The Bringing Nature Home (BNH) recognition program is designed to inspire home gardeners, landscapers, businesses, and organizations to embrace landscaping with native plants, benefiting both aesthetics and local wildlife. Our goal is to heighten awareness about the critical role of native vegetation in supporting vibrant and resilient ecosystems. Native gardeners have been instrumental in aiding […]
2024 Bringing Nature Home Read More »
The Bringing Nature Home (BNH) recognition program is designed to inspire home gardeners, landscapers, businesses, and organizations to embrace landscaping with native plants, benefiting both aesthetics and local wildlife. Our goal is to heighten awareness about the critical role of native vegetation in supporting vibrant and resilient ecosystems. Native gardeners have been instrumental in aiding
2023- A Record Year for Bringing Nature Home Read More »
The Bringing Nature Home Award is due August 20, 2022. Apply here! Native plants are pretty groovy—they have the power to sustain wildlife, protect our homes, and beautify communities. Shirley Heinze Land Trust works hard to restore natives throughout our nature preserves, and we also recognize the power a person holds to restore natural habitat.
Flower Power: Plant Natives with Bringing Nature Home Read More »
By: Mary Nell Murphy While driving on Hwy 12 near the Indiana Dunes parks last fall, I stopped at a wayside for a stretch break and looked across the road to a sea of watermelon pink under the forest canopy. Delightful? No! As I suspected, and as I confirmed “upon further review of the field”
Invasive Species Awareness Week: Burning Bush Read More »
By Warren Buckler When Peg Mohar and I embarked on our Bringing Nature Home project ten years ago, in part as a way for older members to remain active, we had no idea what response we’d get from the gardening public. Our goal, inspired by Doug Tallamy’s book “Bringing Nature Home,” was to recognize
On the 10th Season of our “Bringing Nature Home” Program, a Look Back – and Forward. Read More »
By Peg Mohar The ten-year anniversary for “Bringing Nature Home” program brings back fond memories of the garden visits, award ceremonies and dedicated people I had the pleasure of working with! It does my heart good to have been part of the beginning of a great program. When we moved to Virginia in 2015, we
An Allegorical Story: Good Versus Evil and Sanity Versus Insanity Read More »
The tenth season of our Bringing Nature Home Program was not to be deterred by a pandemic. The ability to spend time outdoors, tending to gardens and landscapes has become a great source of respite for many, and the applications came in. Plantings ranged from small city gardens to multi-acre rural landscapes. While we were
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By Christine Maloney Four mature maple trees around my house (two on the south and two on the north) leave only a narrow strip of full sun in the middle to grow my favorite sun-loving garden crops. To complicate things further, my house and driveway take up the majority of that area in my typical
Gardening from the Roots to the Treetops – Create a Backyard Food Forest!s Read More »
For gardeners, this is a busy time of year. Depending on where you are in your gardening journey, (and it truly is a journey), you may be looking at flats of seedlings in your window (or green house, if you’re lucky!), placing orders from a nursery, or planning to attend a local plant sale. Maybe you are starting your very first garden, or thinking about planting trees and shrubs to enhance your
How Backyard Native Plant Gardening Can Help Save the Natural World! Read More »
