Huh???

Yes, native flora can restore an ecological balance but to think that only native plants can do that is incorrect thinking...

I mean, one only look at our farm as a prime example... Our farm used to be a hog farm... When we bought it it had been two years since any hogs were here but the effects of the hogs were everywhere... We had no worms, very few bugs and hardly any birds... We also didn't have much in the way of native plants other than the hardwood forest that the hogs didn't live in and lots of burdock and thistle...

One of the first things we did was bring in lots of soil and created a 400 long garden on the edge of the forest... The plants weren't native to this area on the Blue Ridge with the exception of amny wild flowers that we brought with us... But we also brought hundreds of azaleas, rhodos, hostas, laurels, grasses, etc. that don't grow here naturally...

We also brought in about 30 bales of straw and a couple tons of chicken manure and and plowed that into what would become or vegetable garden...

And guess what??? Four years later we have these lush gardens made up of all kinds of plants that whyile no native to the Blue Ridge are hardy and happy...

And Guess what, Part B??? We also have hundreds and hundreds of birds... And we have thousands of worms and insects...

In other words, we have taken "our choice" of flora and created a completely balanced ecological santuary... Okay, too many deer but when one has a farm that borders a wooded national park that comes with the territory... We had them when we first came, too...

Now some folks might think us criminals and evil for what we have done but we understand nature, and balance, and ecology and what we have done is restore those elements in nature... Our way... That's the beauty of being a human being... We have choices and if we make correct choices we can live quite nicely and still be "pro-earth" (a term I have used going back decades, thank you...)

B~