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Butterfly gardening presentation in Saratoga State Park

On Sunday May 5th the DEC is holding a native plants festival in Saratoga Springs, NY at the Saratoga State Park. They have invited me to give a presentation on butterfly habitat gardening in the Saratoga region, a topic which is mutually inclusive to gardening with native plants. I am speaking at 1pm at 19 [...]

By Jesse|2013-05-05T01:00:47-04:00May 4th, 2013|Butterfly Attracting Plants, butterfly gardening, Butterfly Habitat Plants, DEC, Gardening in Saratoga|0 Comments

Building Monarch butterfly habitat at the farm

This week in the news I noticed a disheartening article that illuminated this year's decline in Monarch butterfly species population. A friend and colleague, Ben Vogt, has created several new online platforms for Monarch advocates to rally together and celebrate milkweed, the Monarch host plant. Encouraged by Ben's positive movements, and also by the spring [...]

An inspired wildlife garden in southern Saratoga

This week a challenge was posed to imagine turning this sandy pine forest edge into a native plant habitat oasis. Many ecological factors need to be taken into consideration: the complete abscense of any nutrients in the sandy soil, the slope of the hill that lends to erosion, and lack of water retention in quickly [...]

By Jesse|2012-09-24T18:47:16-04:00September 24th, 2012|Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias tuberosa, bird attracting plants, Blue Lupine, Butterfly Attracting Plants, butterfly gardening, butterfly gardens, Butterfly Habitat Plants, capital region gardening assistance, capital region habitat gardens, Clifton Park native plants, Connected Pine Grove, ecological garden design, ecological garden designer, ecological gardening, Ecology, endangered plant species, erosion mitigation, Eupatorium purpurea, Eupatorium purpureum, food gardens, forest edge, Fragaria spp., garden, gardening, Gardening in Saratoga, habitat friendly gardening methods, Habitat Gardening, Habitat Gardens, habitat plants, Helianthus tuberosa, home, Ironweed, Jerusalem Artichoke, Joe Pye Weed, June-bearing Strawberry, Milkweed, Monarch butterflies, Monarch butterfly habitat, native plant garden designer, Native Plants, native plants in Saratoga, native plants to attract birds, native plants to attract butterflies, organic fertilizer, plants, plants to attract birds, plants to attract butterflies, Saratoga gardens, Saratoga habitat plants, Saratoga native plants|2 Comments

More habitat garden development in Clifton Park, NY using native plant species.

This week I completed installation of a habitat garden in Clifton Park using native plants. Like many gardens in the capital region, adding native plants gives an immediate and noticeable influx of wildlife motion. This property has a forest edge and natural wetland habitat within a half a mile. Butterflies and songbirds are nearby and [...]

By Jesse|2012-09-23T13:48:22-04:00September 23rd, 2012|Asclepias incarnata, bird attracting plants, Black Cohosh, Butterfly Attracting Plants, butterfly gardening, butterfly gardens, Butterfly Habitat Plants, Capital Region gardens, capital region habitat gardens, capital region landscape designer, Cimicifuga racemosa, Clifton Park native plants, ecological garden design, ecological garden designer, ecological gardening, Eupatorium purpurea, Eupatorium purpureum, garden, gardening, Gardening in Saratoga, habitat friendly gardening methods, Habitat Gardening, Habitat Gardens, habitat gardens in Clifton Park, habitat plants, home, Joe Pye Weed, landscape design in Clifton Park, landscape design in Round Lake, Maypop Passionflower, Milkweed, Monarch butterflies, Monarch butterfly habitat, native plant garden designer, Native Plants, native plants in Clifton Park, native plants in Saratoga, native plants to attract birds, native plants to attract butterflies, organic fertilizer, Passiflora, Passionflower, plants, plants to attract birds, plants to attract butterflies, Saratoga gardens, Saratoga habitat plants, Saratoga native plants, shade gardening, shade gardens with native plants, wetland habitat|2 Comments

An installation of butterfly habitat and edible gardens in Clifton Park, NY

This work week continued in a Clifton Park property that's added extensive habitat garden space over the summer. Many native plants for butterflies have been introduced, especially in this featured photo, which will one day be referred to by neighborhood children as, "Butterfly Land." Here we see the quintessential Monarch habitat plant: Swamp Milkweed or [...]

By Jesse|2016-11-03T10:31:45-04:00September 7th, 2012|Asclepias incarnata, Asclepias tuberosa, Butterfly Attracting Plants, butterfly gardening, butterfly gardens, Butterfly Habitat Plants, Capital Region gardens, capital region habitat gardens, capital region landscape designer, Clifton Park native plants, ecological garden design, ecological garden designer, ecological gardening, edible gardening, edible gardens, Eupatorium purpureum, gardening, Gardening in Saratoga, Habitat Gardening, Habitat Gardens, habitat gardens in Clifton Park, habitat plants, healthy eating, home, Joe Pye Weed, landscape design in Clifton Park, Milkweed, Monarch butterflies, Monarch butterfly habitat, native plant garden designer, Native Plants, native plants in Saratoga, native plants of the North East, native plants to attract butterflies, plants, plants to attract butterflies, Saratoga gardens, Saratoga habitat plants, Saratoga native plants|0 Comments

A visual update on a native plant garden in Clifton Park, NY 2 months after planting

It was delightful to visit a home in Clifton Park this week where I'd designed and planted a habitat garden two months ago. The above photo shows Filipendula rubra in bloom, and the photo below shows the same plant at installation time. The home owners have done a stellar job of keeping their new habitat [...]

A new butterfly habitat garden in Queensbury, NY

This week I installed a habitat garden design in Queensbury, NY. The project was especially exciting because of the property's proximity to wetland habitat. In every direction around the home in fact, there are wetlands, and 3/4 of the photos used for our wetland habitat post were from within one mile of our ecological garden [...]

By Jesse|2012-08-28T18:41:00-04:00August 28th, 2012|bird attracting plants, Butterfly Attracting Plants, butterfly gardening, butterfly gardens, Butterfly Habitat Plants, capital region landscape designer, ecological garden design, ecological garden designer, ecological gardening, garden, gardening, Gardening in Lake George, Gardening in Saratoga, habitat friendly gardening methods, Habitat Gardening, Habitat Gardens, habitat plants, home, Lake George habitat plant, Monarch butterfly habitat, native plant garden designer, Native Plants, native plants in Glens Falls, native plants in Saratoga, native plants Lake George, native plants of the North East, native plants to attract birds, native plants to attract butterflies, plants, plants to attract birds, plants to attract butterflies, Saratoga habitat plants, Saratoga native plants, Songbird Gardens,