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Native Plant Gardening

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Little water source for the wildlife. Lilypads are natives. (mander.xyz)
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Phoebes and cardinals been liking it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's beautiful! We have a similar set up and the birds love it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Any stand out strategies that have worked well or poorly for you? Trying to learn more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

You are more advanced than us! We have just a large planter full of rocks with enough water for a solar powered pump to keep it circulating. It stops at night but generally keeps it pretty fresh.

We just top it up when the level gets too low for the pump, and empty it in the winter (which lets the rocks dry off and clean up over winter too).