Growing for Biodiversity
Dig deeper into ecologically functional gardens that support food webs and pollinators by including native and keystone plants, minimizing lawn, and providing wildlife habitat.
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In case you are a bit fuzzy on high school biology, the phylum Arthropoda (joint-footed) shares several notable features: exoskeletons...
[sidebar]Great Plant Picks is the Pacific Northwest’s premier plant educational program administered through the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden based...
As a Californian, I feel a great sense of PLACE when I think about “oak woodlands.” These iconic landscapes are...
The mown lawns of suburbia attest to a human love of open, grassy places. Cultural anthropologists speculate that lawns have...
Seeking out the shade is something we’re all likely to do more of here in the Northwest as temperatures inexorably...
Last year, on my way to the California Urban Forestry Conference, as I was shuttled across town to my rental...
The Willamette Valley has a thriving export nursery industry. But most of that inventory is grown and bound for points...
Ask any child to draw a city and common images emerge: tall buildings, roads and cars, pavement. However, throughout the...
One day, when I was seven years old, my researcher father returned from doing fieldwork in a bat colony and...