Ecosystem Gardening — Create Wildlife Habitat. Protect the Environment

Wildlife Gardens of Cape May, Teresa Knipper

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As part of the ongoing series, Ecosystem Gardening Showcase, I traveled to Cape May, NJ to attend the Private Tours of Butterfly Gardens led my friend, Pat Sutton. Our first stop in this 3-day extravaganza was to the ocean-side garden of Teresa Knipper. Enjoy this description of her butterfly garden in her own words: We [...]

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The Cancer Free Lawn and Other Signs of a Wildlife Gardener

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I had the opportunity last weekend to attend some tours of private wildife gardens in Cape May, New Jersey. As soon as I have all of the photos edited, I’ll be showing off these amazing butterfly gardens. In the meantime, I’ve got a series of photos for you that speaks very clearly to what Ecosystem [...]

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Restoring Our Suburban Landscape with Native Plants

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[Guest post by Heather Holm] This photo is of our solitary bee houses that we put up in the yard this spring. We have great success with having most of the holes mudded over. I posted more info about these bee nesting boards at Restoring the Landscape Our yard has been an ongoing restoration with [...]

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Sampler: Wildlife Gardens of Cape May

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I am having an amazing time touring the wildlife and butterfly gardens of Cape May, NJ. I’ll share the amazing gardens in full with you once I return home. But in the meantime here’s a sampler to whet your apetite. Enjoy! Pretty amazing, eh? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it [...]

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Combating Habitat Fragmentation with Garden Corridors

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[Guest Post by Scott Artis] Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but there’s a beautiful logo that greets all visitors to Ecosystem Gardening. And if you have, I urge you to take another look. “Create Wildlife Habitat. Protect The Environment.” Individually they are just words, connected they become two sentences that rally the ideals of conservationists, and [...]

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Ecosystem Gardening Community Forum

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I’m so happy to announce the brand spankin new Ecosystem Gardening Community Forum, a place to gather and meet other Ecosystem Gardeners. Stop by and: Introduce yourself–tell us where you garden and what you’re doing for wildlife Tell us (or show us) what native plants are blooming in your garden Give us your best ideas [...]

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How to Save Energy in Your Landscape

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Welcome to Part 2 of my interview with Sue Reed, author of Energy-Wise Landscape Design. Make sure not to miss Part 1, Energy-Wise Landscaping where we learn how to arrange our landscapes to keep our homes warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Sue will teach us how to save energy in the [...]

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Is Sugar Bad for Hummingbirds?

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We’ve talked about hummingbird feeders before in discussing how long to leave your feeders up during the fall migration, but this new question came from Stacey through the new Ask Carole feature at Ecosystem Gardening: Carole, is it really okay to feed hummingbirds sugar water? I avoid refined sugar like the plague, so I’m wondering [...]

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Thank You!

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Today marks the one year blogiversary of Ecosystem Gardening. Yippee!! On this day of a new moon and solar eclipse, marking a new beginning seems particularly auspicious. I wanted to take a moment and thank each of you who have left a comment, asked a question, retweeted my articles, emailed my newsletter to a friend, [...]

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Around the Web with Ecosystem Gardening

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It’s been a busy week for Ecosystem Gardening, and I’m thrilled to see interest growing in gardening for wildlife, native plants, and sustainable landscaping. First, my buddy Scott Artis at JournOwl wrote about how Ecosystem Gardening had inspired him to create a habitat garden as a wildlife corridor. His garden is beautiful! I was asked [...]