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

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

If you’re in Atlanta, please join me on October 11 from 10am-noon at Lost Corner Preserve for a brand-new presentation I'm excited to...

Boring mums in a rainbow of designer colors and shapes appear every fall along with themed porch and yard décor signaling the changing of...

Half my Chickasaw plum tree ( Prunus angustifolia ) died last winter and the other half doesn’t seem at all affected so I’m just letting...

A friend told me her family noticed that she once gardened for color and now her rewilded garden is mostly green. This observation is not...

This is the first year I’m seeing the invasive Joro spiders in my little habitat yard and I’m exploring what to do. They are originally...

There's a big difference between having a static traditionally landscaped yard where maintaining the same look is the goal, and a dynamic...

I’ve been gardening most of my adult life and have only been stung a few times. Insects just want to go about their business and unless I...

On Sunday, May 18 from 2-4 the Georgia Native Plant Society – North Metro Atlanta Chapter and the Georgia Native Plant Society are...

Every wildlife friendly yard contributes to changing the landscape culture. The more rewilded yards there are the more accepted an...

My excitement for the sweet little bluebird couple nesting in a box in my front yard is tempered by the ritualistic spring habitat...

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...

We don’t often think of vines as a place for birds to nest. Yet some of our favorite songbirds are looking for exactly the kind of plant...

What we do in our own yard matters. Yet, there is often a disconnect between local ecology and political environmentalism. Its as if...

Last year I saw a red-winged blackbird with leucism. A month after that I saw a common grackle that might have leucism. Last month, I saw...

The abundant mistletoe growing around my Atlanta neighborhood is most likely American mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum). A friend told...

When we moved to our home 20 years ago our yard looked like all the other yards in my upscale neighborhood centered by a lawn and...