I am now in the space where I decide things for the next growing year. If you have a thing you want to tell me about gardening pollinator plants, and you absolutely know it is better than what you see in regards to pollinator plants, OMGS please tell me now. The world needs to know. WE ALL NEED TO KNOW. This is not a drill.
@tippitiwichet this is my jam, but for my area. With native plants.
do you have a growing zone or plant hardiness rating? not sure what region of the world you are in.
BIG fan of pollinators.
Also planning for #ClimateMigration, planting native plants from nearby warmer regions.
#ClimateChange is coming for our #pollinators and our food crops, so the more we do even on a microlevel the better.
@peeppeepcircus In a less flaky response, next year is SUPPOSED to focus on milkweed species that reputedly do well in the area, as the only milkweed in my yard is an invasive species, planning on things like climate migration is something that sounds more productive. This city has started a "monarch initiative" that leaves me both wary and unconvinced at it's effectiveness. But planning for Climate migration? That's a plan for way more than one affected species. I like that perspective, a lot.
@tippitiwichet my area has been getting hammered by drought and heatwaves. thousand-year-old trees perishing in an instant in our new intense wildfires and/or dying of mega-drought stress. even our hundred or so year old native oaks having problems with our new extreme normal. my growing seasons have been very confusing to all the plants in the last two years, like someone flipped on the #climatechange switch near me so i have felt the pressure already to do anything, even on a micro-local level
@peeppeepcircus Yes! I live where the earth cracks when it dries. As a fan of carnivorous plants, I understand and love the cycle of wildfires, except for the fact that they are WILDFIRES. It benefits them (they tend to be sun loving plants that like when the fire clears out all the bushes). It brings into question, even when fire is necessary for a niche to survive, at this level? Yeah, no. It's all so delicate, even the things you think might stand it might not do as well as you would think.
@peeppeepcircus A fifth! Omgs. Then some more. Awesome. All the years I lived without cars, for this.
@tippitiwichet
I feel that. The Giant Sequoia Tree is "fire-adapted" to low-severity wildfire. But in our new extreme wildfire & drought climate thanks to #climatechange? Not so much.
We lost about *one-fifth* of the world's #GiantSequoia trees in the 2020 #wildfires. Then some more in 2021. Maybe just a little more in 2022. Even fire-adapted ancient giant trees cannot survive our new now. Scientists were stumped, as it happened 50 years *too early* from their #climatescience models.
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