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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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This month the Garden Designers Roundtable explores the important topic of lawn alternatives, along with our guests, the members of the Lawn Reform Coalition. Since the trend of shrinking the size of your lawn is just starting to take hold here in southwestern Connecticut, I offer a slightly tongue-in-cheek look at why it seems to be taking [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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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