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Love in the Garden Happy Valentines Day to you, my gardening and lover of Wildlife friend. May your heart overspill with joy and touch others today and beyond. Love is the answer; gardening sometimes gets us there. Today’s post first mentions a Cupid visit in the garden, then focuses on what I am currently loving [...]
Why a barn owl box? My family and I have decided to grow more food. We want fruit and vegetables all year long. Our gardens are becoming increasingly laden with such abundance, including grape, fig, apples, peach, currant, pineapple guava, huckleberry, Chilean guava, leafy greens, and typical annual vegetables. More food grown = more food [...]
Is Sustainability Only for Human Benefit? Several years ago, I posed the question at Ecosystem Gardening “Is Sustainability Only About Human Benefit?” I asked this question because advocates of bamboo as a sustainable flooring and other building materials seemed to blithely ignore the fact that bamboo is considered an invasive plant (a plant from a [...]
A couple of years ago I gave a presentation to a hall full of Master Gardeners on my favorite topic: saving energy in our landscapes. I pointed out that if we gardened with more native plants, this would support regional pollinators, thereby potentially reducing the energy costs associated with replacing a vital ecological service. Compared [...]
A couple of months ago, I posted on this site an article that reviewed three garden shows, noting that the third of these, the Ecological Landscaping Association’s Annual Conference, gave its attendees a thought-provoking paradox. One of the event’s speakers discussed the vast and costly damage caused by Japanese knotweed in Great Britain, and another [...]
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