charles640•2d agoMost Upvoted

The weeds in my backyard turned into a forest in 3 weeks while I was on vacation

I came back from a trip to Jasper and the dandelions were up to my knees, my neighbor actually asked if I was starting a prairie garden. Anyone else have a yard get completely out of control that fast?

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logan5612d ago

Its funny how fast nature takes over the minute you look away... like the universe is just waiting for you to stop paying attention so it can reclaim everything. I've noticed that pattern in a lot of things actually, not just yards but relationships and even your own habits. You step away for a short time and everything gets wild and tangled up, and you spend twice as long trying to get it back to normal. Dandelions especially are just relentless, they don't care about your vacation plans at all. Its kind of a reminder that nothing ever stays the same when you arent looking.

riverh492d ago

Is it really that nature is "taking over" or is it more that we just have this weird expectation that things should stay frozen the way we left them? I went camping for two weeks and came back to some mint that had completely swallowed my tomato plant, and honestly the mint was just doing what mint does. We're the ones who decided to plant neat little rows and get mad when the ecosystem doesn't respect our property lines. Dandelions aren't relentless, they're just efficient. They found a spot with good soil and full sun and they took advantage of it, same as we do when we build a house on a nice flat piece of land. Maybe the real lesson isn't that nature is wild and untamable, but that we have this weird ego about being in control of something that was never ours to control in the first place.

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shane_park922d ago

logan561 is right, the universe is just waiting for you to blink. I left for five days last summer and came back to bindweed that had crawled halfway across my patio, like it was trying to take the house.