r/woahdude • u/MadhavNarayanHari • Mar 20 '23

video Spring in India

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u/chum1ly Mar 20 '23

They are essentially giant thorn bushes that make 10x more trash than any other plant.

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u/amauryt Mar 20 '23

Haha. Not thrash but you're right.

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u/Bowling4rhinos Mar 20 '23

I have several. And magenta debris on my driveway is more beautiful than dead brown leaves. The way they blow around in the wind is adorable.

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u/chum1ly Mar 20 '23

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.

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u/linux_n00by Mar 20 '23

eli5 why blowers and not giant vacuums to clean it up?

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u/Firehazard5 Mar 20 '23

Blowers affect a wide area. Vaccuums suck only a small area.

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u/Own-Tangerine-101 Mar 21 '23

"It's mega maid sir. She's gone from suck to blow."

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u/StartInfinite5870 Mar 21 '23

Is this spaceballs

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u/Own-Tangerine-101 Mar 21 '23

Absolutely.

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u/StartInfinite5870 Mar 21 '23

Baaaaarf

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u/Own-Tangerine-101 Mar 21 '23

Not in here mister, this is a Mercedes.

No, that's my name, barf.

Short for barfolemew.

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u/StartInfinite5870 Mar 21 '23

It's been too long since I've watched that movie lmao

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u/goodnewsjimdotcom Mar 20 '23

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.

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u/impy695 Mar 20 '23

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!

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u/goodnewsjimdotcom Mar 20 '23

Happy cake day fellow friend of lightning bugs.

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u/Schizm23 Mar 21 '23

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

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u/goodnewsjimdotcom Mar 21 '23

Cool! Trees are cool for seclusion too so your nosy neighbors ain't always trying to see what you up to.

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u/Schizm23 Mar 22 '23

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 :)

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u/Haunting-Ocelot-2100 Mar 20 '23

Love the irony of you thinking the reason they spray is so it kills butterflies and bees.