Nurture Native Nature

I didn’t always have over a dozen water sources in my intown (Morningside) Atlanta yard. Back in 2019 when I went through the process to...

I like to boast that there are no weeds in my rewilded yard – meaning there are no plants I don’t want growing in it. Some of my favorite...

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

In the spring I’m often outside adding, moving, editing, and potting up plants until it’s so dark outside that I can’t see my hands. I’m...

I often go outside to work in my yard with a plan of action yet end up doing something completely different. Recently, my idea was to...

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...

I thought crossvine (Bignonia capreolata) was indestructible. It climbs by tendrils then attaches to trees with even more with roots to...

One of the ongoing goals of the Intown Atlanta GNPS is to make adding native plants to the landscape easier for everyone. This past year...

It turned out to be a great idea for the Intown Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia native Plant Society to squeeze one more event into this...

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...

In the context of creating a healthy yard ecosystem fireflies are just another insect we need to provide habitat for. Yet 2,000 firefly...

On a hot June Sunday afternoon a varied group of around 50 or so people interested in native plants came together for a panel discussion...

The responses to a recent post on a neighborhood forum about carpenter bees was horrifying. One person gleefully suggested torturing the...

For most of my childhood I lived with my grandparents. Long before edible landscapes became fashionable, a large chunk of my...

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...

There were no happy birds in my yard on a warm spring day last week. On Friday I watched them flitting around my neighbor’s yard...

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

Soon after I started working on a post focused on invasive nandina (Nandina domestica), I went down a rabbit hole and ended up in a...

In the middle of the brown landscape of winter a flash or orange and silver movement caught my eye. It startled me and when I looked a...