Rewilding My Lot

I am not building a garden to have a collection of pretty plants, although that will hopefully be a pleasant side-effect. The real goal is to create a small pocket of nature that will be healthy for the land and welcoming to wildlife.

Here’s an example of what is happening, which encourages me.

As I was passing through the garden I noticed this assemblage of visitors (photo above) on a volunteer sunflower (not yet blooming). I didn’t have time to properly identify them, but in that one field of view there were at least two lady beetles, one spider, and one caterpillar. Here are some crops of the same photo to show more detail.