Planting a Self Conserving Native Landscape
Ten full moons have fallen since I published “Mother Yards and the Native Plant Sharing Network.” The ideas I proposed in that post are unfulfilled, but holding fast—assuredly waiting for warmer days to spark their emergence. Today, though, it’s cold and wintry, and I can …
“Then the thought came to me, “We are the Native Plant Nursery.” Every yard inhabited by self-conserving native plants is a birthing place, a mother yard with progeny to share freely with others.” Mother Yards Through two long torrid days of the 2016 drought, I …
Nipped in the Bud Some 20 years ago I wrote a short, provocative letter to the editor of the Fredericksburg, Virginia, Free Lance Star. A defense of organic farmers, it was my first letter to an editor, and I had little expectation that it would …