HAPPENINGS AT SEED AND NECTAR

Let's turn the idea of controlling your outdoor spaces upside down! Plant native, leave your leaves, stop spraying, and enjoy nature!

Monarda 'Jacob Cline' is about to bloom here in NC. The hummingbirds will be zooming around soon!

Stokesia 'Blue Danube' is beginning to bloom here in NC, and oh what a beautiful show! Stokesia attracts bees, butterflies, hummingbirds...

Purple coneflower and Coreopsis 'Zagreb' in the garden this evening. Summer is almost here!

A chrysalis on a Pennsylvania Sedge! Many native grasses, sedges and carex are host plants. Butterflies and moths will lay their eggs on...

Evening Primroses (Sundrops) have begun blooming in NC, and what a charm! These delicate yellow blooms are only the beginning of their...

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...

Carolina Cranesbill is a durable little plant that packs a punch. It can grow where other plants struggle, adds an interesting leaf...

On a leg! This gorgeous Luna Moth descended upon a helper today. She appears to have narrowly escaped a predator. Luna Moth caterpillars...

Penstemons are some of my favorite flowers. With their beautiful showy blooms, they are formal garden-worthy (as so many native plants...

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....

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...

Did you know that a good number of our bees live underground? Spraying chemicals kills them. Save your time and money; instead, buy a...

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)....

This woodland native has frothy flowers beloved by bees this time of year. Big bonus, it's evergreen!

This may be one of the most charming and underutilized weed-suppressing native groundcovers in existence. It is showy and looks great...

Moss phlox is a garden wonder! Attracting a large variety of pollinators to its early blooming flowers, it is also a beautiful weed...