Nurture Native Nature

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 family shows how much they love me by not sending me flowers. They know I don’t want flowers covered in pesticides that are grown and...

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...

Years ago, when I had a lawn with a sad, lonely bird feeder in the middle of it, I would senselessly chase away flocks of Red-winged...

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...

If you know someone who buys native plants by the carload, creates a safe backyard habitat space for wildlife, has seeds stratifying in...

I appreciate how social media can connect me to so many like-minded people who are also working to restore nature where they live. It’s...

October is aster time so I’m starting off my list of ten October native plants with the stunning Georgia aster (symphyotrichum...

My September blooming native plant #9 is spotted beebalm or horsemint (monarda punctata), a fragrant herb in the mint family with a...

My Georgia native plant pick #8 for September is called white turtlehead (chelone glabra) although I haven’t ever seen white flowers...

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...