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  • Ceanothus is the Perfect Native Wildlife Shrub September 3, 2010
    Photo by Neilhooting Ceanothus is one of my favorite shrubs in my beautiful wildlife garden and is often called California Lilac or Wild Lilac. If you’ve ever thought of native California shrubs as boring, you’ve never met this one. Ceanothus is the ultimate shrub for a beautiful wildlife garden. There’s a huge variety of hybrid [...] […]
    Chris McLaughlin
  • Beautiful Blooms: Heliopsis September 2, 2010
    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 [...] […]
    Lisa Gustavson
  • Purple Martins On the Move September 1, 2010
    It is at this time of year that you will begin to see huge flocks of Purple Martins, and you know that Fall is close at hand. Creating rest stops for migratory birds in your wildlife garden is a wonderful way to support these birds on their long journeys. At the end of the breeding [...] […]
    Carole Brown
  • Beautiful Little Wildlife August 31, 2010
    You’re going to have to get down on your knees to look for some of the beautiful little wildlife creatures that visit your garden.  You won’t be disappointed by what you can discover. I’ve been enjoying the tiniest moths, small butterflies, crab spiders and some very interesting cats disguised as decaying petals. What a surprise  [...] […]
    Gail Eichelberger
  • Spiderwebs August 31, 2010
    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 [...] […]
    Barbara Pintozzi

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Gardening by the Moon

“Don’t tell me the sky is the limit, there are footprints on the moon!”

Sowing seeds according to the phases of the moon is often thought of as a bit of garden folklore that’s practiced by a few and discarded as irrelevant by many. Scientists have studied the effects of the moon’s force on [...]

Who Knew?

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside,

somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be

and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst [...]

Winter Interest Wednesday

The time is winter as it nears its end and objects remain

snow dappled;

each flake takes hand

with its brother

until spring returns and sweeps them away.

~G.L.

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Sow What Now?

To everything there is a season, a time to sow and a time to reap…

Ecclesiastes 3:2

You have all of  your seeds and perhaps a touch of spring fever. Now, after poring over seed catalogs, reading up on best garden practices and gathering pots…you’re ready to grow! Not [...]

Don't Bug Me!

One of the challenges to growing an organic garden is finding natural solutions to garden problems like damaging insects. The birds are adept at keeping populations of many insects to a minimum, but in the case of pests like ants, aphids and spider mites the birds are not of much help. What else can be [...]

Sow Easy

Are you looking for an easy garden project to occupy your time while early sown seeds germinate and snows melt away? Seed tapes are the answer. They’re super-simple to make, use everyday items in your home and make sowing small seeds like lettuces and flowers a snap! Seed tapes are simply paper strips with seeds [...]

A Tea Party for Your Plants

When it comes to our organic gardens, I’m very careful about what I use on the plants and in the soil. A lot of products use the word “natural” but when I look closely at the company and product they don’t live up to the label. With the current trend in home gardening [...]

Please Be Seated

Winter returned last night and sighed its snowy flakes over the yard. I’m tempted to grumble but can’t seem to muster the strength. It’s too beautiful. The birds this morning are unfazed, even excited as they flit from branch to feeder and then off  again. Watching them this morning I made [...]

Winter Interest Wednesday

In the depth of winter,  I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

~Albert Camus

A farewell to seasons past…

and hope for the coming spring.

Melancholy of  songbirds gone…

and joy for those who [...]

Book Thoughts: Grocery Gardening

~If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.

If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.~

One of the things I love most about gardening is the way it draws people together. United by a common passion for starting, growing and using vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers we gardeners [...]