Community Eco-gardens: Landscaping with Native Plants

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Home & Garden

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Adults
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Our presenter, environmental educator and naturalist, Dennis Swiftdeer Paige will talk about how a residential association transformed its lawn into an unfolding range of stunning multi-seasonally colorful prairie, woodland, and wetland wildflowers, forbs, sedges, grasses, and rain gardens. 

As a recipient of the 2011 Conservation and Native Landscaping Award from the USEPA and the Chicago Wilderness,  WTTW Chicago Tonight described this condominium association as "probably the most extensive native gardens of any residential complex in the Chicagoland area." 

The presentation is based on his book Community Eco-gardens: Landscaping with Native Plants. 

Click on the links below for more information on our presenter!

HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK

Earth-Friendly Landscaping - The Conservation Foundation

Native Plants (nwf.org)

Chicago Tonight | Native Plant Gardens | Season 2011 | PBS

The video presentation aired on a Chicago public tv news program on August 18, 2011.

Community Eco-Gardens – McFarland (mcfarlandbooks.com)

Use the above link to order books through the publisher McFarland and Company

Doug Tallamy: Native Plants, Climate Change, and Your Backyard - Bing video

Community Eco-Gardens - Ecological Landscape Alliance (ecolandscaping.org)