Tag: native plants
What’s Your Ecoregion?
Native plant enthusiasts point to Ecoregions as a guide to specifying landscape plants that will thrive in a given location.
Permaculture Principles
Permaculture offers sustainable landscaping techniques, and a way to approach and interact with landscapes in a growing environmental crisis.
New National Seed Strategy To Ensure Native Plant Supply
Nearly $18 million will be provided to ensure ready sources of native seeds and advance a new National Seed Strategy Keystone Initiative.
Creating Resilient Landscapes
Ten months after Hurricane Ian hit Southwest Florida, what’s changing in landscape design? Lessons in creating resilient landscapes in the face of extreme weather.
The Best Drought & Flood Tolerant Plants
In an era of weather extremes, here are the best flood and drought tolerant plants for landscapes.
Managing An Eco-Campus In The Heart Of A City
The Dell Health District at The University of Texas at Austin is a gold standard of sustainability.
Are You Planting Invasives? Here’s Some Alternatives
Many common landscaping plants can be harmful invasives. Here’s what to avoid—and native alternatives.
The Landscape As Ecosystem
How to foster Nature’s inherent beauty— from small yards to large meadows.
Using Native Plants To Blur The Line Between Park & Preserve
When completed, the world-class 20-acre Phipps Ocean Park in Palm Beach will immerse visitors in an environment exclusively featuring Florida’s native flora and fauna...
2022 Taking Root Scholarships Awarded
Arborjet Scholarships went to incoming freshmen at Purdue University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Now in its ninth consecutive year, the Taking Root Scholarship...