Climate Change & Gardening

Looking for sustainable landscaping ideas? Our landscape design templates and plant lists offer ideas for adding native plants around townhomes and single-family homes.

Maryland residents are adapting their gardens and green spaces to climate change. These are stories and examples from faculty, staff, students, and volunteers from the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Use these tips and techniques to save water in your garden and minimize plant damage during droughts.

Trees are a climate change solution. They provide many benefits in home and urban landscapes - shading, cooling, stormwater management, energy savings, carbon sequestration, and more. Maryland has a goal to plant 5 million native trees by 2031.

How is climate change affecting native plants? Some plant species will adapt to climate change and some plant populations will migrate to new areas by seed dispersal. Some species may go locally extinct. Here we explore the possible changes to plant populations as the climate warms.

Composting is a climate change solution that anyone can do! Here we explore the benefits of composting food scraps and other organic materials to reduce climate-warming emissions.

Soil and climate change: Healthy soils store carbon in the form of carbon dioxide and organic matter. Improving soil health is a climate change solution.

Every woodland property counts, and the cumulative decisions taken by the150,000 other private landowners will determine the future productivity, health, and biodiversity of Maryland’s forests in the face of a changing climate.

View several examples of converting a portion of lawn to increase biodiversity and native habitat.