The Chickadee’s Guide to Gardening

[Cirsium]

The Chickadee’s Guide to Gardening
In Your Garden, Choose Plants That Help the Environment

By DOUGLAS W. TALLAMY
MARCH 11, 2015
The New York Times

OXFORD, Pa. — I GREW up thinking little of plants. I was interested in snakes and turtles, then insects and, eventually, birds. Now I like plants. But I still like the life they create even more.
Plants are as close to biological miracles as a scientist could dare admit. After all, they allow us, and nearly every other species, to eat sunlight, ...

Last summer I did a simple experiment at home to measure just how different the plants we use for landscaping can be in supporting local animals. ...

Why such huge differences? It’s simple: Plants don’t want to be eaten, so they have loaded their tissues with nasty chemicals that would kill most insects if eaten. ...

But there are serious ecological consequences to such choices, and another exercise you can do at home makes them clear. ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/opinion/in-your-garden-choose-plants-that-help-the-environment.html?ref=opinion&_r=1
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[dapjwy]

Great snippets that really summarize what the general public needs to know.

Gonna open the link to read it in its entirety now.

Thanks for sharing, Cirsium.