Eco-Friendly Landscaping Blog
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” is a simple phrase that carries so much ecological wisdom. It describes the foundation of good garden ...
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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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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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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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Ecological Stormwater Solutions
Ecological Stormwater Solutions Rain Gardens, Native Plants, and Bioretention Ponds. Ecological stormwater solutions work by slowing water down, spreading it out, and letting living systems ...
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Climate resilient corporate landscaping
Climate-resilient corporate landscaping. Climate resilient corporate landscaping is a lot more than an exterior upgrade or capital gains. (Although those tangible gains are very welcome ...
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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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Black Walnut Trees
Black Walnut Trees (Juglans nigra): Beauty, Habitat… and a Few Cautions. Black Walnut trees are certainly one of the most magnificent native trees in North ...
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Luna Moths
Luna Moths: Moonlit Romance in the Night Garden. If any creature in our northeastern forests seems made of myth rather than biology, it’s the Luna ...
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Persimmon Tree
Persimmon Tree: A Native American Treasure. The American Persimmon Tree (Diospyros virginiana) is basically one of the most charming and quietly powerful native trees in ...
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Little Joe Pye Weed
Little Joe Pye Weed: A Petite Powerhouse for Every Garden. Little Joe Pye Weed is one of the most versatile native wildflowers available to gardeners ...
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Corporate campus landscaping
Corporate campus landscaping Corporate Campus Landscaping: Transform Your Workplace into a Living Ecosystem. Surprisingly, corporate campuses across the country are beginning to rethink what landscaping ...
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Winter Seed Sowing Instructions
Winter Seed Sowing Instructions. Winter is the quiet season for gardens, but with winter seed sowing instructions there’s activity. Without doubt it is the most ...
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Beautiful Weeds
Beautiful Weeds Beautiful Weeds: Why America’s “Weeds” Are Actually Keystone Wildflowers Colonial Farming Nomenclature. When colonists began settling farms in the so-called “new world,” they ...
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