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A New Year’s Tradition for Nature-Based Gardeners: Sowing Native Seeds
Read more: A New Year’s Tradition for Nature-Based Gardeners: Sowing Native SeedsWith the winter solstice almost here and the year coming to a close, we’d like to propose a new tradition to kick off the New Year: Sowing native seeds–outdoors. Many native seeds need a period of cold stratification in order to germinate, and one of the simplest ways to do this is to sow them…
Ask the Expert: Holistic Plant Care with Longue Vue
Read more: Ask the Expert: Holistic Plant Care with Longue VueIt can get hot in New Orleans, really hot—and really humid. Climate change can cause drought one month, followed by floods the next. Then there are insect and disease pressures, infestations of invasive plants, frequent epic storms. What’s a historic garden to do? Longue Vue, Perfect Earth Project’s newest Pathways to PRFCT partner, is trying…
Bringing Biodiversity Back
Read more: Bringing Biodiversity Back“We have declared 2024 the year of milkweed,” says Andi Pettis, director of horticulture at Governors Island. For the past couple of years, Pettis and her team have been busy incorporating milkweed into the island’s plantings.
Manitoga: An American Treasure
Read more: Manitoga: An American Treasure“I am more interested in nature than any other subject,” says Russel Wright, the influential mid-century industrial designer, who believed that good design was for everyone and created the best-selling dinnerware line in U.S. history. He channeled his passion for nature into Manitoga . . .
PRFCT Moment: Leaving Stems at The Battery
Read more: PRFCT Moment: Leaving Stems at The Battery“Here’s a picture demonstrating our practice of leaving stems for cavity nesting native bees. We recommend home gardeners start cutting back in mid-April (at the earliest), leaving stems, like we’ve done here with Bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii), at a minimum of 18-inches tall. Bee babies are sleeping in them!
Ask the Expert: Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Rashid Poulson
Read more: Ask the Expert: Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Rashid PoulsonRashid Poulson probably wouldn’t be where he is today if he hadn’t gotten bored at work. The horticultural director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP), one of the city’s most exciting new parks and our newest Pathways to PRFCT Partner, had zero interest in gardening when he was studying engineering in college. . . .
The Buzz on Native Bees
Read more: The Buzz on Native BeesIt’s winter. The trees are bare, the ground is (hopefully) covered in fallen leaves, and the palette of the landscape is muted. While it might look barren, there is a whole world living just out of sight. “Native bees might not be buzzing now,” says Sarah Kornbluth, a field associate in Invertebrate Zoology at the…
Native Seeds at Hilltop Hanover Farm
Read more: Native Seeds at Hilltop Hanover Farm“A seed contains the past and the future at the same time,” said the poet and writer Ross Gay, in a recent interview in The Nation. Hilltop Hanover Farm, a Perfect Earth Project partner in New York’s Westchester County, understands this firsthand. Through their native plant seed initiative, they are preserving the past by cultivating…
Ask the Expert: Warrie Price, president and founder of The Battery Conservancy
Read more: Ask the Expert: Warrie Price, president and founder of The Battery ConservancyFor two decades, The Battery has been a model for public parks and sustainable horticulture in New York City and beyond, proving that what we work toward at Perfect Earth Project is possible—and beautiful: You can plant drop-dead gorgeous landscapes for biodiversity.
Pathways to PRFCT Spotlight: Madoo Conservancy
Read more: Pathways to PRFCT Spotlight: Madoo Conservancy“All gardens are a form of autobiography,” writes Robert Dash, the late creator of the magical Madoo, a garden in Sagaponack, NY, (Notes from Madoo, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000). The painter and poet wove an intricate story of art, exploration, and a reverence for the natural world when he created the two-acre garden more than…