Barbara Chung may have the tiniest habitat garden in Los Angeles — some 200 mostly native plants in pots on her 7-by-20-foot townhouse terrace — and she’s happy to erase any doubts about whether patio habitats can really support wildlife. Right now, though, all she wants to talk about is […]
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L.A. garden tour season starts with Prisk Native Garden
In 1995, when most people considered native plants little more than weeds (if they considered them at all), desert devotee Mike Letteriello peered through a chain-link fence at a patch of bare ground and dreamed up a fragrant, vibrant tribute to California’s diverse native plant communities. Nearly 30 years later, […]
Hendrix Professor, Students Create New Native Plant Garden
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 Joy Back garden honors retired faculty users and sustainability champions CONWAY, Ark. (March 17,
 2023) — Hendrix College Professor of Artwork Maxine Payne and university student volunteers
 have remodeled a little room in the College’s Artwork Intricate into a pollinating
 backyard garden of native vegetation, developing a balanced ecosystem […]
March is Texas Smartscape Month: When in Drought, Plant Native!
It’s almost time to roll up our sleeves, pull out the garden gloves and begin preparing flower beds for spring spruce ups and landscape planting! Utilizing the Texas SmartScape program when designing your garden provides many advantages for our local ecosystem. It promotes water conservation, stormwater pollution prevention, composting, proper […]
AARP Wisconsin: Plans to expand native plant garden exhibit in Cumberland wins AARP WI ‘Small Dollar, Big Impact’ grant
Get hold of: Jim Flaherty, Communications DirectorBusiness 608/ 286-6308 – Mobile 608/ 698-0928, [email protected] CUMBERLAND, WI – A proposal to double or quite possibly even triple the dimension of a little indigenous plant garden show on the grounds of the Thomas St. Angelo Community Library, 1305 2 nd Ave., has […]
COLUMN: Add native plants to your garden
Bruce H. Mero, Cornell Cooperative Extension Oneida County It started off a week in advance of Christmas, the gardening catalogs in our mailbox. The initial trickle is now a move with quite a few coming daily. It normally takes time to scan them. 1 matter I have found with most […]