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Irma Mcvey’s wildlife garden has always been one of my favorites to visit. In fact, I profiled her garden two years ago when I first started writing here. Irma’s garden was regularly featured on Pat Sutton’s wildlife garden tours, which I attempt to attend every year. And it was always so much fun and [...]
One of the best ways that I’ve found to get inspiration for my wildlife garden is to go and visit other wildlife gardens. First, you get to meet other wildlife gardeners who are just as passionate about creating welcoming habitat for wildlife in their gardens as you are. These gardeners are eager to share their [...]
I was truly blessed this week to visit beautiful Austin, Texas and to meet Beautiful Wildlife Garden team member, Meredith O’Reilly who writes the wildlife gardening blog Great Stems. I was honored to by given a private tour of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center by my friend Kelley, who is a volunteer at the [...]
From the Show Off Your Wildlife Garden feature here at Ecosystem Gardening I received these beautiful photos of Clark’s Nutcrackers from Marghanita Hughes at Little Humbugs, where I was so honored to write a guest post about planning your butterfly garden. I’ve never seen Clark’s Nutcrackers in person, so this is a nice “virtual” look [...]
My friend Karyn Greenstreet sent me these photographs via the Show Off Your Wildlife Garden feature here at Ecosystem Gardening. I’m kind of jealous that she sees this fox on a regular basis right in her backyard! Mr. Fox is out and about again today in our garden. Twice he’s tried hunting squirrels at the [...]
[Guest post by Justine Schaeffer] Our half-acre Children’s Garden supports the recreation and education programs of Cromwell Valley Park, including gardening with food crops and native plants. One of the best stories we tell is how the native plants support insect predators that control the pests in and increase the yield of the vegetable gardens. The photo above shows [...]
[Guest submission by Stacey Cornelius through the Show Off Your Wildlife Garden feature. We'd love to see YOUR garden next!] This is a hasty snapshot taken from my kitchen window. We provide bird feeders year ’round because we enjoy the birds so much, and also have a number of plants they can feast on when [...]
Here’s a question I received from Jacqueline in Phoenix via the Ask Carole feature here at Ecosystem Gardening. Hello Carole, I moved to Phoenix, Arizona 16 years ago. It took me three years just to be able to plant something that didn’t die. I’m from Santa Monica, California, where anything and everything I planted grew. [...]
[Guest submission by Kat Ranalli via the Show Off Your Wildlife Garden feature. Your garden could be next!] Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up. -Lynwood L. Giacomini I learned my love of gardening from my mother, who was raised on a farm. An avid gardener since my 20′s, I now [...]
How to Create a Wildlife Garden from Nothing but Lawn Where would you start if you wanted to create a wildlife garden and you had nothing but lawn to work with? That was exactly the situation that Kathy and Roger Horn faced when they bought their home in Cape May County, NJ. In fact, their [...]
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