Dare I say that I am old enough to call up the first Earth Day , I was in eighth grade , and I remember that my schooltime pop the question a special Earth Science class that year . I became so interested in all thing environmental that my parents bribe me subscriptions to National Wildlife and The Conservationist ( a New York State magazine at the time ) . I think all of this interest remained , as later I go onto college in Maine , major in Environmental Science . As thing often go , I never took a vocation path that involved anything remotely environmental , a fact which still bothers me today , but my interest remain , so today , on this Earth Day , I am going to share some random images that I need this weekend around the garden , which , in a means , offer some test copy that indeed , some of this early environmental awareness move me .
As anyone who has visited our garden , and you will find out – it ’s not that nice . I mean , it ’s gracious if you like plants , but design - wise , it ’s pretty dumpy . It ’s all just too much to take care of for me , and I really have no idea how my parents we ’re able to do it with full time jobs . Oh yeah , they had kids to do the oeuvre – duh ! Anyway , one of my plans is to exchange the earth back to timberland , a task that is well-nigh impossible in an urban environment , as anyone who has tried to do it , knows . So or else , I am gradually introducing select species of trees and woodland works from all over the human race , trying to create flyspeck ecosystems that can be more independant . Birch groves that can be allow to throw off their leaves , which in turn , will become mulch , and bed after layer will work up up into a biomass where hellebore from Germany , Chinese and Japanese timber plant life , and of course , aborigine . Throw in a few small bulb , ferns and low - level shrubs , and possibly , I will have something close to a care free garden .
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