PRFCT Perspectives is our online magazine featuring stories about
nature-based gardens, posts from Edwina von Gal, tips, and more.
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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. . . .
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One Simple Way to Protect Birds
Read more: One Simple Way to Protect BirdsAfter the birth of my daughter, rising early went from a habit to a mandate, shifting from the reasonable hour of six to the brain-destroying, body-weakening predawn hours somewhere closer to four in the morning. With her every . . .
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Ask the Experts: The Native Plant Combinations the Pros Love
Read more: Ask the Experts: The Native Plant Combinations the Pros LoveIn our post last week, we heard from a group of horticulturists and garden designers where they go to source native plants and seeds. Now we’ve asked these gardening superstars (plus a few more) to share their favorite native plant combinations. We’ve all heard why native plants are vital to supporting our ecosystem. Studies have…
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Where the Pros go to Source Native Plants
Read more: Where the Pros go to Source Native PlantsEver since I spotted the heart-shaped leaves of a violet in my backyard as a child, I’ve been smitten with native plants. Decades later the excitement has not abated: spring beauties, lady slipper orchids, gentians, bloodroot—“heaven in a wildflower.” It was only much later that I learned about how important these native plants are to…
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Radicle Thinking: Eat Poop Die
Read more: Radicle Thinking: Eat Poop DieIf you Google “Food Web” or “Web of Life,” you’ll find a plethora of oddly tangled images of animals and plants with arrows pointing out, up, and all around. Do you get a general idea of what it all means?
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Out with the Old
Read more: Out with the OldIt’s a new year, new garden—or, rather, a new way to tend to your garden. And there’s a lot to be hopeful about. Gardeners across the U.S. want to be more sustainable. According to a recent National Gardening Survey a third of people are now choosing plants to support wildlife and a quarter of them…
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Radicle Thinking: Mowbot and Me
Read more: Radicle Thinking: Mowbot and MeDoes the world need another garden gadget? Well . . . I have so many new tools pitched to me, all promising to do a better job. Ugh, so many disappointments—and so much more garbage. But, I am intrigued about a new one that has real promise.
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A Nature-Based Garden on the Montauk Highway
Read more: A Nature-Based Garden on the Montauk Highway“Mother nature is the ultimate landscape designer. We’re just her helpers,” says Emilia deMauro, who, along with her sister Anna, runs the East Hampton, NY, landscape-design firm deMauro + deMauro. Their approach to design is imbued with a sense of community and responsibility to preserve the beauty of the native environment.