These days, more and more gardeners are shunning the use of chemicals in their gardens and turning to Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices for controlling ‘bad’ bugs in their gardens. Whether you’re creating a wildlife-friendly garden or just trying to be more conscious of what’s happening in your own backyard, learning more about IPM is a good thing. One facet of IPM is the use [...]
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Biocontrols for Your Garden: Advice from the Experts
Posted in Sustainable Gardening, tagged biocontrol in home gardens, IPM for home gardens, wildlife-friendly garden on January 13, 2012 | 15 Comments »
Sustainable Roses
Posted in Plant Possibilities, Sustainable Gardening, tagged cold hardy roses, earth-kind roses, growing roses without chemicals, roses for Connecticut gardens, sustainable roses on January 9, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Sustainable roses. Sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? If you’re like me, you love roses but don’t grow them because you equate growing roses with spraying lots of chemical pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. Recently, I saw Peter Kukielsi, the curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at New York Botanical Garden talk about his efforts to transition the famous rose garden from [...]
Designing Child-Friendly Natural Playspaces
Posted in Landscape Design, Sustainable Gardening, tagged designing child-friendly play areas, natural playgrounds for children on November 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I thought I’d share an article I wrote for the September 2011 edition of Landscape & Hardscape Design Build magazine (yes, it’s a mouthful!) on designing play spaces for children. The article looks at the growing trend of using natural items found in the landscape as play equipment rather than the metal and wooden ‘play environments’ found in many [...]
Resources for Wildlife Gardeners
Posted in Habitat Gardening, Sustainable Gardening, tagged online resources for wildlife gardeners on September 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
On the 20th of each month, I blog over on Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens. This month, I’ve written a post about the difficulty gardeners have in finding reliable online resources. I hope you’ll check out the post, Online Resources for Wildlife Gardeners, and while you’re there, don’t forget to read the comments section for links to other websites that will sure to be [...]
Espresso – A Jolt For Your Garden
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Natives, Sustainable Gardening, tagged Geranium maculatum 'Espresso', landscape plugs, native plants for groundcovers, wildlife garden on June 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
In my ongoing search to find native plants to use as groundcover in my wildlife garden, I am ‘trialing’ some Geranium maculatum ‘Espresso’ . When I say trialing, I don’t mean that I have access to a new plant that hasn’t been introduced through retail outlets yet (although I wish I did!). I mean trialing as in testing [...]
Making the Move to Organic Land Care
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Sustainable Gardening, tagged habitat gardening, organic land care, organic landcare in Connecticut, switching to organics on May 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Organic land care. It sounds ‘good’. And healthy. But what does it mean to actually care for your garden organically? I think some gardeners hesitate to make the switch to organic landcare because they feel it’s unproven, difficult to implement or their garden will not look the way they want it to look. By the way, they are all [...]
Earth Day Reading Project
Posted in Book Previews, Sustainable Gardening, tagged Earth Day Reading Project on April 22, 2011 | 9 Comments »
When I was first asked by Joene, of joenes garden, to participate in an invitation-only blog meme started by The Sage Butterfly to “List at least three books that inspired you to perform any sustainable living act or inspired you to live green, and then tell us why they inspired you” in order to commemorate Earth Day 2011, [...]
Pinch Me, Alex!
Posted in Anything's Possible, Natives, Sustainable Gardening, tagged Native Plant & Wildlife Gardens blog on April 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I have exciting news…I was asked to join Carole Brown‘s latest group blog, Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens, as an author. I’m still pinching myself because I am joining an incredible team of fellow native plant enthusiasts, many of them authors of well-known books and blogs on the topics. Carole created Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens to [...]
9 Elements of Sustainable Landscape Design
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Sustainable Gardening, tagged CT, elements of sustainable landscape design, Soundwaters, Stamford on April 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I recently attended a lecture on sustainable landscape design hosted by Soundwaters, an environmental educational organization in Stamford, CT. The lecture, given by landscape architect Brad Spaulding, was part of a ‘Business & the Environment’ lecture series to raise awareness of sustainability issues among residents and the local business community. The lectures are free and open to [...]
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