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...

I had no expectation when my friend Leslie of Pollinator Friendly Yards asked me if I wanted to meet her for a 2-hour guided walk in the...

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

Recently, I drove over an hour in traffic each way to visit North Georgia Native Plant Nursery to buy two one-gallon native mountain...

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...

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

Last spring, I meant to write a native plant seedling update to my winter sowing posts. I even made notes, but never actually wrote the...

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...

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...

The native plant community in Atlanta grew stronger yesterday with the first event of the newly minted Intown Atlanta Chapter of the GNPS...

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...

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

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...

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