Articles About native plants

• New prairie to protect Ellis Pond

  By Reilly DixonDecember 3, 2023

  

  On Thursday, Nov. 16, a small team of local residents and members of the Village Environmental Commission went to the northern reaches of the 17-acre Ellis Park to install a 4,500-square-foot prairie.

• 2023 Earth Day Celebration

  By Reilly DixonMay 1, 2023

  

  On Sunday, April 23, around 100 villagers and visitors gathered at the John Bryan Community Center to celebrate Earth Day.

• Yellow Springs Habitat Community and Earth Day celebration set

  By YS News StaffApril 21, 2023

  

  The annual Yellow Springs Habitat Community and Earth Day celebration will be Sunday, April 23, 1:30–4:30 p.m., at the John Bryan Community Center.

• Garden gait

  By Reilly DixonJuly 22, 2022

  

  Amid intermittent torrents of rain, and while the power was out throughout the entire village for several hours, the Yellow Springs Garden Tour took place on Sunday, July 17.

• Village Council — Weeds are out, ‘managed’ yards are in

  By Megan BachmanJuly 8, 2021

  

  Villagers who are maintaining a natural landscape of native grasses and plants in their yard no longer have to comply with height limits on their plantings.However, those who simply “let their yards go” must pull the noxious weeds likely growing there and keep grasses to nine inches, or less.

• Down to earth

  By Reilly DixonMay 5, 2021

  

  On Sunday, April 25, the villagewide Earth Week series of events came to a celebratory crescendo at the new Miami Township Fire-Rescue firehouse on the south end of town.

• Creating wildlife habitat, villagewide

  By Audrey HackettJune 26, 2020

  

  In late summer, native sunflowers in Ellen Hoover’s garden draw goldfinches. The bright yellow birds feast on seeds, then burst out like sunflower petals flung to the sky. Down the street, monarch butterflies browse Catherine Zimmerman’s coneflowers, goldenrod and asters.

• Invasive of the month— Tree-of-heaven’s devilish dispersal

  By Audrey HackettOctober 10, 2019

  

  Brought to this country in the 1700s as a horticultural specimen and shade tree, tree-of-heaven is one of North America’s most invasive tree species.

• ‘Green death’ and other invasives

  By Audrey HackettJune 13, 2019

  

  Drew Diehl calls it “the Green Death.” Pervasive in many areas, a single non-native species of honeysuckle — Amur honeysuckle — has transformed the local landscape over the last 30 years.