Our beautiful allys got cut down!

[rose]

I just don't get what people think is "supposed" to be there. Do they want barren land? Aren't these weed flowers also beautiful?! And where do they learn these planticidal tendencies?! A house down the street from me goes to great lengths to keep a large yard entirely of white gravel.

[Lady Alinor]

Our landowner believes that he HAS to spray in order to have healthy trees to sell, he says no one wants a tree with weed seeds or aphid residue. This Spring/early Summer he had the Trees sprayed to kill Aphids, he had it done right when the Blackberries were blooming and now he wonders why he only got 5 quarts of honey when last year he got 9...DUH, when a chopper flies over spraying the trees it is also spraying anything else that may be in flower and the Bees die from pesticide poisoned blooms. I've harped on him enough the last two years (since we got the colonies) that yesterday when he asked me what was wrong with the Bees all I said was it's been a strange year, things bloomed too early or not at all.

[cataway]

Ha! the white gravel thing brings my mother in laws rose garden to mind, she ripped it all out and put in 2 colors of gravel in a block in block pattern. Her boys all refer to it as the "Barbecue" Went out and got me some mullein and after moving on several meters found a herbicide warning !!!goddammit!!! I don't get it either. Worse than that my husband was out hunting and had a chopper cruise overhead and sprayed him and everyone else in the bush(record no of hunters at that very point in time) with herbicide WTF??? Forestry didn't want anything competing with their "money" trees which is pine so now there is nothing but pine and then the mountain pine beetle swoops in for the massive buffet and we all lose...bastards don't see the cause and effect either I swear. Now they will clear cut all the dead pine whilst taking the random few that survived due to a natural resistance as well, thus ensuring the cycle can continue unchecked. To add salt to the wound they then point to changes in weather patterns as the only cause...Am I wrong??? God I hope I'm wrong.

[rose]

Sadly, that's so true.

[Justine]

my well-meaning housekeeper, after her shift was over, last week, took it upon herself to pull up, in less than three minutes, over one hundred aster and goldenrod plants almost in bloom just outside my front doorstep.

I heard her leave, then a few moments later I saw to my disbelief, out my side window, while sitting at my computer, her walking by with her arms loaded with plants....

I walked back to the compost pile to see what it was she had transported back there, and sure enough...nearly All OF THE ASTERS...that have been growing by my front door for many years..

Took hours to replant them, and of course, they will not flower this year.

BIG SIGH.

[crystal woman]

People are strange and getting stranger.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Big, Big SIGH !!

[wood]

I used to hunt morels in a woods that belonged to a friend. They sold the back half of the woods to Wendy's restaurant to put in a "green space". Wendy's bulldozed down all the trees and pulled the stumps and planted grass?!? Now there are no morels in the woods that are still there. It used to be a nice wood with ginger, jack-in-the-pulpit, and other plants not to mention the MORELS! It is enough to make me believe in doing violence! Stupid doesn't even begin to cover what I think of the people that did that!

[Ginger]

dumb,dumb,dumb,dumb, dumb-dee-doo-bee- dumb
dumb,dumb,dumb,dumb, dumb-dee-doo-bee- dumb
dumb,dumb,dumb,dumb, dumb-dee-doo-bee- dumb
Wah, wah, wah, waaaaaahhhhh
~*~
Well, I love, love my garden,
Come and stroll with me.
Way be-yond, insanity
I love my garden,
Come and Stroll with me
La,la,la, L' Ahhhhhh

Yes, we need you, yes we really need you. Please say you'll never leave me.
We send our lovin' To all the plants a buzzin'
A message to heal our Hearts
~*~
May all life be respected. May the forests be replenished and protected. May the mushrooms return to us.
Peace ~*~

[nycquilter]

Also, everyone, remember that these misunderstood beings are perennial and are not destroyed by being cut. Mother Nature preserves them for us in the next cycle. It stinks to lose this harvest but we and our plant beings will overcome, given that next year, we're given another opportunity to teach others of the beauty. The clover, dandelions, thistle, wild carrot, and all the others will be back. And if we invite them in, they'll come to our lands with a passion and maybe leave the neighbors alone

[vismaya]

searched along forumn but this seems relative to dealings...
For never have lived in neighborhood with neighbors mowing lawn, and for seems there is some law about not before 10:30, for not honored and at times awakened to the noise and its loud...........................................
Wow, all can say is shock really cause if one neighbor is not mowing then the others are sometimes every 2-3 days
Stinking gas all in the air. So much nonsense really.

