ReWild works with expert Native Plant landscape designers to bring you ideas based on their years of experience.The ReWild Edible Garden featured in this post is by Kimberly Simmen, a native plant expert and owner of KMS Native Plants LLC. The design features berry bushes that are attractive to birds and humans. Get yours first if you can …
Read MoreReWild works with expert Native Plant landscape designers to bring you ideas based on their years of experience.The ReWild Wildflower Meadow featured in this post is by Kimberly Simmen, a native plant expert and owner of KMS Native Plants LLC, Long Island’s first year-round retail native plant garden center. The design features vibrant flowering perennials with year round pollinator interest for small spaces.
Read MoreReWild works with expert Native Plant landscape designers to bring you ideas based on their years of experience. The “Bee and Butterfly” Showy Sun Design from Rusty Schmidt, one of Long Island’s premier Landscape Ecologists, provides year-round interest with plants guaranteed to be blooming from late May well into October. Their contrasting colors and varying heights are designed to show off each in the verdant background of the others.
Read MoreReWild works with expert Native Plant landscape designers to bring you ideas based on their years of experience. The Cool and Vibrant Shade Design from Rusty Schmidt, one of Long Island’s premier Landscape Ecologists, provides year-round interest with plants guaranteed to be blooming from late May well into October. The garden is vibrant with plants that flower attractively despite the shade.
Read MoreEvery Fall, outside your door, there is a huge bonanza of nutrients for your garden and plants. Every year this is free and readily available . We are talking about leaves. Instead of raking, blowing, bagging and sending leaves to the landfill, they can be used the enrich the plants and soil. Since fall leaves contain a lot of carbon and other important micro nutrients they make great mulch, compost, and even lawn fertilizer.
Paul Merkelson who leads ReWild Compost Committee discusses how you can save yourself work and help your yard!
Read MoreJoyce Hostyn, an amazing ReWilder from Kingston, Ontario, had hosted a wonderful session on designing landscapes with native plants. We have her recorded session and links to more information in this blog post.
Joyce is a rewilder who dreams of city streets lined with fruit and nut trees, wild parks and wild yards. She sees each yard as a possibility space - one yearning to burst free from tightly controlled grass and foundation plantings to become a beautiful, biodiverse, magical wildscape populated with native species, edibles and companionable exotics. Raised on a farm where her family grew, foraged and preserved enough produce to last the year, Joyce now experiments with edible forest gardening on her lawn-free quarter acre lot (featured last summer in the Kingston-Whig Standard).
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