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National Wildlife Federation Hopes We'll Plant 500,000 Wildlife Gardens by 2025
Thumbnail Image: Many experts suggest that one way to help birds, pollinators, and other wildlife is to use regionally native plants. That is not always easy to do in 2021.“There’s a supply chain...
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A Tree Disease Gets Personal
Thumbnail Image: A great European copper beech graces our front yard. Its crown is 80 feet wide and the trunk 10 feet around. We think the tree was planted around 1800 by occupants of a nearby...
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Death, Taxes, Autumn Leaves
Thumbnail Image: Benjamin Franklin once wrote that nothing is inevitable but death and taxes. As a lifelong Northeasterner, I’d add fallen leaves to his list. Unfortunately, many people look forward to...
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For Grown-ups Who Love to Play in the Dirt
Thumbnail Image: Gifts for gardeners sometimes come in duller colors. The useful, earth-kind products described below are all have a special gleam of their own, having been invented, made, or packaged...
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5 Good Books for Nature's Sturdy Bookshelf
Thumbnail Image: Some of us are snowbirds in winter, but I am more of a book bird. To the extent that winter forces me indoors, I fly across the room to my bookshelf. Here’s a sample of recent books on...
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Where Do the Wild Things Grow?
Thumbnail Image: We know that native plants didn’t begin their evolution in the black plastic pots we see at garden centers. But where are the native plants in nature? How do we know if they are...
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“Your presentation was wide-ranging and brought in some focus areas that haven’t been touched upon before. You gave us some excellent new material to expand our thinking about some community...
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On Earth Day, Admiring the Work of Volunteers
Thumbnail Image: Once upon a time, I called a newspaper editor and inquired if she needed a garden column. She said they’d give me a try, and my regional column, Green & Growing, launched in...
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After the Flowers Are Planted
Thumbnail Image: Plastic pots do a great job of helping us bring home the beauty of plants. But what can we do with the pots? In Connecticut, we can recycle green, white, and red pots. (Clean them out...
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Plant Debris Overruns Transfer Stations
Thumbnail Image: We cut and pull plants and branches to neaten and manage outdoor spaces. It arrives at brush dumps and town transfer stations. What happens next? “There’s been more and more plant...
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Pollinator Protection Is Buzzing
Thumbnail Image: It was 2019 when Heather Bradley accidentally killed a frog with her lawnmower."It hit me that keeping a turf lawn was a total waste of time, space, and resources, not to mention a...
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Save the Stems: Pollinator Protection in Winter
Thumbnail Image: Summer’s bright flowers and wavy grasses are dry and grey in winter. Many would say they’re not worthy of reprieve from autumn clean-ups. But there’s another perspective circulating...
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Fighting the Spotted Lanterfly in Winter
Thumbnail Image: The flying scourge called spotted lanternfly was first found in Pennsylvania in 2014, less than a decade ago. The insect quickly made headlines as it ravaged forests, farms, orchards,...
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Where Shall We Walk Today?
Thumbnail Image: I've frequently the woodland trails of southeastern Connecticut for many years and become proficient at researching new walking opportunities. Despite all my searches, I have never...
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Spring: Time to Collect Summer's Extra Water Supply
Thumbnail Image: Connecticut’s climate could hardly be described as arid. In fact, historical rainfall averages 45 to 50 inches each year. But averages are meaningless when your summer gardens are...
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Small Changes Help Small Creatures in a Changing World
Thumbnail Image: How much do you think global warming will harm plant and animal species?A representative sample of Americans responded to that question in a 2022 survey. A whopping 70% said “a great...
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