Like everyone else who eagerly anticipates their arrival, I’m checking out my yard every day looking for my first “hummer” of the season. For the last two years, my first sighting was on March 31 - so it will be any day now! I’ve worked hard to make my rewilded Atlanta yard a safe habitat for wildlife, including hummingbirds. The following considerations may help you prepare to welcome hummingbirds to your yard this year. I can't get enough of watching our tiniest birds ma

OR Why I Anticipate HELLebores Will Eventually Earn a Spot on Georgia’s Exotic Invasive Species List Predicting which non-native plants will become invasive is hard to do. Japanese honeysuckle for example is infamous for being cultivated for 80 years before it escaped into the wild and become invasive. I may be at risk of being banned from ornamental gardening circles for saying this, but my bet on the ornamental alien plant species most likely to end up on the invasive s