Some gardeners react to any mention of ecological landscaping – the merging of environmental science and art – as if it were a compromise or concession meant to limit their creativity. Darrel Morrison, a landscape architect who has been practicing and teaching this philosophy for some five decades, begs to differ. In this article, he offers some advice for gardening in a changing world.
Your Garden May Be Pretty, but Is It Ecologically Sound?

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