Nurture Native Nature

Back in February I wrote about how having a section of sewer pipe replaced offered an opportunity to replant a section of my rewilded...

There are over two dozen coreopsis varieties in North American on BONAP and twenty grow in Georgia. Coreopsis integrifolia also known as...

I'm helping organize the Intown Atlanta GNPS Native Plants Swap & Share as part of the Annual Meeting. Since this is the first time we're...

On August 20 people of all ages counted pollinators and helped highlight the importance of native plants as a host, habitat and nectar...

What is the Great Georgia Pollinator Census Count? The Great Georgia Pollinator Census count (GGPC) is a citizen science project...

Recently, I drove over an hour in traffic each way to visit North Georgia Native Plant Nursery to buy two one-gallon native mountain...

Finding native groundcovers for shady areas seems to be one of the most common scenarios in Atlanta where we still have more tree canopy...

Bill and Carol Pardue's yard, one of the six properties at the first GNPS Intown Atlanta Native Plant Habitat Tour. is proof that a small...

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...

My friend Rita from Botany Yards generously gave me native plant seeds to put in my mini-nature center. I wondered how to ensure success...

Out of curiosity I visited a popular gardening guru’s FB page. Winter lawns, various Roundup products and a flowering (invasive) mahonia...

Last spring, I meant to write a native plant seedling update to my winter sowing posts. I even made notes, but never actually wrote the...

I thought I was done winter sowing in the first week of January when I planted 100 different native plant seeds and put the trays outside...

I love profiling native plants but have a growing list of other topics I also want to write about and feel like I’m always running...

Last year I posted about not being the only nature lover I know who moves gulf fritillary caterpillars from native passionflower vines...

October is aster time so I’m starting off my list of ten October native plants with the stunning Georgia aster (symphyotrichum...

The idea to profile 30 native plants growing in my yard in September may have been a bit too ambitious. The more realistic number is 10...

My September blooming native plant #9 is spotted beebalm or horsemint (monarda punctata), a fragrant herb in the mint family with a...

My Georgia native plant pick #8 for September is called white turtlehead (chelone glabra) although I haven’t ever seen white flowers...

Native plant pick #6 for September is white snakeroot (ageratina altissima - previously eupatorium rugosum). The name comes from Native...