Bringing Nature Home 2021, a series of talks about ecological gardening presented by local NE Ohio speakers, is online at https://bit.ly/3wAVe0m

presented by The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes & The Doan Brook Watershed Partnership

Online webinars and classes

• Ecological Landscape Alliance

A Community Membership of $50 gives free access to archived webinars as well as upcoming ones.

• Mt. Cuba Center classes on demand

• Native Plant Trust

An individual membership of $40 gives free access to the on-demand webinar library as well as discounted classes.

Guides for planting native gardens

Plant by Numbers from Live Green, Lexington, KY

Native Plants for the Small Yard from Lehigh Gap Nature Center, PA

Bloom Chart from Pollinator Partnership

Recommended online plant information resources

If you want to know the characteristics of a native plant, try one of these sites:

•   Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center plant database

• Prairie Moon Nursery

• Minnesota Wildflowers

• Missouri Botanical Garden

• Ohio Prairie Nursery

• Illinois Wildflowers

• Go Botany

Other Resources

Gardening for Life-Why go native? Doug Tallamy

Gardening is for the Birds video-What to plant for a bird buffet

 Handout: Planting Native Plants for Birds

Best Bird Food-Caterpillar chart-Tallamy

Trees & shrubs ranked by wildlife value-Tallamy

What is a Cultivar?

Nesting and Overwintering Habitat for Pollinators and Other Beneficial Insects

Live Staking for Stream Restoration

Instructions for Tree Cage Construction