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May is Wildflower Month May 17, 2012
May is underway, the month that is the bridge between Spring & Summer. In the Santa Monica Mountains, it is a month of vibrant color. The hillsides are bejeweled in blooms of yellow, orange, pink, white, purple & blue. Flowers are strewn from here to there, seemingly at random, as if at the whim […]
Kathy Vilim
The Wildlife Pond at Mount Cuba Center May 16, 2012
I was thrilled to be invited to visit Mount Cuba Center last week, to interview some of the staff, and spend several delightful hours wandering around with my camera collecting images of this beautiful place, which is devoted to preserving the native plants of the Piedmont region. Mount Cuba Center is a 600 acre preserve […]
Carole Sevilla Brown
My Garden’s Carbon Footprint May 15, 2012
“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.” ~Seneca With spring we turn our attention in earnest to our gardens. And this year as Earth Day loomed, I also turned my attention to what I was doing to be more environmentally conscious and earth friendly […]
Donna Donabella
Build-A-Wetland May 14, 2012
So I had my driveway re-done a few weeks ago, as I believe I mentioned, and as I was planting in the newly cleared space, it chanced to rain. And I discovered that while most of the area was pretty much exactly as it had been, there was a large section that now, as soon […]
Ursula Vernon
A Tale of Quail May 11, 2012
Just when I think I’ve run out of critters that will come to visit, someone new shows up. Wednesday we had some much-needed rain and the storm was ending. I glanced out the window that overlooks the backyard and I spotted a bird taking shelter under a wax myrtle. At first glance I thought it […]
Loret T. Setters

Where Have All The Gall Flies Gone?

I know the lands are lit

With all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.

~Helen Hunt Jackson, Asters and Goldenrod

Today’s damp autumn weather has kept me indoors tending to the chores I left unfinished the moment spring’s first breath was upon the garden. It’s been [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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