Nature and Gardening

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All things green, outdoors, and nature-y. Whether it's animals in their natural habitat, hiking trails and mountains, or planting a little garden for yourself (and everything in between), you can talk about it here.

See also our Environment community, which is focused on weather, climate, climate change, and stuff like that.

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one day i'll have a house with a lawn and there's gonna be so much damn native grass... (beehaw.org)

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[alt text: Text that says, "People [say] 'I never see butterflies or lightning bugs in my yard. Their yard: (colon)". Below the text is a photo of a birds-eye view of a large house with an equally large yard. The lawn is covered in standard turfgrass (probably Kentucky bluegrass) that has been recently mowed.]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I recently bought these roasted pumpkin seeds and they're a bit too chewy for me, but I figured a bird could probably swallow them quite happily. So, I chucked a few of them on my balcony.

That was a week ago. I've seen only a single bird grab a seed so far.

It is awkward to land there, I'm not saying I did everything perfectly. But it made me painfully aware that the balcony + house wall is probably just some barren rock in their eyes. There's just no reason to go looking for food there.