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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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The Lovely Decline Of Summer

Delicious autumn!

My very soul is wedded to it,

and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth

seeking the successive autumns.

- George Eliot

I love autumn! Everything I have enjoyed (and sometimes endured) with the summer garden is [...]

A New Season

Autumn to winter, winter into spring,

Spring into summer, summer into fall,

So rolls the changing year, and so we change;

Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

~Dinah Maria Mulock

We say it every summer, where did the time go?! The long [...]

What's All The Buzz About?

When the flower blooms,

the bees come uninvited.

~Ramakrishna quote

One step outside the door and you can’t miss the sights or sounds of our end-of-summer garden… the constant flitting and steady hum of insect wings. Summer vegetable blossoms for the most part have slowed or stopped [...]

Looking Ahead

When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream, glides away.
~ Sarah Helen Whitman

Summer heat has for the moment waned and we’re enjoying comfortable days and almost chilly nights. The past few weeks of high temperatures paired with alternating days of heavy rain have combined to produce [...]

V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N

“Sometimes

the most urgent thing you can possibly do

is take a complete rest.”

~Ashleigh Brilliant

Weeding, canning, harvesting vegetables, fruits and seeds. Senior pictures for youngest daughter, wedding plans for eldest daughter, two busy teen boys, blogging and life in general. There’s always something [...]

Why Wildlife Gardening?

“When one tugs at a single thing in Nature,

he finds it hitched to the rest of the Universe.”

J. Muir

I’ve recently been invited to join a group of gardeners on a new adventure at beautifulwildlifegarden.com, a site dedicated to “re-defining beautiful” in the garden. Why would a vegetable gardener join [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Rural View

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature.
~William Cowper

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Something's Fishy...

All men are equal before fish.

~Herbert Hoover

In between weeding and harvesting (and the rain that seems to fall all the time) we found time to visit our local pond store. Though our toad populations are alive and well, our fish and bullfrogs have attracted the attention of [...]

Seed Grow Project

I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking.

I like good cooking.

~James Beard

August is here and the Spitfire nasturtium seeds planted months ago have grown to be happy ramblers in the garden. July was one of the wettest we’ve had in a [...]