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  • Beautiful Painted Lady September 8, 2010
    The common name for Vanessa cardui, Painted Lady, was given to this beautiful wildlife butterfly because of its colorful past…and not one from the butterfly itself.  It is said the early miners out west called this abundant butterfly, Painted Lady, after the “working girls” in town. The hint of rose on the forewing reminded the miners [...] […]
    Helen Yoest
  • Bird Migration and Your Wildlife Garden September 8, 2010
    We’ve talked about Purple Martins and migration, but at this time of year many birds are migrating to their wintering homes. Warblers, Orioles, Tanagers, Vireos, Swallows, raptors, ducks and geese, Thrushes, Sparrows, and more are all on the move, and may be passing through your wildlife garden. And what they need most of all is [...] […]
    Carole Brown
  • Starkly Beautiful Cedar Glades September 7, 2010
    Nashville has marvelous local parks and greenways.  We are lucky folks. We can play, see beautiful native plants and experience nature in all its glory. What many Nashvillians don’t know is that Middle Tennessee is home to a rare and endangered ecosystem. I’m talking about our wonderful cedar glades. Cedar glades are like nothing you’ve [...] […]
    Gail Eichelberger
  • Just Add Water… September 7, 2010
    and the birds will flock to your garden.  (Sorry, couldn’t resist the pun.)  A pond is nice but not necessary, as even a small fountain will attract birds.You never know who might show up. For more on my adventures in waterfowl photography, see here. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via [...] […]
    Barbara Pintozzi
  • Plant Fall Flowering Plants as Pollinator Feeding Stations September 6, 2010
    As fall arrives in the northeast, are you still noticing pollinators active in your wildlife garden? If you have aster, goldenrod, sedum or even some black-eyed susans blooming, check out which insects are visiting them right now. You’ll probably see an assortment of bumble bees, hover flies, parasitic wasps and beetles. Maybe even some newly [...] […]
    Ellen Sousa

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]