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August 27, 2025 14 mins
Milkweed v. Reston Association (2025)...and before.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
That's her. No way, Oh, I go find her name, Ridhika.
I think line two, what's your name?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Radhika?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Wow? I was off, I was off, you're a bit off.
I was, Hey, So you're you're the lady I was
reading about.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Apparently my friend just texted me.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah, So what's the So you got the toxic plants
all over your house and resting's pissed.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Zero zero toxicity to anything but lanterns lives. Actually that's
not true. If we eat them, it's going to be
toxic to us.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Okay, So how about people? People? It's toxic to people.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I mean, don't go munching, you know, stuff in your yard.
That's what I say.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
What about is it?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Can I can I ask you this? In the article
that I was reading, it does say it's toxic to animals.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Is that true?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah? Are there are a lot of plants that are
toxic to animals. We just don't have our animals again
chomping things in our heart.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Okay, but you realize animals will eat see what is
the story?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
What hell? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well I'm trying to get there, but she won't let me.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
But now the other thing is they they also kill
lantern flies right, They.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Seem to paralyze them, which makes them obviously stop eating things.
And it's the only plant that's known to do this,
and they're also the only plant for the monarch caterpillars.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
So explain that to me.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
So, monarch caterpillars are the caterpillars that monarch butterflies come from,
and monarch butterflies are endangered, and the only plant these
caterpillars will eat is the milkweed.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
And it's obviously not toxic to the caterpillars.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, there's something about how they cut the stem of
the leaf and let some of the sack go and
so then they can eat the leaf without dying.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, you're not a horticulturist. They well, that's the big
word for eight in the morning. And ma'am, if you hate,
I know you've probably sided with the association. You probably
don't listen very often. It's a big word, just at
any time a day for you.

Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yes, Tyler, twenty of people are saying they have it
and actively look to include it in their yards.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
What happened with you? Why are you? Why?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Radar?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Why's resting up your ass?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
So? Rest in Association actually doesn't give a flying rats
ass But I have a millionaire investor who bought the
property next to mine, and I have a person of
a different generation who has complained about my yard for
the last three or four years. I am trying to

(02:42):
do something called rewilding. I've had three hundred native plants
planted in my front yard. Among them are milkweed because
milkweed is native to this area. And rest in Association
their only fault is they have antiquated guidelines, so they
won't ooh, that's a big words.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Of the morning.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Antiquated, so they will enforce the guidelines if my neighbors complain.
If my neighbors just shut their traps and instead said
thank you for you know, protecting the planet on your
little borrowed piece of land, I would be fine.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Rest in Association, it would be fine. So it's just
that they just shut their traps. Well, it's just so
the I believe the millionaire and the different generator. Is
it like an old man or an old woman?

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Is that what it is? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, so, I mean the old name is quite close
to Karen, interestingly.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
And not oh so Karen and the millionaire they don't want.
They don't want toxic plants right next door. And so
they said something. But if they would have just shut
their mouths, we would be fine.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Actually, they don't want anything that looks unruly or hurts
their real estate value. And they think that these native plants,
because they're there can be six to seven feet tall.
The milk weed itself is for re tall, for seat tall.
Because they're so tall, they think it hurts the value

(04:06):
of their real estate. And I think it's like everyone says,
you know, women should and gets what they're doing to
our yards. They want a dead yard that lest compliant.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Can I can I just real quick? I love you
the Can we not cuss on the radio?

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Sorry, yeah, no, that's okay. It's a stupid FCC. Listen,
you fight with resident Association. I fight with the FCC.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I get it. Or how about her cursis feelings? So
I know, but they call it that. Listen, it's a
stupid organization. Hey, so what is? But but let me
ask you this, and I want you to be honest
with me. Yeah, do you have one of those yards?

Speaker 3 (04:48):
Like when I lived in Falls Church, there was somebody
who lived down the street who had one of their
signs in the yard that was like this is like
a natural habitat or something like that, and it looked
like it looked honestly, it looked like trash. It just
looked like it looked like like the person who never
came out. They just let their yard grow to crap.

(05:09):
Is that what your yard looks like?

Speaker 2 (05:11):
So I may tell you my dad and my stepmother
live in Resting and their their yard or lawn or
whatever is often on the tour of the beautiful Lawns
of Resting, And my yard does in fact look like
if you didn't know what these times were, it looked
like no one lived here and it was completely overgrown.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, so it looks out about that. It looks like trash.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well you know it's in the I mean some people
like mar A Lago face and some people like normal people.
I mean, this is what land should look like. We
should have natives, They should tall, they should bloom all
around the year. We shouldn't have monocultures.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Now did you go through the comments on the ff
dot com page that were I did not? Okay, So
do you remember Lori Dodd? Yes, she is on the
r board or used to be yes exactly. So she
said that she has visited with you. Is that correct
in the past.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Yeah. Last year, when my other neighbor complained the.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Ers, she says the.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Story that they published is misleading because so many facts
are left out. Is there something else?

Speaker 1 (06:31):
She's just saying facts are being left out.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Of the article of the article, okay, meaning but whatever
is left out is benefiting who?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
What's the bias? Did the writer have a bias? Looks
like trash?

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I think the general consensus among people who don't know
about natives plants is that my art looks like trash.
There's no doubt about it. I'm never going to hide
some that. My point is this is how the land
should look. We live in the woods. We don't need
to be putting in pesticide and lawn chemicals, which, by
the way, every year rest In Association says, oh, don't

(07:16):
go into the lakes. There are too many chemicals in it.
We've gotten an algae bloom. And then they turn around
and say, mode the mother loving is that? Okay, that's
out of your yardine. But native plants what they do?
You don't need to water them, you don't need pesticides.
You don't need lawn chemicals and they get pollinate. There's
a place to live.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
So how does so excuse me? How does the so,
how does this resolve? Are you going to have to
cut down your your your your yard?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
I did yesterday because I can't afford the finest.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
How much were the fines?

