Gaia Garden

Richard Louv's important book, Last Child in the Woods, was written in 2008 and brought attention to the reality that few children actu...

 It's been almost 3 years since I last posted to this blog, for which I apologize.  Life has presented challenges for me, personally, du...

Another staple of my (native) pollinator plants is Indian blanket or Gaillardia, Gaillardia pulchella to be precise.   This widespread, sho...

Certain plants seem to create large communities of insects and other wildlife within my garden.  I thought I'd do a series on a couple o...

After reading this review, you can heave a big sigh of relief -I will have caught up with all my gardening related book reviews! Having ju...

I don't know about you, but I have a perplexing habit of buying books and then getting distracted before I actually read them.  Thus my ...

Quite a few years ago now, I started "talking" with my books by underlining passages that spoke to me and by writing comments in t...

After running across and deeply enjoying Nancy Lawson's blog, Humane Gardener , I was excited when I realized she was writing a book by ...

As I started thinking about getting ready for holiday guests and Thanksgiving feasts, I realized that I had a pile of books on our dining ro...

As I look around my garden these days, there are definitely places where it's starting to look worn out and ratty. For example, what...