Bee-Friendly Plants for your Garden
The best bee-friendly plants for your garden are a diversity of plants that bloom through the seasons and are chemical-free. Look to native plants,...
Grow a Better Pollinator Garden
Flowers are the new black — they go with everything -- and the advent of the slow flower movement coupled with the revolution in...
How To Attract Pollinators To Your Garden
Looking for creative ways to attract pollinators to your garden?
Pollinators face a number of challenges, with habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change at...
Frenzied Foraging
The poppies have bloomed. I have to say that they are suspiciously beautiful, in a way reminiscent of an Alice in Wonderland character. Strangely fascinating....
Pollination Design
I was seven. It was my first summer living alone with my grandmother in the coastal foothills of Sonoma County, in the place I...
Eight Tips to Create a Butterfly Waystation
We've been lucky this year. The honeybees, bumbles and native bees are regular visitors to the garden, but to see a butterfly feels like...
Five Friday Flowers
The ephemeral nature of a garden is a crazy, worldly reminder of something amazing. I love it. From one visit to the next, one...
Pollinator Allure: Bumblebees & Native Plant Pollination
A bumblebee forages on Squaw Carpet, Ceanothus prostratus.
Squaw Carpet, also known as Mahala Mat, is one of the first native plants to flower...
What You Need To Know To Help Western Monarchs
Helping western monarch butterflies is more important than ever before.
Recent counts of overwintering western monarchs have revealed that their population is now below endangered...
Make Your Own Bee Friendly Garden in 5 Easy Steps
Create a bee friendly garden in just 5 easy steps.
It was not a surprise but definitely a disappointment to read that bees have been...
5 Reasons to Shrink Your Lawn & Mow Less
While there are benefits to having a lawn there are 5 just as valuable benefits to shrink it and mow less.
What's a Lawn Got...
9 Learnings from the Butterfly Waystation at Portland Head Lighthouse
Somewhere along the way this summer, in between work and travel, I found myself here, at the Portland Head Lighthouse. I was happy to...
