We don’t often think of vines as a place for birds to nest. Yet some of our favorite songbirds are looking for exactly the kind of plant...

What we do in our own yard matters. Yet, there is often a disconnect between local ecology and political environmentalism. Its as if...

When we moved to our home 20 years ago our yard looked like all the other yards in my upscale neighborhood centered by a lawn and...

When decluttering a closet recently, I found a time capsule in the form of a garden journal I made in the early 90s. The last entry was...

When we create a safe and welcoming wildlife habitat, we are also supporting the natural cycles and systems we may not even be aware...

This week I spoke to my first ladies garden club. I was a bit worried about how receptive they would be to my presentation called...

(and how to tell the difference...) Partridge Pea is native to most of the Eastern half of the United States and supports habitat in a...

In an ecologically focused landscape, common evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) is an example of a native plant that offers habitat...

The transition from ornamental gardening (plants as ornaments) to ecological gardening (native plants as a functional part of an...

I'm sharing spring events Nurture Native Nature is hosting or cohosting in the next few months in Atlanta. At some point I need to figure...

I was recently looking through my lengthy list of ongoing blog ideas and catchy titles for articles yet to be written and came across...

I didn’t always have over a dozen water sources in my intown (Morningside) Atlanta yard. Back in 2019 when I went through the process to...

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

In the spring I’m often outside adding, moving, editing, and potting up plants until it’s so dark outside that I can’t see my hands. I’m...

I often go outside to work in my yard with a plan of action yet end up doing something completely different. Recently, my idea was to...

One of the main lessons in my daily guided meditation is how our suffering comes from not being able to align our inner expectations with...

I thought crossvine (Bignonia capreolata) was indestructible. It climbs by tendrils then attaches to trees with even more with roots to...

It turned out to be a great idea for the Intown Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia native Plant Society to squeeze one more event into this...

I'm helping organize the Intown Atlanta GNPS Native Plants Swap & Share as part of the Annual Meeting. Since this is the first time we're...