Wildlife Gardening Journal

Four Reasons to Leave Your Leaves for Wildlife This Fall

Fall is here, and thankfully our afternoon temperatures have fallen into the high 80s from the 90s and 100s. It's a good break for plants suffering from extreme drought, which mine are. We even had our first freeze, so all my tender perennials are stashed away in the greenhouse for winter. (The trick will be ...

Growing Parsley in Winter

Growing parsley in winter is one of the surprising gardening delights of the season. I was reminded of this during a recent walk through my neighborhood on a 32F day. In fact, it may have been colder than that. The otherwise brownish-hued community garden contained pops of green emitting from both this resilient herb and ...

Creating a Winter Wildlife Haven

Winter arrived earlier than usual this year, and I woke up this morning to a frosty landscape sparkling in the early sunlight. My annuals won't survive, so many of my plants will be turning brown and dying. This time of year, we are programmed by society to tidy up our outdoor spaces by cutting down ...