<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I recently heard Douglas Tallamy the author of <i>Nature’s Best Hope </i>interviewed by a<i> </i>Spokane gardener. The author advocates for homeowners to turn their yards into conservation corridors and makes a compelling case for planting natives. <div><br><div>The subtitle is A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Backyard. </div><div><br></div><div>Over the last 20+ years, my late husband and I planted thousands of native trees and shrubs in multiple corridors across our property in rural Thurston county. I can attest that it works. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5c7BJwQhN4">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5c7BJwQhN4</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Sally Alhadeff</div><div>Tenino, WA </div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Aug 3, 2022, at 8:14 PM, Paul Bannick <paul.bannick@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Interesting BUT if you want to our increasingly threatened native birds, garden as much as possible with the native plants that these species rely upon for food, nesting, shelter. Gardening with our native plants allow you to provide not just for nesting and wintering birds but also migrating ones. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">They also help retain our declining insects that birds and many other animals rely upon.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We must do this for our native birds or risk losing them.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Paul</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 1:29 PM Dan Reiff <<a href="mailto:dan.owl.reiff@gmail.com">dan.owl.reiff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br><strong>Want to Attract Special Birds and Bees to Your Garden? Add Rare Plants to Your Backyard, a New Study Says</strong><br>Researchers out of Dartmouth College found that 50 percent of urban gardens in California counties have rare plants—and, in turn, they attract unique species of pollinators.<p>Read in Martha Stewart Living: <a href="https://apple.news/AToTxWy4FTJGOmIXTHZfxrA" target="_blank">https://apple.news/AToTxWy4FTJGOmIXTHZfxrA</a></p><p><br>Shared from <a href="https://www.apple.com/news" target="_blank">Apple News</a></p></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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