From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

Woody plants, especially trees, can be pure ecological powerhouses, but most of us don't

have room for an entire forest in our backyards.

So on a garden scale, which shrubs in particular really get the job done best.

Dan Wilder, a longtime native plant expert who is Director of Applied Ecology for Norcross Wildlife

Foundation and Massachusetts, is here to talk about just that more in a moment, but first these

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Today's guest Dan Wilder urges us to make room for more shrubs in our landscapes to

support burrs and caterpillars and other animals while at the same time getting to enjoy

their beauty in flower and fruit and even in showy-fall color that some of his favorite species

boast.

In addition to his work at Norcross Wildlife Foundation and Wales, Massachusetts and its

8,000 acre sanctuary, Dan's a board member of the Ecological Landscape Alliance and also

co-author with Mark Richardson of the book Native Plants for New England Gardens.

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