I know this blog is called mymicroprairie.com, but it can be about other kinds of gardens, too. With no big trees, my front yard gets tons of hot, direct sunlight, so it’s perfect for a microprairie. My back yard, though, is mostly shady, especially in the summer, when the trees are all leafed out. My […]
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It’s Earth Day 2021, and whether you believe climate change is real or not, there’s no denying the weather is different from what it was even just a couple decades ago. I’m old enough to notice how much hotter summers are now than they were when I was a kid, and way more humid. Back
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Give butterflies a chance I started out pretty small last year, because I wasn’t sure how much work my new microprairie would take, and I didn’t want it to turn out so big that I got overwhelmed and lost interest. Well, that didn’t happen. In fact it went so well, I am planning an expansion.
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Basic tools you need to get started and where to get them. Okay, you have your site established and your plants picked out. Next step? Let’s go shopping! You betcha, but not for plants, at least not quite yet. For one thing, it’s pretty early. Unless you’re in the South, the first week of April
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It’s time to get some plants! But how do you choose? Last week I talked about using nursery web sites to narrow down the pool of plants to ones that are suited to your yard’s conditions. You can also just do a lot of web browsing. Search for “native plants for [insert your region or
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