klc said:I had lots of plans but went from a mostly shade yard to full sun with just a few saw strokes...
Sorry to hear this...
As horrible as it is when peeps do it to their own yards so they can grow useless turf... how much worse to have it done to you!!!
I'd get busy planting poppies and sunflowers for the finches, and mulberry trees for everybody... and uh... how much room do you have for trees? plant some poplars for the tiger swallowtails, and a pawpaw patch for the zebra swallowtails, and a big patch of passion vines for the frits and longwings...
Better tear down the fence, and plant some stuff in the neighbor's yard....
After the NWF attempted to go into a partnership with Scotts chemicals:
http://www.stonethegardener.co...
I kinda lost interest in them...
But...
the certified wildlife habitat WAS one of their better ideas...
Made it a little more difficult for the neighborhood HOA to force compliance with their ridiculous "weed" laws... in their ever increasing effort to force the country to rip out valuable landscapes and grow noxious turf...
http://www.stonethegardener.co...
