Aug 18, 2022 | Composting, Container Gardening, DIY, Fall Season, Gardening, Native Plants, Planting Prep, Pollinators, Vegetables, Who We are, Wildflowers, Wildlife
The blog this week will be quite short, I’m afraid. I contracted COVID-19 (right around my birthday) and I haven’t been working in a couple of weeks. I’m not recovering as quickly as I want to be. But it doesn’t stop me from daydreaming about...
Apr 29, 2021 | Gardening, Pollinators, Summer Season, Wildflowers
Have you noticed wildflowers popping up all over? Both in managed and more “wild” landscapes, wildflowers appear when the weather is right for them. I looked in my garden – which for this year is basically laying fallow – to look for and...
May 14, 2020 | Who We are, Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Fertilizers, Gardening, Vegetables, Wildflowers
Hi there Gardening Friends! It’s getting to be that HOT time of year! But really, I’ve not seen it so MILD as it has been this year (2020) this late in the year! Some parts of our country had SNOW just a week ago, and here in Central Florida we had...
May 16, 2019 | Who We are, Bees, Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Gardening, Native Plants, Organic, Pest Control, Planting Prep, Pollinators, Vegetables, Wildflowers
Are you feeling it yet? That blistering white-hot H-E-A-T that signals that Summer is actually here already? Yeah, me too. It’s starting to feel like a muggy oven out there, and actually, the heat can be dangerous if you don’t stay covered and hydrated...
Feb 7, 2019 | Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Gardening, Infographics, Organic, Pest Control, Planting Prep, Vegetables, Wildflowers
Tips for a Great Garden Plan, Part 2 In Part 2 of this series, Tips for a Great Garden Plan, we’re going to dive deeper into what to grow, how many to plant, amending soil, and more! In the last blog article, I assigned a little homework – deciding what you...
Jun 11, 2018 | Bees, Gardening, Native Plants, Pollinators, Who We are, Wildflowers
It is estimated that 90% of flowering plants, and over 30% of human food crops require pollinators to reproduce, such as creating the fruits and vegetables that we eat, and creating new flowering plants in our environment. Additionally, pollinators are an integral...