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Those places (all places) should be primarily using local flora.
by apercu 3y ago
Those places (all places) should be primarily using local flora.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoYep exactly. I decided to look up the local flora for Los Angeles and found this nice article. It notes that Los Angeles has a Mediterranean style climate, and there certainly are plenty of local flora options to choose from: https://la.curbed.com/2018/8/23/17720768/los-angeles-plants-trees-glossary-guide-jasmine-palm https://la.curbed.com/2018/8/23/17720768/los-angeles-plants-...
- apercu 3y agoI'm in year two of turning the front yard (half-acre) in to prairie. I'm _mostly_ using local flora but the climate is changing so there are more options. More challenging is that I had started with drought resistant indigenous stuff but the predictions are that anticipating the coming years weather is "unpossible" and that even the local stuff is going to fail half the time.
- stickfigure 3y agoI grew up in LA and still spend a lot of time camping in the southwest. I think I'm pretty familiar with what the natural environment would look like without cities. It's not green. It's mostly dirt, peppered with scrub plants. You can get a pretty good idea what "LA or Vegas with natural green belts" would look like just by going outside the metro areas. I'm not saying it's bad - I love southwest desert - but natural desert "greenbelts" are probably not what you're picturing if you think "why don't we do Medellín here?"