Welcome to Ecosystem Gardening!
Ecoystem Garden aims to teach you to garden sustainably, conserve natural resources, and create welcoming habitat for wildlife in your garden so that you will attract more birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife to your garden.
Start by learning about the 5 Pillars of Ecosystem Gardening and then explore more Ecosystem Gardening topics.
Meet other passionate wildlife gardeners from around the country. Share your successes. Learn from your failures. Discover the best resources to help you create welcoming habitat for wildlife in your gardens with native plants so that you will attract more birds, butterflies, native pollinators, and other wildlife to your garden.
Latest Articles
Raccoons In The Wildlife Garden
I’ve been observing a special visitor to my wildlife garden lately, one that my two Plott Hounds get especially excited about–the raccoons that have taken up residence in the abandoned house next to my property. My Plott hounds are quite adept at helping me spot birds...
What’s Native?
Early Spring Birds Blackwater NWR
Through The Eyes of a Budding Naturalist
What’s All the Fuss About Neonicotinoids?
Healing Wounds to Wildlife 3 Habitat Fragmentation
Kill The Bishops Weed
What Plants Attract the Most Wildlife?
As I travel around the country speaking at conferences about Ecosystem Gardening for Wildlife, the question I get asked most frequently is “What should I plant?” The easy answer is that you should add lots of locally native plants to your wildlife garden...
Chinese Lespedeza makes “Most Hated Plants” List
Autumn Olive and Russian Olive on Most Hated Plants List
Our weekly saga continues with the worst of the worst invasive plants. Plants so harmful to ecosystems they should never be planted, yet alone sold. Topping the noxious list this week is Autumn Olive (Elaeagnus umbellata) and Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia),...
The Beautiful-No Mow Yard
Life in the Leaf Litter: Don’t Throw a Good Thing Away
Lets Just Eat the Invasive Plants
Stormwater Management: City or Homeowner Responsibility?
A Resource Guide to Ecosystem Gardening, Part 2: Water Conservation
Fall Garden Chores, or NOT
Don’t Feed the Trolls
Most Hated Plants Lesser Celandine
Winter is over, now it’s time for the native spring ephemeral wildflowers, those that grow, flower, and reproduce before the woodland trees leaf out. But, thanks to some of the worst of the most hated plants, some invasive plants prevent this from happening. One of...
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