Create Wildlife Habitat. Protect the Environment
It’s happening early this year, maybe because of the drought we had in early summer, or maybe because of the more than 30″ of rain we’ve had since August 1, but there they are those paper bags full of leaves lined up like sentinels along the sidewalk. If only people knew how many butterfly chrysalides [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s time again for my weekly roundup of the most interesting tidbits from around the web. There is a plethora of great information for Ecosystem Gardeners and this weekly collection is my way of sharing with you the things that caught my attention this week To start, here’s a totally amazing photo of a Hawk [...]
(Carole’s note: This is a guest post by Pat Sutton. You can learn more about Pat here). I was recently asked: “Should we still be feeding the hummingbirds? I wasn’t sure when to discontinue our feeders so the hummingbirds can move on for the winter.” It’s a good question. Actually when it’s time to migrate, [...]
Pat Sutton is an amazing naturalist and educator with a passion for teaching people to create welcoming habitats for wildlife in our gardens. Her own garden is a beautiful testament to this passion, as it is always full of swirling butterflies, diving hummingbirds, gorgeous Goldfinches, acrobatic dragonflies, and all manner of other life. This year, [...]
Butterfly lovers have noticed an alarming trend–butterfly numbers are down over 50 percent this year. The North American Butterfly Association (NABA) has sponsored butterfly counts since 1992, and has noted significant drops in butterfly populations this year. Pat Sutton is a founding member of NABA and has participated in these counts since their inception. To [...]
I was thrilled last week when I got the chance to visit with Pat Sutton and her husband Clay in their Cape May Garden. It is really a thrill to be in a garden that is buzzing, humming, blooming, chirping, and singing with life! Doug Tallamy calls the lecture he gives for his book, Bringing [...]
I first met Pat Sutton at a New Jersey Audubon Fall Weekend in Cape May, NJ. She enthusiastically led the listing of the day’s butterfly sightings. She was so passionate about the butterflies and also about the Diamondback Terrapins who were laying their eggs along the beaches that I knew I just had to meet [...]
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