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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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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

right on, good for you comrade. these grow around here too, they are a nice plant. I like their delicate pink/white flowers in the spring. they are not too hard to propagate by seed also, though it takes a while. I've found that if you pick a lot of berries and then just chuck them onto suitable surface, a year or so later you'll see them start to come up. oregon grape is similar. this doesn't have the hit rate of doing cuttings/transplants like you're doing, but the white berries are just so much fun to pick and throw.