🍂Happy Fall! 🍂 If you live in metro Atlanta, please join me on October 17 from 10-12pm at Lost Corner Preserve for an in-person resource-rich talk exploring ways to nurture a safe and welcoming habitat for birds throughout the year 🐦The photos in the collage were taken in my bird sanctuary yard🐦 🍂🪾🌱🌻I’ll share a host of tips for supporting birds as the seasons change and give guidelines for ecologically informed yard practices as well as essential and creative habit

I’m grateful local resources like natural history museums exist to educate and give context about the natural world, human culture, and science in a way that can’t be replicated in a classroom, in books, or online. I mean where else can you see a 100-million-year-old life-sized dinosaur! My kids called the various Natural History Museums we visited around the country when they were growing up "dinosaur museums" because they could always count on seeing dinosaurs! To finance t

Half of my two story Chickasaw plum tree (Prunus angustifolia) died almost two years ago yet the rest is still hanging in there. This past winter I planted a handful of Chickasaw plum seedlings around my rewilded yard to cover my bases if the other half dies - including in my right-of-way strip where I’m working to replace non-native Kousa dogwoods. My daughter kindly dug the holes for me to add more Chickasaw plums to my rewilded yard! Chickasaw plums are a fabulous keyston

Now that we’re finally getting consistent rain, I’ve been trying to plant out my larger native seedlings in between the showers so nature can do the heavy lifting of watering them for me. Yesterday I was on a mission to plant a mixture of common evening primrose seedlings (Oenothera biennis) I winter sowed in January 2025 and forgot about so they never left the container and ones I winter sowed in January. I replanted all of them in a protected community garden bed in April

Your invited to join me for a Webinar exploring how to create a Habitat Friendly HOA Yard on Wednesday, May 13 from 7-8pm. I’m honored to be hosted by my friends at the Georgia Native Plant Society – North Metro Chapter as part of their YouTube channel series. The event is free and open to the public but registration is required HERE I’m nervous but excited to present my first Webinar and this is a perfect topic to share broadly because about 75 million people or 53% of all

A big challenge for folks doing the right thing by nature in their outside space is there’s a defensive insistence that the landscape be visually acceptable to the folks who have toxic, unnatural landscapes. Cues to care is a phrase often used in native gardening circles to caution against making natural landscapes too natural. In a webinar Benjamin Vogt suggested this native landscape doesn't look intentional enough to please folks with lawns because it doesn't have flowers

🌸🐝Happy Spring!🦋🐛 If you live in metro Atlanta, please join me on March 28 from 10-noon when Friends of Lost Corner is hosting Nurture Native Nature for an in-person presentation to talk about creative and approachable ways to container garden using native plants. I’m excited to share this in-person presentation for the first time! The photos in the collage are from container plants and wildlife in my rewilded yard! Ditch the tired garden center ornamentals and make habi

What we do in our yard matters to wildlife. Brown thrashers are the Georgia State Bird yet have declined 40% in the last 50 years . They need dense shrubs for cover, shelter, and to build their nests which are rarely higher than 7 feet off the ground . Every year brown thrasher babies are born in my neighbor’s shrub border that runs the length of my driveway just feet from the property line. The row is a mix of non-native shrubs that don't support the native insects that are

I’m a bit of a minimalist when it comes to giving or getting gifts so I try to think of gifts that are practical, delightful, or both when assembling my yearly gift ideas. I aim for gifts that speak to a love of nature in some way with an eye towards sustainability and supporting local businesses or organizations. I tried to find practical gifts that would delight a nature lover for this year's nature gift guide. Combined, all my gift guides make one large list of unique, pra

Wildlife container gardens support biodiversity where planting in the ground is not an option. They support wildlife habitat on apartment or townhouse balconies, courtyards, stoops, or patios, and can be an extension of a yard on porches, patios, decks or even driveways. I've added wildlife container gardens just about everywhere I don't have soil! The landing at the bottom of my front steps has a handful of large ceramic pots I’ve been gifted over the years filled with a mi