Learning to See the Beauty of Nature in Our Gardens
…or “What I did on my summer vacation.” Sometimes you have to leave your garden and venture out into the world to seek garden inspiration. Around the end of August, I traveled to Indianapolis, Indiana, (also Zone 5) for the Garden Writers Symposium, which included garden tours. As I began to review my photos, I [...]
Do you think that only kids should be able to get treats on Halloween? Or that tricks can only happen once a year? The wildlife garden can be a wonderful place to experience Mother Nature’s tricks and treats on a daily basis. Tricks like those sneaky costumes worn by insects visiting your plants, flowers using [...]
Some people decorate their yards with big black spiders and gigantic webs for Halloween. I decorate my wildlife garden with the real thing, and I do it all year long. Okay, it’s not that I’m really the one doing the decorating — mostly it’s just that I welcome the eight-legged arachnids to my garden, and [...]
I sing in the garden, often and varied. The other morning, I found myself singing No Doubt’s Spiderwebs: “Sorry I’m not home right now, I’m walking into spiderwebs.” (Tony Kanal, Gwen Stefani). In American culture, spiderwebs are viewed as creepy, icky things associated with Halloween. I got to thinking about that, as I tried to [...]
It’s right about this time of year and through the fall, the female garden spider (Argiope aurantia) becomes visible in the wildlife garden. Their web is characterized by the ‘Z’ shaped line in the middle of her web giving rise to one of the species common names – writing spider. What I read is, “Welcome [...]
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