Nurture Native Nature

Sometimes I wish I could take off my awareness glasses and go back to ignorantly enjoying things that harm our ecosystem. For example,...

I wish I spoke Eastern grey squirrel on a warm day a couple weeks ago when I saw an industrious young squirrel think he was cleverly...

My biophobic, eco-clueless neighbor found dead snakes in her driveway and posted in our neighborhood group because she wondered if anyone...

My advocacy for nature puts me outside my conflict comfort zone. I find myself consistently protecting my rewilded yard from neighboring...

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...

Nature is such a powerful cure-all that ecotherapy uses it as a tool to professionally boost growth, healing and reduce stress. It is...

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

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...

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

My September native plant pick #5 is white swamp milkweed or aquatic milkweed (asclepias perennis), one of many native milkweeds in...

My September native plant pick #4 is common boneset (eupatorium perfoliatum), also called thoroughwort because of the way the stems go...

My #3 September native plant pick is a rambling perennial vine I've only noticed growing at a nearby nature park in my intown Atlanta...

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

I just realized the summer is disappearing and I haven’t shared much about the native plants growing in my little wildlife sanctuary...

OR Did You Really Plant That Pollinator Garden for Pollinators? Starting in early spring a 5 year old pollinator garden at the entrance...

Drama unfolded in my small semi-urban rewilded yard recently when two ruby-throated hummingbirds, probably engrossed in a territorial...

Yesterday, when a robber fly landed on my backdoor window I felt like it wanted to say hi and have its picture taken because it...

There seems to be a special place in all secular and religious belief systems for the idea that things happen for a reason. A few days...

A couple weeks ago I was excited to see a giant bee I had never seen before pollinating my clustered mountain mint (pycnanthemum...

Clustered or short-toothed mountain mint (pycnanthemum muticum) is by far the most popular plant in my yard right now. All day long it is...