Your yard is a salad bowl
One of the most common questions I receive is “How do I get rid of the rabbits or voles in my yard? If I had an answer or solution, I’d be a millionaire but at the same time I wouldn’t want to remove them because this is their home too! Both are...Dark Skies Matter
Light pollution problems and some suggestions for preventing/reducing light pollution.
A Living Mulch – Allowing Plants to spread as Nature intended
We humans, including myself, were taught to maintain our gardens unnaturally by growing plants spaced apart ,separated by wood mulch around each plant. If we want a natured based, environmentally friendly garden we must allow plants to spread and fill in all the bare areas of a garden as a living mulch. This is the way nature has been gardening for thousands of years!
Butterflies are neat, but let’s celebrate moths too!
Join the US and 37 other countries celebrating National Moth Week in July! Here are some interesting facts about moths and some links about Moths in Illinois:
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.