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Sep 21st 2017

How Dead Plants Provide Life for Birds, Pollinators and People!

Do you cut your flowers back when they're done blooming, or trim foliage to the ground once it starts to die back? (Of course if they're perennials, the plants are not actually dead—they are very much…

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Sep 6th 2017

Milkweed Species For Your Garden

Milkweeds! These beautiful, lovely smelling plants are the hosts for monarch caterpillars, which can eat nothing but milkweed leaves and young seed pods. Adult monarchs lay their eggs under milkweed l…

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Sep 2nd 2017

The Magnificent Monarch Migration!

Migrating monarchs! Through wind and rain, around predators and human obstacles, monarch butterflies fly up to 3000 miles in late summer to their wintering grounds in Mexico and California!Most butter…

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Aug 9th 2017

How to Protect Birds from Window Collisions

The windows in our living room are shaded by trees, but that wasn't stopping birds from flying into them. Stand outside and look at the windows in your house or office. Birds see the sky, clouds and t…

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