Redefining the Beauty of Nature and Wildlife in Our Gardens
Happy New Year all! For those of us in the frigid northeast US, we still have the benefit of TIME before our gardening season begins. So why exactly is that a benefit? Instead of impulse buying from nurseries in the spring (everybody guilty of this raise your hands), you can spend some time planning, researching and… [Continue Reading]
So…as we have FAR too many Beautiful Wildlife Garden readers for me to send you each a yuletide card, please accept this posting as my Christmas/Hanukkah/Solstice/Kwanzaa virtual greeting card to all of our lovely readers! I’m also guessing you’d all prefer to hear about the best wildlife-friendly berry shrubs instead of seeing the annual silly… [Continue Reading]
Your wildlife garden can be a real haven in autumn for migratory birds and in winter for those hardy year round residents if you have laid out the welcome mat and planted your garden with lots of berrying shrubs to sustain these birds on their long journeys and through the winter. [Special thanks to Ellen... [Continue Reading]
Oh, this Southern drought. My home state of Texas is in serious trouble. It’s something awful, but lessons are being learned by many a gardener — native plants are handling it much better than those originating in other regions. Still, native plants themselves have had to hunker down to withstand the blazing sun and lack… [Continue Reading]
I know that my feeders I filled with seeds and suet will not attract all the songbirds that will nest in my area. Some birds are mainly fruit eaters. The birds that like to eat fruit include the Gray Catbirds, Cedar Waxwings, Northern Mockingbirds, Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles and Scarlet Tanagers. Cedar Waxwings… [Continue Reading]
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