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This special lady dropped in for a garden visit. She's perched on the parsley, which has gone to seed.Our home has a low-intervention (lazy) garden. That means I rarely use chemicals, including those labeled 'organic'. Instead, I plant local natives, let herbs flower and go to seed, and invite in the birds, insects and animals.
At the moment in the garden we've got birds, bees, lots of insects, a couple of lizards and a bat. They eat plants, pests, seeds and each other. I stand back and let them sort it out. It's less work for me that way, and it's free.
Sometimes my plants get a bit eaten. I try to be philosophical about it. If a bug doesn't want to eat my vegies, I'm not sure that I do either. But possums, if you're reading, keep away from my broccoli!
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I like your thinking :)
We've decided our broccoli is the sacrificial plant - the caterpillars are eating it, but leaving everything else be.
Beautiful photo!
That photo is gorgeous! We too have a ladybug plague, if you can call something cute that eats aphids a plague. :)
You've just made me feel so much better about the fact that my garden is currently a tribute to Darwinism. Thanks.
I love that you have a bat! (mind you, living for years in the inner city cleaning their poo off my car makes me glad you have them and not me). Our only intervention is the netting to keep the bower birds and wattle birds away otherwise they just eat everything (which is what happened last year and we got very depressed). The little planters are going great and I do like your Bug's garden studio :)
It all sounds very Eden-esque, except for some of the eating bit. I need to sort out my garden, pronto!
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