Assisted migration, helping native plants move to escape the effects of a rapidly changing climate, is a controversial topic among ecologists. Thomas Nuhfer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst shares a new understanding of how to make these moves without destabilizing existing ecosystems.
A Conversation with Growing Greener’s New Partner
Award-winning landscape designer Edwina von Gal describes her Perfect Earth Project’s dual approach to changing the culture of land care in the United States: building a constituency among land owners and gardeners for ecologically-based, toxin-free design and maintenance while educating landscapers in how to serve this new market.
DOGE is Destroying an Essential, Inexpensive Foundation of American Agricultural Greatness
The Lawn Mower as Ecological Design Tool
Slugs “Don’t Get No Respect
Benjamin Vogt Explains Why He Prefers Clay Soils
A Pioneering Native Plant Supplier That’s Equally Remarkable as an Educator
Collecting Seeds to Grow Locally Adapted Native Plants
“Roll Out Gardens”
Stoneleigh: a Natural Garden
Ethan Kauffman, Director of Stoneleigh, describes the 9-year process his team has pursued, enriching a classic Philadelphia Mainline estate with thousands of species of native plants, to transform it into a model for how to honor traditional landscape aesthetics while boosting biodiversity and serving the local ecosystem
Starting the Next Generation Indoors
11 Generations of Stewarding the Land
The Garden Benefits of Backyard Ducks
Slow Flowers
High Performing Plants
It’s not an either/or choice, native vs. introduced, for Claudia West of Phyto Studio when this leader of the ecological gardening movement develops a plant palette for one of her innovative landscapes. What she seeks, besides selections that serve the customers’ needs and delight the eye, are “high performing” species and cultivars that provide maximum benefits to the local ecosystem, regardless of place of origin.
An Invaluable New Gardening Tool
“Your Natural Garden,” Kelly D. Norris’ new book, is sure to be one of the most essential gardening tools of 2025. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Norris, who split his childhood between working in his grandmother’s garden and exploring the 40-acre prairie a quarter mile up the road, shares insights he has gathered from his hands in the dirt-experience, studies of plant science, and his work as a nationally renowned ecological garden designer.
Managing for Coexistence
Sports fields and swimming beaches are essential, but public parks can also play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity. As Curator of Natural Resources for the Westchester County New York Park system, Leah Cass designs management regimes for thousands of acres of habitat, coordinating the needs of residents, wildlife, and more than a thousand species of native plants.
The Many Garden Benefits of Snow
The Nursery that Helped Shape the Native Plants Movement
Gardeners mostly didn’t focus on our native plants as such in 1988 when Steve Castorani and Dale Hendricks founded North Creek Nurseries to propagate them in bulk for distribution to retail nurseries. Learn how North Creek’s innovations in the years since have continued to shape and expand the native plants movement.