How to Create a Cut Flower Garden
Get tips for planning and designing your own cutting garden and ideas for the best plants to include. By Anne Balogh Photo by: Jesse Oman / Shutterstock. If you love to fill your home with vases of freshly cut flowers but feel gardener’s remorse whenever …
Gardening for Wildlife: 10 Ideas for a Wildlife Garden
Turn your garden into a wildlife sanctuary with these eco-friendly tips By Doug Tallamy With natural areas diminishing, we must raise the bar of what we ask of our landscapes. We can no longer be satisfied with gorgeous gardens that are not also designed …
Textile in the Trees: Weaver Bird Nests
To weave a home, to woo the girl, to start a family in the trees: This is the life of a male weaver bird—champion textile designers and indefatigable courters. A Southern Masked Weaver (Ploceus velatus) beginning the entrance to a nest in Johannesburg, …
How to Care for Bird of Paradise Plants (Growing Guide)
Grow this exotic flowering tropical in your yard or home By Janet Loughrey , Garden Writer & Photographer Published 12/23/2022 Orange bird of paradise ( Strelizia reginae ). Photo by: ADD / Pixabay. Bird of paradise is a tropical perennial known for …
Bird Gardens: How to Create a Bird-Friendly Garden
Turn your yard and garden into a mecca for birds by filling it with the plants, shrubs, and trees that they love. By Anne Balogh Photo by: Jaclyn Vernace / Shutterstock. Birdwatching and gardening are hobbies that often (and should!) go hand-in-hand. …
3 SPECIES OF FALCONS IN UTAH
In this article we’ll cover a few species of North American falcons, more specifically the falcons in Mississippi. There are only 5 types of falcons in the North America, out of these 5 there are 3 species in the state of Mississippi. …
admiring the list of S Country’s rarest and most unusual bird species
1. Mosquito-billed Owl: A beautiful and precious bird, usually living in broad-leaved forests at altitudes of 900-1,900 m. Their dark brown fur with small white dots helps them easily hide. 2. Thirsty: A beautiful and strange bird, with …
Five amazing facts about birds that you may not know!
Vultures can eat meat contaminated with anthrax This is extremely accurate information and the vultures will certainly not be harmed. Of course, they can transmit diseases if other animals eat their carcasses. In fact, vultures can eat …
Ten of the Most Amazing and Horrifying Birds in the World!
Birds can be found all over the planet. Some are small and harmless, while others are more dangerous. Some of the birds in the latter group are even known to attack humans… but most are merely predators of other animals. In this article …
The Top 6 Often Held Myths About Owls
The remarkable appearance of owls, combined with the nocturnal behaviors and eerie calls they make, has long been able to capture the human imagination. As a result of this, there are a great number of myths about owls that have spread …