Tag: reciprocity

• 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…

  dkoetje

  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

• 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…

  dkoetje

  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