Ecological Edge LLC

08/25/2023

Very true. There are so many cool native bees to see swarming about a flowering plant-watch closely and you’ll be amazed at the life-and they don’t want to sting you.

03/27/2023

You can create a mini-forest in part of your yard that doesn’t require a big investment, will be pretty, can give you a nice place to sit on a sunny day, and will benefit wildlife, all at the same time and in the same place, with very little effort from you. Check out this article and read the book Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy (available in the Novi Public Library if you don’t want to buy it) to see how you can make a difference, and reap the benefits of more songbirds visiting your home.

https://rabble.ca/columnists/mini-forests-can-reverse-societal-decline/?utm_campaign=ucf&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=govdelivery

06/18/2022

It would also be nice if the road commissions would stop mowing down milkweed.

Plant flowers and food, not grass!

05/01/2022

Even a company that could make more money by selling more mulch agrees.

Happy Arbor Day from True Value! If you’re planting a tree this weekend, please please please do not pile the mulch into a volcano around the base of the trunk. Roots will suffocate, the trunk will rot, and the tree could die. Leave some space around the base and spread an even layer only a few inches thick. Happy planting!

04/16/2022

Do everything you can in your own yard.

Birds are what scientists call "indicator species" – their health helps us understand the health of our environment. In this episode of Life Kit, we get expert tips on how we can help birds survive, and thrive.

04/09/2022

Spring is slow in arriving, but thoughts of doing yardwork outdoors abound. This spring, to help all of your trees, including your street trees, sa...

02/09/2022

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Learn what individuals can do to prevent the spread of invasive species.

05/21/2020

You know, sometimes you need to step back and take stock of whatever progress you've made in adding native plants to your yard. In cases like mine, where the lawn still way out-mans the native gardens, it's easy to get discouraged, especially when your entire body keeps reminding you that you're nowhere near as young as you once were, and stooping wasn't an exercise in wishing you hadn't just done that. So, in one of those moods, I counted how many native species I have blooming in my yard right now - seventeen! I'm pleased. Here is the list, and some photos of some of my favorites (I'll give them to you in random common name order):

Wild strawberry
Great white trillium
Prickly gooseberry
Solomon's Seal
Round-leaf ragwort
Rue anemone
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Virginia bluebells
Wild geranium
Woodland phlox
Sprengel's sedge
Redbud
Foamflower
Spring beauty
Pussytoes
Early meadow rue
Plant I counted but forgot between the garden and the keyboard.

Things that have already finished blooming:
Spicebush
Bloodroot

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10/15/2019

https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/glyphosate-does-not-cause-cancer-saves-native-plants.html

Misinformation has created a lucrative business for ambulance-chasing lawyers and NGOs.

10/04/2019

We should do more green roofs in the U.S., especially on things like this and gas station canopies where the fear of leaking roofs is not a major concern.

Shelters support biodiversity while also capturing dust to improve air quality and storing rainwater