The lowdown on mosquito sprays and what you can do instead–because nobody likes mosquitos
Author: mywildgarden
Catching up: the new year starts for real
This is a highly miscellaneous post about various excitements: spring cleanup, seed starting, and an upcoming conference about environmental writing, Epicenter 2022
Rabbits 101: baby cottontails and what to do about them
Everything you’ve always wanted to know and more
Rewilding: turning lawns into meadows – a conversation with Mackenzie Adkins
Landscape designer Mackenzie Adkins talks about creating a micro-prairie in a suburban yard.
Is February the new March?
This is February? Brilliant sunshine, blue sky, sixty degrees? The gardener in you may be awakening, but don’t start digging yet.
How old is your tree?
Dutch elm disease arrived in Kansas City in 1957 and wiped out the majority of the shade canopy within ten years. Most trees in our present-day landscape were planted after that time–but were any here before that? How can we tell?
The first of three planned posts focusing on aspects of our landscape in winter.
Skip the raking and bagging
This fall, one thing I will not be doing is raking and bagging.
What looks good = what’s blooming now
My wild garden had a couple visitors recently, good friends whose opinions about it differed. One thinks my garden is a disaster. The other finds it lovely. Who is right? Looking over the shagginess, I think they both are. The rudbeckia that bloomed all summer, delighting us with its insect visitors and wonderful scent, is […]
Magnificent micro-gardens beautify New York streets
I’ve been traveling this week so I haven’t had a chance to work in the garden, but this turned up in my Facebook feed and I have to share. In New York City, empty tree pits along Sixth Avenue were collecting trash and growing weeds. “Tree pits” is what the city calls the square openings […]
Wonderful duty: being on the river
This week I’m taking a break from writing about gardening to tell about an experience I had recently picking up trash along the Missouri River.