Tag: adaptation

• Co-creating with Nature

  Principle #4: Pay attention to ecological interactions in a spirit of reciprocity and nurture changes in your refugia gardens that facilitate adaptation over time. Goal: Nurture adaptation to new climate and ecological conditions. Ecological gardening: More and more gardeners today are shifting towards ecological gardening: growing plant species in clusters that interact together and with…

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  November 23, 2022

  Principles and Practices

  adaptation, aesthetics, biodiversity, co-creating, Ecological Functions, ecological gardening, food web, gratitude, hopefulness, phenological diversity, phenology, reciprocity, refugia, seasonal garden

• Plants for Ecosystem Resilience

  Ecological Function #4 Plants as Contributors to Ecosystem Resilience: Implications for Gardeners:

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  November 23, 2022

  Ecological Functions

  acclimation, adaptation, biodiversity, biotic, Ecological Functions, ecosystem resilience, garden, mutualism, mycorrhizal fungi, phenotypic plasticity, refugia, resilience, soil

• Why Not Natives Only?

  Some Challenges with a “Natives-Only” Approach to Gardening Native to when? Pre-European settlement? Before human arrival? Natural landscapes have changed and will continue to change over time due to climate change and to disturbances. While there’s a healthy debate among scholars about Native Americans’ impacts on natural landscapes prior to 1492, their hunting and agricultural…

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  November 23, 2022

  Principles and Practices

  adaptation, climate change, cultivars, Ecological Functions, ecotypes, invasive, local, native plants, native species, non-invasive, non-native