Wildlife Garden Team On Facebook

I’m pretty sure by now most of you already know that native plants form the backbone of your wildlife habitat garden because native plants support local food webs, which attract more insects, which attract more birds and other wildlife.

But today I’m asking you to really *Like* us (I know, sounds like Sally Fields at the Oscars)— on Facebook

I’m so blessed to have two amazing teams of passionate wildlife garden and native plant experts who have such a wealth of information to share, so please stop by and like our Facebook pages because we’d like to get to know you better, and also to see what’s happening in your wildlife gardens.

The Teams:

Beautiful Wildlife Garden: A team of wildlife gardeners from around the country showing the beauty of nature and wildlife in our gardens, discovering the critters that come to visit when we add more native plants

 

Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens: A team of passionate environmental advocates from around the country sharing our knowledge and encouraging discussion of native plants, wildlife habitat gardens, ecological restoration, schoolyard habitats, green roofs and living walls, energy wise landscaping, and more.

But now I want you to meet the wonderful writers for these teams

Beatriz Moisset

Flower Visitors: To inform people about the value of pollinators to us, to plants and to wildlife.

Beginners Guide to Pollinators and Other Flower Visitors: Descriptions, photos and life history of the most common insects that visit flowers. Time of year, geographic area and their favorite flowers. To spread the knowledge of pollinators and their importance in the web of life of which we are part.

Benjamin Vogt

The Deep Middle: Gardening in Nebraska, native prairie plants, environment, poetry, memoir, writing, and teaching.

Monarch Gardens: Native Prairie Garden Coaching: On site and nursery visits. Plant lists and personal shopping. Design suggestions. Pruning and planting tips. Wildlife and eco centered. Butterfly and rain garden ideas.

 

Milk the WEED: Saving monarch butterflies & other insect species one milkweed at a time. Pledge to plant milkweeds in your landscape.

 

Carol Duke

Flower Hill Farm B&B Retreat: A MAGICAL, ORGANIC, VEGETARIAN AND ECO-FRIENDLY RETREAT

Carole Sevilla Brown

Ecosystem Gardening: teaching you to garden sustainably, conserve natural resources, and create welcoming habitat for wildlife in your garden so that you will attract more birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife by giving a little back to wildlife in your garden.

Catherine Zimmerman

The Meadow Project: Author and photographer, Catherine Zimmerman combines her expertise in photography, storytelling, environmental issues, horticulture and organic practices to offer meadowscaping as a lawn alternative.

Christina Kobland

Native Return: works with landholders to create and manage native plant and animal habitat.

Christy Peterson

Tweets & Tree Frogs: Tweets & Tree Frogs was founded in 2011 to celebrate the amazing diversity of plants and animals found in backyards, neighborhoods and cities around the world. You’ll find a growing list of resources, along with descriptions of the nature education classes and walks we offer on our web page. We invite you to share photos and stories about the WILDlife in your backyard on this Facebook page! Thank you for joining us.

Debbie Roberts

Roberts and Roberts Landscape Design: Creates beautiful, sustainable gardens for clients throughout Fairfield county. Offers garden coaching sessions for DIY-ers who want professional advice they can implement themselves. Specializes in using regionally-appropriate native plants in their designs to maximize year round beauty and interest, and to create a wildlife-friendly habitat. Is proud to use sustainable, organic methods

Ellen Sousa

Turkey Hill Brook Farm: a small horse farm located in a river valley in the Worcester (Massachusetts) hills. We are #71074 Certified Wildlife Habitat at the National Wildlife Federation & a Monarch Waystation

Common Ground Land Trust: Local land trust for Spencer and Leicester, MA

Emily DeBolt

Fiddlehead Creek: grows native plants for sustainable landscapes, specializes in natives for rain gardens and shoreline buffers to protect the water quality of our local waters. The nursery also carries a wide variety of other native plants including natives for bird and butterfly gardens, ferns and spring ephemerals, and much more.

Ginny Stibolt

Sustainable Gardening for Florida: A must-have reference for Florida’s gardeners, landscapers, and property managers. This is not a coffee table book, but an action book filled with doable projects and methods designed to benefit Florida’s ecosystems.

Heather Holm

Restoring the Landscape with Native Plants: Learn about native plants, insects, wildlife and ecological landscaping.

Pollinators of Native Plants by Heather Holm, This comprehensive, essential resource profiles over 65 perennial native plants of the Midwest, Great Lakes region, Northeast and southern Canada as well as the pollinators, beneficial insects and flower visitors the plants attract.

Holm Design and Consulting: Sustainable Landscape Designs | Landscape Consulting | Stewardship Guidance | Graphic Design

 

Jacqueline Soule

Gardening with Soule:

 

Janet Harrison

The Local Scoop: Dedicated to the Study, Conservation, Cultivation & Restoration of North America’s Native Flora.

Jennifer Baker

Sparrow LLC: Sparrow Landscaping is a design build landscaping company that focuses on using native plants. Sparrow works in Wisconsin, Northern Illinois and Eastern/Southern Minnesota.

