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Pollinator Greetings
The front entrance pollinator garden at this early-childhood school doesn’t take summers off! A late-day shower really makes it pop🩷🩷...
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Reimagined Raised Beds
We recently replaced wood raised beds that were past their prime with these cost-effective galvanized raised beds. The metal beds REALLY...
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Wonderful Winterberry!
Autumn has so many colorful plant superstars, but few can beat the jewel-like red berries on female winterberry plants (Ilex...
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Magic in a Children’s Sensory Garden
This fritillary butterfly seems to enjoy the purple top vervain and white geraniums in this sensory garden as much as the children do!...
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Sensory Gardens
We had so much fun planting these big galvanized stock tanks with sensory plants at this Columbus, Ohio early-childhood center for young...
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Happy, Hardy Hibiscus!
Hardy hibiscus flourish in the moist edges of the river-rock ‘creekbed’ in this Integrity-designed natural play environment for young...
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Slide into Nature
Traditional play equipment can be seamlessly incorporated into natural outdoor learning environments for children. A...
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Cup plant: Use with Care
Cup plant back-lit by the rays of the late day August sun creates a colorful allee in this raingarden planting in an Integrity-designed...
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Summer Shade
Native switchgrass and American cranberrybush viburnum create a shady summer seating nook in this Integrity-designed natural outdoor play...
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Outdoor Kitchen Fun
Young children can create mud pies or wash produce from their edible garden in this outdoor kitchen. The kitchen was custom-crafted by...
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Summer in the Rain Garden
This Integrity project for a multi-sensory children’s garden at a public library includes a large raingarden bed to absorb previously...
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​Accessible School Gardens
A wheelchair-accessible raised bed and an outdoor classroom create a fun, inviting space at this Integrity-designed natural outdoor play...
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Fall in the Poetry Garden
A sign in this library poetry garden, an Integrity design project from some years back, is beautifully wreathed in Northern sea oats. We...
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The Golden Hour
This play barn constructed of salvaged wood beams and siding from historic Ohio barns has survived almost 20 years of creative play at...
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Flowers on the Fairy Hut Roof
This recently-planted fairy hut green roof in the outdoor learning environment at a Columbus early-childhood center is literally...
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Green Roof for a Fairy House
A fairy hut at an early-childhood school received a fun green-roof hairdo today! The composite lumber roof was covered with heavy plastic...
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Spring Moments by the Creekbed
The hot pink flowers on a native redbud tree and organic sculptures crafted by children from river pebbles from the creekbed take...
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Spicy Spring Scents
Spice bush (Lindera benzoin) has dense clusters of tiny, pale yellow flowers that bloom before the leaves open along the twigs. Their...
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Pawpaw Patch
This native pawpaw, tucked beneath the canopy of a huge mulberry, provides spectacular late fall color after blessing the homeowner with...
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Winterberry!
We love how Ohio native winterberry’s (Ilex verticillata) bright red fruit glow in the early fall light! The berries cling to the stem...
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