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  • 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
  • Ponderosa Pines are Great Natives September 5, 2010
    Have you ever been to a native pine forest?  Or maybe visited an arboretum to check out all of the trees?  I am lucky enough to live among the Ponderosa Pines (Pinus ponderosa) that grow natively in the Rocky Mountains.   We have about 100 of these beautiful pine trees  in various stages of their lives.  [...] […]
    Kathy Green
  • Monarch Butterfly Sightings – Raleigh, NC September 4, 2010
    With nectar-rich flowers waiting to feed the adults and milkweed to sustain life in the larvae cycle, the first monarch finally showed up in my zone 7b garden in Raleigh, NC, a garden I call Helen’s Haven.  Sadly, I haven’t seen him since. I’m forever hopeful though. When I was visiting the JC Raulston Arboretum a [...] […]
    Helen Yoest

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Wordless Wednesday: Seen But Not Heard

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

~ Leroy Brownlow

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Victory Beans!

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

~William Shakespeare

This is a gardening season has a rallying cry “Rise to the challenge!” The weather has been changeable, unpredictable and just plain odd. The critters are working in tandem a they tour the garden at will and [...]

Jamberry Days

It was as if all of the happiness,

all of the magic of this blissful hour

had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones

and flowed away,becoming temporal and transitory once more.

~Herman Hesse

The school year has ended, our summer days long and filled [...]

Nasturtiums: Use Your Blooms!

Nasturtiums (Tropaeolum majus) are known and loved by gardeners everywhere for their ease, adaptability and colorful showy blooms so cherished by hummingbirds. It’s no secret that the the leaves, buds, flowers, unripe pods and seeds are all edible, but there’s often questions as to just how to use them. [...]

Wordless Wednesday:

We learn from our gardens

to deal with the most urgent question of the time:

How much is enough?

~Wendell Berry

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A First In Our Garden

“To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.”

~Shakespeare

To plant a garden is to be a bit of an adventurer. After all we do to prepare, nurture and tend our patch of soil ultimately the harvest depends not on our efforts but many other things outside of our control. Gardening is [...]

Too Many Mulberries?

Not what we have

but what we enjoy,

constitutes our abundance.

~Epicurus

We have an abundance of mulberries; small, dark, juicy and (until this season) a bit under-appreciated. I found the mulberry tree growing in the middle of my herb garden years ago, a gift [...]

Now harvesting: Fava Beans

Rain, rain go away… the favas need to be harvested today! Thankfully the afternoon weather turned out to be nicer than the morning’s and I spent time in the garden harvesting the fava beans. I’ve been eagerly awaiting the day of picking for this new-to-my-garden crop ever since the black and white blossoms appeared a few [...]

When Edible Wants Ornamental

Risk! Risk anything!

Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices.

Do the hardest thing on Earth for you.

Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

It’s always good to try new things. I’m not always [...]

Bloom Day!

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,

nor the most intelligent that survives.

It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

~Charles Darwin

Everything in the garden is a surprise this season. The chilly weather, the prolific weeds, the endless rain… [...]