Eco-mimicry: An Alternative to 'Blandscaping'
Blandscaping is all around us from manicured urban landscapes of exotic greenery to single-crop agricultural landscapes. Despite the green appearance of blandscapes, local biodiversity suffers because the usual pieces of a well-adapted ecological system, rich in relationships, are no longer present. For example, when we neglect to plant native flowers, we also exclude the native pollinators that have evolved in tandem with the plants. The antidote to blandscaping is e