Jesse Elwert Peters

Jessecology: Jessecology is an ecological garden design and maintenance business. We can help you create urban or rural habitat spaces, to attract songbirds or butterflies.

Judy Burris

Nature’s Notes: Bite-sized Learning and Projects for All Ages: A book for families wanting to get back to nature and enjoy the great outdoors!

Life Cycles of Butterflies: The butterfly represents all that we hope for….beauty, freedom, and wings to fly

 

The Secret Lives of Backyard Bugs: Learn about the beauty of bugs and their interesting life cycles! Winner of two national awards – the Teacher’s Choice Award and the National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA).

 

Kathy Settevendemie

Blackfoot Native Plant Nursery: Wholesale nursery growing native plants from Montana and the Rocky Mountain West. All plants are grown out-of-doors at 4,000′ from hand-collected seeds and cuttings, so you know they are healthy and hardy. We can help you find the right plant for the right place!

Kathy Vilim

Living With Nature: devoted to sharing the wonders of the So California Chaparral. A guide to sustainable living, native gardening, and canyon critters.

Kelly Brenner

The Metropolitan Field Guiden: Ideas, thoughts and resources for the design of urban wildlife habitat

Kevin J. Railsback

Filmmaking Naturally: Filmmaking Naturally is a series of online video tutorials from award winning cinematographer Kevin J Railsback that are designed to improve your nature and wildlife cinematography.

Kevin and Judy Songer

Metroverde Green Roofs for Florida: Green Roofs treat stormwater, create wildlife habitat and provide a sense of place in the urban core!

Loret T. Setters

Pine Lily Chapter, Florida Native Plant Society: to promote the preservation, conservation and restoration of the native plants and native plant communities of Florida.

Mark Turner

Turner Photographics: Photography is my passion and it shows in the work I do for portrait and commercial clients as well as for garden books and magazines. Ready for a portrait?
Washington Native Plant Society: a forum for individuals who share a common interest in Washington’s unique and diverse plant life. For more than 30 years WNPS has been a great source for native plant information and action.

Mary Pellerito

 

Going Native: Using nature as my inspiration, my tonic, my muse.

 

Pat Sutton

Pat and Clay Sutton: educators, authors, naturalists, photographers, lecturers, and tour leaders. Pat has taught extensively about gardening for wildlife for over 30 years and loves to share her passion.

Sally Roth

An Eye on the Sparrow: Which dove brought the olive leaf back to the Ark? And why didn’t that raven—the one Noah sent out before the dove—ever return? Find the answers in An Eye on the Sparrow, a look at the natural behavior of birds that’s behind the Scriptures.

Steven Paulsen

Conservation Seeding and Restoration: Conservation Seeding & Restoration is founded upon the science that native plants provide the best solution for restoring the long term viability, function and maintenance of biodiversity which can be applied to both wildland & landscaped ecosystems.

Sue Reed

Energy-wise Landscape Design: Our gardens and grounds are full of opportunities for us to use less energy, help the planet and save money.

 

Susan J. Tweit

Be a Habitat Hero: Make a positive difference for birds and wildlife right at home where we all live. Share the joy from nurturing wildlife in yards and other everyday landscapes. Join Audubon Rockies, Plant Select and High Country Gardens in promoting wildscaping.

Suzanne Dingwell

Virginia Native Plant Society: o preserve and protect Virginia’s native plants. To educate the public about their important place in keeping Virginia’s ecosystems healthy. VNPS supports restoration, conservation, and rescue projects, provides education, and helps individuals and groups to find and plant native plants.

Tony McGuigan

Habitat it And They Will Come: The book : HABITAT IT AND THEY WILL COME. Tony McGuigan’s book about the Why, Who, and Fun-How of creating animal habitats in your yard.

Spore Lore: Tony McGuigan is author of Habitat It and They Will Come. Habitat Installation Professional. Animal habitats – dig ‘em, create ‘em, be them!

 

Vincent Vizachero

Roland Park Native: Our goal is to encourage the use of native trees, shrubs, and perennials in Roland Park landscapes.

Blue Water Baltimore’s purpose is to use community based restoration, education, and advocacy to achieve clean water in Baltimore’s rivers, streams, and harbor, so that citizens of the Baltimore region will enjoy a vibrant natural environment, livable neighborhoods, and a healthy, thriving Inner Harbor and Chesapeake Bay.

Herring Run Nursery: We grow with minimal man-made chemicals and grow most of our own plants. We also strive to sell plants we don’t grow from local nurseries. We offer conservation landscaping design and installation with a number of landscaping practices that reduce and use rain water effectively. Our specialty is designing and installing rain gardens and rain barrels as well as converting lawns to low maintenance native landscapes.

 

We thank you for taking the time to get to know us and join us in talking about native plants and wildlife gardens. We look forward to meeting you on facebook, too

Carole Sevilla Brown lives in Philadelphia, PA, and she travels the country speaking about Ecosystem Gardening for Wildlife. Check out her new free online course Ecosystem Gardening Essentials, 15 free lessons delivered to your inbox every week.