Native plants are a cornerstone of creating a habitat-friendly, sustainable yard for wildlife. They offer food, shelter, coverage,...

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

Back in February I wrote about how having a section of sewer pipe replaced offered me an opportunity to replant a section of my rewilded...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Last spring most of the spring native plant sales vanished because of the pandemic. This spring a little normalcy has returned, but...

Whether you consider your yard a pollinator habitat, native plant habitat, wildlife sanctuary, wildlife habitat, green landscape, native...

In the summer when everything is at their peak countless people walking by smile and warmly thank me for my magical and exuberant yard...

On the interactive National Wildlife Federation site you can punch in your zip code and learn the top butterfly and moth host plants in...

OR Do You Think Growing 19 Varieties of Goldenrod is Enough?! I currently have more varieties of goldenrod than any other native plant...

OR Add Biodiversity to Your Native Plant Habitat with More Goldenrod` OR Can You Ever Really Have Enough Goldenrod? (Edited 12.3.22 to...