Using Georgia Native Plants

Well, that seems like an ambitious title, doesn’t it? The development boom is going again and tracts of land are rapidly turning into subdi...

Mid-October always makes me feel like I’m straddling the seasons. Leaves are changing and falling, birds are on the move and yet the last o...

It’s been a strange year for butterflies. I noticed it in the spring – there were hardly any butterflies around. It was a cold winter a...

This past weekend was red buckeye harvest time at my yard. My red buckeye shrubs ( Aesculus pavia ) had ripening nuts to collect and I ...

I need to revise some of MY earlier thoughts on monarch butterfly behavior in Georgia. Previously I wrote about my lonely milkweed and my ...