Should Auld Acquaintance ...

One of the nice things about returning to blogging after a year and a half absence was finding that several of the blogs I read regularly are still alive and thriving. I'm still catching up on what I've missed, but it's nice to see Niches and The Taming of the BandAid still thriving.

Sometimes it seems like there are many, many fellow travelers on the native-plant, backyard-habitat bandwagon, but that's only because likes attract. In "real life" most of the people I meet or talk gardening with are lawn-crazy, irrigation-system loving, tropical-plant cultivating folks who just don't get native plants and think wildlife habitats should be banned from suburban neighborhoods. The other night I was chatting with a new acquaintance at a party, and almost fell off my chair when I asked about her gardening and she replied that she was mostly interested in native plants and reducing the amount of lawn around her house. Eureka!