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Create a pollinator-friendly garden
What did you have for breakfast? If your plate included toast with jam, fresh berries, granola with nuts, coffee and juice, you had a nice balanced breakfast, right? Take away everything that needs a pollinator and your left with only dry…
Read MoreRain Gardens – The Garden Thyme Podcast
In this month’s episode, we are chatting all about the benefits of rain gardens (~12:45). Every time itrains, water runs off impervious surfaces such as roofs, driveways, roads, and parking lots, collectingpollutants along the way. Maryland’s average rainfall is about…
Read MoreMonarchs and Milkweed – The Garden Thyme Podcast
In this month’s episode, we are chatting about the marvelous relationship between monarch butterflies and milkweed. Undoubtedly, there is no other butterfly so easily recognized with its orange and black wings fringed with white spots. Their seasonal flight from Mexico through the United States towards Canada is long anticipated for gardeners.
Read MoreHummingbirds Add Grace to the Garden
In a few weeks, they will return; flashes of emerald green winging their way through our gardens. The hummingbirds will be back. Around April 15, hummingbirds return from their winter digs. Weighing about the same as a dime, they pack…
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