Native plants

CREATING A GARDEN WITH SITE RESILIENCE

CREATING A GARDEN WITH SITE RESILIENCE

When it comes to gardening, site resilience is the key to ensuring that your plants thrive in any condition. Using a diversity of species is the first step in designing a successful garden.

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SHADE GARDENING

SHADE GARDENING

Choosing the right plants for shade gardens — just look at the complexity of plants on the forest floor next time you take a hike.

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WHAT IS A SPRING EPHEMERAL?

WHAT IS A SPRING EPHEMERAL?

Garden designers orchestrate flower bloom interest throughout all the seasons. Spring ephemerals fill an early void in the spring landscape design in the garden.

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SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST IN THE GARDEN

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST IN THE GARDEN
“The greatest service which can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.” Thomas Jefferson

The Darwinian approach of Natural Selection asserts that species adapt to various environments. Selection is the process by which the organisms that are best adapted to their environment tend to be the ones that survive to reproduce and pass on their genes to the next generation, hence the term ‘survival of the fittest.’ The environment is the ‘genetic sculptor’ which can, over time, change the characteristics of the organisms within a population.

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