Redefining the Beauty of Nature and Wildlife in Our Gardens
Carole Sevilla Brown is a Conservation Biologist who firmly believes that wildlife conservation begins in your own back yard. Carole is an author, educator, speaker, and passionate birder, butterfly watcher, and naturalist who travels around the country teaching people to garden sustainably, conserve natural resources, and create welcoming habitat for wildlife so that you will attract more birds, butterflies, pollinators and other wildlife.. She gardens for wildlife in Philadelphia, zone 6b, and created the philosophy of Ecosystem Gardening. Watch for her book Ecosystem Gardening, due out soon. Carole is managing editor of Beautiful Wildlife Garden, and also Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens. Follow Carole on twitter, @CB4wildlife and on Google+
I was thrilled to be invited to visit Mount Cuba Center last week, to interview some of the staff, and spend several delightful hours wandering around with my camera collecting images of this beautiful place, which is devoted to preserving the native plants of the Piedmont region. Mount Cuba Center is a 600 acre preserve [...]
Wildlife gardeners are noticing a significant explosion of Red Admiral butterflies moving north this year. And some naturalists are reporting hundreds of these butterflies passing by within just a few minutes. This amazing sight has even been noticed by the news networks, and our team member Pat Sutton was interviewed by Phaedra Laird of NBC 40 [...]
“I will be like the hummingbird. I will do the best I can.” ~ Wangari Maathai Each of us has been given the opportunity to make a difference for wildlife and for the health of our environment by taking relatively simple action. When we choose to create welcoming habitat for wildlife in our gardens, we [...]
There are so many reasons to create wildlife gardens, but the main reason for me is that seeing wildlife in my garden takes me to my happy place. In fact, the sole reason that I garden at all is to create welcoming habitat for wildlife to share my space with. We have destroyed so much [...]
I have to confess, I had so many misconceptions about the desert before I started grad school in Arizona. Being a Pennsylvania girl who finds her home in the woods, and having never visited the desert before, I was simply astounded by how wrong I was about so many things. Take for instance the heat. [...]
The American Lawn is the Best Illustration of Unsustainable Practice In order to fully understand sustainability in ecosystem gardening, it is quite illuminating to look at examples of unsustainable practice. There is no better illustration of this than the American lawn. We have idealized this concept so much that it has become the norm no matter [...]
I have travelled to Austin for business the last two years in March and have been struck by the beauty of this area each time. I’ve been especially moved by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and made it a point to visit both times I was there: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Return to [...]
I’m so excited to have been able to return to visit the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center this year. The area around Austin, Texas is certainly beautiful, and the Wildflower Center’s devotion to the conservation of the native plants of this area is commendable, and visitors are fully educated about this mission before even entering [...]
I’m in the process of creating a new presentation about Landscaping for Wildlife and I’ve been doing a lot of research to include all of the best information so I can teach people how to design a garden that creates welcoming habitat for wildlife and is beautiful to behold. During this process I have discovered a [...]
Habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation due to human activity is the leading cause of bird population declines. Birdscaping your garden will create an oasis in a desert of development. My favorite author, Doug Tallamy (Bringing Nature Home) puts the importance of your birdscaped garden this way: Now, for the first time in its history, gardening [...]
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