japanese brome grass.

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Don’t mind me just thinking about the hole in the middle of the United States where Chipping sparrows refuse to fuck

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I miss my child so much. They had so much curiosity about the world.

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Nature is the Solution, Not the Problem

Canadians support faster environmental reviews. We need businesses to receive prompt decisions on industrial proposals.

But as The Guardian reports, the federal government plans to accelerate its reviews not by increasing its own efficiencies, but by lowering public standards.

Its plans would create new “Federal Economic Zones” where established nature protections would not apply, and they would empower Ministers to license businesses to wipe out endangered species.

Nature is not an impediment to economic development; environmental assessment is the “credit check” before we write the loan. It is due diligence, fiduciary responsibility, and the only way to build prosperity that endures.

We can not build our economy by laying waste to our country.

📰 https://theguardian.com/world...

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Late April to mid May

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My composter is decomposing

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Sometimes things I dug up and moved to a different location in my yard pop back up many years later in the original spot 🧐. This particular Ohio spiderwort is from a patch found on the road next to mine. That colony succumbed to invasive plants 6 or 7 years later but I’ll bet it’s still there under the surface…

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I’ll never be able to stop pulling dozens of invasive honeysuckles every year because of my neighbors shrub. It’s hard to talk to him because he’s very private and reclusive. Dear neighbor, please let me cut it down and replace it with a viburnum.

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Please enjoy the sounds of a Northern cardinal and Carolina wren.

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Golden Alexander and bird song in the morning.

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I wasn’t able to pull the invasive weeds go for only two years and now there are literally thousands of garlic mustard plants. That’s my neighbor’s yard over there in the background, full of them. Once I pulled all of mine up, I found native plants underneath.

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This Meleagris gallopavo (wild turkey) has fulfilled a goal of mine for Tiny Urban Wilderness! I saw a flock of them in the yard many years ago before I began my habit restoration. Of course I’ve been creating this habitat for all types of local native plants, animals, and insects but one of my hopes was to lure wild turkeys back again. After touring the yard for quite a while and sampling some sweetgrass seeds, I hope it gives me a five star rating and tells its friends. #wildturkey #nativeplants #northamerica #midwest #homegrownnationalpark

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Maybe we’ll get paw paws this year?

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I’ve never seen a leaf this big on Asarum canadense (Canadian wild ginger).

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I’ve seen this behavior before. She’s shopping for a nesting site. While having birds nesting right outside my front door is fun and educational, I don’t want her to make it in my mouse ear hosta. My dog will probably bark at her and disturb her every day. Also, we won’t be able to use the front door for a couple months.