April 2010 « Get in the Garden

When Birds Recycle February 3, 2012
I was out and about on Sunday, cleaning up after the dogs and looking for wildlife of interest. January is not always the best time of year to find things, but Florida has experienced a relatively warm winter and spring is in the air so we have our fair share of resident wildlife meandering around.... [Continue Reading] […]
Loret T. Setters
Orange Moon and The Grandmother Tree February 1, 2012
Exploring the wonders of nature with the children who come to visit my wildlife garden is one of the greatest joys of my life. We turn over rocks to look for the Worm Snake who lives there. We watch the bugs with our hand lenses. We are amazed when the butterfly emerges from its chrysalis.... [Continue Reading] […]
Carole Sevilla Brown
Green Healthy Lawns and Yards without Chemicals January 31, 2012
In cased you missed it, last week our very own Carole Brown took the wildlife gardening world by storm with her exposure of the National Wildlife Federation/ScottsMiracle-Gro partnership, which quickly escalated into a widespread social media storm of protest by organic gardeners, farmers and environmental writers. On Sunday, amazingly, the NWF’s reversed th […]
Ellen Sousa
Counting Birds in the Garden January 30, 2012
I could not have guessed how timely this post would turn out to be. I thought, I’ll get a head start promoting the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). After all we want to see more birds in the garden. But who would have guessed that while I was gazing out my window this past gray... [Continue Reading] […]
Donna Donabella
Feels Like the First Time January 29, 2012
[Guest post by Jan Bills] “For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart” ~Audrey Hepburn When I read the email from Carole asking if I would like to write a guest post for her highly regarded, well-respected website, I nearly dropped my teeth! Me, I thought to myself. I am... [Continue Reading] […]
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Product Review: Allsop Write+Erase Plant Tags

After responding to offer from Allsop Inc. to use and review one of their garden products for free, I chose and received a box of Write + Erase Plant Tags in the mail. Upon opening the mailing envelope I immediately liked the gift box packaging. Not only is it attractive, it’s easily re-used to store [...]

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How Does Your Garden Grow?

Did you ever stop to taste a carrot?

Not just eat it, but taste it?

You can’t taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie.

~Astrid Alauda

Pollination. It’s how plants produce fruit. Well, partly. Plant reproduction is a cycle. When a seed is sown it [...]

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Wordless Wednesday:Inspiring

The richness I achieve comes from Nature,

the source of my inspiration.

~Claude monet

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Bad Weather, Good Lesson

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing,

wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating;

there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

~John Ruskin

Finally, things feel as though they are back in order. A week of [...]

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Garden Grounds

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;

but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

~Abraham Lincoln

Many gardeners wake to greet each day with a hot cup of coffee. If you are among those numbers, good news! You can enjoy your coffee twice [...]

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Where The Wildlife Goes

“If you talk to the animals
They will talk to you
and you will know each other.
If you do not talk to them,
You will not know them,
And what you do not know
You will fear.
What one fears one destroys.”
- Chief Dan George

I am a gardener not a wildlife expert. Yesterday, when our [...]

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Earth Day 2010

I thank you God for this most amazing day,

for the leaping greenly spirits of trees,

and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural,

which is infinite, which is yes.

~e.e. cummings

Earth Day 2010. A day to celebrate our planet and reflect on ways [...]

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Wordless Wednesday:Spring Speaks

The fountain is my speech.

The tulips are my speech.

The grass and trees are my speech.

~George T. Delacorte

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Much Ado About Mulch

No two gardens are the same.

No two days are the same in one garden.

~Hugh Johnson

After a season of building the garden soil and months nurturing tender green seedlings from early indoor-sown seeds, it’s time again to plant in the spring garden. Size and [...]

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Weeds Are Revealing

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill

except for learning how to grow in rows.

~Doug Larson

Organic gardening is a process of learning to work in cooperation with your soil and plants. In time and with patient observation, we can learn to [...]

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