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We are prepping a new crevice garden on the site of a neglected pollinator garden. It was overtaken in part by snowberry bushes, a vital winter food source for birds. The original plan was to compost them because there wasn't a site selected for transplanting them. I kept bringing up how many calories that is until I was finally given the okay to just pot up as many as I thought would survive.

Now the city has a surplus of really good native plants that can go anywhere we'd otherwise pay to plant something non-native and ornamental. The problem of not having a site selected is being countered by my solution of converting all undervalued urban greenspace to something better.

That's also only one of two truck-loads. I also got some native rabbitbrush, a long-season flowering shrub that pollinators go monkey for.

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[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That one is too much truck. I always feel super anxious driving it because it's so high up. The little 1990s Ford Ranger in front of me though, I'd buy that in a heartbeat if I needed a new vehicle. It feels like my subcompact but with a greater cargo capacity than most of the larger trucks.

[–] mickey@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah I had beer goggles on and was kind of joking, but it is too big. I worked for a company that was very proud to show off their electric full size pickup but the people who drove it typically gave feedback that yeah it's actually too big and a pain to get around for what we were doing.