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How will the Virginia pennywort survive the single digit temperatures tonight?

This green and white native plant combination is perfect for a patio planting.

Tennessee Coneflower (Verse 1) Old MacDonald had a prairie, E-I-E-I-O, And on that prairie, he grew grasses, E-I-E-I-O, With a...

In the interest of reusing, I often drag out a box of old cards that were my grandmother’s. I cut out images or words from the old cards...

“I bought a package of wildflower seeds and planted them, but nothing came up.” Hmmm. I heard this repeatedly as I sold native plant...

I am a firm believer that chemical use for aesthetic purposes is wanton and environmentally harmful. If you want your lawn to be a...

I spent about 45 minutes taking pictures at two common milkweed patches on the farm. The first is at an edge between a wooded area and a...

I have a love-hate relationship with Lanceleaf Coreopsis. Coreopsis lanceolata L. is native to my home state of Missouri, and commonly...

Note: This is a blog I wrote for another purpose in December 2022, but it wasn't published, so I decided to pop it here. There's still...

I took the picture above of a beleaguered looking monarch in late September. My thought as I snapped was to wonder if he'd make it to...

As a teenager, my parents took us on a family vacation to Rome. It was a rare treat made even better when my dad bought me, my sister,...

Beans, beans the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. Partridge pea or Chamaecrista fasciculata is a legume eaten by deer...

Suzie arrived in Cadiz, Kentucky at our house in 2011. I drove her there from St. Louis, wild and scared. I'm not sure how all this...

Everyone should be in an ongoing relationship with a tree or five. Maud is a Quercus alba, a white oak. She lives on our farm in strip of...