The Vivid Scenery

The ending scents of flowers fill the air when you carefully stroll through the patches of freshly blossomed buds. It's that time of year again when suddenly the flowers cease to flourish and the air fills with a crisp scent of winter. Days feel brisk and windy while the nights seem kind yet behold a treacherous chill. As the warm summer sun hides away for the season, light snow falls from the sky onto nearby heads and melt their wintery water throughout the town. Showy swim suits and swimming beach days die down as the days for fuzzy jackets and warm mittens slowly emerge. Gardens become more difficult to manage as they wither from the chilly winter breezes and they stay solidly dead throughout the next few months until the changing of the seasons strike again. This time of year is pleasant and joyful besides the appearance of withering trees and plants. Nothing shall ever replace this cool and calm season as we move on with our lives.

Nurturing Your Child

Planting a garden is raising a child. They require scrupulous care and have to be monitored at all times of the day. You can't just ignore your child for an extended amount of time and hope for the best and question whether they survived or not, it's your job to ensure that your child lives. Your child will constantly require food and water to continue functioning for the same reasons that a garden needs to keep blooming. A child’s whine for care can become tiresome after a certain amount of time, but the whole idea is that you don't give up no matter what the circumstance. You have to keep moving forward to pursue the results of his/her growth in the future to examine your positive or negative impact on your child’s life.

You wouldn't let some stranger come up to your child and fidget with them nor would you allow someone to fuss with the growth of a particular plant. Overall your goal is to never give up on this child and allow them to grow and prosper in the near future.

What's Wrong With Your Lawn?

I came outside to check on the status of my property but I noticed that my grass looked kind of sad and droopy. I couldn't understand why though. There is a lot of grass to water and with my income I can't afford to spend that much on my lawn.

Only a week ago I also put pesticides on my lawn to help eliminate pests. Maybe that affected the growth of my lawn. Now that I think about it, I may not have enough natives for my yard like some other neighbors have. Well after about another week went by, a stunning event took place and my yard was completely brown and there was not a patch of green grass in sight. Well, now I feel bad for killing my grass that took so long to actually flourish while I could have planted natives instead. Not to mention the unnecessary amount of money that I spent for keeping my lawn looking its best.

Let's Be More Thrifty With Our Lawns

We all want to be careful with our money and try to stray away from wasteful spending. You find an expensive dress so why, in the end do you not purchase the dress? Self control and thriftiness help most people out of this situation. They realize that they don’t really need the dress but, rather they have a desire to keep the item. So this concept must go towards taking care of your lawn too. Right? Actually having a fresh green lawn isn’t very thrifty or necessary.

That’s why planting natives are a much simpler solution to fit most peoples’ desire to be thrifty. Watering your lawn is not like what most shopaholics say. "The more you buy, the more you save" because in reality you're doing the opposite of saving anything in this situation. Gallons of water are wasted instead of conserving the water for other scenarios. Natives prevent the wasting of water because of their previous adaptation to the environment and are therefore a much better alternative to watering lawns.

Native Plants Help Save The Environment

I enjoy my daily walk through the neighborhood; the trees shimmering with sunlight and the birds chirping with gladness. Every day seems fresh and new, but suddenly that feeling changed when I was walking to collect the newspaper.

The soft sound of a repetitive ticking lingered in the air, then I realized the ticking was a sprinkler system of a neighbor, who of course had a fabulous lawn, which was free of weeds and there was not a dead patch of grass in sight. Our water is not an element to waste, especially not in our present economy I thought as the sprinklers carried on. There are certainly plenty of other options to decorate your yard with, rather than nurturing a million blades of grass, but what?

Ahh! A native garden of course. They require almost no water, no pesticides for killing insects, conserve water, and they help the production of wildlife in the area. If only those poor people knew about these wonderful plants before wasting money on their grass to keep it oh so green.

Oh well, I thought as I dragged myself and the newspaper back inside.