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Best of the Web 17: insects, birds, and the power of One

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It’s that time again, a review of the best things I found while meandering around the internets this week. Hard to believe we’re up to #17, but you all just keeping writing such good stuff to tell everyone about!
First, the Barred Owl above spent 8 years wintering in and around my garden. Sadly, this year [...]

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Ecosystem Gardening Best of the Web #13

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My weekly collection of the best resources from around the web, including the things I found most interesting, remarkable, or grabbed my attention.
Part Five of Doug Tallamy’s Timber Press interview is live. View the whole series at Bringing Nature Home to Your Ecosystem Garden.
@habitatgarden brings us another winner with a great citizen science project: The [...]

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Ecosystem Gardening Best of the Web #11

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Our weekly feature continues with the most fascinating, informational, best-written (or anything else that grabbed my attention) items I discovered around the web this week. There are so many great articles and web sites hiding amidst the clutter. If you’ve seen something great this week, please share it with the rest of us.
The National Wildlife [...]

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Top 10 Herbaceous Plants to Attract Wildlife to Your Ecosystem Garden

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“What should I plant” is the most frequently asked question I receive from people who’d like to attract more wildlife to their gardens. We have already discussed the top 10 woody plants to attract wildlife to your Ecosystem Garden. Now we”ll delve into the best herbaceous species.
These plants have been chosen based on a study [...]

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Bringing Nature Home to Your Ecosystem Garden

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Doug Tallamy is one of my heroes of Ecosystem Gardening, due in large part to his groundbreaking book, Bringing Nature Home. This book should be read by every homeowner or land manager with an interest in supporting wildlife on your property. He makes an incredible argument as to why native plants play such a crucial [...]

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Health Care Reform in Your Garden Say Yes to the Public Option and No to Big Pharma

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Don’t worry, we are not going to suddenly wade into the murky and scary world of the politics of healthcare reform, and we are not going to debate this concept here, but this debate gives us some wonderful language from which to illustrate the concepts of Conservation Gardening and how your actions can really make [...]

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Doug Tallamy, meet Richard Louv: How Gardeners can Save the World

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You may have noticed that I am a big fan of Doug Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home, but now another of my favorite authors thinks so too. If you haven’t yet read this amazing book, drop everything and do so now.
Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods brought attention to the plight of “nature deficit disorder.” [...]

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A visit to Pat Sutton's Garden

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I was thrilled last week when I got the chance to visit with Pat Sutton and her husband Clay in their Cape May Garden. It is really a thrill to be in a garden that is buzzing, humming, blooming, chirping, and singing with life!
Doug Tallamy calls the lecture he gives for his book, Bringing Nature [...]

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Top 10 Best Woody Plants in Conservation Gardening

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When I am consulting with a new client about their Conservation Gardening goals, the number one question I am asked is, “What should I plant?” or “Just tell me what to plant and I’ll do it.” But choosing the best plants is dependent on many factors, such as soil type, moisture, amount of sun, and [...]

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Response to: What’s Invasive? Telling People What They Can’t Plant In Their Yards

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I had planned my next several articles to look at subjects such insects, pollinators, butterflies, birds, bats, and dragonflies in the Conservation Garden, and those will be coming over the next several weeks. But I couldn’t let a response to the article “What’s Invasive? Telling People What They Can’t Plant In Their Yards” published today [...]

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