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In My Yard Hellebores are Pernicious Weeds!

OR Why I Anticipate HELLebores Will Eventually Earn a Spot on Georgia’s Exotic Invasive Species List Predicting which non-native plants...

Native Plant Seeds are Ideal for Winter Sowing

ljmarkson

Jan 14, 20213 min read

Native Butterfly & Moth Host Plants

Native Plant Seeds are Ideal for Winter Sowing

OR Tips for Winter Sowing Native Plant Seeds Using Foil Roasting Pans With Lids. Winter sowing is a way to germinate seeds by mimicking...

Plant a Glorious Goldenrod Garden This Year!

ljmarkson

Jan 10, 20213 min read

Plant a Glorious Goldenrod Garden This Year!

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

Nine Bright and Easy Native Goldenrods to Add to Your Atlanta Naturescape (Natural Landscape)

ljmarkson

Jan 5, 20214 min read

Native Butterfly & Moth Host Plants

Nine Bright and Easy Native Goldenrods to Add to Your Atlanta Naturescape (Natural Landscape)

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

ljmarkson

Dec 31, 20202 min read

Native Butterfly & Moth Host Plants

Why Goldenrod is Native Plant Gold

OR Goldenrod's Many Charms. In my previous post I explain why everyone in the native plant world is talking about goldenrod (solidago). A...

ljmarkson

Dec 29, 20202 min read

Goldenrod (Solidago) is Trending!

OR If You Only Add One Native Plant to Your Yard, Make it Goldenrod! Keystone plant species are what native plant guru Doug Tallamy calls...

What Do Pest Control Companies Want to Teach Our Kids?

ljmarkson

Dec 23, 20202 min read

What Do Pest Control Companies Want to Teach Our Kids?

OR Teach Kids About Butterflies Before Termites. I try hard to focus on positive ways to nurture nature, but when I learn about nature...

Can Pest Control Companies Help You Coexist with Nature?

ljmarkson

Dec 19, 20202 min read

Can Pest Control Companies Help You Coexist with Nature?

When I found a beautiful spider in the middle of cobwebs on my rarely used garden rake, I started searching the internet to learn more...

Triangulate Cobweb Spiders Are Our Friends

ljmarkson

Dec 16, 20202 min read

Triangulate Cobweb Spiders Are Our Friends

OR My Rake Is a Now a Spider Habitat. My rake is used so often that when I recently went to take it out of my gardening storage area it...

ljmarkson

Dec 12, 20202 min read

In Defense of Grasshoppers

OR Without Grasshoppers We Won't Have Birds. On a recent balmy winter day, I walked down a path in my yard and a handful of grasshoppers...

ljmarkson

Dec 9, 20203 min read

I'm An Eco Bag Lady

OR I'm a Naturescape Organic Matter Scavenger Part Two. Much to the embarrassment of my sweet husband, I’m an eco bag lady. When we walk...

25 Native Plants for a Wild Birdseed Garden

ljmarkson

Dec 3, 20205 min read

25 Native Plants for a Wild Birdseed Garden

OR Letting Your Rewilded Yard to Go To Seed Thanks to my ongoing naturescaping (landscaping to coexist with nature) my yard is attractive...

Plant a Birdseed Garden to Nurture a Natural Bird Habitat

ljmarkson

Dec 1, 20202 min read

Plant a Birdseed Garden to Nurture a Natural Bird Habitat

Butterfly gardens are wildly popular because flowers are not only beautiful but they attract ethereal creatures who create a positive...

Passionflower Vine Drama: Protective Ants, Life-Sucking Soldiers, and Intoxicated Bees

ljmarkson

Nov 28, 20202 min read

Passionflower Vine Drama: Protective Ants, Life-Sucking Soldiers, and Intoxicated Bees

I’m typically an all-in kind of person when something interests me, and passionflower vine is a striking attention grabber. I won’t be...

Native Passionflower Vine is a Popular Butterfly Host Plant

ljmarkson

Nov 27, 20202 min read

Native Passionflower Vine is a Popular Butterfly Host Plant

In Georgia, native passionflower vines (passiflora incarnata or lutea) are the only host plants for gulf fritillary butterfly...

ljmarkson

Nov 25, 20202 min read

Is That a Leaf or Chrysalis?

OR Please Don't Cut Down Your Plants in the Fall! One of the golden rules of nurturing native nature is the same as the golden rule in...

The Ticket to a Front Row Seat Watching Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar's Become Butterflies

ljmarkson

Nov 23, 20201 min read

The Ticket to a Front Row Seat Watching Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar's Become Butterflies

Or Why Pollinator Gardens Need Native Host Plants The people who tell me their pollinator garden doesn't need native plants invariably...

The Very Hungry Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar - From Youthful Defoliation to Chrysalis

ljmarkson

Nov 22, 20202 min read