Using Georgia Native Plants

  This is the time of year when the fruits of the exotic Nandina domestica shrub are particularly noticeable and reminders go out from cons...

It's been a cold week here and I've not spent much time outside. Yet even the walk to the mailbox can bring a moment of joy in the n...

  The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year is a new book by Margaret Renkl . While I usually read her essays in The New York Times where she is...

  Winter hikes can be useful for kids during the winter break so we took our 5-year old grandson to hike the walk-up trail at Stone Mountain...

I take a lot of pictures throughout the year and not all of them make it into a blog post. At the end of the calendar year, it’s a good time...

“What’s your favorite blog post that you did?” is actually a question I get fairly often. At almost 700 entries and 13 years in, it can be h...

As we approach winter – a time of cold, short days with dormant plants – this is certainly a gloomy topic. Still it is one that needs to be ...