Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens
Healthy Gardens. Healthy Planet
The habitat installation, Citrus Caterpillar Corner, has been in a few days now. Today’s upgrade was to re-unite the oak spire with its bark that was left behind on the driveway. The massive oak limb section has provided habitat for critters on our driveway for a few years; most of the bark fell away [...]
Above is a sight that most gardeners never wish to see. My rose bush had an aphid infestation. Every inch of new growth on the bush looked like this. I know there are a lot of ways to handle aphids, and I’m not just talking about chemicals (which I won’t use). A quick blast from [...]
Do you have native plants as larval hosts? What you say? Of course…Look, there is my Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) ready for the Sulphur Butterflies and over there…Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) just waiting for the Gulf Fritillaries to lay their eggs. Then there is the Water Cowbane (Oxypolis filiformis) standing tall so the Black Swallowtail [...]
