[Pollinator] [beemonitoring] Integrating Pollinator and Human Landscapes

Fri Sep 16 11:05:59 PDT 2016

I got similar advice from landscaper friends for converting my small urban lot from lawn to a mix of vegetable gardens and pollinator plantings.  The first thing to do is create visible structure, so once the lawn was removed from my front yard, I put in raised beds and wood-chip paths. That signals that whatever follows is intentional.
Kim

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So true!  My good friend Peter kept getting in trouble with the City for "weeds" even though he had a wildlife certified yard.  I suggested to mow the edges, provide clear boundaries, and trim a bit here or there.  I also got into trouble and was able to convince the City it was all good with the same level of effort on the edges and selective trimming.  In both situations a neighbor likely complained about the "messy weeds".  The real work would be getting the city to accept a nature friendly variance to the code.  Another friend of mine was able to do that for the City of Galveston that allowed landowners to restrict mowing "prairie" lots or plots within lots or yards to once a year with specifics.

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On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:27 AM, 'Droege, Sam' sdroege at usgs.gov<mailto:sdroege at usgs.gov> [beemonitoring] <beemonitoring-noreply at yahoogroups.com<mailto:beemonitoring-noreply at yahoogroups.com>> wrote:

All

This week I spoke to a group of Landscape Architects.  Good discussions and I pointed out that I thought one of our biggest societal problems was the perceived conflict between creating landscapes friendly to pollinators (and, btw, to all of nature) and the traditionally acceptable tended landscapes that are mowed regularly.

It turns out that this has been thought of before and likely quite deeply by landscape architects.  Here is a fabulous article from the 90's:

 http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/1995/nc_1995_nassauer_001.pdf<http://www.ncrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/jrnl/1995/nc_1995_nassauer_001.pdf>

The key point here is that people really don't necessarily NOT want natural landscapes what they want is a landscape that is clearly cared for.  A naturalized landscape is often preferred, but it must be neat and fit into the norms of the culture.  Of great importance is the presences of human structures (sidewalks, fences, houses, buildings etc.) that are clearly demarcated by neatly mown areas, are in good shape and show that the owner of the property takes care of their property and has done all these things on purpose.

I think it would be very useful to build into the advice we provide about plantings some elements that present shows of care and intention of those environments, else we risk alienating the very audiences we want to convert.

I also think it might be useful to have more landscape architects on board with what we do.

sam

  From a Country Overlooked

There are no creatures you cannot love.

A frog calling at God
From the moon-filled ditch
As you stand on the country road in the June night.
The sound is enough to make the stars weep
With happiness.
In the morning the landscape green
Is lifted off the ground by the scent of grass.
The day is carried across its hours
Without any effort by the shining insects
That are living their secret lives.
The space between the prairie horizons
Makes us ache with its beauty.
Cottonwood leaves click in an ancient tongue
To the farthest cold dark in the universe.
The cottonwood also talks to you
Of breeze and speckled sunlight.
You are at home in these
great empty places
along with red-wing blackbirds and sloughs.
You are comfortable in this spot
so full of grace and being
that it sparkles like jewels
spilled on water.

           - Tom Hennen

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Bees are Not Optional
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