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Re: wildflower lawn disasters

Oh boy did I open my big mouth too fast!  This morning there is a crew of
volunteers cutting the dead plants and pulling weeds!!!!There are plans to
do pruning and ongoing care of the plantings.....I signed up for pruning.
Sorry Berkeley, I was too critical and didn't have the facts...
Judy Houck

At 03:09 PM 5/31/97 -0700, Judy Houck wrote:
>See what I mean about thought and laborless Political Correctness???
>Someone got a federal grant to do this nice thing--lets see if anyone wants
>to do the labor to make it work.  Most of the gardeners seem to like to make
>balls and boxes out of shrubs rather than weed anything.  If they mowed it
>and raked it, it would help.  I think they have drip irrigation under it.  I
>HOPE they don't make balls and boxes out of the prunus, ceanothus, and
>garrya--since they are too close to the edge.  Maybe we should get together
>and prune it once a year--you know that planting on Moeser Lane that
>citizens take care of.  I would be happy to join 20 of you one day next
>spring--the city can provide the hauling.
>
>Judy Houck
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>At 08:03 PM 5/30/97 -0700, Katherine Pyle wrote:
>>>> What about wild flower lawns.
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>>>I did this once. .....
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>>>However ....
>>>just as the rains end, so does the wildflower bloom, and we ended up
>>>with two front yards full of dead sticks.
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>>We are experiencing this right now in Berkeley. Last year, the city
>>reworked the  median strip along the full length of University Ave (the
>>main street into the center of town from the freeway) to have native trees
>>and shrubs...and California native wildflowers and grasses. For much of the
>>spring, it was block after block of glorious California Poppies, plus other
>>wildflowers and waving green grasses. Now every block looks like an
>>abandoned lot full of dead weeds with some tough trees and shrubs
>>struggling to survive in the middle. REALLY UGLY!!!
>>
>>Katherine Pyle
>>Berkeley, California, USA
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