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]
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]
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I have a lot to be grateful for these days. I want to say thank you to Carole for inviting me to post now every other Thursday. I am very excited to post more often and mid-week. I thought I would do a series of posts about my most reliable natives that… [Continue Reading]
Recently team member Ellen Sousa did an interesting piece on Leafcutter Bees. Ironically, I had just seen a bee with a circle of leaf attached to it’s bottom, so the article was timely and cleared up the mystery of this platform-toting pollinator. In my quest for information on this type of bee as they appear… [Continue Reading]
My dear wildlife gardening friends, Sometimes we have to make tough choices. A favorite woodpecker tree must come down because it is dangerously close to the house; native plants have to be edited because they are too happy in our gardens; or, our gardening budgets won’t stretch to include everything we want to accomplish! I’ve… [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]
“Since we humans have the better brain, isn’t it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?”- Joy Adamson As a new member of this wonderful team of bloggers here at Beautiful Wildlife Gardens, I thought a little background would be helpful to readers. I am a “home grown” gardener-meaning I have… [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]
Bees are so interesting to watch as they work. Ever intent on their duties, they are always busy. I took a few minutes yesterday to sit and watch as they worked in my yard, flitting from flower to flower, area to area, always buzzing and moving. I enjoyed it so much I thought you… [Continue Reading]
Have you ever seen people get in a tizzy over walking near bees?…afraid they’ll be stung? Little do they know that often these “bees” are actually flies mimicking bees, so they don’t sting at all. Flies are very important pollinators in the garden. And many species also perform additional biological pest control. So,… [Continue Reading]
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