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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • I love your line of thinking. Lawns don’t feed the ecosystem, flowers do! But here in the US dandelions and clover are not a critical part of their diet. Native plants are the critical part of their diet - e.g. Native maple trees that bloom first!

    Dandelions are native to Europe

    Clover is native to Eurasia

    They are far from the worst weeds, i wouldn’t go eradicating them like you should invasive plants (I leave both in my lawn anyways). But if we are looking to support our bees and ecosystem, then we should be re wilding our yard and growing native plants

    In New England there’s a lot of neat spring ephemerals too (select from additional attributes)








  • Iirc the only main downside to all these apps is that you get a single answer, when it’s usually more complex than that.

    Seek/iNaturalist are great. I prefer the report style of iNaturalist and how it gives me a list of options, which I can use to try and narrow it down.

    E.g. if I take a pic of a flower that looks like a dandelion, it could be a common dandelion, or hawkweed, or burnweed… and of those there are a dozen sub species. Knowing which one is native is really important.

    Tldr yes