Welcome to Ecosystem Gardening!
Ecoystem Garden aims to teach you to garden sustainably, conserve natural resources, and create welcoming habitat for wildlife in your garden so that you will attract more birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife to your garden.
Start by learning about the 5 Pillars of Ecosystem Gardening and then explore more Ecosystem Gardening topics.
Meet other passionate wildlife gardeners from around the country. Share your successes. Learn from your failures. Discover the best resources to help you create welcoming habitat for wildlife in your gardens with native plants so that you will attract more birds, butterflies, native pollinators, and other wildlife to your garden.
Latest Articles
What’s All the Fuss About Neonicotinoids?
Stormwater Management: City or Homeowner Responsibility?
A Resource Guide to Ecosystem Gardening, Part 2: Water Conservation
Chinese Lespedeza makes “Most Hated Plants” List
Autumn Olive and Russian Olive on Most Hated Plants List
Our weekly saga continues with the worst of the worst invasive plants. Plants so harmful to ecosystems they should never be planted, yet alone sold. Topping the noxious list this week is Autumn Olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) and Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia),...
Raccoons In The Wildlife Garden
I’ve been observing a special visitor to my wildlife garden lately, one that my two Plott Hounds get especially excited about–the raccoons that have taken up residence in the abandoned house next to my property. My Plott hounds are quite adept at helping me spot birds...
Monarch Butterfly Wintering Population at All Time Low
Kids and Nature in Winter
The Two Most Important Actions to Help Wildlife in Your Garden
I Believe That Children Are Our Future
Brazilian Pepper Tree on “Most Hated Plants” List
Last week when I wrote about Norway Maple being one of my “most hated” invasive plants, I posted this question on twitter: What’s your most-hated plant? Norway Maple tops my list. Tell me yours at: http://bit.ly/2Q2ih0 (@CB4wildlife) And I got this response from...
Caring for Birds in the Winter Wildlife Garden
Mourning Cloak First Butterfly of the Season
Restoring the Monarch Butterfly
The Monarch Butterfly has been much in the news lately as we receive the devastating news that the current wintering population in Mexico is at all time low. There are many reasons for this decline in Monarch Butterflies: Current agricultural practice Genetically...
Celebrate Garden for Wildlife Month
Norway Maple makes “Most Hated Plants” List
Mr Fox Is NOT
Ecosystem Gardening: How to install a Rain Garden
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