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
Sometimes Starting Over is the Best Option
Attracting Birds to Guatemala Farms: A How To
Ecosystem Gardening in Practice: How to install a dragonfly pond
7 Steps to Birdscaping Your Garden
Most Hated Plants Lesser Celandine
Winter is over, now it’s time for the native spring ephemeral wildflowers, those that grow, flower, and reproduce before the woodland trees leaf out. But, thanks to some of the worst of the most hated plants, some invasive plants prevent this from happening. One of...
If you Build it, take two
Container Gardening for Wildlife Habitat
Fall Garden Chores, or NOT
What makes a plant invasive? The first lesson in what NOT to plant
Red Admiral Butterfly Sipping From Sap Flow
Kids Adventures at Heinz NWR
Natives vs. Invasives: Can’t we just all get along?
Don’t Feed the Trolls
How to Attract More Pollinators
Certified Monarch Waystation
Paulownia (Princess Tree) on “Most Hated Plants” List
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),...
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