thegardendude 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 on Nostr: It’s disconcerting how disconnected from nature so many people are; it’s evident ...

It’s disconcerting how disconnected from nature so many people are; it’s evident when folks come to the nursery and want plants that fit a very tight, precise template that they have in mind: “It needs to get no bigger than 4 feet, I don’t want to do any pruning.” Or wanting something with a very specific foliage color that’s so far removed from what you’d find in nature. We’ve become to accustomed to suburban landscaping: it’s not just lawns, it’s also the neat rows of tightly trimmed Japanese hollies bookended by narrow, tightly shaved arborvitae. It’s too manicured, too neat, too forced into a cookie cutter.