Table of Contents
- What is Wildlife Gardening?
- Wildlife Corridors
- Wildlife Gardening Core Pillars
- Implementation
- Tips and Tricks
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If you're interested in growing a deeper, more holistic relationship with your local ecosystem through your garden, wildlife gardening is for you.
What is Wildlife Gardening?
Growing your garden with the benefit of your local ecosystem and wildlife in mind - that's what wildlife gardening is all about.
Wildlife Corridors
Long urban stretches, monocultures, grass lawns, and human development can all infringe on the habitat that local wildlife needs to thrive.
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Many critters need corridors through which they can move across the land safely, as well as places they can eat, drink, and rest as they migrate.
These wildlife corridors give wildlife the abililty to forage, migrate, hunt, and reproduce as needed.
By cultivating a wildlife garden, your space can become a part of a larger patchwork of safety that wildlife can utilize.
Wildlife Gardening Core Pillars
Native Biodiversity
Habitat Creation
Organic Methods
The use of synthetic pesticides and hebicides should be strictly avoided if wildlife gardening is your goal.
Many of these systemics are biomagnified up the food chain, causing indiscriminate harm to numerous species which predate one another.
Opting for arganic methods in your garden and aviding the use of poison ensures that the space you cultivate is safe for wildlife.
Ecosystem Balance
Pollinator Support
Native wildflowers are one of the best ways to support your local pollinators.
Pollen and nectar from a wide range of native flowers give them a variety to choose from, and overlapping blooms. Aim to alwyas have something in bloom in your wildlife garden during the active times of the yaer for pollinators.
Water
Providing water for local wildlife, especially in hot dry climate and seasons is a great way to support your native ecology.
Both bird baths and shallw dishes are great options to support different critters.
Bees and butterflies can also benefit from water dishes, however they should be filled with something like pebbles or marbles to give them something to stand on, for easy access without risk of drowning.
Implementation
Tips and Tricks
That's all for now, thanks for reading!
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