How to Plan a Pollinator Garden for Next Year The best pollinator gardens begin with thoughtful planning, an understanding of your landscape, and a little patience. There is something wonderfully hopeful about planning a garden for a season that hasn’t arrived yet. Even as Michigan’s growing season winds down, we can imagine what might be
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Learning How to Trust Your Native Garden When the Garden Stops Looking Like a Plan There comes a point in almost every native garden when the gardener begins to wonder whether something has gone wrong. A plant appears where you do not remember putting it. Another grows wider than expected. A once-visible patch of soil
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How to Create Garden Rooms with Native Plants Your Garden Doesn’t Have to Be Seen All at Once One of the most interesting gardens I know is not a garden you can understand from the driveway. You have to walk into it. A planting partially hides a bench. A path curves beyond a group of
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What Happens in Your Garden When the Sun Goes Down The Garden Doesn’t Go to Sleep As the sun begins to sink below the trees, many gardeners head inside. The watering can is put away. The tools are returned to the garage. One last glance at the flower beds, and the day feels complete. But
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