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3 Good Reasons to Register your Pollinator Garden
You learned about native plants and pollinator gardens, and then you took the next step and created a beautiful garden full of life and vibrant energy. Now it’s time to take it one…
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Native Pollinator Garden Updates – 8.12.2020
It seems this summer has been a never-ending heatwave, which is interesting considering spring got off to a late start and May was actually way colder than average. The native plants in my…
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Design your Garden Today with this Bloom Color Chart!
Are you thinking about designing a colorful native garden? Here’s a handy chart showing the bloom colors of popular native plants in the Northeast Region of the USA. These plants are excellent for…
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A Word About Never Giving Up on your Dreams…
I wish I had been one of those kids who knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. I always had lots of interests and an uncanny ability to fall into…
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Native Plant Tracker
I’ve created a 15 page printable kit that you can use to observe and track the native plants in your environment as they change from week to week. The best teacher is experience…
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Racism in My Town & Lawn Obsession
A few months ago I wrote about how white supremacy affects everything, including gardening. On the surface it seems insane that these two topics can intersect, but they don’t exist in a vacuum-…
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Ideas for Bringing Native Plant Gardening into the Mainstream
I recently attended an online event featuring none other than Doug Tallamy, a professor and entomologist who has inspired a whole movement of gardening with native plants! Some of his books include: The…
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Do You Have a Lawn? Save Money & Save the Earth with this Product!
Though I live in the suburbs- albeit in a weird commercial/industrial quasi-urban pocket of the suburbs- I am a total nonconformist when it comes to keeping a lawn. I have a front yard…
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Garden Products I’m Loving Right Now- June 2020
I’ve been juggling a lot these days but I wanted to stop and share a few garden products that have really blown my mind recently. First up is Jobe’s Organic Fertilizer Sticks. I…
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Creating a Native Garden-Some Things to Consider
So you’re thinking about creating a native garden. That’s great! By adding even a few native plants you will be creating habitat, food and nesting places for a whole spectrum of wildlife. It’s…