Speaker 2 (07:53):
So they are unspecified? I think? And also I can
be taken. They can take legal ash and against me.
They can find me, and they can prevent me from
using like the trails in the pool, all the common areas.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Really so you yeah, so and so, but you have
no idea. Maybe the fines were a dollar a day.
Maybe you could have afforded the fines.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
But I count afford to be sued, and I count
afford and I'd like to use the trails and pools.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, no, I get that.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Don't use the lake. There's a big algae bloom, the
the the So what did you do yesterday? Did you
pull everything out?

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well? I have a very sweet landscaper who over the
last so many years has learned which the invasive plants are.
So he'll come in and he'll cut down just the
invasive plants to give the natives chance. So he came
yesterday with his guys and cut everything down for me,
and I was not here because every year I go

(08:50):
through this, this is here. I finally have milkweed, which
seems to catch people's attention. Right, every year I go
through this, and normally I'm here when he's cutting it
down and when you see all the critters running away
from these patches of natives. Last year was a snake
that just was running for his life. And I just
did in the driveway and started bawling because what we're

(09:12):
doing to the planet is just not right, right, So you.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
I mean, you love that, you know what.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
The other thing that I didn't know in the first
guy that called in, excuse me, the first guy that called.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
In said the same thing.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
I didn't know that about the I'm not a big
I'm a total city kid, right, so I'm not big
on plants, the but the the I didn't know about
the monarch thing, the butterflies. Yeah, yep, But that's why
the last guy that called was like, yeah, we do
it for the for the monarchs, but I don't want
anybody's I don't want anybody's dogs to die though I.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Know, but then they honestly shouldn't come into your yard.
I mean there's that too, Like if you're letting your
dog on my yard, that's stress those right.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
That's a good point. That's a good point. So so
so let me ask you this. Do you so you
must hate like hate the millionaire guy and the generation guy.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
I think I'm Hindu. I think that everyone has divinity
and I'm hoping. I mean I actually wrote them sadly
in information tilled email saying, this is the benefit of
these three natives that you want me to cut down.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
That got deleted. They didn't even get through the first sentence.
Trust me, that got deleted.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Really, And I said, if you're ever stressed out, just
come to the patch of dog Bain. Look at all
the butterflies and the bees. I'm crying, Smell how beautiful
the flowers are, and tell me.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
This is not worth it.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
And I mean, I've tried everything. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Did they write back and go, no, I don't want
to get bit by a snake.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
There? They're really there are no venomous snakes around here
except a couple and that's in September. We live in
the woods. Okay, Yeah, it's not the anyway, I know,
I feel very strongly about this, and I don't think
that we should be killing the earth. You know, if
you take like one percent of our lawn and converted
to natives, the impact it can make is gigantic. So

(11:06):
what rest and should be doing is banning long banning
two stroke engines.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Can I ask you this? Why don't you get on
the association?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Are we on the record?

Speaker 1 (11:18):
We're on the radio.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, okay. So I am using all my time to
work for the Virginia elections because I don't know if
you've seen the chaos and trouble that is being caused
in our country. So I don't have the time to
take anything else on. I'm on the board of the Yeah,
I'm on three different boards, all to fits the greater good.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Now, now tell me, tell me, though, tell me this
is not affecting your business. No, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
It isn't. Okay, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
We have plenty of listeners that probably use your products.
What is her?

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Oh good?

Speaker 1 (11:52):
What is your business?

Speaker 2 (11:55):
My business is home baked.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
No.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Our governor in Virginia has detoed the bills to create
a retail kund of the smart It place two years
in a row. So I do not sell weed. I
only sell CBD products.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Oh that a girl?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
That a girl?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Hey hold for Diane? All right, very good?

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Good, all part of the same thing, like use plans
to help things get better?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Amen, smoking weed? Smoking the weed? All right, very good,
very good. I don't know if you and I are
parting as friends. I feel like there's all I feel
like there's also a good chunk of you that hates me.
But that's okay. Oh not at all.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Okay. I don't know where you got that.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
You need some CBD, buddy.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, I sure do.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
Hey, d parannoya going on there?

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Do you ever go to Do you ever go to
passion Fish? Why?

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Oh my god? I love passion Fish.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Here's what I want you to do next next time.
Next time you go there, you ask for Chris Climb.
He's the owner in the chef, and you tell him Elliott.
Tell him Elliott sent you. Doesn't mean he's going to
give you anything, but just tell you my suit down. No, no, guy,
he's a great guy.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
He would never do that.

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Now, okay, I'll do that.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
All right, very good, very good, thank.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
You, thank you?

Speaker 1 (13:06):
All right, all right, she was great. Yeah, I feel
like she hates me. I don't think so she did,
She said she didn't. Oh, okay, we both like passion fish.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
I think you guys kind of got through some of
the some of our difference initial communication issues.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
I love my neighbor, right the nat or not the
news show that you're probably watching. No, no, I just
but but I get I but the the yard looks like, well,
not anymore. The ard probably looks great now now we
got rid of all that trash. But she was getting
emotional even talking about that. Okay, I get emotional when
I talk about hockey. I did not see that coming though.

(13:46):
What's that her getting emotional?

Speaker 2 (13:48):
No?

Speaker 1 (13:49):
When you ask how does this resolve itself? Yeah? Oh yeah, no, yesterday,
I thought we were in this for the long time.
But it seems like it's been ongoing. Yeah, because she
said years when the old person was being like prohibited
from using the pool. Come on, okay, So now that
we've gone through that, do you want that yard next
to you? Mightn't say that
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