Despite the original posters overly extensive post, with certain questionable content, the central point is still quite vaild. We as a nation spend more money on grass than on any other crop. That by itself should be reason enough. Read up on the history of lawns and you'll find that they were orginally created as a means of demonstrating wealth (aka, I have this big area and I can afford to do nothing with it except grow grass I can't eat) Regarding the comments of junegem13 and zachslc, you might want to read up on the legal history of this movement. As it turns out, most weed laws (ones based on hight, not on noxious weeds) are unconstitutional. Nonetheless, if you are in a city or subdivision and decide to do a wildflower meadow where there is not an reasonable ordinance, then you should notify your neighbors and the city about why you are doing and the legal preceedants. The EPA has all this information. Regarding property values, that was the original complaint neighbors made against one landowner when she converted her lawn into meadow. When they were unable to demonstrate an actual decrease in property values, the city ordinance was ruled unconstitutional. Afterwards, the neighbors decided if they couldn't beat her that they'd join her and replace their own yards with meadows. Property values in that one neighborhood are now some of the highest in the city (Specific names and places, are available if you want them). Time and time again, lawn alternatives done correctly have shown to raise values, not lower them. In Charlottesville, VA local government is working on an ammendment to exclude native meadows from our weed ordinance. Other cities are doing the same very quicky, especially since the weed ordinance as written by many localites constitutes a legal liability to local governments.

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Coolmama, I think you should be tested for VonWillebrand's disease. This is a blood clotting deficiency that is usually, buy not always, genetic. The fact that you have other relatives with easy bruising would point to this. I was diagnosed with this at 45 and no one else in my family has it. I have a history of heavy periods, easy bruising, and excessive bleeding with surgery or minor cuts. There are MANY medicines and herbal supplements I can't take because they thin the blood and cause bleeding in me. I take birth control pills because they help increase the clotting factor of the blood. Please ask your doctor about this. Mine wasn't discovered by the surgeons who stated I had excessive bleeding during surgery, but by a concerned nurse. Ask to be tested!

Some Adros tend to shut down during the higher UV summer heat. My opinion is you may have done the right thing by removing it from the outside to inside to help keep it cooler in my experiences with them I still keep an avg 45-50 % for 5-6 hrs bright cooler sun time on them it should be okay to bring it back to it's location sometime in Sept . Adro foliage: many can and do hold on to the less than perfect coloring foliage for a while This one is an Adro marianiae ' geyerii' it's one of the better summer full sun UV bullets I have, ( I'ts not the strongesr warmer summer high UV sun bullet ) . The dried leaf was held for five years. Other less UV tolerant adros in my collection are summer stored up closer for less exposure time of full sun Just as an FYI moving to the left is a more shaded area until later in the day My watering by your pot size avg is usually every 10 days some adros can hold for two weeks If I have to water any adro two time in a 14 day period I bring it to the back of the house for late day 1- 2 hrs full sun until Sept which is when they seem to wake again from the summer heat slumber. Once they are out side here they are out they can be racked higher for more stronger UV sun or set lower for more shaded & more or less less sun time varied by the upper side of the tray With a low temp tolerance in the 40's I only keep these inside during the cold months It's not easy trust me & it's not impossible either, best of luck on having every leaf on your Adro looking at it's best all the time Here's a pointer, they can't tell (nor do they know the difference from) a drop of water from a drop of chemical or any non chemical liquid. If it's a liquid to us, to them it's moisture most any arid succulent will hold on to that liquid ( or moisture) for hours.