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Deer hardy plants include Elderberry.

Deer Hardy Plants

Deer Hardy Plants: Native Strategies That Work. Deer hardy plants are necessary to the ecosystem. One of the biggest challenges for gardeners in the Northeast ...
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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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Corporate pollinator garden projects.

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 ...
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Slow Growth results in real + big beauty.

Slow Growth Big Beauty

Slow Growth Big Beauty. Native landscaping asks us to relearn time. In a culture trained for instant results, obviously, native gardens move at a deeper, ...
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Giant Yellow Hyssop (Agastache nepetoides) and Rudbeckia triloba are NY native plants in gardens.

Native plants for New York State gardens

Native plants for New York State gardens. Native Plants for New York State Gardens. If you’re planning a garden in New York State, native plants ...
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Landscape transformation

Landscape Transformation Process

Landscape Transformation Process Landscape Transformation Process: Every great garden begins with a little faith. The before stage can look bare, messy, or even disappointing at ...
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Phytoremediation

Phytoremediation

Phytoremediation: Letting Plants Finish the Work. Phytoremediation is generally the quiet middle ground between doing nothing and doing violence to the land. It is the ...
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Permaculture design considers mineral problems in soils.

Permaculture Design Soil Management: When Weeds Talk.

Permaculture Design: When Weeds Talk. Continued from the invasive plant series. Part I.  II. III. Permaculture Design re: plant interpretation. Plants spontaneously show up on ...
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The best organic hot cocoa.

Best Organic Hot Cocoa

Best Organic Hot Cocoa (What to Look For + Our Top Pick) This post contains an affiliate link. You can support this small business with ...
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Time builds beauty x4 years.

Time Builds Beauty

Time Builds Beauty Time Builds Beauty. Landscapes are not created all at once. They unfold. In native gardens especially, the most meaningful changes happen gradually, ...
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Low maintenance modern front yard landscaping

Low Maintenance Modern Front Yard Landscaping

Low Maintenance Modern Front Yard Landscaping Low maintenance modern front yard landscaping has become a pioneering trend in recent years. People have learned that landscaping ...
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Keystone species like the Oak trees.

Oak trees

Oak trees Oak Trees are the backbone of many North American ecosystems. Quietly, steadily, they do more ecological work than almost any other Tree we ...
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Beaver are a classic keystone species.

Keystone Species

Keystone Species In ecology, a keystone species is one that holds an ecosystem together in ways that far exceed its abundance. Although many species contribute ...
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Native plant garden care.

Native Plant Garden Care

Native Plant Garden Care. Native Plant Garden Care is often described as low maintenance, but that phrase probably deserves a clearer explanation. Low maintenance does ...
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Black Cohosh (Actaea racemosa)

Woodland Gardening

Woodland Gardening Some of the most spectacular gardens in New York are not in full sun. They exist beneath tree canopies, along forest edges, and ...
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