Wetland Gardening Inspiration Wetland gardening is the practice of designing landscapes that celebrate moisture rather than resist it. Instead of forcing poorly drained soils to behave like dry ground, this approach works with existing hydrology. Native wetland plants, especially Wildflowers, thrive in these conditions and transform soggy areas into vibrant, ecologically functional gardens. Wetland Gardening […]
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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 in shaded woodland settings where light arrives softly and seasonally. Woodland gardening celebrates these conditions rather than fighting them, using plant communities that evolved to thrive in shade, leaf litter,
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Butterfly Habitat + the Future It’s early spring at the wildflower farm, and we’re dreaming of summer. The annual greenhouse potting began last month, building the foundation for all the gardens we’ll create this year. And naturally, doing some new season reflections on the nature of the work happens. Generally, the world’s been in flux
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Urban Wildlife Gardens: Restoring Nature in the City Urban wildlife gardens are transforming cities into vibrant, living habitats. As more green space is paved over, small efforts to rewild with native plants can make a huge difference—for pollinators, birds, and humans too. When you plant a native garden in an urban setting, you’re not just
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Tick Prevention for Yards. Recently an article was published on our website called Please Stop with the Lyme Tick Nurseries. Certainly, homeowners consider their family members’ safety. Altogether, “tick prevention for your yard” is a big priority. What’s a tick nursery? The tick nursery analogy is the result of a correlation between invasive, exotic Japanese
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Hummingbird Gardens in the Urban Setting. Recently we were invited to design + build several urban hummingbird gardens. The urban setting is a wonderful spot to create hummingbird garden sanctuaries. The concept of giving city dwelling wildlife a safe space to feed, drink, hide and reproduce in wildlife gardens is an exceptional one. Literally a
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Songbird Gardens The American Goldfinch has exactly one brood of chicks each year. Concurrently each brood is limited to only eating seeds. 96% of infant and juvenile songbirds eat insects as their first food. Goldfinches are a rare outlier. Songbird gardens are advanced level eco-gardening systems. Birds will breed in your habitat garden when rich
A native plant nursery is a unique anomaly in the tapestry of time and space. It departs from typical expectations of how a yard should behave. The space around it bends to adjust to its pace and cadence. Much like the Tardis from the Doctor Who universe, an organic wildflower farm can bring you other
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Flower Farm in NY. This legacy post hallmarks our company’s beginnings and highlights our growth. In the beginning, when we began a new Flower Farm in NY, We lived in the quiet mountain town of Greenfield. We built our first greenhouse and the first generation of our wildflower farm there. Over the years at the flower
A nature preserve in Schenectady needed a butterfly garden designed and supplied with native plants. The volunteers from Woodlawn contacted our company to design a butterfly garden for the preserve. The Woodlawn Nature Preserve is a part of the connected Pine Grove ecosystem, aka the Albany Pine Bush. The Friends of the Woodlawn Preserve group
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School Butterfly Garden Planting Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) for Monarch butterfly habitat! We were once approached by a local elementary school’s gardening advocate. A parent activist volunteers for the school gardening club. She wanted to create a school butterfly garden. The garden site is located inside a courtyard, and landscape renovations have been underway there
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Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt is a highly recommended book. It is transformational to read. You get to experience life for a while from a wildlife rehabilitator’s perspective. People who do this kind of work get to see a whole extra world hidden to most normal civilians. A new acquaintance is also a wildlife
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