Butterfly gardens are a great way to bring life and color into your yard. Whether you have a lot of available space or just room for a few planters, planting a butterfly garden is a rewarding experience. Here are a few simple ideas that you can use to get started. … [Read more...]
How to Grow a Honey Bee Garden
Bees pollinate over 100 agricultural crops in the United States, including almonds, citrus, apples, melons, plums, avocadoes, cranberries, strawberries, and sunflowers. Without bees, many of our food crops would fail. About one-third of our food crops rely on … [Read more...]
Attract Pollinators to Your Garden
Pollinators are responsible for the survival of about 75 percent of the flowering plants and 75 percent of the crops around the globe. Without pollinators such as hummingbirds, bats, moths, bees, beetles, flies, and butterflies, life as we know it could not continue. Threats to … [Read more...]
Bat Houses are Good for the Garden
Most of us grow up with scary stories about bats that portray these mammals as evil creatures that fly in your hair and do bad deeds. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Bats like to be left alone, and perform miracles of insect control. As a major predator of … [Read more...]
How to Attract Hummingbirds to Your Garden
If you have ever watched a hummingbird, it will not surprise you to learn that these tiny birds have the highest metabolic rates of any animals. A hummingbird’s metabolic rate (the rate at which it uses energy) is twelve times higher than a pigeon’s and one hundred times higher … [Read more...]