How to Win Butterflies and Influence Birds By Arielle McIntyre | Part 2 of ‘Local Hero Brings Back Rare Butterfly Species in His Backyard’ Hello Placemakers! If you were here for Part 1, than you know that it only takes a little bit of love from a home gardener to make a real impact. If you haven’t […]
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It’s Time for Some Good News: Local Hero Brings Back Rare Butterfly Species in His Backyard With everything going on in the world right now, it can feel impossible to make a difference. We face complex problems that we’ve never faced before as human beings, but we’re still trying our best just to live our lives.
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Hello garden lovers! Arielle McIntyre here, co-creator of the Placemakers Academy of Garden Design and part of the design team at Dargan Landscape Architects. This growing season was my first opportunity to help manage installations, and do more hands-on planting design for clients. Outside of our installations, I was able to attend a series of
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If you live on a site that doesn’t have a whole lot of existing woodland and trees, you can recreate your own natural edge by considering a bird’s perspective. Many of us live in neighborhoods or on plots that lack any real place for the lovely birds, butterflies, and other wildlife we love to call
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