When it comes to sustainable landscaping practices, it is best to be proactive in your approach. With that in mind; many of us celebrate the holiday season by decorating a live evergreen Christmas tree, so you may be better off if you dig your Christmas tree hole now before the ground freezes.
Wild Pink is a showy native perennial wildflower with loose clusters of rosy, pink blooms that appear in the spring. The plant is semi-evergreen, compact, mounding, and mat-forming.
Dicentra eximia, commonly called fringed bleeding heart, is a native wildflower of the eastern United States that typically occurs on forest floors, rocky woods and ledges in the Appalachian Mountains.
Cutleaf toothwort, cardamine concatenata is one of the earliest blooming spring wildflowers found amidst moist forests and woodland beds. The common name of toothwort refers to the tooth-like projections on the underground stems, which are leaf scars from the previous seasons growth.
When you think of your garden beds do you yearn for a garden requiring less maintenance and water? A garden with a more diverse selection of wildflowers and pollinator plants with a greater biodiversity all the while having a healthier growing soil or growing medium. If so, then ecological gardening may be right for you. In the past, we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty. Now they have to support life, sequester carbon, feed pollinators and manage water.
Have a shaded garden bed area within a woodland setting that has a moist, fertile soil? Or maybe a shady slope area with somewhat drier soil. Well this lovely, lime green sedge, which is also a native grass of the Eastern United States, will do just fine within those growing medium parameters. Seersucker Sedge (Carex plantaginea, Zones 4–8) has eye-catching foliage and a mounded form about 1 foot in width with a height of 6 to 12 inches.
Environmentally, there are numerous benefits to using rain barrels. Water collected in a rain barrel would otherwise run or drain off the roof and become stormwater runoff, which is problematic. When excess water is directed into storm-drains the streams that they feed into are subjected to sudden surges of water, causing erosion and flooding. Unlike treated water from your tap, rainwater is free of chlorine and chloramines, chemicals added to water to make it safe for human consumption. Rainwater is also free of salt, which can build up in the roots of your plants when they’re watered with tap water.