Create Wildlife Habitat. Protect the Environment
After my discovery that I had been making many mistakes in creating welcoming habitat for wildlife in my garden as well as my client’s gardens, I went on a mission to find out everything that I could about how to best share our spaces with the critters around us. At this time, there was very little information, [...]
Welcome to Part 4 of our ongoing series of your best tips for creating a wildlife garden. The series so far: Part 1: Tips to Start a Wildlife Garden Part 2: Top Tips to Start a Wildlife Garden Part 3: Wildlife Garden Tips Today’s tip was submitted by Sherry Lawson, of Sherry Knows Best I [...]
I asked you all recently to submit your best tips to help someone start a wildlife garden, and you came up with some awesome suggestions! Thank you Make sure you check out Part 1 of Top Tips to Start a Wildlife Garden and Part 3 of Wildlife Garden Tips. There’s some really wonderful suggestions there [...]
A guest post by author Michael Nolan We humans are a self important lot. We choose and toss away celebrities and fads like the chocolates in a box whose fillings we don’t like. Sadly the same mindset follows us into our gardens. We carve ourselves a home smack dab in the midst of an existing [...]
This week is National Wildflower Week, a good time to honor our local native plants, add some to our gardens, and work to help preserve them. In addition, this whole month is Garden for Wildlife Month. And these two celebrations fit perfectly together, don’t you think? When we add more native plants and wildflowers to [...]
A while back, my friend Karyn Greenstreet sent me some photos of a Red Fox making himself at home in her wildlife garden, and she had named him Mr. Fox. But now, all things have become clear! Mr Fox is not a Mister at all. Hey! Mr Fox is really *Mrs* Fox. Four cubs/kits came [...]
We’ve already looked at the other side of this equation with the question Are Wildlife Gardeners Real Birders? But if you’ve ever experienced that sucking of the teeth and aghast looks that some gardeners do when talking about your wildlife garden, you totally understand this side of the equation. So I ask Are Wildlife Gardeners [...]
Welcome to Part 7 of Meet the Team at Beautiful Wildlife Garden. You may recall that Beautiful Wildlife Garden came about after a discussion between Helen Yoest and I about how nice it would be if we could start a conversation that redefined beautiful. We hoped to help people begin to see that wildlife in the garden, [...]
Welcome to Part 6 of Meet the Team at Beautiful Wildlife Garden. You may recall that Beautiful Wildlife Garden came about after a discussion between Helen Yoest and I about how nice it would be if we could start a conversation that redefined beautiful. We hoped to help people begin to see that wildlife in the garden, [...]
Come to the 3rd Annual Pinelands-Friendly Yard & Garden Fair at Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, September 25 from 11am – 4pm. The event will focus on native plant and animal species of the New Jersey Pinelands. Attendees will learn how they can take action in their own yards to help protect the unique environment [...]
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