An homage to u/GrowingWildInADyingWorld’s much superior post.
My sister took me to a Doug Tallamy talk at a local community center. As I like to tell the story, it was like in The Blues Brothers, when John Belushi was in the back of the church, bathed in light, saying, “The band — THE BAND!”, then hand-springs down the aisle.
While before, I thought the lawn was boring burden you had to mow and maybe tart up with some impatiens or mums, now it could serve a purpose.
I just plunged in without planning — which was a mistake.
Either way, the more native biodiversity I add to the yard, the more cool bugs I see, the more skinks, the more birds, including birds of prey, dragonflies and damselflies, frogs, toads, snakes, etc.
A word of advice: don’t plant anything that spreads by runners or suckers in the ground, unless you want it to take over or to have to constantly keep after it.
Learn from my mistakes: research that shizz.
I am in the US, Mid-Atlantic, right on the edge of the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain. Native plants are not about zones; they’re about eco-regions.
by MrsBeauregardless
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