Redefining the Beauty of Nature and Wildlife in Our Gardens
Well it’s a New Year and I hope your New Year’s Day was wonderful. In thinking about planning for the new year’s garden, I offer you Part 2 of my fall favorite native plants. You can read about Part 1 if you missed the post. There are some tried and true natives in the list,… [Continue Reading]
You won’t be sorry. Not only are there an amazing number of beautiful natives to light up your garden from spring through frost~The pollinators and other critters will love them. Asteraceae is one of the largest plant families and is found growing all over the world. So vast that it is subdivided into tribes which… [Continue Reading]
If you know anything about my garden, Clay and Limestone, you already know that I adore rough and tumble wildflowers. Wildflowers that many have called roadside weeds. Wildflowers with no known pedigree. Species wildflowers that haven’t had the wild or good bred out of them. Native species that do exactly what they are supposed to do:… [Continue Reading]
It’s late summer and the topiary buffalo are still roaming in Bison Meadow. You have to walk the paths to find them grazing amidst the wildflowers that have been growing all summer. Last winter when I introduced you to this two acre prairie, all that you could see were the bison, Junipers that dotted the… [Continue Reading]
If there is a single unifying cry among gardeners, it is…well, probably it’s “where can we get more compost?!” And then there’s “Why won’t that grow for me?” and “What the heck am I supposed to do with this kind of soil, anyway?” and “How much mulch does it take to keep that tender perennial… [Continue Reading]
Spring has come and gone already. Last week I was still waiting to plant, and this week it’s already in the 80′s. You have to be quick to catch many of the spring blooming flowers in my wildlife gardens. They like enough warmth to open, then quickly fade away with the heat. The Chokecherry… [Continue Reading]
I wrote last week about my visit to see the Lady Slipper Orchids, and I need to give you a word of warning. Many species of Lady Slipper Orchids (Cypripedium) are endangered in the wild. We’ve done a really good job of destroying their habitat. If you find these orchids growing in a natural area… [Continue Reading]
The highways around Austin have their make-up on — the blooming Redbuds all alongside the roads are stunningly pink, and your eyes are drawn to their vibrancy instead of the concrete and asphalt just beyond. Spring is on its way, and everywhere I see pink, pink, pink! Ahhhh, redbuds. They are a fantastic addition to… [Continue Reading]
All this talk about early spring wildlife gardens and bluebirds nesting in Florida is so encouraging to those of us in the white north, where summer wildlife gardens exist only in our minds and dreams, so far…much of New England is still buried in snow! But knowing that ruby-throat hummingbirds have arrived on the Gulf… [Continue Reading]
It’s the middle of winter, and the seed and plant catalogues have been arriving in the mailbox, providing the only bright spots of color to Northern gardeners tired of gazing upon a monochromatic world. How easy it is to be enticed by the images and descriptions of plants. You remember to include plants for wildlife… [Continue Reading]
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