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Less Honey Bee, More Native Bee
Stop with the honey bee talk. Every day I come across a half dozen new articles on the plight of the European honey bee — it’s become sheer agony for me. Frankly, even though neonics and glyphosate and...
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Falling in Love Harder
Have you had your heart broken in the garden? I’m not talking about human love – not teddy-bear-chocolates Valentine’s Day love that’s momentary and overly sweet. No, I’m talking total and complete...
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Gardening As If We Belong
For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children’s future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it. –Robin Wall...
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Hope in Ecological Hopelessness
We are remaking the world in our own image. From carbon emissions to water use, to shifting climate zones and exotic plant choices, to habitat loss and oil extraction, not one square inch of this world...
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Step Off Your Soapbox for Positive Change
I sat down to write a fun-luvin’ piece on the secret life of short-tailed shrews and how cute they were eating sunflower seeds that fell from my deck, when a recent blog in Garden Rant written by...
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Lovin’ Lupine
Silvery Lupine It’s colorful. It spreads slowly. It’s fragrance is amazing. It fixes nitrogen in the soil. It attracts pollinators. It is the larval host for several species of moths. One of our most...
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The Art of Selfless Garden Design
I think there’s a myth out there that good garden design for humans can not also be good garden design for other species (and other humans, in the case of filtering groundwater, cleaning the air, etc)....
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5 Ways to Keep Your Wildlife Garden in Bloom
Albert’s penstemon Keeping your wildlife garden blooming through the summer can be a challenge especially during periods of drought and high temperatures. The colors of the spring garden rapidly fade...
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A Fond Farewell Bonanza
The folks at Comedy Central contacted me earlier this year, and I’m pleased to say I’ll be a correspondent for The Daily Show this fall as their native plant expert. As such, I find it necessary to end...
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Visioning Wildflowers In My World
I am beginning a one year wildflower envisioning event. For the next three hundred and sixty five days I am going to post to my twitter account, @KevinSonger, a photo or an illustration of a...
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