Learning to See the Beauty of Nature in Our Gardens
My beautiful wildlife garden is always filled with surprises and this week was no different. Whenever I take the trashbin to the curb, I always walk along the front of the culvert that runs along the property and see what I can see. I caught a glimmer of purple, less than the size of a [...]
Are you an herb lover? If so, you’re not the only one. Many visitors to the beautiful wildlife garden love herbs just as much as people do. And although most people think of Basil, Thyme, Parsley or Sage when you ask them about herbs to grow, those are just a tiny portion of what’s really [...]
So after I had my great native gardening epiphany, I wanted nothing more than to go out and plant a prairie. And finally, a few years later, I found myself with a hillside going begging and I set out to do just that. Before I even started, though, I had started to have serious doubts—-prairies [...]
Late summer is the season when many of our beautiful wildlife garden perennials, trees and shrubs come into their own. Colorful foliage, deep colored berries and the bright blooms shine against the rest of the fading summer garden. One of my very favorites blooming now is the American native wildflower Heliopsis helianthoides, commonly known as [...]
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