Well even though I thoroughly enjoyed reading Pansyface's pedantic rant at the O.P. lampooning virtually every point - it was rather harsh - along with the others who have chosen to ridicule rather than examine and deliberate. I'm pretty sure that it was simply a request for the full gambit of views on how we use our gardens in the light of our touchy-feely polyunsaturated gluten free modern outlook.
I've been a professional garden for sixty years, I've studied plant life to ridiculous levels, grown and exhibited to National standards and continue to communicate with some of the best brains in academia as well as being hands on big hydraulic digger landscaper - but still would not call myself "expert" because I believe it implies that you know everything there is to know. I profess to know quite a bit about not very much so I'm no Professor either. Perhaps a kind of elderly student emeritus! But who cares what we are called?
It's very popular today to rip up your lawn to sow "wild" flowers and have a go at making insect nesting boxes and in my personal opinion - this sort of thing can be just as bad as growing only one type of plant and spraying it to distraction as the dahlia and chrysanthemum specialists of old did. Every area, geological and climatic, has its own typical flora and fauna so if the OP wishes to be fully ecominded their garden should be left completely fallow and may be the odd heap of rubbish to slowly rot too.
People hate flies and wasps but love bees - yet the proliferation of honey bee by human intervention is responsible for vast imbalances in the ecosystem that are hardly appreciated let alone understood. Nature is best left alone, attempting to fiddle about around the edges isn't going to accomplish much accept may be make a few millenials proud of themselves.
The most profound change to help redress and help nature along would be to limit the population.
Pansyface, that wasn't a rant, I enjoyed it. I focused on the "cat" part, we have 2 dogs, when we had cats we weren't visited by other moggies. I havent' tried this but have been told if you get a friend with a cat to give you some of their "offerings" put it on your own plot they stay away. I once had a really lovely neighbour, BUT she had 21 cats, they weren't your average moggies, they were all beautiful pedigrees, we had 2 dogs, the other side a dog, who was allowed in the garden while they worked, her mother worked for the RSPCA for Gods sake, but they never picked up, the stench was so so bad we gave up going in our garden.
As I understand it,(and that's not much) if we left the land entirely to its own devices, our island would be pretty much covered with deciduous trees and whatever couuld grow beneath them. These would not all be native plants as some of our intervention is irreversible.
I think the OP's original post was a clumsy, convoluted attempt to promote an app and they've been lurking long enough to know that @Hostafan1 gets a metaphorical quid for every time there's a thread about cats and their unwanted activities in gardens, especially decorating bare soil.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Absolutely @B3. Some of the best threads are the one that go off on a tangent and develop a life of their own, especially when the OP is a free loader or a WUM or a troll.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Absolutely @B3. Some of the best threads are the one that go off on a tangent and develop a life of their own, especially when the OP is a free loader or a WUM or a troll.
When I read post like this I realise that I am a 70+ InterWeb virgin!
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I've been a professional garden for sixty years, I've studied plant life to ridiculous levels, grown and exhibited to National standards and continue to communicate with some of the best brains in academia as well as being hands on big hydraulic digger landscaper - but still would not call myself "expert" because I believe it implies that you know everything there is to know. I profess to know quite a bit about not very much so I'm no Professor either. Perhaps a kind of elderly student emeritus! But who cares what we are called?
It's very popular today to rip up your lawn to sow "wild" flowers and have a go at making insect nesting boxes and in my personal opinion - this sort of thing can be just as bad as growing only one type of plant and spraying it to distraction as the dahlia and chrysanthemum specialists of old did. Every area, geological and climatic, has its own typical flora and fauna so if the OP wishes to be fully ecominded their garden should be left completely fallow and may be the odd heap of rubbish to slowly rot too.
People hate flies and wasps but love bees - yet the proliferation of honey bee by human intervention is responsible for vast imbalances in the ecosystem that are hardly appreciated let alone understood. Nature is best left alone, attempting to fiddle about around the edges isn't going to accomplish much accept may be make a few millenials proud of themselves.
The most profound change to help redress and help nature along would be to limit the population.