Native Gardening

The May Regular Meeting of the Whitefish Bay Garden Club included an outstanding presentation on Gardening with Native Plants given by Carol Bangs, Landscape Design Horticulturist, MATC.  Carol shared some tips for eliminating "opportunistic" (native, aggressive plants) and "invasive" (non-native, aggressive plants) from our gardens.  The tools she recommended for this task included the Parsnip Predator, the Weed Wrench, and the Weed Torch.  Click on the tool's name for a detailed description and purchasing information about each tool.

Carol also recommended two resources that every gardener should have in his or her library:  Invasive Plants of The Upper Midwest by Elizabeth J Czarapata and The Wisconsin DNR Publication on Invasive Species.  Clicking on either resource will take you to a website with more information.

Once the "opportunistic" and/or "invasive" plants are under control, Carol suggested a trip to the Prairie Nursery (or their website) to select the native plants appropriate for your soil and growing conditions.  

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