Removing Trees - Never An Easy Decision

How Do You Decide When to Remove a Tree?



Removing a tree, especially a large, old, "favorite," tree is often an expensive and emotional decision. This web site by University of Maryland Extension Service Certified Professional Horticulturalist Margaret Williams can help sort out the many issues involved in making a decision.

Super menu of eco-changes to reduce our carbon footprint on God's creation

A very comprehensive resource created by the Maryland Episcopal Environmental Partnership (MEEP) offering access to programs and tips for congregations, individuals, and the faithful to tread more lightly on the earth.  Please check it out.

@Greengrace from the Maryland Episcopal Environmental Partners

Maryland Bishop Eugene Sutton on environmental issues

The Beauty of Native Plants

 Designed by Mother Nature to thrive 



"The essence of living green is working with nature, not against it. I can think of no better example than planting your garden and yard with plants that are native to the place you live.

The beauty of these species is that they know in their genes how to defend against local pests and diseases, deal with the climate and get by with conditions on the ground. Their ancestors have seen it all—and evolved to cope. As a result, native plants don't need your daily ministrations to survive. Once established, they don't even need regular watering."  read more at    

This Green Life, a "monthly journal or sorts by Sheryl Eisenberg"

The Ethics of Native Plant Gardening

An essay appearing on the Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens blog by Benjamin Vogt

Welcome to Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens! We are a team of passionate professionals from all over North America: authors, professors, writers, landscape designers, biologists, botanists, gardeners, and photographers. We share a mission that native plants are vital to healthy ecosystems, and by adding more native plants to our landscapes we will create better habitat for birds, butterflies, native bees, and other wildlife.

"Gardens in Ecology - Why Do We Landscape?"

Podcast by Larry Weaner - founder of  Larry Weaner Landscape Associates in 1982, "a firm that has earned a national reputation for its work combining the environmental sciences and garden design."*

Sorry, no pictures, but if you have some time this is a very informative lecture on transitioning from a "typical American landscape" to one that is in balance with the local ecology.

Gardens in Ecology podcast

*from the Directions in the New American Landscape website, 3/6/14. [http://www.ndal.org/who.htm]