22 days ago by jennifergeldard

Winter is finally here. The skeletons of the milkweed pods look so beautiful against the snow. I let the milkweed in my garden stay, even though it can make the garden look messy. I’m always hoping that leaving it there will invite a few Monarch butterflies to come and hang out with us. So these bea ...

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34 days ago by Jayne

Back in December, in my post Requiem for a Garden, I lamented that my garden had been damaged by the recent freezing nights and had gone from green to brown, seemingly overnight. I wondered if it I should leave everything be, or pull it out of the ground. Among the suggestions was one from Cindy, th ...

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41 days ago by Jayne

This year, for Christmas, my husband got me a tractor scoot from Gardener's Supply Company. It wasn't a random choice on his part -- he asked what I wanted and I told him! Today I got a chance to try it out and I love it! It features a tractor style seat, which swivels, pneumatic tires, an area unde ...

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43 days ago by Keith

On December 10th Arcadia (the new book store in Spring Green) hosted a special dinner with Isaac Spicer, the chef of Milkweed. Everything for the 5 course (+ an amuse-bouche) dinner was sourced locally, from within 30 miles of Spring Green (and local is not always an easy task in Wisconsin in Decemb ...

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50 days ago by marianne skov jensen

Here’s another photo from a recent trip to the Desert Museum in Tucson. This is a Pepsis Wasp which is commonly called a Tarantula Hawk. As the name implies, this wasp will swoop in and kill a Tarantula. I’ve never seen it in action but friends have.

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69 days ago by my GARdening frenzY

I recently planted up this garden and this bed near the entrance with some bird and butterfly attracting plants and see how the Danainae (or milkweed) butterflies such as the Plain, Black Veined and Blue Glassy Tigers all flocked to this mysterious plant known as the Heliotropium indicum. The plant ...

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72 days ago by herb gardener

Annuals are especially important for butterfly gardens because of their ability to bloom for most of the summer season. Marigolds, zinnias, cosmos, and sunflower are all classic annuals for attracting butterflies. Other beautiful annuals for butterfly gardens include impatiens, nasturtium, Queen Ann ...

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76 days ago by Heather Johnson

milkweed seedpod As the weather grows colder, my thoughts turn to next year's garden. My planting plans always begin with hours spent poring over seed catalogs. Here are seven seed words and phrases to tide over fellow gardeners until those glossy pages begin showing up in our mailboxes. A seedpod i ...

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77 days ago by Msrobin

November can be a dark and dreary month. The sun rarely shines. The trees go bare. And color fades from the world. But sometimes, a special day arrives that shines in a unique kind of November beauty. The sky turns bright and blue, and the air goes warm. The soft, subtle colors seem just the right t ...

79 days ago by herb gardener

Your butterfly garden should contain at least one big patch of flowers that will attract butterflies. You may want to get flowers that bloom in sequence, because this will keep butterflies visiting your garden more often. You should bear in mind that many flowers that are preferred by butterflies ar ...

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