Est. Read Time: 5 minutes This summer, we launched the very first Mosquito Bucket Challenge—a simple, pollinator-safe way to reduce fogging without harming biodiversity. And what a response it was! From decorated buckets to community giveaways, you showed just how creative and passionate this movement can be. Your suggestions are already sparking ideas for how […]
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Celebrating World Firefly Day with Homegrown National Park® Think back to summer evenings from your childhood. Warm air. Bare feet in the grass. Tiny sparks drifting through the dark, blinking in gentle rhythms. Fireflies were part of the magic, a quiet reminder that nature can be full of small wonders. These days, though, many of
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By Tim Snyder, Executive Director Est. Read Time: 5 minutes One of those first warm spring days, I was sitting around with my 15- and 16-year-olds, just talking. Nothing formal, just one of those rare moments when the conversation flows and you realize they’ve actually been listening. We started chatting about Homegrown National Park®: native
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By James Shepherd MD PhD Yale University School of Medicine Est Read Time: 6 minutes You might think that a garden full of native plants, thicker on the ground and under the trees, jumbled together in profusion, might be a better habitat for disease-carrying ticks, bugs, and mice than a closely cropped lawn of turfgrass
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We’ve partnered with My Home Park so you can customize your native garden and save! Custom Native Garden Design Starting at $50 My Home Park will create a complete native garden design package for your yard. $25 will go to Homegrown National Park® (HNP), and 50% of the design fee will be credited towards your
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Try these Keystone native plants instead of (non-native) chrysanthemums to support your local pollinators and other wildlife! Keystones are the most productive native plants to support the most productive species.???? These plants are also container-friendly for your patio or balcony. Find more options for the most productive plants and trees using our Keystone Plant Guides.
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The Keystone Roll-Out Garden™ is a new collaboration with Ecoplantia featuring four keystone species and four powerful natives that pollinators thrive on. For each template that is sold, a portion of the proceeds are donated to Homegrown National Park®. Professionally designed native plant gardens printed onto bio-degradable paper and shipped with ALL of the actual plants!
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Early spring bloomers to support pollinators! Try adding some of these plants that are native to your area. Native spring ephemerals are a group of plants that emerge in early spring in many temperate areas. These plants are adapted to quickly complete their growth cycle during the short period between winter’s end and the time
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Finding the Right Native Plants It’s easy to be overwhelmed at the nursery shopping for new plants, especially when you want to create a wildlife habitat. And plant tags seldom provide enough or even the right information to make informed decisions suitable for our specific site conditions. For example, a plant tag will discuss light
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Plant selection is more than just gardening; it’s restoration. Over the course of a few centuries, we have changed the topography and soil chemistry of every corner of this country through agriculture, industry, and urban development. We have altered the places where native species were once able to establish themselves successfully, and our local ecosystems have suffered as a result.
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