Lady Bird Johnson’s legacy lives on, with a state full of wildflowers and a center that can help you pick the right native plants for your home landscape. Want to help bees and butterflies? The LBJ Wildflower Center makes it easy.
Tags: · birds, butterflies, flame acanthus, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, native flowers, Native Plants, North American plants, plant native, pollinators, Rocky Mountain bee plant
Are you weary of mowing, weeding and fertilizing that yawning stretch of lawn? Consider installing a patch of native prairie. A Pocket Prairie can reduce your thirsty conventional turf, replacing it with native grasses and flowers. You’ll be feeding butterflies and birds, and cut down your grass mowing obligations, perhaps to zero.
Tags: · annuals, birds, butterflies, Gardens, native flowers, native grasses, nature, perennials, sustainability, Water Conservation
There are many ways to celebrate Mother’s Day. Cut flowers, breakfast in bed, brunch at her favorite restaurant, a chick flick night. All these fit the day — and you can even take your mom along!
A magnolia looks and smells great. (Your tree won't be this big.)
Tags: · Arbor Day Foundation, birds, butterflies, ethical eating, fair trade chocolate, forest conservation, Mercy for Animals, Mother's Day, Native Plants, planting trees, shade trees, sustainable goods, tofu scramble, Trees
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
OK, this probably only strikes me as funny, but there’s a site called eNature.com.
Sounds like someone found a way to package up some grass, trees and critters and render it as virtual version of the great outdoors. Sometimes it feels like we’re heading that way, toward a day when all intelligence will be captured inside computers. (Or maybe I’ve just been inside too long today.)
Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, birding, butterflies, eNature.com
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