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Re: wildflower lawn disasters

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

At 08:03 PM 5/30/97 -0700, Katherine Pyle wrote:
>>> What about wild flower lawns.
>
>>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.
>
>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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