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Cedar Waxwings Reveal How Pervasively Disruptively Invasive Nandina and Honeysuckle are to Wildlife

ljmarkson

Dec 30, 20215 min read

Cedar Waxwings Reveal How Pervasively Disruptively Invasive Nandina and Honeysuckle are to Wildlife

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...

ljmarkson

Dec 26, 20214 min read

Coexisting with Nature

A December Butterfly Brings Hope

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...

What a Mushroom Eating Squirrel Teaches Us About Nature

ljmarkson

Dec 21, 20213 min read

Coexisting with Nature

What a Mushroom Eating Squirrel Teaches Us About Nature

After a rainy spell a couple weeks ago, mushrooms appeared in a section of my rewilded yard. About a week later I started noticing...

ljmarkson

Nov 29, 20215 min read

Coexisting with Nature

The Squirrel and Acorn Connection

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...

Connecting the Rodenticide and Backyard Ecosystem Dots

ljmarkson

Nov 23, 20215 min read

Coexisting with Nature

Connecting the Rodenticide and Backyard Ecosystem Dots

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

A Handful of Late Blooming Fall Native Plants

ljmarkson

Oct 31, 20214 min read

Native Flowering Vines

A Handful of Late Blooming Fall Native Plants

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...

I'm Done Tidying Nature For an Outdated Aesthetic

ljmarkson

Oct 17, 20215 min read

Landscaping for Nature

I'm Done Tidying Nature For an Outdated Aesthetic

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

Robber Flies are Ferocious Insect Hunters!

ljmarkson

Jul 31, 20212 min read

Insects

Robber Flies are Ferocious Insect Hunters!

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...

ljmarkson

Jul 26, 20213 min read

Landscaping for Nature

My Moth Week Miracle

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...

Be Greedy About Supporting Wildlife in Your Yard!

ljmarkson

Jun 20, 20214 min read

Landscaping for Nature

Be Greedy About Supporting Wildlife in Your Yard!

OR How to optimize the habitat value of your yard. In his book Nature’s Best Hope Doug Tallamy explains how “greedy” he is when it...

Coexisting With Snakes In Your Atlanta Yard

ljmarkson

Jun 11, 20216 min read

Landscaping for Nature

Coexisting With Snakes In Your Atlanta Yard

Despite making my yard welcoming for wildlife, I still can't control what happens outside the safety of my sanctuary. The long list of...

ljmarkson

Apr 17, 20214 min read

Landscaping for Nature

Nurturing Nature in the Herb Garden

If we consider every inch of our yard as potential wildlife habitat, we need to rethink how we can maximize what the herb garden offers....

Dear Neighbor: Your Mosquito Control is Environmentally Hostile

ljmarkson

Mar 26, 20214 min read

Landscaping for Nature

Dear Neighbor: Your Mosquito Control is Environmentally Hostile

Spring in Atlanta means the return of the war on insects. If I combined everyone in my area into one person, this is the snarky letter...

We Can Teach Our Children How to Interact with Nature One Squirrel, Earthworm and Ladybug at a Time

ljmarkson

Mar 16, 20213 min read

Landscaping for Nature

We Can Teach Our Children How to Interact with Nature One Squirrel, Earthworm and Ladybug at a Time

OR Teaching Our Children How to Appreciate Nature Using the Peter Parker Principle. I was in earshot of hearing a neighbor’s young child...

Squirrels: Ambassadors for Coexisting with Nature in Our Yards

ljmarkson

Mar 11, 20213 min read

Landscaping for Nature

Squirrels: Ambassadors for Coexisting with Nature in Our Yards

Our house is our human nest but once we step outside, we share space with wildlife. Just because we’ve destroyed habitats to build our...

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