Redefining the Beauty of Nature and Wildlife in Our Gardens
Adrian Ayres Fisher maintains a pollinator reserve on a 35x150-foot urban lot on the Chicago Lake Plain. She volunteers for the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois and grows plants and harvests seed for the Native Seed Gardeners program. She blogs at Ecological Gardening.
At some point, many gardeners begin to propagate their own plants. You buy and plant seeds, baby plants emerge, you’re hooked. Then you realize seeds don’t really come from the store: plants make their own—in your garden, in the local forest preserve, and along the railroad tracks, too, and if you collect a few, no [...]
The moment I encountered the term “reconciliation ecology,” I knew I had found a perfect description for the way I garden. Coined by evolutionary biologist Michael Rosenzweig and featured by Douglas Tallamy in Bringing Nature Home, reconciliation ecology is defined as “the science of inventing, establishing and maintaining new habitats to conserve species diversity in [...]
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