I love this, but I suspect that the average person will see the last one and think, “Perfect! An orderly lawn and less insects.”
More time and effort. Bottom one takes 30 minutes to mow every 2 weeks. Each and everyone of those plants need to be maintained, trimmed and kept with weekly so it doesn’t look like a disaster. So unless you have 1-2 free hours a day, no one will be actually able to do the top and maintain it so it doesn’t turn to garbage.
You mean “so it doesn’t turn to nature”. You just think nature is garbage.
Once you have flowers planted they’re pretty easy to maintain. I have a much larger garden area than what’s pictured. Yes, in the spring I give up a couple of weekends to get it all established but after that it’s just watering it once a day (if required) and then enjoy it for the rest of the season.
So, that was a long winded way of telling you that you are wrong.
Well you must live in a fair weather state, most flowers need to have their bulbs pulled in less hardy places so they don’t die.
You don’t just need to water, you need to de-weed the gardens, you need to deadhead some flowers, you need to fertilize some or amend it with compost or other nutrients.
It’s more than a few weekends at the start, and it’s far more than just watering if you don’t want it to look like garbage.
You are absolutely entitled to your opinion, but don’t lie to support it lmfao.
It’s not true for one simple reason: we need to plan NATIVE plants! They require near no maintainence and do extremely well.
All the shit you can buy from a garden store is almost always non natives that weve all been tricked into thinking is somehow better. They aren’t. They suck for the ecosystem and they suck to take care of.
There is no care with native plants. There is only beautiful growth and a healthy ecosystem.
Plant. Native.
lol must be great living in a fair weather state where stuff doesn’t die every frost.
That I’m works for places that can leave bulbs in the ground, lots of people need to remove even native bulbs since the frosts get too hard and will kill most of them.
Native doesn’t mean zero maintenance, who told you that lmfao? It still requires maintenance if you don’t want it looking like garbage. Beauty is subjective, but yeah lack of maintenance is just laziness and claiming it’s beautiful is justifying the not wanting to deal with it.
Native yards still need maintenance, flowers need to be deadheaded weekly while blooming for example. No one talks about the finer details, just glosses over how “simple” it is. Yeah if you let turn to shit it’s easy lmfao.
You’re forgetting that Americans have been brainwashed to think that large tracts of unproductive land with zero biological diversity is a flex. And no one wants to be seen as some poor with bugs in their yard.
large tracts of unproductive land with zero biological diversity is a flex.
You’re right. It was absolutely a flex hundreds of years ago, for places like freaking Versailles. And we’re all living like little kings out here, complete with turning a blind eye to disastrous effect.
Meanwhile my Chinese neighbors are hard at work cultivating every last scrap of land they own. It’s kind of amazing.
Lol, plants don’t need to be kept with weekly. Maintaining a xeriscape or native landscape is less time and effort than a lawn. I’ve been slowly converting my lawn to larger and more native beds. I don’t have to water, even during exceptional drought. I have to top the mulch up once a year. I weed (usually just grass) just whenever I spot a weed. Depending on the plant, I trim or cut it back to the ground once or twice a year.
Flowers need to be deadheaded, trees and bushes need to be shaped so they don’t look like a mess or grow causing issues.
Yeah neglecting the yard and letting it do its thing is simple, maintaining it properly so it doesn’t look like a mess and doesn’t turn to shit requires a decent of time and effort.
Beauty is subjective and most people who claim the top is easier have yards that don’t looks remotely that good.
I see the top one and think 2 things:
a) That looks like a lot of maintenance
And
b) They conveniently left out spiders, all those other bugs will attract a shit ton of spiders and I hate spiders. I like ladybugs, dragonflies, butterflies and such, but not so much that I’m willing to deal with spiders and wasps.
If someone has a way to solve both those problems I’m all for it lmao
Snakes might eat the spiders…
Large feral creatures like bobcats and wild dogs might eat the snakes…
Bears could eat the above…
At some point the detractions just might be outweighed by the benefits though:-).
There was an old lady who’s an expert on these things. Perhaps she’s still alive
When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas bears simply freeze to death.
I’m well aware, that’s why I don’t advocate for their total extermination like I do mosquitoes lmao
But they can do it away from me, those assholes don’t need to hang out above my door or inside my car or under my outdoor seating to be part of the ecosystem…
My landlord exactly. Dude hires people to spray the yard every year because God forbid ants try to approach the building. I’ve tried convincing him not to but he wasn’t having it. I talked to my neighbor and it turns out the guy used to edge the lawn with scissors. Luckily my neighbor is way more agreeable and we’re redoing his lawn more in line with the picture
A toxic moat around the house might be a better option than sterilizing all life in the garden. Also cool to look at if you color it green and install some lighting
Shit you’re telling me to get rid of those asshole grasshoppers I just need a straight path?
I’ve never found anyone else who hates grasshoppers. Somehow, everyone has a romanticized view of the chirping fiddle-legged little hell spawns.
I like the chirping
I hate the whole, “Turn into hellspawn under certain conditions and devour everything in sight”
Yeah this is not really selling it because most people have a negative amount of interest in more bugs
If you got rid of the 🗿 you wouldn’t have flies. 🗿 Spontaneously generate them.
What if I want a big stone head and a jungle and a food garden?
