Outdoor Classrooms: Resources
I am so happy more schools are developing outdoor classrooms or nature filled school green spaces, and I am happy to have designed a few. Here is wonderful video associated with the book The Nature Principle by Richard Louv, summarizing why living, playing,...
Fall – Early Winter Garden Maintenance Tips
Colors, interesting seed heads, and the last visits of the year of some birds and insects make me appreciate the change of seasons. Here are some fall and early winter maintenance tips/reminders:
Rethinking Garden Maintenance
There are a few minor differences between maintaining native plants and non-native plants. In a non-native (traditional) garden, we are growing plants that naturally don’t grow together, aren’t part of natural processes or adapted over thousands of years to the local environment. Here are some nature inspired maintenance tips for native plants.
4 W’s of Basic Garden Maintenance: Water, Weed, Watch and Wait
A native garden is like traditional gardens in some ways, but different in other ways. Now we’re welcoming local ecology, natural processes and plants which naturally grow together. Below are a few basic garden maintenance tips everyone should follow.