GameOnBrad
Senior Member
I've got admit, the hills on the north side of this park have grown beautifully wild...
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mburrrrr
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I noticed too and wondered if that is the best use of land “temporarily”. Those are some expensive weeds. Where will the displaced birds and the bees go after the final park is built?
Northern Light
Superstar
Huh....'wild' eh? To what continent? At least three of those are Eurasian species that don't belong here. Just sayin.
GameOnBrad
Senior Member
I mean wild in the sense of growth. Things don't look lined up in rows or a checker pattern. It's just a big jumble of stuff or maybe it just grew in to look like that.
Unlike some other parts of this park...
Northern Light
Superstar
Yeah, I know, I wasn't critiquing you, it was more the sign from Parks, that implied this was good for local insects and birds. Its not terrible, none of it should poison them, LOL; but its not the right set of choices.
GameOnBrad
Senior Member
I have yet to see a butterfly here. You know where I did see tonnes of butterflies? That strip of grass along Cherry Street where the future streetcar is planned. Well... there were butterflies all over those flowers until the city came along and started mowing it down (which they are religiously doing now).
Northern Light
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If you want to serve the needs of native butterflies, you can't do better than Milkweed, (common, or swamp) or Butterflyweed (name kinda gives it a way), Wild Bergamot will make both bees and butterflies very happy, Joe Pyeweed would be a great choice too, and Little Bluestem grass, and Black Eyed Susan.
They did use Lance Leaved Coreopsis which is a good one; but much of the rest isn't great.