Rain Gardens for the Pacific Northwest
WASHINGTON STATE U: Building a Rain Garden: Keeping Our Pacific Northwest Waters Clean. In this 32-minute video, you’ll learn the important steps to follow to site, design, construct, and maintain a beautiful landscape feature that captures and filters polluted runoff, helps prevent flooding, recharges our groundwater aquifers, and creates habitat for birds and butterflies. This …Read more »
Native Sedges for Rain Gardens
U. NEBRASKA LINCOLN Bob Henrickson from the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum talks about good selections of native sedges in rain gardens or bioswale areas. Visit UNL’s Backyard Farmer website and Youtube Channel for more info.
Front Yard Habitat Garden
MARYLAND A front yard wildlife garden in Beltsville, MD in July 2013. A refuge for declining pollinators. (With special thanks to Patricia Sutton and her valuable New Jersey Audubon Society recommended plants.)
From Lawn to Habitat Garden
TEMPLE, TEXAS An episode of Central Texas Gardener, the award-winning show on KLRU in Austin. Browse the Central Texas Gardener Youtube Channel for dozens more excellent videos, including interviews, projects, and more gardens. In this episode of Central Texas Gardener: In Temple, Texas, Bell County Master Gardener Mary Lew Quesinberry and husband David wanted wildlife and low-water …Read more »
Why a Meadow?
From the WASHINGTON, D.C. area “Why a Meadow” is an excerpt from the video “Urban & Suburban Meadows” by Catherine Zimmerman.
Wolf Trap’s Wildlife Garden
VIRGINIA Video by Catherine Zimmerman. Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts creates a one acre, diverse, native meadow to foster environmentally responsible stewardship of the land. Watch the process, see the beauty and benefits! A Meadow Project production. Editing- Sandy Cannon Brown Videotakes
How to Attract Butterflies
U. NEBRASKA LINCOLN Curator of the Butterfly Pavilion at the Lincoln Children’s Zoo Dan Staehr talks about both host plants and nectar plants that attract butterflies. Visit UNL’s Backyard Farmer website and Youtube Channel for more info.
Rain Gardens
U. NEBRASKA LINCOLN UNL Extension Educator Kelly Feehan talks about how a rain garden can help conserve water. Produced by Backyard Farmer, Nebraska’s premier gardening program. Visit UNL’s Backyard Farmer website and Youtube Channel for more info.
Creating an Eco-Friendly Landscape, Part 1
CENTRAL FLORIDA From an episode of the PBS show “Growing a Greener World” with Joe Lamp’l.
Creating an Eco-Friendly Landscape, Part 2
CENTRAL FLORIDA From an episode of the PBS show Growing a Greener World, with Joe Lamp’l.
Water-Wise Gardening
SAN DIEGO, CA From an episode of the PBS show “Growing a Greener World” with Joe Lamp’l.
A Garden for Wildlife
VASHON ISLAND, WASHINGTON From Fine Gardening Magazine, for readers everywhere. Sara Van Fleet of U. Washington Seattle shows and describes her gorgeous, wildlife-friendly garden near Seattle.