July 2021

Bright sunshine

It’s hot out!

Tips for helping your garden beat the heat. In case you haven’t been outside lately… It’s hot out there! The dog days of summer usually mean hot, humid weather, but this year the dogs have been barking pretty early. Is the heat this year due to climate change? Probably not. We get these hot, dry

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Monarch butterfly on milkweed

What now?

Rethinking the garden after a disaster The drought finally broke in the garden this week, at least for a while, but drought or no drought, the wild bergamot burst into bloom, each blossom like little lavender fireworks, and the bees went wild for it.  So while I was pretty down for a couple days about

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