Annekin, 2 months ago to environment

"Big or small, pot or plot - interconnected #gardens have a significant impact on #biodiversity. Even small #urbangardens offer high levels of nectar production, with 85% of the total #nectar produced across a city provided by them."

Why every garden matters | Garden Organic
https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/news/backyard-biodiversity

#organicgardening
#environment
#nature
#wildlife

montrebei, 3 months ago to climate

Botanical gardens ‘most effective’ green space at cooling streets in heatwaves

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/23/botanical-gardens-most-effective-green-space-at-cooling-streets-in-heatwaves?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #UrbanHeatIslands #Anthropocene #ClimateChange #GlobalHeating #UrbanGardens #BotanicalGardens #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis

coreysnipes, 6 months ago to RadioControl

Aerial photograph of a community garden and tennis court in summer.

July, 2021 at Webb Park in Lakewood, Ohio, USA (near Cleveland)

Posting for December 2nd #ArtAdventCalendar

#Aerial #Drone #Drones #AerialPhotography #DronePhotography #Cleveland #CityParks #UrbanGardens #CommunityGardens #Allotment #Tennis

DawnBlackbirds, 9 months ago to random

Before and after: the rewilded front gardens of Positive News readers:

“There’s a growing trend for tarmacking over front gardens. Positive News readers are bucking it, by doing the exact opposite.

“… we put a call out to the Positive News community to see if anyone had liberated a lawn or banished some block paving. Sure enough, plenty of you had – with the before and after shots to prove it …

https://www.positive.news/environment/yourrewilded-front-gardens/

#Rewilding #Gardens #UrbanGardens

karmaso, 10 months ago to Flowers

Looking like sherbet on a hot afternoon, a trio of Echinacea flowers grace my garden…with the magnificent Sacred White Sage plant.

#flowers #FlowerPhotography #gardening #SizzlingSummer #UrbanGardens #Brooklyn #herbs #PayingAttention #MyJoyfulPlace

Silver leaves of Sacred White Sage & peachy Coneflowers

DoomsdaysCW, 10 months ago to Bloomscrolling

Some #UrbanGardens I've come across recently, that I wanted to highlight on #SilentSunday. Gardens like this provide food for #pollinators and make #UrbanSpace more tranquil. Obviously, it needs to be done the right way (without bee-harming pesticides, with good soil and untreated seeds), but imagine if we had these in the space between #roads and #sidewalks instead of #grass?
#BloomPosting #BloomScrolling #Gardening #GardeningForPollinators

Colorful wildflower garden on a city street, in the space between the sidewalk and street. Lots of red and yellow and pink blooms.
Colorful wildflower garden on a city street, in the space between the sidewalk and street.