Really something ! For seems like grass here where we live loves growing of course love it growing with beautiful clover white flowers, mullien, red clover, just sweet
For as this cycle goes on and on
then slowly watching the daily affairs , seem to brought to attention of chemical use sprayed through water hose

Not okay....
Wondering of others experiences with such.. if any.....
Seems like nonstop paranoia of if the grass grows one inch above level, that they can't rest at night... really strange,

For have always lived with natural surroundings and sure that just seeing what is going on in town...
But the whole scene has gotton out of hand... for neighbor speaks of fence like in some threatning manner because requested for no chemicals to be used
saying " Are you going to ask everyone on the street to not use there chemicals" SURE
And then saying" you need to use chemicals in your yard.."

Oh good goddess...... my yard is large and on a corner, for have a really kind garden... just my vibe is that use of chemical so close to my herbs
and organic food is not okay and even the dandelion and herbs harvested around the yard.... Really love for anyone knowing info on this to pass it on....

any guidance of such matters really appreciated
goddess bless

[Lady Alinor]

Here in the Pacific Northwest we see a lot of folks with signs along their property lines saying "NO SPRAY", some of the signs are real artistic
We can't control what our neighbors do but we can keep them from "Being Helpful" beyond their property.

A few years back I gave my Mom a Honeysuckle plant, she planted it next to her garage, one day she returned home to find her neighbor spraying the thriving plant, the neighbor said "I saw that you had an envasive and decided to help you get rid of it".
My Mom could put "No Spray' signs in her yard but...she IS known for using Roundup from time to time.

We have two legged lawn mowers...CHICKENS they do a fairly good job and are relatively quiet.

[balsamfir]

Here in the Pacific Northwest we see a lot of folks with signs along their property lines saying "NO SPRAY", some of the signs are real artistic

i thought it would be fun to see some of these signs so i went searching online thinking perhaps someone had done a photo series or something. well i didn't find it but i found a few photos from hawaii where no spray signs also seem to be common:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/konaboy/131923429/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/konaboy/53 ... set-985769 (this one is a collage so it might need to be viewed in full size)

i'm inspired to make some signs of my own.

right now i've got this premade sign in my garden:
http://syracuseculturalworkers.com/yard ... arden-sign

[Lady Alinor]

Yesterday we went to the High Desert for the day to do some shooting and exploring. We camp there every year but haven't had the time yet, so it's a good thing we went for the day. We first went to check on my FIL's old camp, his ashes are spread there and my husband carved a 'headstone' to mark the spot. Last year some logging had been done and the loggers had come upon the marker and fire ring and marked the spot with some of their colored plastic tape and moved on, everything looks as we left it last Fall. We then headed up past the Wells to our camp, as soon as we drove onto the Flats we noticed loggers had been there we drove up the hill and our camp is all gone they cut down what few trees were growing up there. Yes, this is Pumis covered Desert but Jack Pines are mighty hardy.
The loggers wiped out all the Desert Wildflowers, Sage Brush, young saplings...EVERYTHING!

We are heart broke. My husband's family has been camping at that spot since the 1930's and now it's gone. The camp used to be so welcoming and intensely positive, you could feel that the Goddess lived and walked there, now it feels angry and wants to strike out and everybody, my husband has the deep scratches on his legs and ankle to prove it and we very nearly lost our bumper on a root that wasn't there and then it was, with a vengence. (thank goodness we were able to find some wire to reattach the bumper ).

I can't quit thinking about the devastation

[Sashamarts]

this is all so sad.

I've just begun to attempt wildcrafting... I was so excited to discover that out of the blue this year we got tons of Oatstraw and some lovely thistles and a few other leafy lovelies (I live in an apartment complex)... and before i could identify them our landlord decides for the first time in the 3 years i've lived there to hire a landscaper!! he ripped everything up and carried it away in his truck... he mowed so often that the violets never even sprang back up... then he stopped coming!! he just came in and trashed all the beautiful green-ness and disappeared.
now, no one would call our complex "well maintained" but i thought all the lush green growth looked NICE... but i guess i was the only one, everyone else prefers seeing the shabby brick and lumpy pavement
the chicory started coming in these last couple weeks, and i was so grateful to see color again, and who should arrive after weeks of absence?? the landscaper... you've got to be kidding me!!! UGH!!!!!!!!!

[yellow]

Oh horrible! I hope you can get your own place as soon as possible and watch your yard grow. I love watching a new flower every few weeks spring up and learning about them, that should be a basic human right.