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🦋 Creating an Oasis for Pollinators 🐝
Homeowners have an opportunity to restore native habitat for pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. Continue reading
Posted in Beneficial Insects, Native Plants, Pollinators
Tagged cardinal flower, clustered mountain mint, common milkweed, coneflower, coral honeysuckle, goldenrod, Joe-Pye Weed, Monarch, native cherry tree, Native oak, New York ironweed, Pawpaw, pussytoes, wild blue indigo
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Native Plants for Winter Interest
A number of plants native to our region provide continuing value and interest in our gardens into the winter. Their evergreen foliage or interesting bark add beauty to the landscape, while their berries, seeds, or stems provide support to wildlife through the cold months. Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden
Tagged American Holly, Betula nigra, Christmas fern, Cornus sericea, eastern Joe Pye weed, Eastern Red Cedar, Echinacea purpurea, Eutrochium dubium, Hamamelis virginiana, Ilex opaca, Ilex verticillata, Juniperus virginiana, Lonicera sempervirens, Mitchella repens, Native plants, native trumpet honeysuckle, New York ironweed, Partridgeberry, Polystichum acrostichoides, purple coneflower, red twig dogwood, River birch, Vernonia noveborascensis, winter interest, Winterberry Holly, witch-hazel
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Can You Identify These Pollinators? Part 2: Butterflies
One of the joys of summer is to watch butterflies flaunt their shapes and colors by flitting, floating and fluttering from flower to flower. Attracted to clustered or composite blooms that are bright, red, purple, blue, and yellow, they pick up and transport pollen on their legs and wings. Continue reading
Posted in MG in the Garden, Pollinators
Tagged admiral butterfly, aspen, black oaks, brushfoot butterflies, brushfoots, buckeye, buckeye butterfly, butterflies, butterfly eyespots, butterfly predators, butterfly skippers, caterpillars, cherry, common buckeye, cottonwood, downy serviceberry, ecdysone, eyespots, foxglove, Junonia coenia, MGNV, milkweed, monarch butterfly, monkey flower, nectar, New York ironweed, pigment color, plantain, Poanes zabulon, Red-spotted purple larvae, rotting fruit, ruellia, sap, scrub, snapdragon, US to Mexico butterfly migration, verbena, Vernonia noveboracensis, Viburnum, white flowers, willow, Zabulon skipper
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