Here’s a brief excerpt of an article I wrote for my monthly column, The Garden Patch, on Stamford’s newest online newspaper, Stamford Patch… Gardeners are proud of the fact that we were green before being green was cool. And many of us have come to appreciate that our gardens, which have a positive impact on our [...]
Archive for the ‘Sustainable Gardening’ Category
Saving the Planet, One Garden at a Time
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Sustainable Gardening, tagged Stamford Patch, The Garden Patch on April 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Can $76 Buy Me a ‘Healthy, Green Lawn’?
Posted in Sustainable Gardening, tagged NOFA, organic lawn care on March 24, 2011 | 15 Comments »
The other day, while I was out, a sales guy from the local TruGreen lawn care franchise stopped by our house. Actually, he stopped by every house in my neighborhood. First, I’m assuming, he checked out the basic layout of each garden and then came up with a quick estimate of how much it would cost TruGreen [...]
Ecosystem Gardening
Posted in Sustainable Gardening, tagged Carole Browne, ecosystem gardening, guest post on March 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I was invited by Carole Brown, conservation biologist and author of Ecosystem Gardening, to write a guest post as part of her series ‘Most Hated Plants’, a look at individual invasive plants and why they are doing so much harm to our ecosystems. I decided to write about Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii), a plant that has been [...]
Book Preview: Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East
Posted in Book Previews, Sustainable Gardening, tagged book preview, Carolyn Summers, Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East on March 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Please don’t let the title of the book intimidate you. I agree, it’s not one of those ‘warm & fuzzy’ titles that you are immediately drawn to as you’re searching the gardening section of your local book store. And that’s a good thing. Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East is written for the thinking [...]
Stamford Meadow Hosts Rare Fork-Tailed Flycatcher
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Sustainable Gardening, tagged CT, Fork-Tailed Flycatcher, habitat gardening, meadow garden in Stamford, Stamford, steps towards garden biodiversity on January 3, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Back in October, I wrote about Cove Island Wildlife Sanctuary, a unique meadow habitat in Stamford that is part of the Great American Flyway, known routes traveled by migratory birds. CIWS also has the distinction of being the first Important Bird Area in Connecticut, a designation bestowed by the National Audubon Society. Well, it seems CIWS has lived [...]
Weighing in on the Great Leaf Debate
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Sustainable Gardening, tagged great leaf debate, habitat garden, raking leaves, wildlife garden on November 15, 2010 | 17 Comments »
Friday was a big day here in my neighborhood in Connecticut – it was leaf day. The day the city comes and picks up our leaves. That’s our leaf pile just before it was picked up. In case you’re wondering, it was about 150′ long, 4′ wide and 3′ tall. Any way you look at it, [...]
Wildlife Meadow in Connecticut
Posted in Gardening in Connecticut, Sustainable Gardening, tagged coastal grassland meadow, Connecticut native plants, Cove Island Wildlife Sanctuary, CT, habitat garden, Stamford on October 27, 2010 | 13 Comments »
I was recently introduced to a coastal grassland meadow hiding right under my nose in my own hometown of Stamford, CT. On an 11-acre piece of land, a former tidal estuary once used by the city as a dumping site for all of its brush, is a 4-year old wildlife sanctuary which is home to [...]
Bird-Scaping – Bird Baths
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Sustainable Gardening, tagged bird baths, birdscaping, positioning a bird bath, selecting a bird bath on October 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »
This is the final post in a series about landscaping specifically to attract birds to your garden – bird-scaping. The first post was an overview of bird-scaping . The second post discussed the importance of trees to a bird-friendly garden and included several suggestions for trees that are attractive to birds. The third post looked at shrubs [...]
Habitat Garden: What Do You See?
Posted in Gardening Inspiration, Sustainable Gardening, tagged eupatorium and rudbeckia spent flowers, habitat garden on October 6, 2010 | 13 Comments »
What do you see… Do you see spent flowers that are ‘ruining’ the fall garden and should be cut back ASAP? Or perhaps a source of food and shelter for birds? Or possibly the soon-to-be stars in a frost-kissed garden, glistening in the cold morning sun? Or maybe you see something completely different…what do you see?
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