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Biodiversity in the City

-- Quote of the Day --  “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”  ~ Horace -- Fostering Biodiversity In The City --  Window boxes, vertical gardens, hanging baskets, balcony gardens, roof top gardens, back yard habitat, city garden baskets – boxes – and green spaces, community gardens… all of these and more are becoming more and more common across the planet.  People are now aware that even the smallest of green space has a positive impact on the planet. From releasing moisture that cools the air, cleaning air pollution, reducing dust and noise issues, providing shade, producing food and habitat for people and creatures of all sizes from butterflies and bats to the tiniest ant.  Choose to grow more in a wide array of flowering times, food production, shapes and sizes of plants using whatever space you have available to you is a wa...