Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens
Healthy Gardens. Healthy Planet
One of the most challenging aspect of designing a wildlife garden is figuring out sequence of bloom, always having something blooming in your garden, not only for color and interest but also to provide food sources for local wildlife. While trees and shrubs are the backbone of any garden, those that flower do so for [...]
Out here in the Plains prairie resotoration is a sort of buzz phrase for people like me. Suddenly, visions of a horizon to horizon ocean of grass and wildflowers, dotted by herds of bison, rush like irish coffee to the brain. I swoon with warmth and alcohol. Oh, prairie. Marry me. Yet prairie restoration in [...]
At a recent gathering of professional landscape designers, the topic of designing gardens with native plants came up. Frankly, I was surprised by some of the comments I heard during the discussion. Several designers shied away from using native plants because they felt their “clients would never go for go for that kind of look”. [...]
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