We are prepping a new crevice garden on the site of a neglected pollinator garden. It was overtaken in part by snowberry bushes, a vital winter food source for birds. The original plan was to compost them because there wasn’t a site selected for transplanting them. I kept bringing up how many calories that is until I was finally given the okay to just pot up as many as I thought would survive.
Now the city has a surplus of really good native plants that can go anywhere we’d otherwise pay to plant something non-native and ornamental. The problem of not having a site selected is being countered by my solution of converting all undervalued urban greenspace to something better.
That’s also only one of two truck-loads. I also got some native rabbitbrush, a long-season flowering shrub that pollinators go monkey for.
I’m going to dox you by learning where snowberries grow. Also your coworker’s work truck with the caution lights, “go around” lights, extended cab, and lock box is giving me “gawd I wish that were me” energy.
That one is too much truck. I always feel super anxious driving it because it’s so high up. The little 1990s Ford Ranger in front of me though, I’d buy that in a heartbeat if I needed a new vehicle. It feels like my subcompact but with a greater cargo capacity than most of the larger trucks.
Yeah I had beer goggles on and was kind of joking, but it is too big. I worked for a company that was very proud to show off their electric full size pickup but the people who drove it typically gave feedback that yeah it’s actually too big and a pain to get around for what we were doing.