Let Your Garden Grow Wild
Let's turn the idea of controlling your outdoor spaces upside down! Plant native, leave your leaves, stop spraying, and enjoy nature!
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HAPPENINGS AT SEED AND NECTAR
Posting the novel, beautiful and fun of native plants!
Meredith
May 261 min read
Hummingbirds incoming!
Monarda 'Jacob Cline' is about to bloom here in NC. The hummingbirds will be zooming around soon!
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Meredith
May 251 min read
Gorgeous Garden Color
Stokesia 'Blue Danube' is beginning to bloom here in NC, and oh what a beautiful show! Stokesia attracts bees, butterflies, hummingbirds...
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Meredith
May 251 min read
In the garden....
Purple coneflower and Coreopsis 'Zagreb' in the garden this evening. Summer is almost here!
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Meredith
May 81 min read
Look What I Found!
A chrysalis on a Pennsylvania Sedge! Many native grasses, sedges and carex are host plants. Butterflies and moths will lay their eggs on...
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Meredith
May 41 min read
Sundrops
Evening Primroses (Sundrops) have begun blooming in NC, and what a charm! These delicate yellow blooms are only the beginning of their...
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Meredith
May 41 min read
May is for Penstemons
The Penstemons are gearing up to bloom in NC. This is one of my favorite times of the gardening year. Husker's Red (shown) and Dark...
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Meredith
May 41 min read
Texture and Fall color
Carolina Cranesbill is a durable little plant that packs a punch. It can grow where other plants struggle, adds an interesting leaf...
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Meredith
May 11 min read
Look who landed....
On a leg! This gorgeous Luna Moth descended upon a helper today. She appears to have narrowly escaped a predator. Luna Moth caterpillars...
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Meredith
Apr 291 min read
Look who's blooming now!
Penstemons are some of my favorite flowers. With their beautiful showy blooms, they are formal garden-worthy (as so many native plants...
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Meredith
Apr 221 min read
Evergreen groundcover to feed birds!
Coreopsis 'Nana' is a joy to grow. It is tidy, with dark green leaves, and its golden yellow early-season blooms charm for many weeks....
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Meredith
Apr 211 min read
Elementary Garden...
We planted a bed at the elementary garden on Friday. This morning when I checked on it I found the Husker's Red Penstemon gearing up to...
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Meredith
Apr 201 min read
No more chemicals!
Did you know that a good number of our bees live underground? Spraying chemicals kills them. Save your time and money; instead, buy a...
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Meredith
Apr 151 min read
Pussytoes
Named for the bloom's resemblance to a cat's toes, this plant keeps a ground-hugging evergreen rosette until its bloom in April (in NC)....
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Meredith
Apr 141 min read
Tiarella, early spring joy!
This woodland native has frothy flowers beloved by bees this time of year. Big bonus, it's evergreen!
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Meredith
Apr 141 min read
Robin's Plantain
This may be one of the most charming and underutilized weed-suppressing native groundcovers in existence. It is showy and looks great...
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Meredith
Apr 91 min read
Native Groundcover!
Moss phlox is a garden wonder! Attracting a large variety of pollinators to its early blooming flowers, it is also a beautiful weed...
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