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It’s probably the question I am asked most: Gardeners want to go wilder and use more native plants to create habitat. But how do they figure out which plants, since it’s not one size fits all regions, or even different locations within a region...and choosing as we mostly do by hardiness zone isn’t going to get the ecological job done. Help!
Benjamin Vogt has just published a new book that takes us through prescriptive steps to get started in natural garden design. He is the owner of Monarch Designs LLC, a prairie-based design firm specializing in natural landscapes, and the book is “Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design.”
Here’s how my head, which is always lost in the garden, I guess, works: The first thing I thought about when the pandemic started—when...
When I saw news of a popular new garden book called “The Heirloom Gardener,” I thought it would be about growing vegetables or flowers...
We may know one when we see it, but what word best describes an ecological landscape? Compared to traditional, more formal gardens, such native-plant-forward...
