It may be ingrained in folks to tidy up the garden when things start to die back in the fall, but many bits if not all of those plants are useful to a broad variety of wildlife as shelter and/or food in the colder weather to come. They may spend their winter in a curled up leaf; use browned milkweed stalks as a resting or observation perch on your lawn away from the cold snowy ground; feed from seeds of goldenrod; or many other possibles, depending on the visitors in your garden. Continue reading “Late Winter Wildlife Feeding”
Tag: native plants
Wild Seed Project in Maine
I forget how I stumbled upon their site, but recently I finally found a much closer source for sundial lupines (Lupinus perennis), which I have written about before. The Wild Seed Project in Maine had sundial seeds available, which is more in line with our budget than buying plants in containers. Nasami Farm is west of us here in Massachusetts and does have sundials, but only in one quart containers. I’ll write more about Nasami Farm in future posts. Continue reading “Wild Seed Project in Maine”
Pondering a notion on natives and non.
So the property already had some non native plants mixed in with the “locals” here before we bought it, and I have since added some as well through both blissful ignorance and two deliberately foreknown sentimental based acquisitions. While making tea tonight, I had an idea…what if I made labels for all the plants in the front yard designating which is which? Continue reading “Pondering a notion on natives and non.”
The Berry Army
I did a quick walk about today. We only have one tiny patch of snow left in the front yard. Fat drops of rain were falling just infrequently enough that I snuck in about 20 minutes of fallen twig pickup and general observation.
