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 doesnât 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 doesnât turn to garbage.
Once you have flowers planted theyâre pretty easy to maintain. I have a much larger garden area than whatâs pictured. Yes, in the spring I give up a couple of weekends to get it all established but after that itâs 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.
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 doesnât die every frost.
That Iâm 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 doesnât mean zero maintenance, who told you that lmfao? It still requires maintenance if you donât want it looking like garbage. Beauty is subjective, but yeah lack of maintenance is just laziness and claiming itâs 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 âsimpleâ it is. Yeah if you let turn to shit itâs easy lmfao.
Dunno what "natives" you're planting, but if you have a true native landscape, there's very little maintenance. You just have to work with the right people (i.e. - not landscapers) to help select a true low-maintenance, lawn. If you plant the right mix, you can have a really nice looking lawn that has different native flowering plants throughout the growing season and will look really nice.
If you're spending hours a day, or even hours a week, you probably want a very specific, manicured look. Or you didn't do the right planting mix.
https://www.prairiemoon.com/ is a great resource for this stuff.
Native plants still need to be deadheaded, still need to be pruned and trimmed.
Native plants still require maintenance, they just have better synthesis with the other plants.
The time is for the amount of plants. Yeah having 4 plants in a small yard is easy work, but 4 plants in a large yard would look barren and empty⊠so more plants, more work. If 4 plants are 5 minutes of work a week, 40 plants is 50 minutes. For a similar yard of turf it would be 30 minutes of mowing. Now you have to maintain your grass, canât mow since itâs not all turf, and still need to deal with the additional plants. Itâs x+y, not x or yâŠ.
People who buy into this ânative is easierâ is being sold a bridge that requires more work down the road if they donât want it to look like shit. For a few years itâs fine, and why every rants about it, because it hasnât reached the issue point yet. Native plants thrive more, or should, meaning they require more work since they you know, grow and spread easierâŠ.
You're uneducated on the topic and talking like you have all the facts. I have a large property that looks like the top image, and it's extremely low maintenance compared to a manicured lawn. I don't have to dead-head flowers, because they're incorporated into a larger planting, so it looks perfectly natural to have a few flowers in multiple stages of their lifecycle along side the rest of the property. NORMAL nature looks beautiful and not messy.
Sure, if you have a row of "native" flowers in a bed of mulch, they take maintenance. In that case, don't have a native lawn, you have a few native plants in an unnatural ecosystem.
Natives are easier, much lower maintenance, better for the environment, and look much better unless you're used to flat, green, golf courses.
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.
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:-).
Spiders are still an important part of the ecosystem.
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...
They're literally just vibing
I have lots of trees and shrubs in my yard with lots of spiders, but no spiders in the spots you describe. When they have better natural homes they're less likely to try to live in your spaces.
There's a craze for plastic grass in the UK.
It looks awful and you won't even get flies, let alone anything useful. Getting dog shit out of them is a nightmare as well.
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
Some people just want to see the world burn (or don't know better ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ)
Middle one for me
I mean.... I agree with all of you...but I hate bugs...unless they are sea bugs those I eat.
Shit youâre telling me to get rid of those asshole grasshoppers I just need a straight path?
Iâve 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"
I hate how bitey and stabby they are, I was just remarking on the romanticized view.
If you got rid of the đż you wouldn't have flies. đż Spontaneously generate them.
I don't see mosquitoes, ticks, chiggers, ants (ants especially on the vines on the house) spiders, roaches, centipedes, or a dozen other specialized bugs that eat your vegetable garden.
My yard looks like a mix of 1 and 2, but there's a lot of negatives to your daily life with any of the 3 options and this biased graphic clearly wants you to pick 1 or at least 2 over 3.
What if I want a big stone head and a jungle and a food garden?
đȘ°
Kill it!
I can tell you from experience that if you neglect your garden for about 15 years, it does not look like that top one at all.
Well, yea, the top one doesn't look neglected at all.
Who cares about (most) bugs, the first one just straight up looks the best
I think the second one looks the best. When I move I plan to get rid of most of the manicured lawn but I still think a bit of it is nice to have
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