By Joan Herskowitz Creating a garden hospitable to birds is not only a personally gratifying connection with nature and opportunity to beautify the home environment, it is also important for sustaining resident and migratory bird populations. Due to habitat loss, native plant gardening is important for maintaining biodiversity. Doug Tallamy, ecologist and author, writes that […]
Paradise Hills group converts land loop into native-plant showcase BY WES JANSSEN (This article originally appeared in the June 10, 2023 edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune) Loss of wild habitat drives climate change and degrades biodiversity. Gardeners, landowners and informed volunteers have important opportunities to be an antidote. This is the story of one […]
With a focus on conservation, zoo’s vast plant collections featuring rare and unusual specimens are a whole other animal BY HELEN PURCELL MONTAG (This article originally appeared in the May 13, 2023 edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune) Waiting to greet you at the San Diego Zoo’s entrance plaza in Balboa Park is a 27-foot […]
And we could use more — planting one in the yard might help reverse state’s 30 percent drop in tree density BY KATHY MCKEE (This article originally appeared in the APRIL 8, 2023 edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune) In a corner of our backyard patio, we enjoy a strawberry arbutus tree (Arbutus unedo) with a canopy […]
Here’s how to incorporate fragrant trees and boughs, long a symbol of life and hope, and still be a green consumer BY SKYE RESENDES (This article originally appeared in the December 10, 2022 edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune) The history of decorating the home with evergreen boughs and trees dates back thousands of years […]
