Today, I will show you how to identify plants for your nature inspired garden. Last post, I showed you how to use Land Cover Viewer to find out the name of the types of natural areas near you. We will take that information and use it to find plants for your landscape. … [Read more...]
Land Cover Viewer for identifying natural areas
Recently, I described using natural areas as inspiration for a garden landscape. In the prairie example, I mentioned that the prairie near me was the Central Tallgrass Prairie. In the forest example, the North-Central Interior Dry-Mesic Oak Forest and Woodland was the woodland that my neighborhood was before it was developed. In my last post, I said I would show you how to find the natural areas near you or anywhere else you like. I will do that over these next two posts. … [Read more...]