I’m standing in the same spot in these two pictures, rotated 180 degrees. It’s dry here and my neighbor’s acid green bermuda hellscape is hard as concrete. My side is not your typical showcase example of a native garden (I have that elsewhere) but it’s full of life. It’s also erosion resistant, and will help reduce flooding.
This is the result of eradicating tree-sized privet and bush honeysuckle, and Euonymus about one year ago, treating the stumps and some minor regrowth this year, and then just leaving it to see what shows up. I know there’s some privet and creeping charlie in the foreground, since I’m standing on the edge, but the center has ended up being 99% native plants. I’m in the middle of the worst sprawl the Southeast has to offer, so that was a pleasant surprise. I got Bidens spp., Ruellia strepens, Urtica chamaedryoides, Dicliptera brachiata, Fleischmannia incarnata, Ageratina altissima, Polymnia canadensis… Rumex, Vitis, Elymus… and more.
I will cut this down every winter to keep it tidy, but otherwise it’s just there to do it’s things as long as my neighbors will allow.
by Broken_Man_Child
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Yours looks so much nicer!
Yours is preferable 👍🏼
Love this! Grass open drainage swales are so unattractive
Very nice.
Pokeweed spotted (I think).
Also, good work, OP 👍
Beautiful
And your neighbor will be the one calling city/county to complain about yours🙄
I’m in the middle of the worst sprawl the Southeast ” Ah, so I see you’re here in the metro atlanta metroplex of sprawl as well….or somewhere similar haha
As a zoomer, I will probably never be able to afford a home. But it’s my dream to buy land and restore it full of natives and bring it back to life. The contrast between these two pictures is exactly what I want to achieve on property of my own.
👍💪👏👏👏👏👏