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Atlanta Free Event Alert: Nurturing an All-Season Bird Habitat
🍂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

ljmarkson
Sep 272 min read


Event Alert: Essential Ecological Elements of a Habitat Yard on April 5
If you're in Atlanta, join me Saturday, April 5 From 11am-1pm when I'll be speaking about Essential Ecological Elements of a Habitat Yard...

ljmarkson
Apr 4, 20251 min read


Why We Need to Support Local Native Plant Retail Nurseries
Recently, I drove over an hour in traffic each way to visit North Georgia Native Plant Nursery to buy two one-gallon native mountain...

ljmarkson
May 15, 20229 min read


Atlanta Area Spring 2022 Native Plant Sales and Nurseries
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...

ljmarkson
Mar 16, 20226 min read


Fresh Gift Ideas for the Backyard Nature Lover
If you know someone who buys native plants by the carload, creates a safe backyard habitat space for wildlife, has seeds stratifying in...

ljmarkson
Dec 10, 20215 min read


Atlanta Area Fall 2021 Native Plant Sales and Nurseries
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...

ljmarkson
Sep 15, 20217 min read


Frog Fruit Is a Valuable Native Groundcover!
My September native plant pick #2 is a fantastic low-growing, semi-evergreen groundcover called frog fruit (phyla nodiflora, formerly...

ljmarkson
Sep 5, 20212 min read


Atlanta Area Spring 2021 Native Plant Sales and Nurseries
Last spring most of the spring native plant sales vanished because of the pandemic. This spring a little normalcy has returned, but...

ljmarkson
Apr 5, 20215 min read
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