Organic gardener growing food and flowers, lovin' pollinators and birds.

  Caring for a houseplant or tending a garden helps me to focus my energy on the task at hand, and there is still plenty to do while the out...
A fun task to do in the "off-season" is winter sowing seeds in plastic containers. In my area, there are three types of milk...
A few days ago I shared the news that I had to cut back a good portion of my common milkweed  patch thanks to ants that were using the un...
Trimming back common milkweed to hopefully encourage new growth.  Approximately 1.5 minute read. I really try to let nature's ...
The common milkweed growing in the front raised beds is ready for the monarch butterflies. So far, I've heard of sightings in the are...
Happy summer everyone! Wednesday marked the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and as if right on cue, the hydrangeas and delphini...
After a brief period of serious greenery in the front garden (along with some slightly wild self-seeded perennials), the lack of color is s...
Garden "Clean-up:"  There's been a lot of talk through social media over the last few weeks about leaving portions o...
A monarch raised from an egg collected in St. John's garden in central Connecticut. Some of the monarch chrysalises in Natureworks...
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