A sound barrier recently went up between my condo building’s fence and a road: about a foot and a half from the fence, specifically. To put it in, they dug maybe a foot or so at a real steep angle, so now there’s a near-straight drop a few inches from the fence, then just bare dirt till the sound barrier. I’m hoping there’s a good (native) groundcover that might make its way in and be able to stabilize the ground a bit, as well as providing at least a little more ecological value than bare earth. It would need to be something that could really just kind of fall in there as seeds and not need tending to germinate or maintain, since the area can’t easily be accessed… I know we’ve got wild strawberries around which is my main contender at the moment, as well as violets. Just wondering if there were any other good options!

Has anyone had any luck / tips for planting when there's a heavy deer presence? There's no natural predators here and the population is out of crontrol, which makes any kind of non-fenced planting difficult.

I've been wondering if maybe the Miyazaki method would help deter browsers but I'm not sure.

California Poppy, Farewell-to-Spring, Purple Chinese Houses, Mountain Garland, Bird's Eye Gilia, Globe Gilia, Tidy Tips, Mountain Phlox (aka Grand Linanthus), Blue Flax (when available), Miniature Lupine, Sky Lupine, Arroyo Lupine, Baby-Blue-Eyes, Five Spot, and Tansy-Leaved Phacelia. (Clarkia amoena, Clarkia unguiculata, Collinsia heterophylla, Eschscholzia californica, Gilia capitata, Gilia tricolor, Lasthenia glabrata, Layia platyglossa, Linanthus grandiflorus, Linum lewisii, Lupinus bicolor, Lupinus nanus, Lupinus succulentus, Nemophila maculata, Nemophila menziesii, Phacelia tanacetifolia).

an awesome discord group was just started today for socal and there's 100 people in there already. if you want the info lmk

I've come across some bulrush plants with seeds in a wild area, California bulrush (Schoenoplectus californicus). I'm considering leaving some seeds at a local lake. The lake is artificial, a small area with concrete holding water. A couple of spots have sand and rocks exposed to the water. Surprisingly, some wild riparian plants have managed to grow near the water. Some native and non-native plants are also cultivated here. Birds and insects come to this lake, including lots of natives, whether it be small birds in the area, migrating aquatic birds, dragonflies, or carpenter and bumble bees.

Any advice on how I should go about planting the seeds here?

any australians (preferrably nsw) have any tips to help me get into guerrilla gardening? i was thinking to start i’d like to carry around some native seeds and chuck them wherever i go, what are the best seeds to do this with?

Obviously not anti-anti. First time poster long time listener, daughter suddenly has an anaphylactic allergy to bees. I’ve long had a native pollinator garden in the yard but it’s simply not safe for her. I get it, I get the big picture but this kid plays outside constantly and I don’t want her to be avoidant of her own backyard and outdoors.

I’m totally stumped and desperately looking for options that aren’t sod. I’m in zone 7 in a suburban area, street facing yard with full sun. The more out-there ideas the better.

Thank you!

Some small yarrow (Achillea millefolium) shoots got sprayed by people doing weed control with herbicides today. Not sure what the herbicide is, but it's a dark blue-green color.

Is there any chance of me being able to save these plants if I dig them up and bring them home?

I need some pointers, I'm in the west Tennessee hatchie River area and I was wondering if there are any endangered plant species native to the area that I could "discover" that would put a halt on these plans? How would I go about reporting it , and to whom?

Hi, I am from Ontario, Canada. Currently we are faced with a problem of not enough infrastructure to support our growing population. Unfortunately our Premier is a known scumbag grifter, his proposed highway is being paved right though a provincially and culturally protected area refered to as the 'Green Belt', which is to help slowdown urban sprawl and encourage wildlife. Premier Doug Ford is getting a lot of backlash however I doubt protests are gonna stop him as it hasnt stopped him with some of his past schemes.

I would like to figure out a way to make development in this area as difficult as I can to slow down this development so we can at least find a better solution to curb our traffic problems. Bonus if i can increase the current size of these green areas within the greenbelt.

