Wonderful work and a beautiful result! Looks like you got three generations in on the project. Well done.
Willothwisp2303
My Boomer Mom is a former hippy and got me started gardening and native plant gardening. My Silent Gen Father (86) is 100% on board with the no lawn movement and keeps wanting to cover more of their yard in plants.
It’s pretty hard not to love an abundance of beauty!
NeroBoBero
I went to college for horticulture in the late 90’s. Most professors thought native garden lawns were interesting in concept but impractical. Much of the problem was “the average person doesn’t know what they’re doing and it’ll look too weedy for the community.”
In many cases they are right. I have a neighbor a block away that had an amazing native garden. They moved away 7 years ago and now it is a mess. The design was lost as the goldenrods overran the silphium and grasses.
But when OP and others take the time to do it right, a native garden is just magical!!
emseefely
That’s some shit eating grin if I ever saw one! Congrats!
Particular-Bet-4336
the lighting on this pic makes it look fake to me. i thought it might have been a meme or something. how funny would it be if she hated the garden and you put a life size cardboard cutout there?
jjmk2014
Reminds me of Adam Sandler “They’re all gonna laugh at you!” This was popular approximately 30 years ago.
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Hey if she’s 80+ she’s not a boomer!
Beautiful work though!
Wonderful work and a beautiful result! Looks like you got three generations in on the project. Well done.
My Boomer Mom is a former hippy and got me started gardening and native plant gardening. My Silent Gen Father (86) is 100% on board with the no lawn movement and keeps wanting to cover more of their yard in plants.
It’s pretty hard not to love an abundance of beauty!
I went to college for horticulture in the late 90’s. Most professors thought native garden lawns were interesting in concept but impractical. Much of the problem was “the average person doesn’t know what they’re doing and it’ll look too weedy for the community.”
In many cases they are right. I have a neighbor a block away that had an amazing native garden. They moved away 7 years ago and now it is a mess. The design was lost as the goldenrods overran the silphium and grasses.
But when OP and others take the time to do it right, a native garden is just magical!!
That’s some shit eating grin if I ever saw one! Congrats!
the lighting on this pic makes it look fake to me. i thought it might have been a meme or something. how funny would it be if she hated the garden and you put a life size cardboard cutout there?
Reminds me of Adam Sandler “They’re all gonna laugh at you!” This was popular approximately 30 years ago.
Also, great work!