ECO-WATTLES

Eco-wattles are a landscape feature hard to photograph, difficult to describe & challenging to write about. And you want them!!

Eco-Wattles are landscape debris pulled together in serpentine shapes. 3.5' wide at the base, tapering to 3.5' tall. Don't haul off leaves, branches, grass clippings, prunings or your Christmas tree. Use Eco-wattles along woodland paths. Blow leaves off to the side and the wind can't blow them back. Above, my eco-wattle prevents neighbor's leaves from blowing into my woodland walk.

Everyone balks at eco-wattles until they see them in person. Above & below, line of brown is the eco-wattle.

I've created 2 types of eco-wattle: formal and informal. Informal eco-wattles have all sorts of garden debris. Formal eco-wattles have 1 type of garden debris and they're pruned neatly.

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Eco-wattles: reduce maintenance, provide winter butterfly habitat, lead the eye aesthetically, enrich the soil, and more.

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Mary Kistner, client-friend-mentor, grew up on an apple farm in upstate New York over 8 decades ago. She used eco-wattles on her 25 acres in Snellville, GA. Her land is now the Kistner Center, given to the Piedmont Land Trust when she died.

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I took her idea and have applied it to residential landscape design for 15 years. No one else has been doing this. Why?

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Mary Kistner got a job designing window displays for the largest department store in Atlanta during WWII. It had been a man's job and of course she had the job much longer than the war lasted.

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XO Tara