Happy Easter and Happy National Native Plant Month! This week I continue the spring landscape project theme and discuss why it's so important to save the stems of your standing dead plants to serve as nesting and overwintering habitat for...
This week I continue the spring landscape project theme and discuss why it's so important to leave our leaves in the landscape as long as possible into Spring and how to best implement and time leaf management activities. Learn more...
This week I share important info about why we need to choose wildlife-friendly erosion control products for our landscape projects and explain what characteristics are needed to make these items safest for wildlife. Special thanks to Carrie Tansy with the...
This week I visit a vernal pool with Chippewa Nature Center (CNC) Interpretive Naturalist and Midland County Vernal Pool Patrol Coordinator, Lindsey Harrell, to hear about an awesome classroom- and field-based volunteer training opportunity on April 13-14, 2024. This upcoming...
This week I review several snag habitat candidates in my yard with Certified Arborist Curt Holsinger and share how we made the decisions to keep, create a snag, or completely take down the trees. I hope these examples and the...
To wrap up National Bird Feeding Month, the final post in my feeding wild birds with native plants series focuses on species for hummingbirds, orioles, and other birds that drink nectar and tree sap. Let me help you conserve and...
Third in my series about feeding wild birds with native plants, this post focuses on native vegetation we can conserve or purposefully plant to support our frugivores, e.g. our fruit eating birds. Learn what plants help our bluebirds, robins, orioles,...
Building on last week's post about how to find the plant species that are native to your home place, I discuss groups of plants from herbaceous groundcover to shrubs and trees that play an important role in naturally feeding our...
February is National Bird Feeding Month, and this year I'm focusing on helping you conserve and plan to add native plants species to your landscapes as the foundational diet of our feathered friends! This week I offer several resources to...
