Using Georgia Native Plants

This year seemed to be a very “good” year for tent caterpillars. I had more people remark on seeing them than ever before. The caterpillars...

I think about roadsides a lot this time of year and there are several reasons why. 1) Sunny roadsides with good native plant populations ...

Have you seen the plants with a haze of white flowers on the roadsides lately?  Many of them are 3-5 feet tall, thriving in both dry and we...

Acronicta tritona on blueberry What a week it has been for caterpillars here! Or is it just a week in which I have become more observan...

Monarch butterfly nectaring on goldenrod Actually it starts with sunlight. But right after that , it starts with a plant. It is at no t...

A friend of mine recently commented that she doesn’t see many caterpillars. As Doug Tallamy has said many times in his lectures on native p...

Can you spot this Monarda punctata in the jungle below? I’m pretty sure that people that walk up to my door think I am the laziest gard...