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Jan 9
2 min

Spruce up your foundation plantings

When developers build a neighborhood, they almost always add some shrubs against the foundations of the houses to soften the lines of the...

Dec 2, 2020
2 min

Bringing Dragonflies to Your Yard

For anyone who enjoys watching birds at a feeder, there is another pastime available that is just as entertaining but less well known: wa...

Nov 18, 2020
2 min

Befriending the butterflies all winter

Where do butterflies go in the winter? If you are picturing the adults hibernating like bears, that’s actually not that far from the trut...

Sep 23, 2020
2 min

A new take on “curb appeal”

A strip of lawn is the default landscaping choice for the area right next to a street. But is that the only option? Not necessarily, as g...

Aug 29, 2020
2 min

Making friends with the hummingbirds

Fall is a great time to work on the guest list for next year’s garden party. Hummingbirds make some of the best guests of all, or to put ...

Jul 30, 2020
2 min

Making scents of your yard

Fragrant flowers can add a whole extra dimension to gardening, and the flowers of native plants are no exception. The scents are there fo...

Jul 1, 2020
2 min

Native plant landscaping: Three factors for success

For anyone who wants to help the birds and butterflies but is not an experienced landscaper, a few design concepts can help make the diff...

May 25, 2020
3 min

Lawn Care for Earth Renewal

Let’s say you want to have a nice lawn, but you also want to be a good steward of the environment. Can you do both? It turns out the answ...

Apr 24, 2020
4 min

Stay-at-Homeschooling for Grown-Ups

We have all heard of naturalists such as Charles Darwin and James Audubon who undertook long and fruitful journeys of discovery. But did ...

Mar 30, 2020
3 min

Vegetable Gardening for Earth Renewal

Now is the time to renew the Earth – and yourself, while you are at it! Most of us are aware of the benefits to ourselves of eating chemi...