Things that Doug Ford has just this year has been trying to implement with big backlash

   1. get rid of land for a park, outsourcing it to a foreign company for comercial use and turning it into a luxury spa which features a $852 million garage parking space.
   2. getting rid of bike lanes because it takes a lane away from cars, despite evidence that cars move people faster than cars
  3. build a tunnel for cars to curb traffic under city with tremendous flooding problems instead of building subways which can carry 30,000 people in the same space as 100 cars.
 4. trying to get rid of the Ontario Science centre because "the concrete is weakening" despite having experts inspect the structure and finding nothing wrong with it
 5.building a highway right through nature conservation reserves, farms, wetlands, alvars, forests, etc  that according to traffic experts this highway would do minimal to curb traffic problems.

I need 10 bare roots to grow some hedging in my garden.

These roots are all certified as being great for local pollinators and birds and it’s incredibly affordable for me to buy 100 in total and a tree planting dibbler.

So tempted to just wake up early one morning, walk around in a high vis, a slight disguise and plant 90 bare roots in my local area.

Any thoughts?

Hi everyone, I want to do some seed bombing in empty lots when rainy season starts here in CA in a bit. When I first heard about seedbombing, it was on a podcast that specifically mentioned using clay to do it. I'm a potter and I have plenty of old clay that I could use, no problem. Searching this sub I've seen a lot of alternatives to clay, and I'm wondering if they're better, of if people are just using what they have access to. For me, it's way easier to just use old clay than to make a pulp out of paper or whatever. But I don't want to fuck up the land worse than it already is if clay is not the best material.

thanks!

p.s. I promise only to use native plants! don't worry!

With some effort, identify native species in your area. Gather spent flowers or a few handful of fruits or cones. With a couple of bowls, screens, and some effort you can gather 50 or so species.

The best spots I've found are University campuses, urban parks with native plant gardens, and (if you can) hikes or actual native forests.

Write down the date and location so you can get them next year.

And then plant in the fall. (Propagation instructions are online if you can identify the species. Assume roughly late fall.)u

My plants grew lots of seeds this year! I grabbed a bunch to collect, and then went on a lovely walk around the neighborhood. But the seeds kept falling out of my pickets everywhere! Oops!! Whoops! 🌻🌰🌱

Photo is some aromatic aster I have before that went to seed

There is a small trail near my house that I walk almost daily, and during the warmer months, there is at least one native flower blooming along it and the stream next to it. My wife and I love them and have a thing for identifying as many as we can using Google image search and the like.

However, I noticed several new irises that were obviously planted along the trail in the past day or two. This isn’t a super popular trail, so I’m almost certain it wasn’t the city. My concern is that they’re the non-native, invasive yellow iris since a few of those mysteriously popped up this spring.

I plan to live here for a good while, and I would prefer this trail stay as natural/native as possible, not full of a single flower that doesn’t naturally belong. Does anyone here have a suggestion for what to do?

Winter will be in my area soon and we get heavy snowfall. I was wondering if it's possible to deposit seeds before the snow or during it so it will freeze and then unfreeze in spring ready to grow all at once.

Could I discreetly kill off invasive buckthorn in woods near me by cutting the outside of the plant and applying concrete glypphosate to the wound? I'm not going to chainsaw in a woods I don't own but want to kill invasives and stop them from spreading

There's this patch of some kind of Russian thistle (Salsola species) that's pretty widespread amongst other non native weeds found around my area. I'd like to get rid of it, or at least deal with most of it. This takes the cake for being a terrible weed, it's almost entirely in the way save for this small walking path people made. I'm in San Diego County, California, United States.

Any ways to kill it that don't involve the obvious arson or synthetic chemicals? First idea that comes to mind for me is at the very least stomping on it. It's pretty prickly, no way are my hands going to be able to touch the stuff.

Harvested some Eastern hop-hornbeam seeds today. I fell for the hop-like fruits this summer and went back for the seed. We need more of these in Maryland so I will be guerrilla gardening all over my county.