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Peter Del Tredici on sustainability as the standard– a classic article

December 13th, 2007 · No Comments

harvard design magazine • back issue Annotated
Courtesy of Layanee and Garden Rant
Excerpts–
Land managers and others who have to deal with the invasive problem on a daily basis know that often as not the old invasive comes back following eradication (reproducing from root sprouts or seeds), or else a new invader moves in to replace […]

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Native plant consciousness raising

December 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Garden Rant: Doug Tallamy wants YOU … to plant natives Annotated
 
Excerpts from Garden Rant::
The 3-5% of undisturbed habitat scattered across the U.S. is utterly inadequate to maintain our native species and unless we accommodate them in developed areas, 95% of the plants and animals native to the United States will become extinct. Soon.
 
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The Native or Not Knot

December 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Like many gardeners, I enjoy mixing natives with exotics; I am simply not capable of limiting myself to one or the other exclusively.

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