THANKS TO YOUR VOTES, A Way to Garden was named “Best Green Blog” on Apartment Therapy’s Re-Nest site. And there was an amusing bonus, too: According to runner-up Frugal Kiwi, I was apparently also crowned Queen (if she could see my driveway today, she’d have said Ice Queen). The transplanted Southerner-turned-New Zealander behind that blog, who frugally makes her own vanilla extract and felts up crafty things with a vengeance, explains why here.
THE LECTURE that he’s been giving for a number of years is not-so-subtly called “Kill Your Lawn.” Ecological horticulturist Dan Jaffe Wilder knows that starting over and creating an entire native habitat instead of a lawn isn’t for everyone. But Dan just wants to grab our attention and get us to start to make some changes at least in the way we care for the turfgrass we do want in our landscapes. And maybe give up a little square footage of it to some other kind of more diverse planting, too, like the wild strawberries (Fragaria virginiana, inset). Alternative, more eco-focused styles of lawn care, along with some lawn alternatives is what he and I talked about on the podcast. Dan is Director of Applied Ecology at Norcross Wildlife Foundation in Wales, Massachusetts, and its 8,000-acre sanctuary. He’s also co-author with Mark Richardson of the book “Native Plants for New England Gardens.”
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Congratulations! :)
Yeah! Congratulations here as well! And thanks for the link back to her — she is OUR kind of people too. Love the felted kiwi fruit…I’ll be checking to see what else she has up her sleeve…
Congratulations, Margaret! You deserve it. I’m extra-happy for you to get this “green” award since I just read here (Garden No-nos) that you discourage the use of Preen. I always guessed it was a bit sinister, but never looked into it. You’ve convinced this mostly-organic gardener to avoid it.
… knew you would
glad I voted – for you and your great blog!
The pleasure is all ours . . .
Very well deserved congratulations!!
Hooray! Of course, you are green in so many ways. Even when everything is white at your house, as it is now, we know that underneath it all, you’re STILL green!