What are your options when your family has one or more very active, large dogs that "need to REALLY PLAY in the yard, preferably unobstructed"? Be happy. You’re thinking ahead, acknowledging a design constraint that can reduce future frustration with dog/landscape...
A new client called to say "We're starting from scratch with our retirement home and we want our landscape to be ecologically-friendly this time!" I was so delighted to receive the call. They have two, large, very playful dogs so no fussy planting beds in midst of the...
Many of us are creating pollinator gardens, buying native plants and shifting to more ecologically beneficial landscape management to support the important insects that pollinate our vegetables and flowers. These bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies and even some...
Exciting to get back to environmentally-friendly design work again. Here's a colorful perennial border design with many native and nativar plants for a healthier community as well as for the sharply-drained, full-sun circumstances. It's little trippy to explain that...
For beginners & older gardeners, it’s Too Much to Have a Whole Garden On The Ground, right!? We’re new or our available time is short or our knees are just too old. Watch now to feel confidant about a small, beginner project. Feel great about also saving resources,...
It's early April and lovely to see a non-native, Snowdrop (Galanthus) bulb gracing the crown of a native, Blue Lobelia plant here in one of Healthy Home Habitats' demonstration gardens. Many of our native pollinators are now leaving their nearly invisible, hibernating...
They often come in the mail. They’re cheaper to buy. They’re lighter to ship. They’re easier to plant. They require less plastic packaging. They’ll never be rootbound. They arrive with all of their stringy roots. They ARE in fact sticks. But they’re also dormant or...
Imbolc: The earth-centered holiday of Imbolc is a time of celebration and ritual of rebirth, often including Brighid, the goddess of the hearth. This also begins an annual time of purification and new beginnings — “the first stirring of seeds or spring flowers” in the...
2022 Winter Habitats "Do you know" -what winter landscape elements support pollinators and important insects for healthy landscapes and birds? PERENNIAL SEED HEADS: In the Northeast, perennial seed heads provide food for overwintering Black-capped Chickadee, Dark-eyed...