Rabbit Resistant Plants for the Garden: Herbs
Karen It’s bad enough when the rabbits use your vegetable garden as their private smorgasbord but when they start nipping the herbs maybe it’s time to think about focusing on herbs…
Rabbit Resistant Plants for the Garden: Annuals
Rabbits can devastate a garden as they eat their way through the summer. No mater how much you like to see the fury darlings hopping across the grass and darting…
Rabbit Resistant Plants: Bulbs
The vision of crocuses or tulips mysteriously disappearing in spring might scare a gardener away from planting bulbs but there are many bulbs that rabbits disdain. Some, like winter aconites,…
Rabbit Resistant Plants: Foliage Perennials
Plants with beautiful foliage fill a special role in gardens and are especially appreciated for the long season pleasure they provide. Unfortunately, rabbits also find some of them tasty treats…
Plant Profile: Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea)
Purple coneflower is an herbaceous perennial native to central and eastern US where it grows in open woods, prairies, and meadows. It is a member of the aster family, Asteraceae,…
Ten Interesting Facts about Shrews
In literature a shrew is a woman of violent temper or speech but in the garden it is an animal with some notable virtues. There are over 250 different kinds…
Butterflies in the Garden and How to Attract Them: Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia)
The common buckeye is easily recognized by the striking eyespots that adorn their brown scalloped wings. Although the female is larger than the male and has more rounded forewings, they…
Gardens for Cats
If you are both a gardener and a cat lover you might want to share your garden with your furry friends. Ideally, this garden would be an enclosed or contained…
Butterflies in the Garden and How to Attract Them: Long-Tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus)
Primarily a butterfly of South and Central America, the long tailed skipper can be found in Texas, Southern California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and occasionally in the Mississippi Valley, Midwest, and…
Birds in the Garden: Plants that Attract the Swallow Family (Hirundinidae)
Don’t expect to see a lot of the swallow family feeding in your garden. They are birds of the sky and are not easily lured down to a backyard. This…