Native garden vs pollinator garden
15 May 2020 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneWe've got a big backyard and I wanted to add native plants and wildflowers and make it pollinator-friendly for bees and butterflies.
I haven't gone SUPER intensive on research yet - a few searches with search engines and browsing from wikipedia, and I've made a short list of native wildflowers we should be able to buy or transplant from Ängisbacka or similar.
The early results I found for pollinator-gardens are about 80% non-native plants though, and perhaps I'm getting too hung up on the native plant idea when there's plenty of room to do both so I don't have to be in the center of the Venn diagram, buuuuuut it also seems like there should be ample options in native plants because we're... surrounded by forests and meadows and shit that already have plenty of native plants for the pollinators in them? Anyway, we haven't been to ask at the nursery because of not going places, but that's a possibility. We do have to at least go there briefly to buy some more berry bushes and some sage. I thought the university botanical garden might have some information, especially because we're out in the archipelago a bit here and the climate is a bit unusual compared with the rest of the country; but I can't find it on their website so I guess I would have to contact them to ask about it. And I hate contacting people to ask things.
I haven't gone SUPER intensive on research yet - a few searches with search engines and browsing from wikipedia, and I've made a short list of native wildflowers we should be able to buy or transplant from Ängisbacka or similar.
The early results I found for pollinator-gardens are about 80% non-native plants though, and perhaps I'm getting too hung up on the native plant idea when there's plenty of room to do both so I don't have to be in the center of the Venn diagram, buuuuuut it also seems like there should be ample options in native plants because we're... surrounded by forests and meadows and shit that already have plenty of native plants for the pollinators in them? Anyway, we haven't been to ask at the nursery because of not going places, but that's a possibility. We do have to at least go there briefly to buy some more berry bushes and some sage. I thought the university botanical garden might have some information, especially because we're out in the archipelago a bit here and the climate is a bit unusual compared with the rest of the country; but I can't find it on their website so I guess I would have to contact them to ask about it. And I hate contacting people to ask things.
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Date: 16 May 2020 12:34 pm (UTC)Ha yeah, and then I ended up getting interviewed on our national radio under the same fake name to talk about the plight of the backpackers. Lol so that story has now gone out to the world.
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