birds
If your garden is a lush, thriving environment, you are sure to receive some winged […]
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Next time you harvest your vegetables, pick up fruit from your trees or collect seeds […]
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I have been trying since spring to get this picture. These little guys must have […]
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The crab apple tree provides two things during the cold seasons: crab apples and birds. […]
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Our tropical plant conservatory offers a wonderful and very welcome respite from winter blahs. One […]
View Articleguests in the garden
I saw pictures of rain bedazzled spider webs on photography sites but I didn’t expect […]
View Articlehow to grow a wildflower meadow
So, you have your heart set on creating a wildflower meadow and those packages of […]
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I wished for a wildflower meadow a couple of years back, but when I looked […]
View Articlebee trivia
There must be a hive somewhere in the neighborhood, because bees visit my garden very […]
View Articlegrandma capilano
It is not called a rainforest for nothing. It rained when we visited it, but […]
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I love watching bees swarm the stonecrops on nice sunny afternoons. If a garden is […]
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Everyone is familiar with this weird characteristic of mushrooms: they spring out of the ground […]
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the understory
Early April is a critical time for the understory, which gets a head start in the sunshine before the large trees leaf out. Forests turn green from the ground up, starting with the lowest layer,...
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herb of the animals
In old Thracian mythology Vincetoxicum hirundinaria, the white swallow-wort, nicknamed Herb of the Animals, was thought to possess powerful magic that could open any lock. A gentle touch of the plant...
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bee trivia
There must be a hive somewhere in the neighborhood, because bees visit my garden very often, to gather nectar from their favorite flowers. Sedums produce an abundance of it, and their small flowers...
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warm fuzzies
Fluffy fuzzy woolly bear caterpillar. When it eventually undergoes metamorphosis it turns into a Tiger Moth (one of the rare cases when the caterpillar is much prettier than the adult). Here it is,...
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Designing the Wild
The most common colors for native flowers are white, yellow and purple, and if you intend to recreate the look of a wild meadow, this is the color scheme you should keep in mind. Meadows don’t display...
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