We’ve all heard about what plants and other features figure into making a garden for the birds, or a pollinator garden … but what about a frog garden? I’m crazy about frogs and would like to think my place is one such habitat, so I was delighted to get an email recently from today’s guest, Jim Sirch, with the subject line “gardening for frogs.” Yes, please, I thought – and that’s our topic today: how to be more amphibian-friendly in the way we create and care for our home landscapes.
Jim is a trained naturalist and vice president of the Connecticut Horticultural Society. He recently retired as education coordinator from the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven. He has a deep understanding of geology, plants and wildlife and how they interact within a particular ecosystem, and writes about some of that on his blog, Beyond Your Back Door dot com. He co-founded a native plant seed library at his local public library, and also founded a local chapter of FrogWatch, a national community science program to identify and track frog populations. He is passionate about helping others decrease lawn and re-wild their yards to welcome a diversity of creatures – including frogs, our topic today.
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