Sustainable Gardening

Articles and practical guidance contributed by Lincoln Garden Club members.

About This Collection

For several years, the Conservation and Environment Committee has promoted sustainable gardening practices among Lincoln Garden Club members and throughout the Lincoln community.

Using Station Park as a model, committee members have worked to make their own lawns and gardens more environmentally sustainable. They have read, experimented, worked with compatible landscape contractors and local nurseries, and reconsidered traditional ideas about what makes a garden beautiful.

Their experiences include successes, failures, and lessons learned while choosing native plants, reducing pesticides and chemical fertilizers, conserving water, and creating landscapes that are drought tolerant, winter hardy, and disease resistant.

Contributed by Garden Club Members

The articles below describe members’ personal journeys toward more sustainable gardens. Many were also published in The Lincoln Journal and on other local websites.

We hope these resources offer useful ideas and encouragement as you develop your own environmentally responsible landscape.

Articles


  1. Station Park: A Model for Sustainable Landscaping
    By Lynne Smith

  2. Sustainable Lawns
    By Nancy Henderson and Sue Mohn

  3. Fall Gardening Tips
    By Patricia Hilpert

  4. Love ’Em and Leave ’Em
    By Robin Wilkerson

  5. Redefining the Landscape
    By Lynne Smith

  6. Redefining Beauty in Home Gardens
    By Lynne Smith

  7. How to Talk to Your Landscape Contractor
    By Robin Wilkerson

  8. Alternatives to Grass Lawn
    By Nancy Henderson and Robin Wilkerson

  9. Healthy Plants from the Ground Up
    By Janet Ganson

  10. Watering in Good Conscience, Part I
    By Ruth Ann Hendrickson

  11. Watering in Good Conscience, Part II
    By Ruth Ann Hendrickson

  12. Integrated Pest Management
    By Barbara Cappucci

Share Your Experience

Garden Club members are encouraged to share their own sustainable gardening experiences, lessons, and recommendations for possible addition to this collection.