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Honey bee on honeyvine “A weed by any other name would smell more sweet.” I step outside the back door and immediately grow heady on the intoxicating perfume of honeyvine. Bees, butterflies, iridescent flies, and jaw-droppingly giant wasps float in and out of my garden nectaring on this sweet feast. Of all the flowers in my garden these [...] There’s a little corner of my front yard, right by the driveway, which needs some help. I’ve issued myself a butterfly garden challenge. You too can do a butterfly garden in a weekend. Plan your garden I’m sure every garden has a place for at least a few butterfly plants. Whether there’s a non-native plant you’d like to [...] “Little bluestem is one of the most widespread and important of all the prairie grasses.” Wasowski, 2002. Little bluestem, Schizachyrium scoparium var. scoparium, is a well behaved and attractive addition to your nature garden. Features With blue-green, delicate grass leaves, fluffy seed-heads, and attractive fall and winter color there are plenty of reasons to plant little bluestem. Habit Schizachyrium scoparium [...] Hairstreak on Butterfly Weed, Carole Brown 2010 There are many reasons to plant a nature garden – my friend Carole Brown knows them all. The following post appeared originally at Carole’s blog Ecosystem Gardening. It’s easy to assume that you can’t possibly make a difference for wildlife from your small share of the planet. But every [...] Self-seeded Wild Flowers I don’t know if you’ve really stopped and thought about this, but nature hates bare soil, which means you can carpet your nature garden with masses of flowers, practically for free. My native plant woodland garden was planted nine years ago. I’ve spent very little on plants for it over the years, yet [...] |
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