Eco-Friendly Landscaping Blog

What to Do With Leaves in the Fall

What to Do With Leaves in the Fall: 5 Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Raking. Every autumn, millions of fallen leaves are raked, bagged, and hauled away ...

Best Fall Flowers for Pollinators

Best Fall Flowers for Pollinators As summer fades and temperatures cool, your garden can finally still be buzzing with life. Fall-blooming native flowers basically provide ...

How Late Can You Plant in the Fall?

How Late Can You Plant in the Fall? Every autumn, we hear the same worried question: “Is it too late to plant?” Usually, the answer ...

How to Remove Invasive Plants Without Chemicals

How to Remove Invasive Plants Without Chemicals Invasive plants can spread quickly, crowd out native species, and reduce wildlife habitat. However, simply killing the visible ...

How to Replace Your Lawn With Native Plants

How to Replace Your Lawn With Native Plants. A traditional lawn may look tidy, but it offers very little food or shelter for native wildlife. ...

How to Grow a Native Garden

How to Grow a Native Garden Some people stop mowing, let the weeds take over, and call it “native gardening.” It isn’t. How to grow ...

Native Plants for New York

Native Plants for New York: More Than a Pretty Garden Native plants are obviously having a moment. They appear on municipal planting lists, at garden ...

Stop Putting Your Garden to Bed for Winter

Stop Putting Your Garden to Bed for Winter. Regarding fall garden cleanup + ecological reality. Rethinking fall garden cleanup practices. For generations, gardeners have been ...

How to Keep Rabbits Out of Your Garden

How to Keep Rabbits Out of Your Garden. Basically, how to protect your new native plants without declaring war on wildlife. Congratulations straightaway! You’ve presently ...

The 70/30 Planting Rule

The 70/30 Planting Rule: What do Ecologists Think? “The 70/30 Planting Rule” is suddenly everywhere. Trendy garden designers are recommending that landscapes contain 70% native ...

Sustainable Landscape Development

Sustainable Landscape Development. What an opportunity we all have ahead of us over the next decade. The future is bright. As eastern NY cities, villages and ...

Natural Gardening

Natural Gardening. One benefit of a natural gardening practice is closer contact with nature. If you’ve wanted to hold a baby bunny, you may be ...

More Rain Gardens

More Rain Gardens. In spring a while ago, Jessecology designed and installed some rain gardens in Lake George. The gardens were created at an inn ...

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 ...