Ecosystem Gardening — Create Wildlife Habitat. Protect the Environment

Attracting Butterflies to Your Wildlife Garden

I had the honor of writing a guest post for the always delightful Marghanita Hughes of Little Humbugs.
Here you’ll find my thoughts on attracting more butterflies to your wildlife garden, which is a great way to get children involved in the magic of nature and wildlife gardening.
While you’re there, spend some time looking around Marghanita’s [...]

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Best of the Web Valentines Edition

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For those of you in the Mid-Atlantic states, I hope you have managed to dig yourself out from under all the snow we got in two separate storms within 5 days. The sun is shining today and it’s actually very pretty outside.
Here’s my picks for best of the web this week, and when you get [...]

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Helping Your Neighbors Learn to Love Wildlife

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I received an email from my friend, Lisa Gustavson at Get in the Garden, which, while sad, gives us an opportunity to to come together to brainstorm solutions. The email said:
Thank you for letting me bend your ear! I’m growing a bit frustrated and thought you may be able to share a bit of wisdom. [...]

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The Sense of Wonder in the Wildlife Garden

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(Guest post by Kelly Senser)

“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.”

—Rachel Carson
This quote comes from The [...]

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Monarch Butterfly Wintering Population at All Time Low

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The Monarch Butterfly winter population in Mexico is the lowest it’s been for 15 years.
According to Mike Quinn at Journey North:
This week, 36 hours of continuous rain fell primarily across the eastern
portion of Michoacan, and to a lesser extent throughout much of central
Mexico.
Heavy rain followed by a freeze killed as much as 80% of the [...]

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Blizzard Birds

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We got a lot of snow yesterday, and the birds sure were hungry!

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Best of the Web 18 Birds Counts, Community Gardens, Burrowing Owls

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As a blizzard pounds the mid-Atlantic states, I have 21 inches of snow, and it hasn’t let up yet, but here’s my picks for best of the web this week. Stay warm!
(Note: if you want to open the link in a new tab, right click link and select open new tab/window)
The Great Backyard Bird Count [...]

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Arizona Ecosystem Gardening Showcase

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I don’t have many words today, mainly because I am in denial that we are getting another two feet of snow. It’s cold, gray, and dreary. So I am dreaming of warmer places.
Please enjoy these Arizona Ecosystem Gardening photos:

See all the gardens in the Ecosystem Gardening Showcase and warm yourself with fond dreams of spring. [...]

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Lorax Victim of Greenwashing

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What’s a company with a bad reputation in environmental circles to do? How about adopting one of the most beloved icons in that movement as its own.
The Lorax, we all know him, he speaks for the trees.
But now, apparently he’s also speaking for clean coal. Learn all about it in this video:

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Are Paulownia crops the same as Monsanto GM corn?

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By now you all must know that I have a problem with the continued planting and sale of invasive plants, which destroy native habitat and reduce wildlife biodiversity. I tend to rant a little (understatement, of course) because if we stopped the sale of these plants and stopped putting them in our gardens, we would [...]

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