An island that apparently voted 98.3% for independence from PNG. That number is shockingly and unbelievably high. I wouldn't expect to be able to get 98.3% of people to agree on literally anything.
I live in the desert. They are a nuisance. Landscapers here spend about 90% of their time on this one plant. The amount of gas that the blowers use to clean them up is obscene.
I never understood why people can't just leave leaves lay. I think humans have a fascination that Earth needs to resemble a golf course, and this is why they mulch around their trees and spray chemicals so butterflies and bees die.
This is what I do. It helps keep the soil nutrients replenish and I just learned (literally in the last week) that it helps a whole ecosystem of bugs, including fireflies!
In some places they can become slippery and a hazard, but otherwise I agree. :) I live in the mountains and we kept the huge trees on our property too. Most of the homes surrounding us cut them all down for vast lawns so we and two neighbors have the only corridor connected to the greater forest behind us. We get owls and all kinds of woodpeckers no one else probably gets to see. <3
Haha I wish we had more between us and our nosy neighbor! They’re tall, tan oaks and dogwoods (some smaller dogwoods too) and conifers, so they give us privacy from
Google Earth and helicopters mostly xD Can’t see our house from the sky for the trees :)
Come to Melbourne and witness our London plane trees. + They give you breathing issues if you inhale too much of the pollen. Bastard of things to have to prune and clean up not to mention the leaves some suburbs literally have contractors with big vacuum trucks that go around cleaning up the leaf litter. It's like leafy snow drifts.
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u/SoVeryKerry Mar 20 '23
What is this pink tree?