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Make Your Yard a Pollinator Victory Garden

Kim Eierman is an environmental horticulturist, landscape designer, speaker, teacher and founder of the horticulture and communications company Eco-Beneficial in Westchester County, NY. It's really easy to turn people off by telling the truth. Even willing, well-intentioned listeners can feel beaten up by too many discouraging facts and figures. Eierman doesn't just tackle the upsetting [...]

By |2021-01-03T09:25:19-05:00December 30th, 2020|Categories: Books, How-To's|Comments Off on Make Your Yard a Pollinator Victory Garden

Lessons and Breaking Rules

Early winter is time for musing and making notes. For assessing successes and failures in our gardens while they're still semi-fresh in mind. We can change course and leave failures behind - there's always next year, right? Why not cozy up with a good book and let some new ideas take root. Winter is a [...]

By |2021-01-03T09:08:52-05:00December 20th, 2020|Categories: Books, Clues|Comments Off on Lessons and Breaking Rules

Seeds of Destruction

Without human intervention, most of New England is inclined toward becoming forest. But humans have intervened. When managed land is abandoned, meadows are not periodically mowed and invasive plants are not managed, it is not a pretty picture. If you "let nature take its course" invasive plants will take over.

By |2021-01-03T08:46:13-05:00December 14th, 2020|Categories: Views|Comments Off on Seeds of Destruction

Stumped? Just Make it a Garden

How do you deal with a stump where you'll be looking at it up close and personal for years? Without resorting to disruptive (and expensive) stump grinding or toxic chemicals?

By |2020-11-30T06:39:42-05:00November 28th, 2020|Categories: How-To's|Comments Off on Stumped? Just Make it a Garden

Plants Full of Promise at Season’s End

Plants that look good in fall and winter abound in prairies. Travels to The Olbrich Botanical Garden, Curtis Prairie and Northwind Perennial Farm in Wisconsin show how to use them in the garden.

By |2020-11-30T05:56:32-05:00November 6th, 2020|Categories: Views|Comments Off on Plants Full of Promise at Season’s End