Green Gardening
Mary, Mary, quite eco-friendly, how does your garden grow? With rain barrels and compost bins, and native flowers all in a row. Like it or not, grass is bad. Take your pick – fescue, rye, bluegrass – they don’t belong in the Midwest, and they require vast amounts of resources to care for. Weed [...]
NATURE’S MIRACLE: Natural Yucca Shidigera Extract and ‘Go Green’ Gardening
 With the emphasis on all – natural, organic products for gardening in our ever – increasingly ‘Go Green’ world, consumers are searching the shelves for earth friendly gardening items. There are not an abundance of them – yet. However, there are some worth considering. Those with a natural extract of Yucca shidigera (Mohave yucca) added [...]
A Nourishing Option: Green Gardening
There is a new world developing in the gardening world that is called green gardening, otherwise known as organic gardening. Since it is becoming more popular, there is more gardening help available to help a person who has been gardening for years change over to green gardening from traditional methods. There is also plenty of [...]
SAFEGUARDING HEATHLAND HABITAT OF THE SILVER-STUDDED BLUE BUTTERFLY
Commencing in 2006, Butterfly Conservation started work to create a new large area (>20 hectares) of lowland heathland and acid grassland on existing arable land at Prees Heath Common, Whitchurch, Shropshire. The existing small and fragmented areas of heathland on Prees Heath Common supports the only remaining colony of the Silver-Studded Blue butterfly (Plebeius argus [...]