Redefining the Beauty of Nature and Wildlife in Our Gardens
I went to the garden t’other day, O readers, to have a good mope. I had a pretty good reason. The little cafe in town that has been there for years and years suddenly went out of business, completely without warning, ffft! gone. Now, I could come up with a lot of noble reasons why… [Continue Reading]
Exploring the wonders of nature with the children who come to visit my wildlife garden is one of the greatest joys of my life. We turn over rocks to look for the Worm Snake who lives there. We watch the bugs with our hand lenses. We are amazed when the butterfly emerges from its chrysalis…. [Continue Reading]
In cased you missed it, last week our very own Carole Brown took the wildlife gardening world by storm with her exposure of the National Wildlife Federation/ScottsMiracle-Gro partnership, which quickly escalated into a widespread social media storm of protest by organic gardeners, farmers and environmental writers. On Sunday, amazingly, the NWF’s reversed their decision to partner with… [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]
Photo by Kirsty Hall [Editor's Note: Due to high demand of questions about how to manage a garden without Scotts Miracle Gro, our team member, Chris McLaughlin, author of the Complete Idiots Guide to Composting, has answered that question here] No matter what type of garden you have, there’s going to come a time when… [Continue Reading]
There comes a time in every person’s life when they reach an epiphany. When a great understanding comes upon them, and a voice of some deep inner knowing speaks, and says to them, with the force of an Old Testament prophet: You better not get more than twenty feet from a toilet for the next… [Continue Reading]
There are many reasons to subscribe to Wren Song, our weekly newsletter, but a really big one may be that you prefer to get a weekly summary as opposed to a daily email of individual posts. Wren Song brings you the best in wildlife garden, native plants, pollinators, schoolyard habitats, and butterfly and bird habitat… [Continue Reading]
It seems that January is the time of year for making predictions about what this year’s trends will be in the gardening world. I am so thrilled that at least for some, creating welcoming habitat for wildlife in our gardens has made an appearance on these lists (Notice that this list also includes designing with native… [Continue Reading]
[Guest post by Diana Studer of Elephant's Eye, of South Africa. This is our first in a series of wildlife gardening around the world] Take time to look. Give yourself a chance to see the wildlife that is there. Stop and smell the roses. I took a photo of a rose, walked past a few… [Continue Reading]
Well, it’s the 9th, and by now we’re all sick of hearing about people’s new year’s resolutions and have knuckled down to the grim business of surviving January. However, I’m writing this on the 3rd, when the glorious optimism of the new year is only somewhat tarnished by the glorious hangover of New Year’s Eve,… [Continue Reading]
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