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Here is a six day long project (June 17-23) to engage your kids who are at home this summer -- or you yourself, perhaps! National Pollinator Week is celebrating a BioBlitz, and all you need to participate is a camera and a free subscription to iNaturalist.
Read MoreAre you in need of some inspiration for your next gardening phase? Are you wondering if any non-native invasives are creeping around your yard? Would you like to observe more pollinators and birds?
Read MoreThe Shaker Lakes Garden Club has been actively promoting the importance of native plants to support biodiversity. To celebrate Earth Month this past April, we hosted two events.
Read MoreTURN OUT YOUR LIGHTS!!!
Did you know that 44% of all bird-building collisions occur at residences?
You can make your home significantly safer for birds by taking a few simple steps such as reducing your nighttime lighting, treating reflective glass, planting native vegetation, and thinking about the placement of shrubs and bird feeders around windows.
Read MoreThis time of year, I am known by those who ride in the car with me to call out “Privet! Privet! Privet!” in the same tone that others might use to acknowledge rattlesnakes on a footpath or hippopotami in the swimming pool.
Read MoreLet’s begin by assuming that you have not planted a solitary specimen of privet in your garden. If you have, the solution is simple. Make one strong cut across the stem or stems just above soil level, and follow by digging out the remaining roots. If you need a lovely specimen to fill in its place, the world is full of beautiful native shrunbs; pick one you love, and plant it in the privet’s place.
This method also works well for privet plants that have popped up in your garden without being intentionally planted. Just Remove Them.
Read MoreIt has been more than a year since Jane Ellison, Robin Schachat, Kathryn Craig and Wendy Donkin began creating the program for homeowners that would become Nature in My Backyard, and which was launched as a pilot program at the 2023 Audubon Society of Greater Cleveland (ASGC) Centennial Celebration.
Read MoreWe have lost 3 billion birds in the last 50 years and the decline is continuing …… What is a person to do??
Zoom in on MAY 1 (TOMORROW) at NOON to hear John Barber.
Planting is for the Birds - A Primer for your Yard
Nature in My Backyard (NMB) is a program designed to address the global biodiversity crisis by bringing research-based information to homeowners for improving habitat on their property.
Read MoreGoing to the National Affairs and Legislation conference is so EMPOWERING! Not only is it a meeting where we learn about solutions to climate change but the GCA is a force of influential women who have a real impact on our nation’s legislators.
Read MoreApril 16 at 7 pm
Drinks and Dessert
Join SLGC to celebrate Earth Month!
Read MoreEarly in the spring it is a great pleasure to go for a walk and see the lovely fresh green of early emerging foliage on trees and shrubs – “spring green” is a happy phrase almost whenever you hear it, signaling renewal, regrowth, the onset of longer and sunnier days. Unfortunately, locally one of the earliest of these pretty sights is the soft green leaf of a bush honeysuckle.
Honeysuckles are members of the genus Lonicera. None of the bush species of Lonicera is native to Ohio.
Read MoreFirst of all I am going to make an assumption. Most of us whose gardens have been invaded by bush honeysuckles have not set out intentionally to include them, so the vast majority are invaders into existing mixed hedges, woodland edges, and odd spots.
Read MoreSaturday, April 27th
1 - 3 pm
Nature, Center at Shaker Lakes, Pavilion
Join the Shaker Lakes Garden Club and the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes for a Weed Wrangle. Working with Nature Center staff and Garden Club volunteers, we'll be learning how to identify and remove invasive species in our natural areas.
Read MoreYou already know April is officially designated as native plant month and Ohio was the FIRST state in the US to make this important designation.
Read MoreApril 16 at 7 pm
Drinks and Dessert
Join SLGC to celebrate Earth Month!
Read MoreFrom Mindy Bartholomae, Zone X Conservation Chair/ NAL Rep - please consider sharing on social media platforms you are using. Ohio is a leader in promoting native plants, but it is important to share this message beyond the choir!
Read MoreLet’s start with the exception – the rare exception. Yes, there is in fact an Ohio native Buckthorn that need not be removed from your garden, Rhamnus alnifolia, the alder-leaved buckthorn, a small (2’ - 3’ tall), noninvasive little shrub that grows in fens or low, damp areas with calciferous soil across the northern US and southern Canada.
Read MoreIf you encounter non-native buckthorn in your garden, you truly must remove it – that’s a WHEN, not an IF. And the sooner, the better, or your neighbors will hate you! Once it is gone, you will probably want something else to take its place.
Read MoreThe Ohio Environmental Council is calling for Ohioans to support efforts to address gerrymandering in our state. Gerrymandered districts do not reflect the will of Ohioans and have impeded legislative efforts to preserve Ohio's environment.
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