Homeowner Faces Citation for Her 'Woke' Garden: Native Plants, KY 🌿

[Ocelot II]

26. I, too, practice woke gardening,

and I'm also a Master Gardener. I eliminated my lawn about 10 years ago and filled my yard with mostly native plants which were chosen intentionally to include species that attract pollinators and birds. I remove invasive plants, but if useful ones turn up on their own (and they do) I don't bother them. So in addition to plants like joe-pye weed and black-eyed susans and coneflowers and bee-balm and decorative grasses I've also wound up with Philadelphia fleabane and New England asters and a few others that have just appeared by themselves. A few areas are very shady so there are non-native hostas and pulmonaria and a few others along with native solomon's seal, ferns and jacobs-ladder. Fortunately my city doesn't get heartburn over non-turf yards, so there are many others like this in my neighborhood of old houses and smallish yards. I did have a next-door neighbor who hated my yard and regularly let me know how much he hated it, which included by spraying Round-Up all along the property line, killing several valuable shrubs, and by cutting tree branches beyond the property line and throwing them into my yard. But praise the goddess, last year he and his nasty wife and bratty child moved away, probably to some suburban development with a fascist HOA to regulate its cookie-cutter McMansions and lawns of useless turfgrass.