My Gardener Says…

Spring migration is over, most of the neo-tropical birds now settled in their breeding areas for summer’s chick raising. I didn’t have quite the numbers of migrants through my gardens this year. I don’t know if it’s that I simply didn’t see as many or if there weren’t as many; I hope it’s the first and not the second. That being said, it’s a challenge to watch the many flitty...

This is the second spring that a pair of Red-shouldered Hawks, Buteo lineatus, have chosen to nest in my neighborhood. Their nest sits snug in a large Red Oak tree around the corner from my street; it’s the same nest that they built last year and...

When deciding what to plant in a particular area, I take into account a number of factors: amount of light the plant will receive, how large the mature plant will become, whether I have a hose nearby for the mid-to-late summer watering, and what other vegetation occupies the area, so that there is a complementary blast of colors and textures year-round and that the community ...

This past Wednesday morning I was privileged to observe two baby Bewick’s Wrens, Thryomanes bewickii, fledge from their protected abode into the big, wide world of my garden and the neighborhood beyond. During the previous weeks it’s been a true pleasur...

In my last post, Still, I profiled a Neon Skimmer resting on the newly emerged bud of my Manfreda undulata, ‘Chocolate Chip’. When I took the photo, the stem was about 12 inches from the base of the plant.

Well, it grew, seemingly reaching for some of the...