Nurture Native Nature

Using native plants in container gardens is a low maintenance and sustainable way to add biodiversity and create habitat in small spaces...

Last fall a thoughtful friend who somehow remembered my ongoing plant wish list brought me a native pasture/field thistle (Cirsium...

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...

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...

My September native plant pick #2 is a fantastic low-growing, semi-evergreen groundcover called frog fruit (phyla nodiflora, formerly...

Last spring most of the spring native plant sales vanished because of the pandemic. This spring a little normalcy has returned, but...

In the summer when everything is at their peak countless people walking by smile and warmly thank me for my magical and exuberant yard...

OR Coexisting with nature is as complex as trying to follow Star Trek’s Prime Directive. In anticipation of the first hard freeze back at...

Winter sowing is so popular and timely that I’ve received a number of questions since my post on the topic. Hopefully by answering the...