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
River Health and Your Ecosystem Garden
The Wild Turkey So Much More Than Thanksgiving Dinner
Butterfly Gardening for Monarchs: Got Milkweed?
Do Monarch Caterpillars Eat Anything Besides Milkweed
Creating Rest Stops for Migratory Birds in Your Ecosystem Garden
Where’s my Garden?
Ecosystem Gardening and Native Plants
Pollinator Conservation in Your Ecosystem Garden
Top 10 Best Woody Plants in Ecosystem Gardening
What’s All the Fuss About Neonicotinoids?
Stormwater Management: City or Homeowner Responsibility?
A Resource Guide to Ecosystem Gardening, Part 2: Water Conservation
Starting a Wildlife Garden From Scratch
Chinese Lespedeza makes “Most Hated Plants” List
Hummingbirds Return
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...
Don’t Feed the Trolls
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