Theory Slam - like Poetry Slams except folks present a theory – 7.00 P.M. Monday 05.01.2009 at the Urban Cafe, Dance City, Newcastle.
SUMMARY OF NATIVE-GARDENING TALK – 2009 THEORY-SLAM
"Green"/ecological gardening is native gardening, so fruit and vegetables/edibles, plus other consumables, should be the only exotic-flora we plant or hybridise - as doing so can help limit food-miles, packaging, etc. By filling our other garden spaces with natives, we limit the risk of foreign-diseases and -pests, plus use less water and other resources, whilst aiding the native-fauna that, over the centuries, evolved with them - that is, habitat creation. (You have probably heard of American skunk-cabbage and Japanese knot-weed, among other big-problem species, but even high-nectar exotics, such as Buddleia, that are very attractive to some of England's native-fauna, should be avoided, because they upset nature's/God's balance – God created evolution, too, that is; so the Victorian plant-hunters were brave but wrong and, rather, it is better, for example, to grow geraniums in England, and pelargoniums in South Africa.)
Our green gardens, with their edibles and natives (harvest and habitat), can be made still-greener (better places for wildlife to feed and live) by the addition of compost heaps/bins; a wildlife pond – for native frogs, newts, and so on, rather than exotic goldfish; bee- and bird-boxes, plus carefully-selected regularly-cleaned feeders; rain- and grey-water butts; by, at harvest time, leaving some vegetable plants to flower; by avoiding pesticides and growing everything organically - including thrifty home-propagation, plus species-swapping; and by leaving lush untidy patches (less mowing - perhaps just for a path), with decaying branches/insect hotels (helping to offset their global decline).
In summary, do the best you can with the limited pallet of natives plus veggies and, thus, reduce food-miles, help keep our world/United Nations multicultural, AND help the native fauna that EVOLVED with the flora native to your part of the world.
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