Gardening with an Environmental Conscience

Increasing the biodiversity of our properties using native plants supports pollinators and wildlife both by providing food and habitat and by addressing the issue of habitat fragmentation.

I recently finished reading Douglas Tallamy’s book, Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard. I believe that it should be considered mandatory reading for anyone who gardens as well as anyone who has even a passing interest in the declining state of our natural world.

In it, he neatly ties together the complicated web …