Redefining the Beauty of Nature and Wildlife in Our Gardens
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 [...]
June is one of the best times in my garden. Lots of things are flowering, making my morning walks delightful, but it’s too hot to do anything dramatic, like put in another raised bed, so I don’t have to feel guilty about not working. The chickweed has died off for the year, I have given [...]
My favorite spring flowers have started blooming in my wildlife garden. These are flowers of early spring, and nothing makes me happier than walking through my garden and seeing these cheerful, delicate blooms. After what seemed like an endless winter of a constant barrage of weekly snow storms, that these small beauties are some of the first [...]
I first saw Matilija (ma-tila-huh) Poppies on a trip to Catalina Island many years ago. I was visiting the Wrigley Memorial and Botanical Gardens (Catalina Island Conservancy, Avalon, CA) and there they were: So elegant, tall and wild, their petals like crepe paper. They stood together, a big stand of them, swaying with the breeze [...]
One of our most beautiful native wild flowers, bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), is nearly blooming here in central MA, which is amazing because its stems barely popped out of the ground just a few days ago. Bloodroot flowers are pure white, lighting up this otherwise still mostly brown garden bed: Bright yellow pollen-covered anthers tempt early [...]
Ok, I know according to the Gregorian calendar, 2011 is not a leap year, but I recently had a conversation with my sister and remarked that my coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) was finally growing up the recycled PVC pole that I placed next to it some two years ago, when it was first planted in my [...]
It’s not planting season in most of North America right now, but the first seed catalogs are starting to land in the mailbox, and that means that garden planning season is getting underway. So, for all these future gardens being planned right now, I would like to recommend one of the single best native plants [...]
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