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Press

Monarch Gardens in the media (selected)

Features
  • If You Stop Mowing This May, Will Your Lawn Turn Into A Meadow? -- quotes from Benjamin in Margaret Roach's New York Times column (May 2023)
  • How To Kill Your Lawn and Help the Planet -- interview and images of Benjamin's home landscape demonstration gardens in Dwell (December 2022)
  • Outwitting Weed Laws -- interview of Benjamin's experiences with county weed control and HOAs in The American Gardener (September 2022)
  • A Beginner's Guide to the Naturalistic Garden -- extensive thoughts on sustainable, artistic design for urban meadows in The Wall Street Journal (August 2022).
  • The Future is Wild -- Benjamin contributed quotes and images to a piece on matrix garden design in Horticulture Magazine (May/June 2022).
  • Prairie Gardening -- feature of Benjamin's work and practice in Midwest Living (2021). 
  • Born to Rewild -- an article in The Guardian features thoughts by Benjamin and other landscape leaders (2020).
  • Prairie Lawns Help Alleviate Climate Change -- in-depth piece featuring Benjamin from the Nebraska News Service.

Podcasts
  • A Way To Garden (30min) -- celebrating the release of Prairie Up and all the practical tidbits uniquely found in the book.
  • In Defense of Plants (30min) -- an honest conversation on design and ecology for the homeowner.
  • The Joe Gardener Show (60min) -- in which Benjamin thoroughly covers his life, career, and evolution as a gardener.
  • Ecobeneficial (30min) -- discussion with Kim Eierman.
  • Cultivating Place (50min) -- podcast with Jennifer Jewel full of deep thoughts on the environmental challenges we face in gardens and place making.
  • Iowa Public Radio / Talk of Iowa (30min) -- interview on A New Garden Ethic and what's at stake amid climate change and mass extinction,
  • Wisconsin Public Radio / Larry Meiller Show (38min) -- interview on urban wildlife gardens, working with neighbors, and social justice.
  • Roots and All (32min) -- Deep thoughts from across the pond about international garden ethics.

Video
  • Presentation on A New Garden Ethic for Grow Native Massachusetts.

Accolades
  • 2021 Nebraska Individual Artist Fellowship (sponsored by the NEA).
  • 2021 Blazing Star Award from the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum (for promotion of native plants and garden design)
  • Best of Houzz 2015-2020 -- In the categories of service and design.
  • GWA Silver Medal 2016 -- The Association for Garden Communicators annual media awards for best e-zine article.
  • Best of Houzz 2014 -- 7 of the top 15 garden articles on Houzz were written by Benjamin.
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M O N A R C H   G A R D E N S   LLC

prairie inspired  design

Lincoln & Omaha, Nebraska

Monarch Gardens is a prairie-inspired design firm. We specialize in lawn to meadow conversions as well as urban shade gardens.

Employing 95% native plants, our designs are climate resilient, adaptable, and provide numerous ecological benefits while artistically reflecting wilder landscapes.
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