Tag: non-native

• Enhancing Natural Landscapes

  Principle #3: Design all-season refugia gardens with native and other desired species, making use of natural landscape features, microhabitats, and microclimates that facilitate ecological functions. Goal: Reduce plant stress and aid interactions with beneficial species. Garden Design: Include native species that help provide continuity with natural/wild landscapes in a way that enhances ecological functions and…

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  November 23, 2022

  Principles and Practices

  Ecological Functions, ecological gardening, micro-environment, microclimate, microhabitat, native species, non-native, plant stress, reciprocity, refugia, sense of place

• 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…

  dkoetje

  November 23, 2022

  Principles and Practices

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