I’ve spent the last several years turning this dead bit of chemlawn into a pollinator habitat. We have so many fireflies, butterflies and local bumblebees (some of them endangered!) but we are moving to Europe next month. This bit of land will no longer be under my stewardship in 2 weeks and I just hope they don’t rip it all out and replace it with turf.
Reddits being weird and not letting me upload the better angles but… I’m having some big feels about leaving the US and selling my home and it’s just… bittersweet and sad.
by madpiratebippy
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Comment: Milwaukee Wisconsin I think zone 6a. Mostly native wildflowers but surely some non natives got in the mix at some point.
Maybe write the new occupants a letter about why you created it. You might give someone some food for thought.
It’s gorgeous, I love the feathery leaves
You should have made that a selling point for buyers . If I ever sell my place , that’ll be the first thing I put in .
In my experience, they will 1000000000000000% be removing it:(
When I move on from my place, I fully expect that the next owners will scrape everything off to plant ‘The Dumb’. It’ll suck. But that’s how entrenched the turf mindset is.
I’ve no plans to move soon. But I may scale back/primp partly in the interest of minimizing maintenance and partly to make things a bit more presentable.
I think you sowed a “wildflower” packet? They usually come with cornflower and cosmos because they bloom and reseed heavily. Users typically think they are helping the ecology but gardens like this need to be maintained or cornflower will grow everywhere.
If you want, you can post on Marketplace that they can have any plants they’d like if they come and dig it up. It’d be a way for these plants to live on even if you aren’t there.