In the middle of the brown landscape of winter a flash or orange and silver movement caught my eye. It startled me and when I looked a...

In early spring my yard becomes a carpet of naturalized daffodils thanks to the hundreds of bulbs I strategically planted years ago. So far, they’ve been given a reprieve from my ongoing efforts to replace the non-native plants with natives to maximize the value of each plant adds to my wildlife habitat yard. This daffodil bud is one of thousands in my yard and the universal sign that spring is on the way! You can see the blurry tangle of dried native plants it is growing thr

On the interactive National Wildlife Federation site you can punch in your zip code and learn the top butterfly and moth host plants in...

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

OR Without Grasshoppers We Won't Have Birds. On a recent balmy winter day, I walked down a path in my yard and a handful of grasshoppers...

OR Letting Your Rewilded Yard to Go To Seed Thanks to my ongoing naturescaping (landscaping to coexist with nature) my yard is attractive...

Butterfly gardens are wildly popular because flowers are not only beautiful but they attract ethereal creatures who create a positive...