I’m so excited to be reading a preview copy of our team member Ellen Sousa’s new book, The Green Garden: A New England Guide to Planning, Planting, and Maintaining the Planet-Friendly Habitat Garden.
Yay, Ellen! I’ve waited a long time to see this book, and it is well worth the wait.
To start, the book is filled with amazing wildlife garden photos and native plants. I commend Ellen for the obvious attention to detail in choosing these gorgeous photos.
The Green Garden seeks to help us learn to make much healthier choices in our gardens, to protect and encourage biodiversity, and how our gardens can contribute to a healthier planet. Ellen puts it this way:
…the tide has turned. As we look for ways to reduce energy consumption and protect natural resources, gardeners and landscapers now understand that the way they garden can have a positive impact on the environment—and on theair wallets. Educated plant choices and nontoxic yard maintenance techniques means being able to have a beautiful garden—even a formal one, if that’s your style—while at the same time promoting biodiversity and a safe and healthy environment right in our own yards.
A natural habitat garden allows your garden to act in the way nature does. This means choosing plants that are naturally suited to your site and soil conditions so that they can thrive without too much help from you. And where your garden plants do need a little help, instead of overfeeding them with chemical shock treatments, you feed the soil instead, allowing nature’s organic processes to nurture your plants.
With step by step instructions, Ellen shows us how to plan our wildlife habitat gardens, choose the plants with most wildlife value, and create welcoming habitat for birds, butterflies, bees and other pollinators, frogs and toads, and more.
The book includes an extensive annotated plant list for every garden situation from forest, to woodland edge, old field, wetland, coastal, and other ecosystem types. By applying the principles Ellen has so clearly laid out, you will soon have a garden full of life, and you will have helped to create a healthier planet.
The Green Garden: A New England Guide to Planning, Planting, and Maintaining the Planet-Friendly Habitat Garden is available for preorder now, and I highly recommend adding this book to your wildlife garden library.
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I am also excited about the book and have pre-ordered it. I look forward to continue to add more plant life that will support the community of critters and entice others to join us in the garden…
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Congrats Ellen. Now we need one of the team members to write one for the Southeastern US!
Gail, writing one for the southeast is a great idea! When can you get started on that?
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Maybe Loret and I can work together on that one! g
HEY! how did I volunteer?
Seriously, I plan on sending this blog post to my sister in upstate NY so she can share with her fellow garden club members and get others on board with planting for the health of our planet. congrats on the new book addition Ellen and thanks Carole for the rave revue!
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I’m so excited for you, Ellen! Your book sounds wonderful.
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