That Time I Picked a Fight with Another Gardener...

[kimberlysteele]

 Somebody must have pissed in my cornflakes this morning because I went off in the comments section of this blogger who complains that "we" need to do something about the endangered status of monarch butterflies.

The article:

https://www.monarchgard.com/thedeepmiddle/no-we-dont-just-need-to-plant-more-milkweed

My comment:

 

Scolding gardeners and then bloviating about how much "they" need to do is nihilistic and counterproductive. I know you are trying to save butterflies with this article, but you're going about it all wrong. How about encouraging people to build upon what they are already doing instead of tearing them down for what they're not doing? Like "Hey, you've planted milkweed, so go ahead and put in that butterfly bush and monarda?" Instead, you've gone the Greta Von Doomsburg approach and screamed HOW DARE YOU. Newsflash: Nobody cares. Are you a vegan? Did you know that the pollution you help to create by eating animals and their secretions causes more damage to the Earth's ecosystems than all transportation combined according to the United Nations? Yeah, thought so. And even if you are a Land of Perfect fruit and seed only eating vegan, if you had a biological child, you've just screwed the pooch and you have a mammoth carbon footprint, so might as well forget about trying to do anything good at all. Black pills... so tedious. So unoriginal. For heaven's sake, look in the mirror once in a while and then sit down and think about the message you are putting out there. The real concern here is there may be some impressionable souls who don't automatically tune out when confronted with your "do as I say, not as I do" hysteria.

Being me, I most likely won't ever look at the male Greta Von Doomsburg's blog again, even if he tries to instigate a flame war. I'm good at ghosting people like that! Also, I have a life and a garden to tend to that's got quite a few butterflies. Pictures coming on next week's Open Post!

Comments

[kimberlysteele]

If you can grow passionflower, it's probably too warm for swamp milkweed! I think it likes to be killed off in the winter. Some plants are weird like that. I saw a red spotted purple at the nature preserve a week ago!