Tag: habitat gardening
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Terra Foundation Grant: Removing Existing Turf, Part 2. What I did, where I did it, and why.
Reminder: I’m doing a series of posts over probably the next two months or so on the Terra Foundation Grant I received in April of this year. “The Terra Foundation Residential Grant provides $1,000 for native plant material to install a new garden where turf has been removed in a home landscape. The Terra Foundation…
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Terra Foundation Grant: Removing Existing Turf, Part 1. Why and How.
Reminder: I’m doing a series of posts over probably the next two months or so on the Terra Foundation Grant I received in April of this year. “The Terra Foundation Residential Grant provides $1,000 for native plant material to install a new garden where turf has been removed in a home landscape. The Terra Foundation…
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Sunflowers and the Uncanny Valley
Sometimes, I feel I have to explain why there are “so many” sunflowers in my yard (when internally, my perception is that there is certainly more room for more sunflowers of all types). Talking with my son, a newly minted landscape architect, a native plant master, and an all-around good guy, I mused over the…
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Welcome back after this unscheduled interruption.
Whew, it’s been almost five months since my last post. That wasn’t planned! What have I been up to? What I have not been doing enough of is hiking, running, or writing, and I’m taking measures to rebalance. I’m in the middle of a transition as we move from summer to fall, and as I…
