What's in Your Garden? Assessing the "Eco-friendliness" of Plant Choices of Denton, Texas Gardeners Page: 2
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being focused at a large, diverse group of citizens or consumers, as would a municipal or
commercial landscape. This aspect of individuality causes much diversification in the results of
gardening activities, as one of the main components of gardening is that of personal expression
and identity (Bhatti and Church 2004; Clayton 2007; Freeman et al. 2012; Kiesling et al. 2010).
Making up such a significant portion of the urban landscape, these domestic gardens carry much
potential for helping to increase the amount of wildlife-friendly and native-dominated habitats
within the urban ecosystem (Van Heezik et al. 2012). In order to achieve this increase in
available ecological services, homeowners and gardeners must have access to knowledge and
products which will encourage them to participate in gardening activities which promote and
sustain biodiversity (Van Heezik et al. 2012).
Despite their size and potential to substantially affect the urban ecosystem, these
domestic gardens remain largely unstudied in the context of maintaining and promoting
biodiversity (Cameron et al. 2012; Daniels and Kirkpatrick 2006; Davies et al. 2008; Goddard et
al. 2009; Goddard et al. 2013; Kowarik 2011; Mathiu et al. 2006; Smith et al. 2005; Vergnes et
al. 2011). Most of the research to date has focused on the nature/wildlife or leisure/culture binary
(Freeman et al. 2012) and most often from the social science or natural science viewpoint, and
few have focused directly on composition (Smith et al. 2005).
Domestic gardens generally fit into two extremes; a typical urban garden which contains
plants that were planted by landscapers at the time the house was built and remains largely
unchanged and a "wild" landscape in which all available growing space is planted with native
plants that provide habitat for native fauna and pollinators. This study aims to discover how the
plant choices of urban domestic gardeners fall on this spectrum and thus mitigates the sometimes
harsh changes between a wild area and an urban environment.2
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Cloutier, Andrea Nicole. What's in Your Garden? Assessing the "Eco-friendliness" of Plant Choices of Denton, Texas Gardeners, thesis, December 2016; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc955068/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .