Those jerk mice! Here’s hoping you continue getting fresh growth on those apples and have good weather for getting those peppers planted

Super cool, your tomatoes will love that! Depending on your bioregion, I might know a guy. You can set up a dragonfly pond with a small footprint using a five gallon bucket and a small pump with an air stone.

What a nice gift! Our library has some of those 4-5’ high beds, they’re super nice to work with. Speaking of nice, that sounds like a really great garden.

Lol they’re maple leaved viburnums, good guess!

The only way I’m able to tell at this stage is that true maples keep their oval cotyledons for longer

You’re right that it’s not a tree, but that is not correct

“maple” is a part of the common name of this plant, you’re on the right track!

My understanding is that many of them have charters which have elected board positions, though there are some which are privately owned communities in which that is not the case. Those board meetings and elections tend to face the same engagement and participation challenges as municipal meetings and elections among the age groups best positioned/inclined to make the changes.

Armchair quarterback opinion, since I don’t have personal adult experience living in one, but I think it might be doable running with a “remove bs fees” position coupled with “remove petty board members” based on conversations with friends and internet strangers.

I keep trying to radicalize my HOA-laden friends to get some folks together and take over the boards in order to institute rules which would promote biodiversity, rather than sterile carbon copy neighborhoods.

Instead of fines for letting plants grow above certain heights, set ones for not having enough plants. Since that’s punitive and financially unavailable for some people, submit grant proposals and partnerships to have funding for additional plantings to support various threatened species or ecosystems as appropriate.