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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Where Do Butterflies Go in Winter? There is something almost magical about watching a butterfly move through a summer garden. One moment, it rests on a flower, its wings opening and closing in the sunlight. The next, it floats effortlessly toward another bloom, seemingly without a destination or a care in the world. Throughout Michigan’s
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How to Design a Native Garden for Year-Round Wildlife Have you ever looked out at your garden on a quiet winter morning and noticed a small bird perched on a dried flower stem, searching for one last seed? Or watched a butterfly moving among the flowers in summer, seemingly unaware that the garden was planted
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How to Add Winter Structure to Your Native Garden There is a moment in every Michigan garden when the flowers have faded, the leaves have fallen, and the landscape begins to reveal something we may not have noticed during the growing season. Its structure. Without colorful blooms and lush foliage to capture our attention, we
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The Best Native Plants for Fall and Winter Interest There is a moment in every Michigan garden when the bright colors of summer begin to fade, the days grow shorter, and the landscape starts preparing for winter. For many gardeners, this is when the garden begins to feel finished. Flowers disappear. Leaves change color and
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How to Add Native Plants Without Redesigning A Moment Before We Begin Perhaps you’ve been thinking about adding more native plants to your garden, but every time you look at your existing landscape, you wonder where they would go. The shrubs are established. The flower beds are already filled with plants you’ve enjoyed for years.
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Why You Should Leave Fall Leaves in Your Garden A Moment Before We Begin There is a familiar sound that arrives in Michigan neighborhoods every autumn. Leaf blowers begin humming, rakes scrape across lawns, and bags of fallen leaves appear along the curb. For generations, this has been part of our seasonal routine. The trees
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How to Design a Native Garden That Looks Intentional There is a particular moment that can make a new native gardener question everything. You have chosen plants thoughtfully. You know they belong in Michigan. You have imagined bees moving among the flowers, birds visiting the seed heads, and a garden that feels more alive than
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How to Plan Next Year’s Native Garden This Fall By the time fall arrives, it can feel as though the gardening year is winding down. The flowers are fading. Seed heads are replacing blooms. Some perennials are beginning to lean, brown, or disappear altogether. Our attention naturally turns toward leaves, cleanup, and getting the garden
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How to Read Your Garden Before You Change It There is something about fall that makes gardeners want to make plans. The flowers are fading. Plants that once filled every corner are beginning to lean, dry, and disappear. Spaces we barely noticed in July suddenly seem obvious. Maybe a planting feels too crowded. Maybe another
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