I’m part of the movement! Ditch the lawn and duck that mayor
Whole_Experience6409
That Mayor should do some research before wasting the people’s money on stupid court cases – what a fool 🙄
indiscernable1
Mayor just outed themselves as a mouth breathing moron.
book-scorpion
so much freedom..
angrycrank
That does look like a proper native garden and not just someone who stopped maintaining a yard and let it get overrun with invasives and ragweed.
Aesthetically there are things she could do differently (like the Port Washington example), but it looks like she did a good job of getting some native perennials established and can now work on the look a bit if she likes. I’m at that stage and need to cut back some of the taller, more prolific plants because they overwhelm some of the other ones I’d like to grow. And a Chelsea chop next year can add some fullness and flowering, get some height variation, and keep it under the city’s height restriction. And there are lots of ways to add functionality and visual appeal.
That said, the mayor needs some education and cities absolutely should not be able to fine people for a yard like hers. It’s hard to establish a native garden and discouraging people in the early stages because the mayor doesn’t like how it looks is ridiculous.
28_raisins
Humans can’t go extinct fast enough.
OkMathematician7144
Love that she’s doing natives…however, from a design standpoint, it is a bit disorganized and messy. It’s a good effort. Just needs a more intentional layout.
HeadFalse6321
The mayor is a douche canoe, always has been. The village staff have been slowly jumping ship since his regime took office.
The garden actually looks super beautiful lol why doesn’t he understand it
ElectromechanicalPen
His idea of beautiful is probably paved parking lot.
containedexplosion
This is my sister’s neighborhood. The mayor is a douche tool.
N3ver_Stop
Too bad. It’s not their property so s/he can suck a dick.
ElkPitiful6829
My thing is I’ve mixed traditional lawn with wildflowers.
I have a strip of wild bergamot that’s about half my house and 5 feet high. Then another patch of wildflowers in the front about 10 x 20. Each year I expand if.
An elected official who values their own opinion over the weight of all evidence to the contrary.
canisdirusarctos
This is why I’m glad my local native plants don’t naturally form prairies, one of the reasons I change slowly, why I have a plan, and among the reasons I use them like traditional landscaping plants. I don’t need to grow ephemeral wildflowers to get my perennials established and they are happier with a good layer of mulch, anyhow.
Note that this garden looks intentional specifically because it has too much variety in too small an area. Native pollinators don’t need a mix of plant species because many are either specialists or practice flower constancy. That is, you help them more by planting a lot of the same species around your yard and/or in clumps than by creating unnaturally high diversity. It is also better for predators and prey insects, while ensuring you have enough plants that some munching isn’t going to be a problem.
Kirvesperseet
I’m so glad I live in a free country where HOA’s and mayors cant tell me what I do with my yard.
My childhood home was in a “historically important” area and there was two requirements for home owners, houses have to be painted in two colours, one for the house walls and one for the window and door frames and the fence must be a shrub of some sort. Thats it. If those two requirements were met, you could plant whatever.
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I’m part of the movement! Ditch the lawn and duck that mayor
That Mayor should do some research before wasting the people’s money on stupid court cases – what a fool 🙄
Mayor just outed themselves as a mouth breathing moron.
so much freedom..
That does look like a proper native garden and not just someone who stopped maintaining a yard and let it get overrun with invasives and ragweed.
Aesthetically there are things she could do differently (like the Port Washington example), but it looks like she did a good job of getting some native perennials established and can now work on the look a bit if she likes. I’m at that stage and need to cut back some of the taller, more prolific plants because they overwhelm some of the other ones I’d like to grow. And a Chelsea chop next year can add some fullness and flowering, get some height variation, and keep it under the city’s height restriction. And there are lots of ways to add functionality and visual appeal.
That said, the mayor needs some education and cities absolutely should not be able to fine people for a yard like hers. It’s hard to establish a native garden and discouraging people in the early stages because the mayor doesn’t like how it looks is ridiculous.
Humans can’t go extinct fast enough.
Love that she’s doing natives…however, from a design standpoint, it is a bit disorganized and messy. It’s a good effort. Just needs a more intentional layout.
The mayor is a douche canoe, always has been. The village staff have been slowly jumping ship since his regime took office.
https://preview.redd.it/d8z9ixq84xdf1.png?width=856&format=png&auto=webp&s=9bf84f43566d4a39f08bb2ebe977cdd252dc566d
Mayor is the average /r/lawncare user
The garden actually looks super beautiful lol why doesn’t he understand it
His idea of beautiful is probably paved parking lot.
This is my sister’s neighborhood. The mayor is a douche tool.
Too bad. It’s not their property so s/he can suck a dick.
My thing is I’ve mixed traditional lawn with wildflowers.
I have a strip of wild bergamot that’s about half my house and 5 feet high. Then another patch of wildflowers in the front about 10 x 20. Each year I expand if.
https://preview.redd.it/zo5tw8wqtxdf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=f8c3cb7db8c198cde12933c86159b5642cbdf339
Mayor’s brain is fully fucking cooked.
An elected official who values their own opinion over the weight of all evidence to the contrary.
This is why I’m glad my local native plants don’t naturally form prairies, one of the reasons I change slowly, why I have a plan, and among the reasons I use them like traditional landscaping plants. I don’t need to grow ephemeral wildflowers to get my perennials established and they are happier with a good layer of mulch, anyhow.
Note that this garden looks intentional specifically because it has too much variety in too small an area. Native pollinators don’t need a mix of plant species because many are either specialists or practice flower constancy. That is, you help them more by planting a lot of the same species around your yard and/or in clumps than by creating unnaturally high diversity. It is also better for predators and prey insects, while ensuring you have enough plants that some munching isn’t going to be a problem.
I’m so glad I live in a free country where HOA’s and mayors cant tell me what I do with my yard.
My childhood home was in a “historically important” area and there was two requirements for home owners, houses have to be painted in two colours, one for the house walls and one for the window and door frames and the fence must be a shrub of some sort. Thats it. If those two requirements were met, you could plant whatever.