Redefining the Beauty of Nature and Wildlife in Our Gardens
May is underway, the month that is the bridge between Spring & Summer. In the Santa Monica Mountains, it is a month of vibrant color. The hillsides are bejeweled in blooms of yellow, orange, pink, white, purple & blue. Flowers are strewn from here to there, seemingly at random, as if at the whim [...]
I was thrilled to be invited to visit Mount Cuba Center last week, to interview some of the staff, and spend several delightful hours wandering around with my camera collecting images of this beautiful place, which is devoted to preserving the native plants of the Piedmont region. Mount Cuba Center is a 600 acre preserve [...]
“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.” ~Seneca With spring we turn our attention in earnest to our gardens. And this year as Earth Day loomed, I also turned my attention to what I was doing to be more environmentally conscious and earth friendly [...]
So I had my driveway re-done a few weeks ago, as I believe I mentioned, and as I was planting in the newly cleared space, it chanced to rain. And I discovered that while most of the area was pretty much exactly as it had been, there was a large section that now, as soon [...]
Just when I think I’ve run out of critters that will come to visit, someone new shows up. Wednesday we had some much-needed rain and the storm was ending. I glanced out the window that overlooks the backyard and I spotted a bird taking shelter under a wax myrtle. At first glance I thought it [...]
[Guest post by John Tinelli] It’s been an exciting Spring here in Rochester, NY! A week ago, we had our first Ruby hummer! Folks think that a bunch of migratory birds got caught up in that really warm weather that blew up from the Gulf the previous week. We rushed to get the feeder out and the [...]
Wildlife gardeners are noticing a significant explosion of Red Admiral butterflies moving north this year. And some naturalists are reporting hundreds of these butterflies passing by within just a few minutes. This amazing sight has even been noticed by the news networks, and our team member Pat Sutton was interviewed by Phaedra Laird of NBC 40 [...]
Eastern redbuds (Cercis canadensis) are one of the first trees to bloom in the spring with deep pink flowers that take on a purple hue from a distance. While the seeds hold little appeal as wildlife food, redbud adds value to a habitat garden by providing a food source for early pollinators on warm spring [...]
May is Garden for Wildlife Month, a promotion of The National Wildlife Federation. I’m sure if you are reading this blog, pretty much every month is Garden for Wildlife Month and that is commendable and as it should be. I guess the May promotion thingy is just to get those who haven’t started in the [...]
I had just refilled the humingbird feeder and was sitting down on my garden bench for a visit with my friends, the Anna’s Hummingbirds, when the outdoor washing machine finished. I got up and went to the clothesline to remove the already dry laundry before hanging the wet things. What a wonderful breeze today, I [...]
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