Environmental Protection and Faith Go Together

This guest post from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundaton highlights our Blue Water Congretations program, a partnership effort to assist places of worship in stewarding their property. Spring is finally here, heralding those longed-for  April showers and May flowers, which this year are more than welcome after an especially harsh winter. In Maryland, rain…

Cool and Warm Season Native Plants: What You Should Know

When it comes to native plant gardening, a little planning goes a long way. At Herring Run Nursery, one of the first planning questions we ask our customers is “when do you want to plant?” And the truth is that trees and shrubs can, with the right precautions, be planted almost year-round but different types…

How to Budget Your Native Plant Garden

A native plant garden full of healthy, well-chosen plants is a joyous place: beautiful and full of wildlife. Too often, though, native plant gardens end up being something less than joyous. One the primary reasons that people are disappointed with their native plant gardens, even if they are not fully aware of the reason, is that…

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Join In & Sack the Plastic Bag in Baltimore

It’s a fact: plastic bags are a major source of trash in Baltimore’s rivers and in the Baltimore Harbor. According to various estimates, plastic bags are the second most common trash pollutant making up 10% of total trash and 50% of all plastic trash. Thankfully, the Baltimore City Council is working to address this problem….

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Nature is not more complicated than you think, it is more complicated than you CAN think.

Having just returned from the very exciting New Directions in the American Landscape conference, I posted on the Herring Run Nursery Facebok page a quote famously attributed to Jack Ward Thomas – the controversial chief of the U.S. Forest Service from 1993 to 1996. The problem is, the quote actually belongs to Frank Edwin Egler.  Egler…