Eco-Friendly Landscaping Blog
Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family). Native range: Widespread across North America, including all of New York State. Bloom ...
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Butterfly Habitat + the Future
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 ...
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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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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
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
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: 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 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
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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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 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: 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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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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