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Eco friendly Garden in Saratoga

Eco Friendly Garden in Saratoga In July of 2013 we designed and installed an eco friendly garden in Saratoga Springs, NY. The new, eco friendly ...

Do Plants Have Feelings?

Do plants have feelings? The mystery intrigues gardeners, ecologists, and anyone who spends time in nature. Ancient Christian legends teach that nature did not experience ...

Before + After Photos

Before + After Photos Before and after photos reveal how a garden grows into itself. They hint at transformation, momentum, and possibility. In native landscaping, ...

Railroad Ecosystems

Railroad Ecosystems: The Hidden Conservation Corridors Across the Landscape. When most people think of railroads, they soon think of transportation. Ecologists, however, generally recognize the ...

Are coffee grounds good for plants

Are Coffee Grounds Good for Plants? Are coffee grounds good for plants? Everyone wants to know: are coffee grounds good for plants? It’s one of ...

Urban Heat Islands

Urban Heat Islands: Why Cities Are Getting Hotter and How Native Plants Can Help. If you’ve ever walked across a blacktop parking lot on a ...

Before and After Photos

Before and After Photos Before and after photos reveal how a garden grows into itself. The photo series hints at transformation, momentum, and possibility. In ...

Free Audiobooks in NYS

Free Audiobooks in NYS: A Gift for Your Curious Mind PSA: Free Audiobooks in NYS. Did you know that free audiobooks in NYS are available ...

Patience Makes Gardens

Patience Makes Gardens In a culture that expects instant results, gardens quietly teach a rather different lesson. Healthy landscapes are not rushed. They are grown ...

Corporate pollinator garden projects

Corporate pollinator garden projects. Corporate Pollinator Garden Projects: Renewing the Local Ecosystem while Saving Money on Maintenance Costs. In general, corporate habitat garden projects are ...

Meadow Landscaping

2024 Design-Build Project Review: Albany Pinebush Meadow Landscaping Transformation At Jessecology, every project is unique and precious, but the pièce de résistance for 2024 design-build ...

Norway Maple tree vs Sugar Maple.

Norway Maple tree vs Sugar Maple. Native Sugar Maples (Acer saccharum) and invasive Norway Maples (Acer platanoides) can seem similar at first, but there are ...

Ocean Ecology

Ocean Shore Stabilization, Restoration, and Ocean Ecology. Ocean shorelines are living edges, basically not static property lines. In healthy ocean ecology, beaches, dunes, salt marshes, ...

Grow Slow, Grow Strong

Grow Slow, Grow Strong Grow Slow Grow Strong. Healthy landscapes are not rushed. They are built through time, restraint, and an understanding of how plants ...

Rewilding

Rewilding is a wonderful and relaxed form of land management that anyone with plant literacy and land can practice. Essentially it boils down to ...