Before & After -- Lawn to Meadow Garden Conversions

Here's a sampling of some of the design projects we've worked on over the years, from suburban homes to urban prairie, from sun to shade, a few hundred square feet to several acres. We use native plants in ecological communities for climate resilience and beneficial habitat. Prairie up!
Learn more at monarchgard.com, which hosts jam-packed, DIY online classes and useful pocket garden guides on a wide range of sustainable landscape design subjects that empower and build confidence to garden with nature and not against it. There's also a self-paced design workshop that takes things to another level.
Monarch Gardens is a prairie-inspired design firm. It is managed by Benjamin Vogt, author of A NEW GARDEN ETHIC: CULTIVATING DEFIANT COMPASSION FOR AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE, as well as PRAIRIE UP: AN INTRODUCTION TO NATURAL GARDEN DESIGN. Benjamin's work has been featured in The American Gardener, Dwell, Fine Gardening, The Guardian, Horticulture, Midwest Living, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as a variety of books including American Roots. He is a sought-after speaker on landscape ethics and natural design, combining dad jokes with passionate activism and practical advice to reprairie suburbia and unlawn America.

[@digitalmusic333]

Keep it up!!
Loving this!
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[@williamkazak469]

Amazing. I love your work.

[@utubepunk]

Ohhhhh. Ahhhhhh. NICE. 🦋

[@NicolePagenkopf-eb6hk]

Question: it looks like you sprayed out the turf on some of those projects, are you seeding into that dead turf without exposing the soil? Or are you using 100% plugs for those projects?
Looks awesome!

[@bvogt]

Some we seed, some we plug, some we do both. I go through the why and how in the book Prairie Up in great detail.