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Designing a New Garden, Step Three: Choose Your Plants

Having decided how you want your new garden to function and feel and then analyzed your site conditions, you’re ready to start choosing what to … Read More ›

Posted on October 16, 2019April 8, 2020
Best Practices, In the Wild

Three Easy Ways to Help Birds Today

Birds have been in the news recently. A recent study published in Science magazine found that bird populations in North America have plummeted to the … Read More ›

Posted on September 25, 2019February 9, 2020
Best Practices, New Meadow Garden

Designing a New Garden, Step Two: Evaluate

Once you’ve decided how you want your new garden to function and feel, your next smart step is to evaluate your site. Understanding your site … Read More ›

Posted on September 18, 2019April 8, 2020
Best Practices, New Meadow Garden

Designing a New Garden, Step One: Explore

My husband and I have achieved a sort of detente when it comes to lawn and garden. Given my druthers, we’d have very little lawn … Read More ›

Posted on September 4, 2019April 8, 2020
Best Practices, Resources

What Are the Advantages of Living Bird Feeders?

If you’re anything like me, you enjoy sitting down with a cup of tea to watch the birds at the feeder. The finches settle in … Read More ›

Posted on August 28, 2019September 4, 2019
Best Practices

What are the Advantages of Growing from Seed?

Purchasing plants in containers has its advantages, convenience and faster results (at least initially) being high on the list. But what about starting from seed? … Read More ›

Posted on June 12, 2019July 18, 2019
Best Practices, Resources

How to Balance Your Garden for Ecosystem Health

My last post discussed why it’s important to include native plants in our gardens. But how many native plants does it take to make a … Read More ›

Posted on May 13, 2019November 19, 2021
Best Practices

Native versus Exotic: How Do You Choose?

I asked my earliest flower gardens to do one thing: look good. As I circled back around to my roots, I started emphasizing more and … Read More ›

Posted on May 10, 2019May 21, 2019
Best Practices, Resources

Matilda, Hazel, and Daisy: Composting Queens

Compost has justly earned the nickname ‘black gold’ among gardeners. But as with so many things, I had my share of false starts at composting … Read More ›

Posted on May 3, 2019May 20, 2019
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Best Practices

The Quest for the Rose-Breasted Grosbeak

Is there a particular bird that you long to watch at close range in your garden? For me, it’s the rose-breasted grosbeak. In this post, … Read More ›

Posted on April 29, 2019September 4, 2019

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