Green mulching is the garden design practice of using plants to replace constant applications of wood mulch. Just as in nature, dense layers of plants help build the ecosystem and solve many site problems from weed pressure to erosion and ponding water. Our favorite groundcover or green mulch plants include sedges like Carex albicans and Carex sprengelii, as well as warm-season bunchgrasses such as Bouteloua gracilis and Bouteloua curtipendula.
Learn more at monarchgard.com, which hosts jam-packed online classes and useful pocket garden guides on a wide range of sustainable landscape design subjects that empower and build confidence to garden with nature and not against it. There's also a self-paced design workshop that takes things to another level.
Monarch Gardens is a prairie-inspired design firm. It is managed by Benjamin Vogt, author of A NEW GARDEN ETHIC: CULTIVATING DEFIANT COMPASSION FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE, as well as PRAIRIE UP: AN INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL GARDEN DESIGN. Benjamin's work has been featured in The American Gardener, Dwell, Fine Gardening, The Guardian, Horticulture, Midwest Living, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as a variety of books including American Roots. He is a sought-after speaker on landscape ethics and natural design, combining dad jokes with passionate activism and practical advice to reprairie suburbia and unlawn America.
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