By Richard A. McCoy Owner/ President of McCoy Horticultural Services, Inc. American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA) Northeast Representative Member, ELA, NJNLA, and NJLCA Over the past few years, mainly during…
Into the Weeds
An excerpt from The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
By Mark Richardson on October 29, 2024 in Climate Change, Conferences, ELA Publications, Into the Weeds
Excerpt from the introduction to The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown by Adam Welz. Welz is an environmental writer, photographer and conservation consultant who…
The Hype about Ecotypes
By Mark Richardson on October 29, 2024 in Designing Ecological Landscapes, Developing Healthy Landscapes, ELA Publications, Into the Weeds, Native Plants, Plant Science
This article by Shannon Kingsley first appeared in WildfloraRI, Spring 2023 Shannon Kingsley is the botanist for ReSeeding RI For the ReSeeding Rhode Island Initiative—RIWPS’s five-year plan to amplify native, ecotypic…
Decentering the ‘Tree Museum’: Colonial Narratives in Environmental Conservation and Botanical Science
By Mark Richardson on October 29, 2024 in Conferences, ELA Publications, Health and Landscapes, Into the Weeds, Public Gardens and Parks
by Tracy Qiu, Doctoral Candidate, Concordia University (Montreal) This article is a summary of a presentation from ELA’s 30th Annual Conference. The presentation, Decentering the “Tree Museum”: Colonial Narratives in…
Botanic Gardens Conservation International Announce Seed Conservation Awards
By Mark Richardson on October 29, 2024 in Conservation, ELA Publications, Into the Weeds, Public Gardens and Parks
The winners of the Seed Conservation Awards were announced in August at an awards ceremony held at the 8th Global Botanic Garden Congress in Singapore! This year, the Seed…
Northeast Seed Network – A seed strategy for the Northeast U.S.
By Mark Richardson on October 29, 2024 in Biodiversity, Conservation, Designing Ecological Landscapes, Developing Healthy Landscapes, ELA Publications, Installing and Maintaining Landscapes, Into the Weeds, Land Management, Native Plants, Restoration
by Michael Piantedosi, Director of Conservation, Native Plant Trust Over the last few years, an increase in demand for New England native plants has intersected with a well-documented bottleneck in…
Turtles in the Tall Grass: Ensuring a Future for Box Turtles through Adaptive Meadow Management
By Mark Richardson on February 6, 2024 in ELA Publications, Into the Weeds, Landscaping for Wildlife, Wildlife Habitats
by Leah Cass Looking out over a meadowscape you’ll notice tall grasses waving in the wind and colorful flowers buzzing with life. Dragonflies, bees, and butterflies fly overhead and birds…
Ecology Informs Naturalistic Landscape Design
By Mark Richardson on February 6, 2024 in Designing Ecological Landscapes, ELA Publications, Into the Weeds, Native Plants
by Duncan Brine The garden world is in the midst of a slow-moving shift from the purely ornamental to the ecological. Today, naturalistic gardens are popular and prevalent. They fulfill…
Botanic Gardens Lead the Way in Tackling the Illegal Trade of Threatened Plants
By Mark Richardson on February 5, 2024 in Conservation, Developing Healthy Landscapes, ELA Publications, Into the Weeds
by Megan Barstow, Botanic Gardens Conservation International The world’s botanic gardens are uniquely placed to fight against the increasing threat to wild plants from poaching. This is a growing threat…
No and Low Herbicide Invasive Plant Management: In Real Time and at Scale
By Mark Richardson on February 5, 2024 in ELA Publications, Into the Weeds, Invasive Plants, Landscape Challenges
by Steven Blaisdell, Balanced Ecological Systems In 2024, I was tasked with the removal of invasive trees and shrubs on an eleven-acre National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) contracted site in…
Book Review: Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
By Mark Richardson on February 5, 2024 in Book and DVD Reviews, ELA Publications, Into the Weeds, Resources
Book Review: Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell by Sy Montgomery with illustrations by Matt Patterson Review by Angela Tanner Sy Montgomery’s book Of Time…
North American Orchid Conservation Center / SERC Orchid Mycorrhizal Fungi Collection
By Mark Richardson on February 5, 2024 in Conservation, Designing Ecological Landscapes, Developing Healthy Landscapes, ELA Publications, Into the Weeds, Native Plants
by Melissa McCormick & Julianne McGuinness Reprinted with permission from the newsletter of the North American Orchid Conservation Center (NAOCC) The North American Orchid Conservation Center (NAOCC) has an ongoing,…
