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Send a Message, Start Digging
It is a gorgeous late evening as my wife and I return home from a dinner celebrating 10 years since our first date; I’d venture to say it is the first perfect evening all spring. The low sun casts that...
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Wild Gardens = Happy Kids
Because every post needs at least one gratuitous flower picture! Back in January when cold rains were steadily falling, I dreamed of better weather and planned a year’s worth of blog posts packed full...
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3 Kid-Friendly Ways to Add Water to Your Wildlife Garden
Vancouver, Washington sits nestled between two mountain ranges—the low-lying Coast Range to the west and the taller, volcanic Cascade Mountains to the east. These mountains ensure that for most of the...
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Kids in the Wildlife Garden: What is a Native Plant?
Much of the material I write is ultimately intended for kids. “Native” and “invasive” are deceptively simple words that describe complex concepts. I know many of you are working hard to create habitat...
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School Habitat Garden in Illinois Prairie Country
Building a Habitat Garden at Carrie Busey Elementary School — 4th graders carry corrugated drain pipe to be installed under a dead tree wood slab to create habitat for wildlife.Photo copyright Rick...
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A look back to find lessons for the future
I’m looking for birds on a Connecticut beach in the 50s. Note my leggings and our brand new 51 Ford–we called her the blue flyer. Just before Christmas, I started scanning the family slides, when I...
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The Shortest Post Ever That Might Change Your Life
I am equal to every other organism on this planet. © 2014, Benjamin Vogt. All rights reserved. This article is the property of Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens. We have received many requests to...
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Small Patch Green, Value of Reconciliation Ecology and Wildflower Plantings
Wildflowers can help save the world. But instead of telling the world how, we are hiding the truth. For any movement to succeed, there must be widespread grass roots support for the cause. Today...
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How Prairie Saves Lives
It’s flyover country out here in Nebraska. Each spring millions of waterfowl come through on their way to breeding grounds in the Dakotas (some 90% of North American ducks breed there), Canada, and the...
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Wildflower Week: Ten Favorite Native Wildflowers
In honor of National Wildflower Week (May 4-10, 2015), here are ten of my favorite native wildflowers for habitat gardens in the inland West. Wholeleaf indian paintbrush growing with blanketflower in a...
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