While we may think of our gardens as simply places of beauty, that thinking needs to change, says Doug Tallamy, famed author of Bringing Nature Home as well as co-author of The Living Landscape. He contends that our home gardens are actually wildlife preserves. Our gardens play this role because decades of intense urban sprawl have fragmented and shrunk our natural places. Our native plants and animals depend more and more on human-dominated landscapes for their continued existence, according to Dr. Tallamy. Home…
