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  • Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly May 20, 2013
    Butterfly season is finally here in my beautiful wildlife garden !  This week my brother and I finished releasing our winter batch of butterflies that have been hibernating inside their chrysalises since last fall.  All of them were swallowtail species – Zebra, Eastern Black, Spicebush, Pipevine and Eastern Tiger.  They have been emerging almost daily […]
    Judy Burris
  • Being Green in the Wildlife Garden May 17, 2013
    As I do every morning, I was walking around the property enjoying nature at its best.  I took my normal route past the Rusty Lyonia, Pawpaws and Dwarf Oaks, among others and headed down the bank of the pond into the section that dries up during Florida dry season.  I checked two small temporary pools […]
    Loret T. Setters
  • Silver Dune Lupines of California’s Central Coast May 16, 2013
    An Amtrak train announces its arrival at Grand Avenue Station.  The familiar whistle tells us it is 7:10 am.  At the same time, I can hear the waves of the Pacific Ocean crashing in. I take a walk on the Boardwalk.. it is early… fog is drifting in from the Ocean in large sweeps.  Silver […]
    Kathy Vilim
  • Progress in My Wildlife Garden May 15, 2013
    You may remember that at the end of last summer I worked with my nephew Lucas to rip out my entire wildlife garden because too many invasive plants had taken over. I had to make some choices about what plants could stay, and which ones had to go. In some cases, the invasive plants were […]
    Carole Sevilla Brown
  • Weird Weather and Winter Weeds May 13, 2013
    “I plowed the peas under,” said one of my farmer friends glumly at the market. “They weren’t doing anything but turning yellow.” The farmers in stalls on either side nodded. One does rabbits commercially, and has a garden rather than a farm, but she added “Lost all the broccoli too.” More nods all around. Unfortunate […]
    Ursula Vernon
  • Pondering New Residents in the Garden May 10, 2013
    Just when I think my home wildlife experiences can’t get any better, THEY DO!!!! What a week it was with the pond.  Four new entries on my wildlife life list.  Okay, aside from my Audubon checklist booklet, I don’t have a formal list that I write on. I pretty much keep track via my blog […]
    Loret T. Setters
  • Tried and True Native Perennials for Sun – SE Edition May 9, 2013
    The southeastern region of the US is blessed with some exceptional growing conditions, and the native plants that have always made it their home are rich in diversity. With a region that encompasses mountain tops and coastal plains, a variety of plants exists to satisfy every condition you could have in a garden. Yet we […]
    Ellen Honeycutt
  • What to Know About Attracting Native Bees May 8, 2013
    I’ve been doing a lot of research about attracting native bees to get ready for my appearance at BeesWeek at the Albuquerque Film and Media Experience week-long festival in New Mexico this June 3 – 9. There’s a lot to learn! So I wanted to gather together some of the best resources to help you […]
    Carole Sevilla Brown
  • American Fringe Tree Chionanthus Virginicus Flowering Tree for Urban Gardens May 7, 2013
    American Fringe Tree Chionanthus virginicus has long been a favorite of mine for small space and urban gardens. It is a stunner in bloom – not much compares, and the summer and fall foliage is attractive enough to be worth incorporating it into a formal landscape design. I am happy to have seen this native […]
    Karyl Seppala

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Free sowers vs. freeloaders

Carole at Ecosystem Gardening had a recent blog post titled “Most Hated Plants”. She asked her readers to comment on the invasive plants growing in their own yards and neighborhoods. After writing a post of my own on invasive Chinese Wisteria, it may seem odd that my comment included, of all things, lemon balm. As [...]

Thyme for a little b&b

Honest bread is very well- it’s the butter that makes the temptation.

-Douglas Jerrold

The winds are gusting and the temperature is plummeting. The snows have ceased (for the moment) but icy bits still pelt the windows as they swirl past. A snowstorm is brewing and we’ve been warned to prepare. I have [...]

Garden Bloggers GROW

I’ve joined the Gardenbloggers seed GROW project! Described as ” … a communal seed growing project … designed to get as many garden bloggers as possible to grow the same plant starting from seed” it’s overseen by veteran garden writers Mr.Brown Thumb and Colleen Vanderlinden of In the Garden Online.

Renee [...]

Winter Interest

Every mile is two in winter.

-George Herbert

These are the days that try gardener’s souls. For now Spring’s arrival is like a eagerly-awaited family reunion. We’re waiting and counting the days until we can once again commune with the soil, feel the sun on our face and hear the gentle [...]

Knot in my garden!

Were you among the many charmed by Jane Austen’s “Emma” last night on television? The lush green countrysides, stately manor houses, handsome gentlemen in waistcoats and lovely ladies in winsome frocks were instantly enchanting. The wit and humor Austen used to portray the aristocracy of her time is nothing short of brilliant, and yet it [...]

Feline Friday

Follow Friday is a regular tradition on Twitter. It’s an opportunity to share the people and blogs that we like best and give others a chance to know them, too. Just for today I am borrowing the Follow Friday Twitter tradition and making it Feline Friday here at Get in the Garden. Let me introduce [...]

It's not easy seeing green...

A quick walk around the yard yesterday turned up hints that spring is certainly creeping in:

I first spied stubby green shoots the fall-planted garlic is sending forth. Nothing makes a winter-weary heart soar like bits of new green growth that hint at spring! Only seconds later did I realize the precious growth had been stomped [...]

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Crime and Punishment

It’s time for a garden confession: I’m guilty of planting an invasive species. Not just any invasive species mind you, one of the big ones. I bought Wisteria sinensis (Chinese wisteria) accidentally. It was on clearance years ago at a local garden shop and labeled as Wisteria floribunda “Rosea”, a slower-growing pink flowering wisteria. My [...]

Honest Scrap

Get in the Garden was launched at the end of October 2009. In just a few short months I have met a lot of really smart, funny and interesting people. Trina, (GardenMom29 as she is known on Twitter), surprised me by awarding me the Honest Scrap Award on her blog Garden Mom the other day. [...]