Spring Care for Ecological Gardens | MHLA
Most spring cleanup advice works against ecological gardens. Here's how to approach the season if your garden is designed to support pollinators and soil health.
Observations on ecological design, native plants from our landscape architecture practice in New Hampshire.
Designing a Pollinator Garden in New Hampshire
A pollinator garden is not a collection of showy annuals. It is not a wildflower seed packet scattered across bare soil. It is not a butterfly bush in the corner…
What Is Matrix Planting? An Ecological Garden Guide | MHLA
What Is Matrix Planting? April 2, 2026 Matrix planting is a design approach built on a simple idea: plants don't naturally grow alone. In the wild, plants grow in communities.…
Layers in elevation
HOW TO DESIGN FOR COMMUNITY
Lately the news in the world of garden ecology in the US is that plants are social organisms. They like to grow together in communities. If you look to nature, you see that plants grow in layers, they intermingle, and there are lots of them per square foot especially in places where sunlight is allowed to hit the ground.
All the Landscapes
homeowners, gardeners, farmers and foresters we're all part of the same system June 30, 2020 We keep a family observation calendar of the natural world and as a result, I…