Outdoor Kids | Loving Nature's Garden

Simple, spectacular, swallowtails

Female black swallowtail by Lenora Larson

Swallowtails are some of the most spectacular and the simplest of butterflies to attract to your garden.

To get swallowtails, just know their needs then shop anywhere you find plants on sale.

What swallowtails need

I was fortunate to visit with Lenora Larson, butterfly gardener, and nationally recognized writer, last weekend. Lenora [...]

Boxing Day Bird Walk

California quail by Teddy Llovet

There is no doubt that the holidays are a time of excess for many of us.

Looking back over the years, I see the day after Christmas as the day when stress and tiredness begins to surface.

Christmas past

One of my favorite presents when I was a kid was the selection box [...]

5 Simple Ways to Enjoy Your Garden

Faith and Aaron Running by hoyasmeg

Fall has arrived in the northern hemisphere; it’s time to throw open the windows, then run outside.

Throw Off Summer

Do you remember the joy of discovery you experienced as a child? Fall is the perfect time to recreate this with some simple ways to enjoy your garden.

5 Fall Ways to [...]

Nature Mom Brings Out the Best

“There has never been a more important time for our children to understand their connection with nature and to learn how to protect the Earth. Indeed their very survival, along with that of every other creature around us, depends on it.” Alison Kerr, 2010

Do you remember wild outdoor adventures you played as a kid? Children [...]

Wild Boys

“One of the great changes in American life – and one barely noticed at the time – took place early in this century (20th century). There was a radical revision in the concept of boyhood.” “Before about 1915, boyhood was seen by most grown-ups as a state of natural savagery.” ” Boys were little savages, [...]