Nurture Native Nature

I stopped to chat with an elderly neighbor who had just finished weeding her hosta beds. She showed me healthy violet patches growing in...

By rewilding my urban Atlanta yard I'm hoping to restore nature in some small way where I live. So far, I’ve been focused on sharing my...

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...

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

It’s the time of year for native plant fans to visit local native plant nurseries, pop-up seasonal sales, and plant swaps. I’ve written...

I’m sharing the following lengthy and raw personal journey post in the context of helping others who want to help repair our natural...

One of the main lessons in my daily guided meditation is how our suffering comes from not being able to align our inner expectations with...

Earth friendly Steph and Josh of Atlanta aptly expressed their gratitude to nature on Thanksgiving Day by adding 46 native Georgia fruit...

As we sped down the Georgia highway towards a beach getaway I found myself videoing the relentless GDOT pesticide destruction along the...

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...

I don’t usually get fussy or wonky about different native plant species but when I learned the range for the most common hyssop called...

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...

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

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’ve recently had a paradigm shift about spending so much energy making my rewilded yard more approachable, neater, or more traditionally...

Even though September is Georgia Grows Native for Birds month, I try not to plant until October. Fall plant sales have me itching to add...