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You might try planting a pollinator garden. It's a chaotic system which teaches you new aesthetic values while supporting an entire ecosystem. You get to grow a beautiful mess that only becomes more disorganised with time, but that disorder means more calories and habitat and trophic layers. Doing alternative landscaping has really radicalised me against that kind of suburban obsession with control/productivity/perfection. If I plant a sunflower instead of a rose and that sunflower falls over, that's what they do. Now it's a house and food source for an entire community I get to learn about, without a single seed going to waste because that plant isn't an object for my sole benefit.