We all love decorating our fancy homes, it's no different for our feathered friends. Since allowing my bluegrass to go to seed and the prairie grasses to take over, I have never seen so many birds as I have this year. The yard is full of birdsong...Little fledglings taking first flights, moms and pops guarding offspring from predatory cats, hoards of bugs being chased and consumed...a natural order of things.
I remember a few years back, before I started letting my yard go back to Nature, I was sitting on the porch with binoculars in hand and was wondering why there were no birds...anywhere...it was totally silent. That's when I decided to non-conform and start to zero-scape my yard.
However, I do mow right around my house, to slow Scratchy's grass mold allergies and grass fire hazard, but the rest of the 6 acres is natural. But that doesn't mean 'no work', you are constantly pulling noxious weeds and tree seedlings, that's a must or you'll have nothing but a weed patch.
But the natural prairie soon takes over and the wildlife returns and all is good at 'The Pink Chateau'...
