Natural garden design is about letting plants find their way and teaching us what works best within the plant community and on the site. But part of this strategy also includes researching plants and their habits, as well as wild plant communities that we can mimic in similar site conditions at home. It's all about density, layers, leaving plants up for winter, and planning for dynamism and succession from season to season and year to year. Way more exiting and sustainable than traditional garden beds -- or lawns!
Learn more at monarchgard.com, which hosts jam-packed online classes and useful pocket garden guides on a wide range of natural landscape design subjects. Prairie up!
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, The New York Times, 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.
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