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Saturday - March 20, 2004
From: Austin, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Wildlife Gardens
Title: Backyard habitat
Answered by: Sage Kawecki
QUESTION:
I’d like to start a backyard habitat. How do I begin?ANSWER:
You can have your backyard or schoolyard habitat registered by the National Wildlife Federation. To find out more information and to sign up, visit the NWF website. You can also download Wildflower Center articles entitled “Butterfly Gardening Resources,” “Creating a Wildlife Garden,” and “Wildlife Gardening Bibliography” from the Native Plant Library, a service of our Native Plant Information Network.More Wildlife Gardens Questions
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Our schoolyard now has some invasive plants in the landscaping that we would like to replace with native plants. We have four clumps of Nandina planted at each pillar along a...
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