Garden Pictures Chat Corner

We recently have a bumblebee house with flowering plants installed nearby. But they are a bit late. Let's see if a colony moves in. Nature is about 5 weeks later here. This morning it was 3 degrees.

Same here. I hope the bumblebee queen that died here hadn’t founded a colony yet. I suspect it was too cold. No idea what she died from. I fed her several times with sugar solution, but she never recovered.

Of course, almost no one (or honestly, including myself, hardly anyone) can live completely environmentally friendly/climate neutral in our society. I also by no means wanted to open the field for mutual outplaying.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that it must be a trade-off of alternatives and a cost/benefit analysis for all of us. Giving up the house and staying in the less spacious apartment with fewer floors – that would be a big sacrifice since it greatly affects life. Making no more flights at all – also a big sacrifice for many, as it means foregoing getting to know the world. Selling the car and using a cargo bike/train – depending on lifestyle and place of residence, this means losing many hours a day or it may not even be feasible.

But does anyone seriously want to say that it is a big sacrifice and personal restriction to give up the poison stick in one’s own garden and take out the weed puller? Some things simply have alternatives that are so easily implementable that stubbornness is simply incomprehensible.

If we always argue with small changes that if we don’t tackle the big upheavals everything would be a lie – then we will never move forward.

I can already see myself laying a tartan floor...

I have been watching HGTV for some time now (lately not so often because of too many repeats). I was surprised to see that it seems quite common in the luxury real estate sector to work with artificial grass carpets. With the appropriate investment, it doesn’t look like plastic at all. After all, there are entire sports fields equipped like this. Maybe that would be an alternative?

I have been watching HGTV for some time (lately not so often because of too many reruns). I was surprised to see that it seems quite common in the luxury real estate sector to use artificial grass carpets. With the appropriate investment, it doesn’t even look like plastic. After all, there are entire sports fields equipped this way. Maybe that would be an alternative?

no, even I am too eco-conscious for that ;) : you can’t (yet) beat it because there are many individual spikes.

at least saves on watering. I don’t know, when it comes to artificial turf, I always think of my grandma’s cousin’s filthy artificial turf. Wow, it soaked up water during rain, still wet days later, and the feeling on your feet, uh no. It was scratchy.