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  • 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] […]
    Guest Author

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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 [...]