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FREE Webinar: The Habitat Friendly HOA
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
ljmarkson
May 61 min read


How Charming Bug Snugs Help Change the Landscape Culture
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
ljmarkson
Apr 237 min read


Atlanta Free Event Alert: The Habitat Friendly Container Garden
🌸🐝Happy Spring!🦋🐛 If you live in metro Atlanta, please join me on March 28 from 10-noon when Friends of Lost Corner is hosting Nurture Native Nature for an in-person presentation to talk about creative and approachable ways to container garden using native plants. I’m excited to share this in-person presentation for the first time! The photos in the collage are from container plants and wildlife in my rewilded yard! Ditch the tired garden center ornamentals and make habi
ljmarkson
Mar 172 min read


Why and How to Support Brown Thrasher Habitat With Shrubs!
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
ljmarkson
Jan 3010 min read
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