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An Evergreen State of Mind

By Janet Harrison 1 Comment

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I’ve been in a very evergreen state of mind of late. It must be the season, in my northern temperate world of Toronto replete with denuded trees, save for the evergreens. Even then, the bright greens of the growing season have given way to the drabber blush or bronzy hues of foliage in dormancy. While [...]

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Edible Native Plants from the Wildlife Garden

By Vincent Vizachero 7 Comments

Anise-scented goldenrod

This upcoming weekend, our native plant nursery will be a vendor at the 25th annual Baltimore Herb Festival. Of course we spend a lot of time thinking about which of our native plants will be good food for wildlife, but for this event we want to focus on telling people that many plants in their [...]

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The Team

Beatriz Moisset, Pollinators, PA

Benjamin Vogt, The Deep Middle, NE

Carol Duke, Flower Hill Farm, MA

Carole Brown, Ecosystem Gardening, PA

Catherine Zimmerman, Meadow Project, MD

Christina Kobland, Native Return, PA

Christy Peterson, Tweets & Tree Frogs, WA

Debbie Roberts, Garden of Possibilities, CT

Ellen Sousa, The Green Garden, MA

Emily Debolt, Fiddlehead Creek , NY

Ginny Stibolt, Sustainable Gardening for FL

Heather Holm, Restoring the Landscape, MN

Jacqueline Soule, Gardening with Soule, AZ

Janet Harrison, The Local Scoop, Canada

About Us

Can Gardeners Really Make a Difference for a Healthy Planet?

Now, for the first time in its history, gardening has taken on a role that transcends the needs of the gardener.

Like it or not, gardeners have become important players in the management of our nation’s wildlife. It is now within the power of individual gardeners to do something that we all dream of doing: to “make a difference.”
~Douglas Tallamy, Bringing Nature Home

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We have come together from all over North America, book authors, professors, writers, landscape designers, biologists, gardeners, photographers, and more to say:

"Yes, We Can!"

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The Team

Kathy Settevendemie, Blackfoot Nursery, MT

Kelly Brenner, Metropolitan Field Guide, WA

Kevin J Railsback, Filmmaking Naturally, IA

Kevin Songer, Living Green Roofs, FL

Loret T. Setters, Osceola FL Blah Blah Blog, FL

Mark Turner, Wildflowers Pacific NW, WA

Pat Sutton, Birds and Birding at Cape May, NJ

Steven Paulsen, Conservation Seeding & Restoration, ID

Sue Reed, Energy-Wise Landscape Design, MA

Susan J. Tweit, Walking Nature Home, CO

Susan Wittig Albert, Lifescapes, TX

Suzanne Dingwell, Clean Green Natives, VA

Tony McGuigan, Habitat it & They Will Come, CA

Ursula Vernon, Squash’s Garden, NC

Vincent Vizachero, Roland Park Native, MD