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[tiger_spot]

I have here a flyer that came in the mail today. It offers to replace my messy biological lawn with pet friendly, maintenance free FieldTurf, the world's leading synthetic turf system. The main argument seems to be that this will let me save on water bills, with some secondary arguments around tidiness and lessened effort in things like mowing.

(Had I a messy biological lawn, I would replace it with a strategic mix of native wildflowers. Coincidentally, this would involve saving on water bills and not mowing, and also not cover the earth with green plastic.)

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[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I've got a semi-Darwinian garden. I know there are plenty of things that will grow in my garden that I am fastidious about pulling out, because they are weeds that damage the local patches of natural habitat. It's probably inevitable that the natural habitats will be permanently altered by introduced weeds, but I don't want to make things worse (and I do regard the loss of natural habitats as "worse", however Darwinian). Otherwise, I'm pretty Darwinian. In particular, I'm looking at local natives and thinking about which might also work in a garden setting.