Eco-Friendly Landscaping Blog

Leap year or #3.

Roots Before Blooms

Roots Before Blooms Roots Before Blooms: How Native Gardens Truly Grow. One of the best ways to understand native gardens is through the idea of ...
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Year 2.

Sleep Creep Leap

Sleep, Creep, Leap: How Native Gardens Truly Grow One of the most helpful ways to understand native plant gardens is through a simple phrase: Sleep, ...
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Progress of a project: wildflower gardens.

Progress of a Project

Progress of a Project: Before, During, After Every great private landscape begins with uncertainty. At first, the before stage can look dull, like there’s too ...
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Before, During, After. We all wait for the "After" part... but you shouldn't wish your life away. Learn to enjoy the process, why not?

Before, During, After

Before, During, After: The Transformation of a Native Plant Garden Before During After. Every native plant garden begins with a view that appears a little ...
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Japanese Knotweed remediation.

Japanese Knotweed Remediation

Japanese Knotweed Remediation Japanese Knotweed Remediation: Listening to the Soil Beneath the Problem Japanese Knotweed is altogether often labeled an enemy. It spreads quickly, dominates ...
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flower crowns

Flower Crowns

Flower Crowns Origins, Meaning, and Two Cultural Forms. Flower crowns appear across cultures as symbols of beauty, seasonality, and belonging. More than decoration, they mark ...
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Forest bathing by the sea.

Forest Bathing

  Forest Bathing: A Return to Our Ecological Roots. Forest bathing, known in Japan as shinrin-yoku, emerged in the 1980s as a public health response ...
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An eco-friendly Christmas tree can grow right in the ground in the spring!

Eco-friendly Christmas trees.

Recently we experimented with a potted Rosemary herb as one of the possible eco-friendly Christmas trees options this year. Straightaway, people are delighted to find ...
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Low light plants

Low Light Indoor Plants

Low Light Indoor Plants. Low light indoor plants are often some of the easiest plants to care for. Because they evolved under forest canopies or ...
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Plein Air Painting.

Plein Air Painting

Plein Air Painting: Returning to the Garden. Plein air painting is basically the practice of creating art outdoors, directly within the landscape. It is not ...
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Songbird on persimmon fruit in an Edible Landscape.

Edible Landscapes

Edible Landscapes: Where Beauty and Nourishment Meet. An edible landscape is a garden designed to feed both people and place. It basically blends food-producing plants ...
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Right plant, right place.

Right Plant, Right Place

Right Plant, Right Place. “Right Plant, Right Place” is a simple phrase that carries so much ecological wisdom. It describes the foundation of good garden ...
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Commercial native landscaping cuts maintenance costs, cools sites, creates habitat, and makes workplaces more beautiful and enjoyable.

Commercial Native Landscaping

Commercial Native Landscaping: Build It Right Once, Maintain It Less Forever. Commercial landscapes do not need to be high maintenance to be beautiful. In fact, ...
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Why is biodiversity important?

Soft Landings

Soft Landings: A Better Way to Care for Trees and Build Habitat The practice of designing “soft landings” is transforming how ecologically minded gardeners care ...
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Beautiful, mature River Birch is one of the fast growing trees.

River Birch Trees

River Birch Trees (Betula nigra) River Birch Trees (Betula nigra) are basically one of the great success stories of wet ground. They love saturated soils, ...
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