story and photos by Rob Zimmer Printed with permission by the Wild Ones Journal and Rob Zimmer Nature provides stunning seasonal beauty with the many species of conifers that call…
Planting for Pollinators
by Jack Brodie, James Hitchmough, and Michael Livingstone There is a crisis in the UK, and many other developed countries, in the decline of a wide range of insects that…
Plants for Birds: Plant It and They Will Come
by Tod Winston Plant It and They Will Come: Such is the mantra of the modern bird-friendly gardening movement, founded in the growing scientific consensus that by increasing native plant…
Functional Fire – Prescribed Burning at Winterthur
by Madeline Banks First Things First Any kind of prescribed burning has a lot of thought and careful planning behind it. Everything from safety to environmental impact need to be…
Bringing Back Native Thistles
by the Xerces Society Native thistles are a largely misunderstood and wrongly maligned group of wildflowers. Often confused with their prickly, invasive relatives such as Canada thistle, in reality, native…
Successful Management and Maintenance of Invaded Sites Starts with a Plan
by Theresa Sprague Over the past seven years the team at BlueFlax Design LLC has managed a multitude of landscapes degraded by invasive plant species. We have managed sites for…
Ecological Restoration: A Landscape Architect’s Perspective
by Anne Penniman ‘Habitat loss is the leading cause of both species extinctions and ecosystem service decline. The two ways to reverse this trend of habitat loss are conservation of…
Expanding Riparian Forest Buffers in the Merrimack River Watershed
by Alex Krofta The “Expanding Riparian Forest Buffers” project is being led by the Merrimack River Watershed Council (MRWC) in partnership with Nashua River Watershed Association, UNH Cooperative Extension, and…
Eco-Answers from the Pros: Restoring Woodland after Construction
When my builder built my house, he wiped out about an acre of land – mainly full sun on sand and rocks. Anything I’ve read said either to use a…
Lawn Gone: Nourishing Our Ecosystems with Meadows
by Mary B. O’Neill, Ph.D. Reprinted with permission, this article first appeared in the July 2017 issue of Main Street Magazine. The American Dream of homeownership, good fences making good…
How Do Nurseries Handle Invasive Plants?
ELA recently posed a few questions to regional nurseries to find out how they learning about and controlling distribution of known invasive plants and those plants that might become invasive.
Three Invasive Plant Species to Really Watch Out For
by Michael Bald People sometimes ask which invasive plant species give me the greatest cause for alarm. They often have their own list or landscape perspective, but frequently we’ll agree…