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Pollinator plants are Garden Butterfly’s specialty
This is the latest in a series we call Plant PPL, where we interview people of color in the plant world. If you have any suggestions for PPL to include in our series, tag us on Instagram @latimesplants. Brandy Williams’ business is landscape design, but it’s more accurate to think of her as an artist who paints for pollinators, primarily with succulents and what she calls “California friendly” plants. Williams never consciously intended to make plants her life’s work. In college, the Compton native thought about majoring in accounting or teaching, finally settling on human resources. But when it came to a project for her master’s degree, she found herself…
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‘Native landscape’ bill would make Minnesota cities more pollinator friendly, one lawn at a time
Blame George Washington. America’s initially president preserved a lawn at Mount Vernon, copying the type from English manor houses and castles. Getting to start with in war and 1st in peace also, evidently, built Washington initially in landscaping for Us residents — at least the wealthier types. The enjoy of the turf grass garden has hardly abated since, so significantly so that it ultimately became encased in law. Cities and towns across the nation adopted ordinances to impose the suitable of the grass garden, and then used code enforcement officers and fines to compel compliance. This 7 days, however, a Minnesota Court of Appeals ruling exposed a conflict concerning that…


