Eco-Friendly Landscaping Blog

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 ...

Regenerative Landscaping

Regenerative Landscaping Regenerative LandscapingHumans have a regenerative gear. We just need to use it. Most modern interactions with the land are quietly degrading. People mow, ...

Edible Food Forest Gardens

Edible Food Forest Gardens: Permanent Native Agriculture that Feeds People and Wildlife. At Jessecology, we’ve been building Edible Food Forest Gardens for over 15 years. ...

Best Peony Care

Best Peony Care: Be Brave. Cut Them Back After Blooming. At Jessecology, we don’t plant Peonies. Our focus is on native species that support pollinators, ...

Chop and Drop Mulching for Biodiversity

Chop and Drop Mulching for Biodiversity and Soil Health What if one of the best mulches for your garden was already growing there? Chop and ...

From Roots to Radiance

From Roots to Radiance From Roots to Radiance: Story of a Native Garden in Development. Every lasting garden begins underground. Long before flowers catch the ...

Gardening 101 (for native plant gardens!)

Gardening 101: How to begin gardening with native plants. We know—gardening with native plants is exciting, but it makes some people nervous for some reason. ...

Weeding Large Gardens

Caring for large gardens is quite a different fête from caring for small gardens. The maintenance routine required to keep a small native garden ...

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 ...

No Mow May

No Mow May Is Missing the Point. Every spring, social media fills with reminders to participate in No Mow May. The idea is simple: stop ...

Forest Succession

Forest Succession: How a Forest Builds Itself Over Time. Forest succession is generally the ecological process that describes how a forest establishes, develops, and matures ...

Pollinator Gardens in Albany, NY

Pollinator Gardens in Albany, NY To be sure, in the past few years, many customers have reached out requesting pollinator gardens in Albany, NY. We ...

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 ...

Early Blooming Natives

Early Blooming Natives. Most of the flowering native plants that grow in eastern US butterfly gardens and pollinator gardens trend towards late season blooming. The ...