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 Contact Daphne at growinggardenhabitats@gmail.com

On-line Resources—websites, plant databases, and apps

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Habitat Gardening Practices
  • Gardening for Pollinators on-line course I developed for Native Plant Trust
  • Pollinator Partnership
  • Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
  • Landscape for Life
  • U.S. Forest Service Gardening for Pollinators
  • US EPA Protecting Bees and Other Pollinators from Pesticides
  • Grow Native Massachusetts
  • Ecological Landscape Alliance
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Garden Planning
  • Native Plant Trust and Garden Plant Finder
  • U.S. Forest Service: Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden Using Native Plants
  • National Wildlife Federation: Garden for Wildlife
  • Tree underplanting guidance to provide insect pupation sites
  • USDA Hardiness Zone Map
  • Ecoregions of New England
  • Ecoregional Planting Guides for U.S. and Canada
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Plant Identification
  • New England Region: Go Botany
  • United States: USDA Plants Database
  • Midwestern U.S.: Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder
  • Texas: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center 
Free Plant ID Apps (iOS, Android)
  • iNaturalist
  • LeafSnap
  • PlantNet
  • PlantSnap
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Invasive Plant Identification and Remediation
  • Common Invasive Plants in Massachusetts
  • Homeowner Removal Techniques for Invasives
  • Dealing with Japanese Knotweed
  • Massachusetts Prohibited Plant List
  • USDA National Invasive Species Information Center​ ​​​​​​
General Ecology, Insect, Bird Information for the Amateur
  • Xerces Society
  • North American Butterfly Association
  • BugGuide
  • In Defense of Plants (blog and podcast)
  • Project Budburst
  • USA National Phenology Network
  • The Cornell Lab All About Birds​
Print Resources
  • Native Plants for New England Gardens (Jaffe & Richardson) 2017
  • Bringing Nature Home: How you can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants; updated and expanded edition (Tallamy) 2007
  • Wildflowers of New England (Elliman) 2016
  • Sibley Guide to Trees (Sibley) 2009
  • Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants (Holm) 2014
  • Insects of New England & New York (Murray) 2012
  • Sibley Guide to Birds (2nd Edition) (Sibley) 2014

Contact Daphne at growinggardenhabitats@gmail.com

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  • Home
  • About Daphne
  • Botanic and Garden Talks
  • Habitat Garden Design and Consulting
  • Curiosity Corner
  • Teacher resources
  • Blog