Redefining the Beauty of Nature and Wildlife in Our Gardens
I was out and about on Sunday, cleaning up after the dogs and looking for wildlife of interest. January is not always the best time of year to find things, but Florida has experienced a relatively warm winter and spring is in the air so we have our fair share of resident wildlife meandering around…. [Continue Reading]
I could not have guessed how timely this post would turn out to be. I thought, I’ll get a head start promoting the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). After all we want to see more birds in the garden. But who would have guessed that while I was gazing out my window this past gray… [Continue Reading]
[Guest post by Benjamin Vogt] I’m a big believer in luck. And by that I mean serendipity. And by that I mean fate. This is why I think that every email could be “the one,” or every telephone ring, or each envelope in the mailbox. Today, I was simply going to the kitchen to get… [Continue Reading]
We had our first freeze of the season this week although it only lasted an hour or two. I love winter in Florida as the types of visitors to the garden vary at this time of year. I glanced out back the other day and was surprise to see a couple of Great Egrets (Ardea… [Continue Reading]
It was a cool, misty morning and I was up a bit earlier than usual taking my morning walk with my dog. A “click, click, whir” caught my attention from far up above. I knew it to be the sound of Anna’s Hummingbirds (Calypte anna). I looked for them and discovered they… [Continue Reading]
Many people are surprised when I talk about all the activity in my wildlife garden in winter. For them, everything is dead, all the plants are dormant, and there is nothing to see. How wrong they are! When you plan your wildlife garden, it’s always good to keep winter in mind so that you can… [Continue Reading]
Happy Winter Solstice!! This is the third post in this series on native plants that any gardener can grow and love. First I focused on reliable, hardworking native perennials, and followed that up with native plant alternatives to invasive plants commonly used in gardens. This time I am spotlighting fall natives. With today being the… [Continue Reading]
On the First Day of Christmas, my Wildlife Garden gave to me.. A flash of green caught my eye, bright green! Mourning doves rose up with a sudden clatter and flew off.. I had a visitor, two visitors in fact. And they were not ordinary guests.. On the 1st day of Christmas I received a… [Continue Reading]
So there I was, noodling around on the computer, checking my e-mail, pretending that there was a good and valid reason for me to go wander around Google+ chasing links, listening to Christmas carols on my headphones—yes, it’s a disease, I’m aware of that, but at least I waited until December—and I happened to glance… [Continue Reading]
“Why not stay on with us and be jolly?” Ratty, Wind in the Willows Ah, the late afternoon sun in the native garden, how it warms my face. I wait for my friends, the hummingbirds. I hear them clicking in the trees and know that they will be here soon. Yellow leaves… [Continue Reading]
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