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What Did I Plant Where & When?Plant Labels and Documenting Additions in Our Gardens—Intentional Choices For Us and the Birds Labels As Reminders, Signals, and Educational Tools This garden in Texas attracted many butterflies and bumblebees. Garden for Birds Participant, 2025. Have you ever walked past…
- The Garden’s Natural Soundtrack
Sound is an invisible superhighway of information in the natural world. Countless orders of animal life compete over shared soundwaves in your garden: insects generate a dull roar of chirps and buzzes, frogs inflate their vocal sacs to bellow to…
- Safety First: The Bird Version?
Attracting birds to our built environments requires a bird-centric perspective. Yes, the plants you choose matter. Yes, the habitat features you add matter. Yes, providing space for them to forage, replenish on water, and raise young matter. Looking down at…
- Quick-Start Guides
The Ultimate Guide on How to Get Started Looking to start or refresh your garden? Here is a guide to getting started with planting native plants. This resource describes every step of how to start your garden, beginning with finding native…
- Perennials for Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds are a favorite visitor to our gardens. Add one or more of these perennial plants to help support them.
- Nativars Up Close
An in-depth examination of native plant cultivars (nativars), contextualized by research. Can we use nativars with mindfulness to local ecology?
- Managing Your Space for Human-Wildlife Interactions
A garden can be a wonderful refuge for birds and other wildlife. However, it is also a refuge for you—to create, to experiment, and to unwind. Sometimes we are less enthusiastic to invite certain wildlife into this space, particularly those…
- Keystone Birds (& Plants)
Keeping Our Ecological Jenga Towers Standing Male Downy Woodpecker (left) and larger doppelgänger, a male Hairy Woodpecker (right) feeding on a suet feeder. Photo by Pat Schiller / Macaulay Library. Jenga Tower by Valery Fedotov / Unsplash. This is similar…
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