That is all looking so good @fire. It is amazing to think it is early November, (your plants look so colourful, really going strong). It seems as though the plot might keep 'green' and well-covered and visible from a distance, so that pedestrians and others don't collide with it. Are you still getting Californian poppies flowering? I hope they spring back if the weather improves.
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I have started a biodiversity survey of the visible life on community pavement plot, with iNaturalist. It's a good place to log the species found. Over the past three years, the highlights have been a Common Blue butterfly, a lesser stag beetle and Ganoderma lucidum, Reishi, Lacquered Bracket fungus. It will be good to compile a fuller list to share with neighbours in an easy format. It will also encourage me to pay closer attention and make notes. It's a small enough area (2x3m) to feel fairly comprehensive through weekly visits. Humble, but a good way to tentatively enter the world of accurate IDing and shared online logging.
It's sad to see the little front garden beside to the community garden just stripped out by new American owners today. It was full of lovely dead nettle and fgmns, which would have made for a stunning display. I was really looking forward to it. I suspect that solid paving is going in.
Oh what a shame ☹️. Just a thought, do new owners have a chance to be made aware of the community garden in any formal or permanent way, e.g. signs or leaflets through doors? Could they claim ignorance?
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It's their own garden they are clearing - right beside the community plot. Yes our community garden does have signs up. It's their perfect right to do whatever they want with their own garden, of course; it's just a shame to see all the wild flowers gone this morning and only bare earth, esp with all the fgmn in bud. I did meet the new owners over the weekend; I should have mentioned how lovely their garden looked and what a wonderful thing it is that they have a front garden and not a paved graveyard.
Lot of iris coming out, fgmns budding up. Californian poppies, copious in Nov, seemed to have been nixed by something. Aquilegia foliage nixed but now re-emerging (it's not the right terraine for them at all, but hey ho).
I find that yellow beeline is so exotic, esp for Feb. Fgmn is good forage for mason bees emerging in April or so, when not that much else is out in quantity (locally, at least).
😆Oh I would have been so tempted to say just that! Maybe they will regret their haste. Presumably they are not creating a parking lot/drive? They will be green with envy in a few months when they look around to the nearby gardens.....
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Most of the fronts in my area are paved. Any flowers growing are at a premium. Posh busy people often choose paving because they are.... posh and busy. I imagine they just saw a weedy garden and didn't want a mess or were worried.
I did think about mentioning the garden and the previous neighbours in that house, who had been very involved with the community garden, but I didn't want to overwhelm them on their first day or be intrusive. They are gutting and rebuilding the house so I thought there would be time to talk about things before they moved in during the late spring. Just goes to show ... something or another.
Thanks to everyone who has helped get our community plots and garden group going. I couldn't have done it without help from the forum. The projects have been up and running for nearly four years and going strong. The garden group has 80 neighbours from four streets in it. Fairy gardens proliferate everywhere locally. It's been really useful to have a place to chart the progress and challenges, to be able to look back and reflect.
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