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Wednesday, April 21, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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lived the first 60 years of my life on the
west side of the Cascade Mountains
where the landscape is lush and green,
and gardens contain the requisite rhodo-
dendrons, azaleas, tulips, roses, and mani-
cured lawns.
Moving to Central Oregon 17
years ago, I dutifully enrolled in the
Oregon State University Extension
Master Gardeners program because
I realized I knew nothing about gar-
dening on the <dry side,= and I loved
to garden. But I didn9t get the mes-
sage those many years ago, and con-
tinued my westside ways with a few
minor alterations.
Almost two decades later, the
Central Oregon environment, with
its native dry soil and roaming wild-
life, has convinced me to not replace
the deer fencing around what used to
be typical <wet side= perennial beds
and the now sickly lawn (due to my
desire to not use chemical fertilizers).
It started when I stopped removing
dandelions from the lawn after I read
they are one of the first food sources
for bees in the spring.
American goldfinches at backyard
bird feeder in the winter.
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Mother Nature has made me a
believer in the importance of my
fitting into her landscape. Seeing
as how lawns cover at least 50,000
square miles of the U.S., in my little
backyard I can at least do my part to
restore the native ecosystem around
my house. The deer have been try-
ing to tell me that ever since I moved
in by cooperatively eating my non-
native planting choices. My perennial
beds have died out due to native soil
conditions, the deer, and the under-
ground critters that actually had the
audacity to pull the plants down into
the ground.
This is the year I finally decided
to join forces with Mother Nature
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need for excess watering and the use
of nonorganic fertilizers.
Online can be found a myriad of
resources that explain the why and
how of building wildlife habitat by
using native plants. Simply google
either term. A whole world will open
up. The Deschutes County OSU
Extension office website is home to
helpful local information on the top-
ics (http://extension.oregonstate.edu/
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