Having your Conservation Garden listed as certified wildlife habitat is a great way to show your support for several organizations working to protect wildlife by encouraging folks to make healthy choices on their properties that benefit wildlife. And by adopting these methods of making beneficial decisions you will be well on your way to creating [...]
Ecosystem Gardening: How to install a Rain Garden
What is a Rain Garden? The concept of rain gardens was developed in the late 1980s in Prince Georges County, MD and termed “bioretention”. The idea was to use planted areas as a sponge to soak up polluted stormwater and filter out impurities before allowing the water to slowly be absorbed into groundwater aquifers. Stormwater [...]
Response to: What’s Invasive? Telling People What They Can’t Plant In Their Yards
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 [...]
Pat Sutton: Ecosystem Gardening Hero
I first met Pat Sutton at a New Jersey Audubon Fall Weekend in Cape May, NJ. She enthusiastically led the listing of the day’s butterfly sightings. She was so passionate about the butterflies and also about the Diamondback Terrapins who were laying their eggs along the beaches that I knew I just had to meet [...]
How I got here: a personal journey
I first began to develop the concept of conservation in the garden almost twenty years ago while working as a wildlife habitat landscape contractor. I began working with homeowners to develop habitats in their gardens that were attractive to birds and butterflies (and people, too). At this time there was very little scientific or popular literature [...]
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