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Inviting birds into gardens is a joyful way to connect to nature and help sustain bird populations. Her talk is Birds in the Garden: Creating an Eco-Friendly Bird Oasis.

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School of the Chicago Botanic Garden, obtaining Professional Gardener and Garden Designer certifications and now works in the industry. Her passion for gardening lead her to enrollment at the Joseph Regenstein, Jr. Having converted her Chicago backyard into a bird habitat, she has recorded 115 bird species in her garden. A long time volunteer with Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation, she has been rescuing migratory birds for over 15 years. Pam Karlson is a career artist, avid gardener and birder.

Today we welcome several presenters at the conference. Hummingbird in Pam Karlson’s yard – Photo by Pam Karlson Peggy and I will be at the conference, interviewing presenters and other interesting folks and streaming the videos live on Facebook and maybe even other social media. at the Chicago Botanic Garden, and you can register here. The event is on October 22, from 8:30 a.m. Not exactly sexy, but, hey, we’re talking about landscapers. The title this year Resilient Landscapes: Redefining the Design/Build/Maintain Paradigm. So today, in addition to looking back at Christine’s impact at the Shedd, we look forward to IMPACT. I have since moved on, but Christine remains on the committee. Though I hadn’t been active in MELA for awhile, I sat on the SELC for a couple of years to help create what is now known as The IMPACT Conference: Building Sustainable Landscapes. Fortunately, however, the Illinois Landscape Contractors Association (ILCA) seemed to understand the need for forward-thinking horticulture, and welcomed a number of the former MELA members into the Sustainable and Ecological Landscape Committee. Sadly, this organization was forced to give up the ghost a couple of years ago. How do I know about this? I was one of the two co-founders of the organization. Their mission was to find less environmentally destructive ways of creating urban, suburban and exurban landscapes. As I wrote last year,Ī long time ago (2002) in an eco-system far, far away….a group of hort-warriors identified themselves as the Midwest Ecological Landscape Alliance, sometimes known as MELA. I suspect those who know her will agree.Ĭhristine and I were among the earliest board members of the late, great Midwest Ecological Landscape Alliance or MELA. However, the expression on her face is pure Christine Nye. The late summer photo at the top of this blog doesn’t do it justice. It has been called “visionary” and it attracts thousands of birds each year along the migratory pathway known as the Mississippi Flyway. Her most remarkable achievement, though, is the Migratory Bird Garden on Lake Michigan. There, she introduced visitors to native grasses, “nativars,” wildflowers, vegetables and the concept of sustainability. During that time, she transformed the 13 outside gardens on the property. For more than 20 years, until her recent retirement, Christine was horticultural manager at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium.

But when we talk about sustainable landscapes, we must start with our primary guest on this morning’s show, Christine Nye. (October 6, 2019) Another ILCA IMPACT Conference is around the corner. Explore all your listen LIVE options on the home page of ] Then tune in starting 9am CT on December 8, or catch the podcast here. And scroll down this page to read about it. As Smith states, “The next and more important step is to get some change in City, county, and state law so that property-owners are no longer at peril for wildflower, butterfly, rain, or similar native gardens, as opposed to what the ordinance is intended to prevent, i.e., neglected, overgrown lots.” We wholeheartedly agree! Click the audio file above and scroll to the 1:00:00 mark to hear the conversation from October. On December 5th, it was determined that the city “failed to meet burden of proof” regarding the ticket, and the Czosnykas were therefore “not liable” for the fine! Sunday, December 8th, we welcome Pete Czosnyka and attorney Jeffrey Smith in-studio at WCGOradio to discuss the case. The Czosnykas decided to take the matter to court. Problem is, the “overgrown weeds” were actually part of the duo’s sustainable landscape, featuring native plants. In early October 2019, we covered the story of Pete and Noreen Czosnyka, longtime Northwest side residents who were facing a $675 fine from the city of Chicago due to “overgrown weeds” on their property.

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