by Ellen Sousa Must be easy to spread yourself around when you’re a plant that produces lots of seeds, right? After all, look at what happens when kids blow the seeds off…
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Lessons Learned from the First Year of a School Garden
by Missy Fabel A lot can happen in a year, especially in High School. In the spring of 2017, a dozen students, a couple of faculty members and a handful…
Wait! Do you really want to plant that there?
by Bruce Patterson The wise advice gardeners often hear is to “plant in the habitat type where the plants are naturally found. Be sure to select plants that prefer the…
A Walk in the Garden
Text by Dan Jaffe Photos by Penny Lewis Before the hot weather took hold in New England, ELA took a late spring walk through Garden the Woods in Framingham, MA…
Drought-Tolerant? Think Native!
by Carol E. Becker In the upper Midwest, we don’t often think of strictly drought-tolerant gardens, because we have adequate seasonal rain. But that rain comes in the spring and…
Drought Tolerant Container Gardens, Beyond the Traditional
by Irene Brady Barber When people think of the plants for drought tolerant container gardens, immediately succulents come to mind. Succulents are great for that purpose, but there are many…
Superfoods in the Insect Garden
The best food plants for insects, with a focus on caterpillars and bees by Thomas Berger When choosing plants to support insects in our gardens, we want to make the…
Fronds in My Garden
by Leslie Duthie When most people think of ferns, they picture delicate quivering fronds blowing in the breeze next to a rippling stream deep in the forest. Or they think…
Landscape Architecture Proposal with Native Vegetation in Urban Spaces
The Case of Ecoparque, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico by Melissa Lilian Díaz Salazar and Lina Ojeda Revah Concept The concept means that our urban landscape has a major role to…
ELA Names Winners of 2018 Spotlight on Natives Contest
Photographers from across the country submitted over 200 images to ELA’s Spotlight on Natives Photography Contest. Each sought to capture the special allure of native plants –…
Hellstrip Plantings: Creating Habitat in the Space Between the Sidewalk and the Curb
by Heather McCargo Urban environments are dominated by pavement, the bane of most living things. One area ripe for community greening is the hellstrip – the narrow space between the…
Landscaping with a Purpose – What’s Diversity Got To Do with It?
by Dr. Randi Eckel In the fragmented ecosystems where we live and work, the importance of diversity in our landscapes cannot be over emphasized. Diversity of native plants, insects, mammals,…