Native Gardening Articles

Articles about Native Landscaping:

Landscaping tips

• Fancy fronds - Native Ferns, Gateway Gardener 03/2009
• Tips for a Successful Native Garden, Gateway Gardener 01/2009
• Native Winter Gardens, Gateway Gardener 12/2008
• Parcels of Promise, Gateway Gardener 11/2008
• Goldenrods in Missouri (PDF)
• More plants of Merit, Gateway Gardener 10/2008
• Sept in the Native Garden, Gateway Gardener 09/2008
• Fringe tree propagation  08/2008
• Echinacea, Gateway Gardener 08/2008
• Tree Maintenance, Gateway Gardener 05/2008
• Container Gardening with Natives, Gateway Gardener 05/2008
• Spring in the Woodland Garden, Gateway Gardener 04/2008
• Small Native Trees to Plant Under Power Lines
• Time For a Haircut? 04/2006, Native Notes
• Native Plant Gardening in Winter, Native Notes 10/12/2005
• Broadcast Seeding, July 2006 Shaw Nature Reserve

• Baptisia, Jan 2007 Gateway Gardener

• Sources for native plants, Jan 2007 Shaw Nature Reserve

• Solidago, July 2007 Shaw Nature Reserve
• Native Shrubs, August 2007 Shaw Nature Reserve
• Birdscaping, September 2007 Shaw Nature Reserve
• Spring in the Woodland Garden, April 2008 Gateway Gardener
• Why Native Plants?, March 2008 Gateway Gardener
• Planting Flowers Go Native, July 2004 St Louis Post Dispatch
• Newfound Appreciation of Wildflowers, 4/27/2005 Washington Missourian
• Edgar Denison's Legacy in a Patch of Blue-eyed Mary, Native Notes 8/20/2004

Rain Gardening and all about Sedges

• Rain Gardens, Gateway Gardener 06/2008
• Sedges have edges, Native Notes 8/20/2005
• Sedges that wont stay put, July 2006, Shaw Nature Reserve
• Green Grow the Sedges, Native Notes 1/31/2006
• Best place to sucker a sedge, March 2007 St Louis Magazine
• The flow that Grows , December 19, 2007 Southwestcity Journal

• New Rain Garden at Shaw Nature Reserve, Dec 2007 Missouri Prarie Journal

• Native plants for water gardens part 1, Jan 2007 Gateway Gardener

  Native plants for water gardens part 2, Jan 2007 Gateway Gardener

Corporations and schools use native plants

• Alberici Goes Platinum, July 2005 Native Notes
• Landscape Lessons, Feb 2004 St Louis Post dispatch
• Olivette restores tallgrass prairie, Jan 2005 St Louis Post Dispatch
• Flowers for Schools

Native Plant School

• At plant school, gardeners can learn ABCs of habitat, St Louis Post Dispatch 1/27/2006
• Back to School, Native Notes 10/12/2005
• Natural Beauties, 2/1/6, Washington Missourian

Staff Trips

• Into the Rain Forest, 3/30/2005 Washington Missourian
• Seed Sleuths, Native Notes 10/10/2004

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