Create Wildlife Habitat. Protect the Environment
It’s that time of year when holiday giving is on our minds. We spend endless hours shopping for the perfect STUFF to give to our love ones. Instead of giving out more stuff, why not give something that really makes a difference? This year why not give something back to wildlife? My gift giving to [...]
Have you ever spent over $1000 for plants in 5 nurseries in a single afternoon for your own garden? LOL, me neither. But Benjamin Vogt has, and the story is quite funny. I’ve just finished reading his new book Sleep, Creep, Leap: The First Three Years of a Nebraska Garden, and I have to say [...]
If someone asked you for your top tips about how to start a wildlife garden, what would you tell them? What is your best advice for someone who wants to begin to create welcoming habitat for wildlife in their garden? What books would you suggest they read? Do you have a favorite native plant for [...]
Announcing my new team project, Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens, bringing together some of the best voices for native plants from all over the country. Several weeks ago, while I was interviewing Doug Tallamy, we were talking about the fact that so many people remain unaware of the value of native plants for wildlife in [...]
I just returned from a wonderful week in Austin. I had gone to attend SXSW because I wanted to learn how to be a better marketer for my business. I had the pleasure of sharing a house with 7 Remarkable women who are doing amazing things growing their online businesses and helping people make positive [...]
Birds & Blooms It’s been a big week with the launch of the Birds and Blooms blog. I’m now the Northeast Regional Reporter for the new blog. Please take a minute to stop by the following articles and leave a comment, share to facebook, tweet, or put on StumbleUpon because I need to show my [...]
Ta Dah! Introducing the brand spankin new Birds and Blooms Blog. And it is my extreme honor to be the Northeast Regional Blogger for them. We’ll be discussing how to create welcoming habitat in your wildlife garden so that you’ll attract more birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife. In addition to this, I’ll have a [...]
Nothing like Chicago in February, right? The Wildflower Propagation and Preservation Committee (WPPC) of McHenry County, near Chicago is holding their annual Natural Landscaping Seminar on February 26, 2011. The Wildflower Preservation and Propagation Committee (WPPC) is a wonderful organization dedicated to: Promoting the use of native plants in the landscape through preservation, propagation, and [...]
Welcome to my weekly roundup of the most amazing wildlife garden resources I’ve found in my travels around the web. Note: If you want to open these links in a new tab or window, right click the link and choose that option. Bees In the Wildlife Garden Let’s talk about Bees, by Adrian Ayres Fisher [...]
It’s been a while since I did this, but I love sharing the best wildlife garden resources I’ve discovered around the web. Non-native plants I won’t Deep Six, at Ecological Gardening by Adrian Ayres Fisher, is worth a read about the native/non-native plant debate. Foragings, the weekly resource guide at Metropolitan Field Guide, by Kelly [...]
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