Pat Hill's Natural Midwest Garden
Pat Hill's Blog on gardening with native plants in Northern Illinois
A DOCTRINE OF SUSTAINABILITY continued Gerould Wilhelm IV. All places on the earth, along with the people who inhabit them, are unique to all others, this singular quality embodied in the Genius Loci. Geronimo, the great Apache leader, looking back on his beloved western homeland from a prison at Pensacola, Florida noted: For […]
A DOCTRINE OF SUSTAINABILITY Gerould Wilhelm Director of Research Conservation Research Institute 185 S. York Elmhurst, IL 60126 Revised November 2011 There are at least seven First Principles that must be attended in all design programs, if we really are to sustain the ability for next generations to have at least as many choices for […]
Conservation@Home Early this year, our Northern Kane County Wild Ones invited Jim Kleinwachter of The Conservation Foundation of DuPage and Kane Counties to speak about Conservation@Home, a program that helps property owners protect and create yards that are environmentally friendly. The following criteria is used for designation: Property must have some native plant components for […]
Drought? What drought? Part 2 July 26, 2012 If ever there was a summer to convince people to plant prairie flowers and grasses instead of lawns and exotic flowers, this is it. I began to plant my prairie garden in 1998, starting with the front foundation, entry walk, and along the front walk, adding […]
DROUGHT The current drought situation has been aided by an overall persistence of unusually warm, dry weather. June of 2012 officially ranked as the 6th warmest on record in Chicago, while it was also the 5th driest. WGN Meteorologist Paul Merzlock We are, indeed, in a drought. Trees are stressed; lawns are brown. Prairies […]