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Garden Ideas for Small Yards
Here are 5 small-yard native garden ideas that work across much of the U.S. (with easy swaps for your region). Each is designed to be low-maintenance, visually interesting, and manageable when you’re busy…
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Eco-Friendly Pest Control (Outdoor Insect Edition)
Here in NY, it’s hard to imagine that anything has survived the brutal winter we just experienced, but as soon as spring rolled in with warm temps, the bugs seemed to roll in…
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A Simple Formula For Designing Your Native Plant Garden
Many gardeners find the prospect of designing a native plant garden to be too complicated and overwhelming, but here is a simple formula to get you started: Right Plant + Right Place + Layering +…
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Start A Native Plant Garden (Even If You’re Overwhelmed and Short on Time)
If the idea of gardening feels like one more thing on your already full plate, you’re not alone. Traditional gardening can be time-consuming, expensive, and honestly… exhausting. Native plant gardening is different. Once…
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5 Easy Care Native Plants
Here are 5 of the easiest, lowest-effort native plants out there. These are as close to “set it and forget it” as gardening gets: 1. Black-eyed Susan (rudbeckia hirta) Why it’s easy: What…
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NEW! Native Plant Decoder App to Help Identify Weeds vs. Beneficial Plants
Friends, for years I’ve lurked in native plant gardening forums and I’ve led volunteer groups to weed and clear invasive plants from public places, and one thing I’ve realized is that one of…
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Detox Your Garden E-book
There’s been a lot going on in the nation lately and I’ve been thinking about what, if anything, I can do to help in this moment. I’ve been to protests and I have…
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New! AI Garden tools
I’m super excited to announce that I’ve added 2 useful tools to the site: an AI plant diagnostic tool and an AI prompt generator for garden planning. The AI plant diagnostic tool lets…
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A Quiet Season, and What Grew From It: Art
If you’ve felt my absence here, I want to speak to that honestly and gently. The truth is: I’ve been recovering from burnout. Burnout doesn’t always arrive loudly. Sometimes it comes like depleted…
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Gardening While Pregnant
Are you expecting a baby and worried about gardening while pregnant? Don´t be! The benefits of gardening far outweigh any potential downsides. Here are a few things to consider: I hope I put…
