{"id":1435,"date":"2021-04-07T08:26:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2021-04-07T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:30:36","slug":"sustainable-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/sustainable-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Certified-Wildlife-Habitats-FINAL-102620-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1119\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Certified-Wildlife-Habitats-FINAL-102620-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Certified-Wildlife-Habitats-FINAL-102620-1.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Certified-Wildlife-Habitats-FINAL-102620-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Certified-Wildlife-Habitats-FINAL-102620-1-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Certified-Wildlife-Habitats-FINAL-102620-1-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Certified-Wildlife-Habitats-FINAL-102620-1-750x424.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the idea of planting native plants and removing thirsty lawns to support wildlife like native bees, butterflies, and birds in all of our landscapes. After reading the book \u201c<em>Nature&#8217;s Best Hope\u201d <\/em>by Douglas Tallamy, my view of our landscape has been forever changed. He inspires us all to plant our own &#8220;Homegrown National Park&#8221; in our landscapes and yards so that we can have a network of human-and-wildlife friendly green spaces in the heart of our urban neighborhoods and cities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/certified-habitat.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1437\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong>\u201cGarden as if life depends on it.\u201d<\/strong><br><strong>~ Doug Tallamy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Above is a great graphic from that illustrates how we can change our yards from chemical-laden thirsty lawns to become an oasis of life.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more at: <br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"nwf.org\/Garden-for-Wildlife\/About\/Impact (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nwf.org\/Garden-for-Wildlife\/About\/Impact\" target=\"_blank\">nwf.org\/Garden-for-Wildlife\/About\/Impact<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the idea of planting native plants and removing thirsty lawns to support wildlife like native bees, butterflies, and birds in all of our landscapes. After reading the book \u201cNature&#8217;s Best Hope\u201d by Douglas Tallamy, my view of our landscape has been forever changed. He inspires us all to plant our own &#8220;Homegrown National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}