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[Cyndi Coulter]: I'm converting my lawn, actually, from lawn to little islands of native plants. I think it's in our best interest to get away from the exotic and imported species, and go with things that are adapted for our climates, for our insects, for pollination, for the soils, for the microbial elements of the soil-there's so much. Even the birds that come through depend on native species for food and shelter.
You don't have to baby them. Once they're established, they pretty much do their own thing. They're well adapted to the soils and the weather conditions. We all have an ecological amplitude-people, plants, animals, everybody. The range of tolerances that we endure as a species, and when you put something into a different situation than it's accustomed to and it's adapted to, you have to baby it to keep it alive.Lawns are beautiful, but we have parks everywhere for that. And we pay into thos parks. We pay for their maintenance, for their upkeep, for their water, unfortunately the chemicals that go on there. And the parks are beautiful because they're such large, open expanses. But I think there' s a place for lawns-especially if you have a native grass, or one that requires less maintenance and water. It's really a nice effect.See the full content of this document
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Cyndi Coulter
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