labhair gaeilic liom, má tá suim agat!
siad/iad i ngaelic ; they/them in english
soirbhíoch dúshlánach ; defiant optimist
apparently a neoliberal & bad news, for opposing climate-change-accelerating genAI 🤷
it’s well worth identifying what plant it is exactly & whether it’s native or not, just to be sure. a lot of native plants can have vigorous growth & spread because that’s exactly the habitat & climate it’s adapted to.
but if it’s not native & is spreading, it sounds like it’ll be a hell of a job to remove. i don’t envy you if that’s the case, best of luck!
if those thorn bushes are native plants, then why not let them grow?
i just let the place grow wild without input from me, beyond what i & my dogs walk over. the grass/clover/purple deadnettle/buttercups/etc stay shorter in high-traffic areas, then the low-traffic areas tend to fill up with bigger wild plants like docks, thistles, nettles etc.
butterflies, bees, and other insects seem to love the thistles when they start flowering, and it’s so nice to see pollinators fluttering & buzzing around that it’s worth the occasional thorn/nettle sting when i’m not watching where i’m going! not to mention the blackberry harvest from the briars in the autumn.
“housing first” initiatives end up saving governments money in the long run, because people in stable situations require fewer supports, are healthier physically & mentally, have the bandwidth for pastimes & participating in their communities, etc etc.
(if i didn’t know any better, i might think having an unhoused population is an intentional policy choice to threaten people with & to keep capitalism going. because if people just started building & providing housing to one another for free, like they used to before planning permission & other red tape, our local communities might start to be too independent & self-sufficient to keep centi-billionaires quite as rich, oh no! 😱)