… age to tangerine. Introduced in 2003, this is a sport of the yellow-flowered 'Monte Carlo'. With short sturdy stems, it will withstand windy days in late April and early May. For good …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Vernonia lettermannii , known as Letterman's ironweed, is covered with purple flowers in September and October produced by a rounded 4' x 4' herbaceous perennial …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Veronica armena and Veronica pectinata ‘Rosea’. Tide Pool speedwell plants cover themselves with medium to deep blue-violet flowers from late April into mid-May. The rest of the growing …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… before the foliage in early spring. Plant this viburnum in sun to partially shaded locations with good air drainage to avoid late spring frosts that can damage the flowers. Viburnums are a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Narrow-leaf zinnia is native to Mexico and is characterized by having daisy-like flowers with broad petals and a hemispherical disk. The individual flowers last a long time and are …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… annual produces flowers up to frost. Grow this zinnia in any well-drained soil and in full sun with good air movement (to decrease the incidence of foliar diseases). There are about 20 species …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… County, NY, USA , CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons What is soil? Great garden soil teems with life, and the creatures that live there are responsible for breaking down … plant roots, minerals, water, air—that needs constant refueling. Healthy soil is loaded with nutrients. Three key nutrients come from air and water: carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Three … organic matter, added regularly to the soil surface, eventually create the springy, teeming-with-life conditions of healthy soil. A garden tip: Build soil from the top down. Rather than …
Type: Plant Info
… that women wore in their hats. Since then, the great egret, standing more than 3 feet tall with a nearly 5-foot wing span, has become the symbol for the National Audubon Society, founded … a place farther north to raise their young in nests in trees and shrubs called colonies, often with other large waders including the great blue heron. During breeding season, a patch of skin on the bird’s face turns green, contrasting with the bright yellow bill. Males perform fancy courtship displays, opening up and fluffing …
Type: Birding
… Prairie and elsewhere. In their greenish winter plumage, this small, common finch can be found with flocks of siskins and redpolls in birches and alder or at bird feeders. On any day of the … to attract a mate. If a female likes what she sees, she'll join the male in the air and fly with him in wide circles as he sings. The female weaves a tight nest of down and other plant … a true acrobat when it comes to feeding. Watch as it flies to a thistle, clings to the stalks with its agile feet, and carefully extracts the seeds. In winter, American goldfinches hang from …
Type: Birding
… tough casing of a plant gall. (The oriole's pointed bill might get stuck.) About 6 inches long with a 10- to 12-inch wingspan, this small woodpecker is black and white. The male has a red … Woodpecker species, including the Downy, have some of the longest tongues on earth, compared with their body length. There's a reason for that. Long tongues reach farther into tree crevices to get at the goodies hidden beneath. But what does the woodpecker do with that long tongue when he's not using it? He wraps it inside his head around his skull. The …
Type: Birding
