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, [...]
[Guest Post by Ursula Vernon] A few days ago, not long after Christmas, I was standing in my upstairs bedroom, newly showered, digging through my underwear drawer. It had snowed heavily the day before–a rarity down here in North Carolina–and the whole world was glittering white snow and black trunks. I was staring vaguely out [...]
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 [...]
This photo was taken in my herb garden near a fountain where the birds love to bathe. My Grandson was visiting and he discovered this beautiful dragonfly perched on a bamboo stick used to stake my nasturtiums. Editor’s note: This photo was submitted by Jody McPheeters through the “Show Off Your Garden” feature. We’d love [...]
It makes me so happy to walk through my garden right now, because the Carolina Chickadees have hatched. I could sit by this nest box for hours listening to the happy cheeping sounds coming from hungry baby Chickadees inside the box. Mom and Dad work diligently from dawn to dusk on a constant mission to [...]
I was chatting last night with my twitter friend @OurLittleAcre, otherwise known as Kylee Baumle, author of the wonderful blog, Our Little Acre. She had a trillium in bloom in her garden, and she wasn’t sure which species it was. So, using the tools at her disposal, she posted a photo on twitter and asked [...]
It’s easy to assume that you can’t possibly make a difference for wildlife from your small share of the planet. But every positive choice you make in your garden can actually make a huge difference for the wildlife in your area. And when you help your neighbors make better decisions the benefit to wildlife is [...]
I was fortunate to attend a Bluebird workshop over the weekend at Mount Cuba Center in Hockessin, DE led by my friend Katharine Patterson. I’ll be returning to talk about the wonderful work Mount Cuba Center is doing in a later post, because the natural lands manager, Jim Subach, is an incredibly fascinating guy with [...]
I’ve been watching the Robins pecking through last winters leaves in their search for earthworms, snails, grubs and insects. We tend to think of sightings of American Robins as signs of spring, but Robins are in fact year-round residents in most of the lower 48 US states. How Come I Don’t See any Robins in [...]
Not long ago I wrote a post about helping your neighbors learn to love wildlife (and your wildlife garden), where we began a discussion about the ways we can educate our neighbors about the value of wildlife in the garden. I continue to be very interested in the many ways each of you encourages your [...]
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