When we create a safe and welcoming wildlife habitat, we are also supporting the natural cycles and systems we may not even be aware...

(and how to tell the difference...) Partridge Pea is native to most of the Eastern half of the United States and supports habitat in a...

In an ecologically focused landscape, common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) is an example of a native plant that offers habitat...

Back in February I wrote about how having a section of sewer pipe replaced offered me an opportunity to replant a section of my rewilded...

The woodland restoration efforts at Zonolite Park can be summed up in four words - remove invasives, plant natives. Many native edibles...

I recently watched a small flock of hungry cedar waxwings eat what berries (drupes) previous birds missed on my now blooming Carolina...

I thought crossvine (Bignonia capreolata) was indestructible. It climbs by tendrils then attaches to trees with even more with roots to...

On August 20 people of all ages counted pollinators and helped highlight the importance of native plants as a host, habitat and nectar...

This year the Intown Atlanta Georgia Native Plant Society is making it easy for Atlanta families to participate in the Great Georgia...

Finding native groundcovers for shady areas seems to be one of the most common scenarios in Atlanta where we still have more tree canopy...

Bill and Carol Pardue's yard, one of the six properties at the first GNPS Intown Atlanta Native Plant Habitat Tour. is proof that a small...

Spring native plant buying season is here! It’s exciting to see most of the native plant sales and nurseries are once again in person...

I thought I was done winter sowing in the first week of January when I planted 100 different native plant seeds and put the trays outside...

Last year I posted about not being the only nature lover I know who moves gulf fritillary caterpillars from native passionflower vines...

October is aster time so I’m starting off my list of ten October native plants with the stunning Georgia aster (symphyotrichum...

The idea to profile 30 native plants growing in my yard in September may have been a bit too ambitious. The more realistic number is 10...

My September blooming native plant #9 is spotted beebalm or horsemint (monarda punctata), a fragrant herb in the mint family with a...

My Georgia native plant pick #8 for September is called white turtlehead (chelone glabra) although I haven’t ever seen white flowers...

My September native plant pick #5 is white swamp milkweed or aquatic milkweed (asclepias perennis), one of many native milkweeds in...

Even though September is Georgia Grows Native for Birds month, I try not to plant until October. Fall plant sales have me itching to add...