Nurture Native Nature

When I found a beautiful spider in the middle of cobwebs on my rarely used garden rake, I started searching the internet to learn more...

OR My Rake Is a Now a Spider Habitat. My rake is used so often that when I recently went to take it out of my gardening storage area it...

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 I'm a Naturescape Organic Matter Scavenger Part Two. Much to the embarrassment of my sweet husband, I’m an eco bag lady. When we walk...

OR I’m a Naturescape Organic Matter Scavenger Part One Last month when I saw a nearby neighbor deadheading her large patch of native...

I love cats. The main reason I keep my two rescue cats indoors is because I want them to live an average of 15 long happy years with me....

OR How to Intentionally Let Your Yard to Go To Seed Winter has descended on Georgia and I'm ready for it! Thanks to my ongoing...

OR Birdseed isn't the Only Way to Attract Birds in the Winter Butterfly gardens are wildly popular because flowers are beautiful and...

In my quest to learn every little thing I could about passionflower vine, I found out the state flower of Tennessee is non-native iris...

I’m typically an all-in kind of person when something interests me, and passionflower vine is a striking attention grabber. I won’t be...

In Georgia, native passionflower vines (passiflora incarnata or lutea) are the only host plant for gulf fritillaries, but it’s not an...

OR Please Don't Cut Down Your Plants in the Fall! One of the golden rules of nurturing native nature is the same as the golden rule in...

There’s a fascinating phenomenon I've noticed but haven't specifically read about between native passionflower vines (passiflora...

Or Why Pollinator Gardens Need Native Host Plants The people who tell me their pollinator garden doesn't need native plants invariably...

Watching generations of gulf fritillary caterpillars go through multiple stages as they defoliate the native passionflower vines...

One benefit of creating a wildlife habitat in my yard is I get too see the wonder of nature up close throughout the year. I never tire of...

When I went to my community garden last month my friend Pat rushed by me with a handful of gulf fritillary caterpillars (cats) crawling...

I realize I'm starting my Nurture Native Nature blog by writing a handful of posts on the same subject. I’m a bit obsessive so...

Let me tell you why... An easy way to nurture native nature is to replace invasive exotic vines such as English ivy or Chinese wisteria...