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DocumentHummingbirdsNectar Plant List

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DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookChapter 1: Introduction
DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookChapter 2: Professional Points
DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookChapter 3: How to Choose High-Quality Native Seeds and Plants
DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookChapter 4: Native Species List
DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookChapter 5: Native Equivalents of Common Culitvar Species
DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookCapter 6: How to Use Native Plants
DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookChapter 7: Frequently Asked Questions About Native Planting
DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookChapter 8: Basic Native Landscape Design
DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookChapter 9: Idea Gallery
DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookChapter 10: Examples
DocumentThe Native Planting HandbookChapter 11 & 12: About Us (AES) & Appendix

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DocumentBest Native Plants For BirdsResoruce: http://www.for-wild.org/land/wibirdpl.html
DocumentBest Butterfly Host PlantsNiagara County
DocumentNative Alternatives - Eastern Deciduous ForestsNorth American Terrestrial Vegetation - Michael G. Barbour and William Dwight Billings
DocumentNative Nesting, Shade, and Shelter Plants for BirdsNative Nesting, Shade and Shelter Plants for Birds
DocumentDry Shade List - Native Plantswww.catskillnativenursery.com
DocumentHoneyBee Plant List for NortheastCompliled by Grai St. Clair Rice, HoneybeeLives.org
DocumentRecommended Native Plants for GardenersThe Native Plant Center at Westchester Community Center, Compiled by Carolyn Summers
DocumentPlants for SongbirdsImportant Food Plants for Backyard Songbirds - Adapted from
DocumentPollinator Flower PrefernecesPollinator Flower Color Preferences
DocumentRain Garden PlantsBrooklyn Botanical Gardens
DocumentCommon Butterfly Larval Host Plants Rearing Butterflies and Moths, University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension, Lancaster County
DocumentNative Rain Garden Plantswww.catskillnativenursery.com
DocumentConservation Garden Plant ListResource: Ecosystem Gardening Blog
DocumentMADCAPHORSE List of Species - Niagara RegionP.M. Eckel Revised Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Niagara Frontier Region
DocumentPlant List - Black Oak Woods by Niagara UniversityResource: Patricia Eckel
DocumentOak Opening Native PlantsPlants Naturally Occuring in Oak Opening Ecosystems
 
 
 
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"Nothing was more disturbing to Olmsted in the 1880's than the increased use of exotic plant materials for decorative purposes. The need for public education in sound ecological principals and "natural" gardening motivated Olmsted to join with the noted horticulturist and botanist Charles Sprague Sargent in the planning and design of the Arnold  Arboretum (Fein 1972).

Olmsted articulated for his generation and ours a philosophy and a set of working principals for the creation of urban and rural landscapes. The type of planning that considers cities as separate from regions and unrelated to considerations of ecology cannot hope to succeed. All environmental planning must proceed with the awareness that any alterations of ecological processes have deep implications which threaten the health and survivability  of both the immediate site area and the larger landscape region. The contemporary challenge to environmental design and planning remains sociological, ecological, and aesthetic, as it was in Olmsted's day (Fein 1972). (Source: Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Urban and Rural America - A Planning Design Manual for Environmental Designers)

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