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Taming Rattlesnake Master: Profile of an Unusual Native
Everything about rattlesnake master is bold and wild – strong, upright flowerstalks, spine-edged silver foliage and spikey, spherical, white flowerheads. Combine this prairie perennial with any other...
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Native Stars of My September Garden
September in one of my perennial gardens I have a secret to tell you – I’m glad summer is over! While I’m reluctant to admit it, I find the summer garden a bit too demanding on a lot of levels. I’m...
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Getting Native in Lincoln
My city is making strides, bit by bit, in creating areas of partly native plant landscapes. It’s certainly good to see. Yet new spaces are still often dominated by the same exotic plants you’d see in...
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A Recipe for an Autumn Habitat Garden
Creating your own habitat garden filled with native plants is easier than you think. Here’s a simple recipe for an autumn habitat garden filled with goodies for local wildlife that calls your garden...
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Sowing the Seed Heads of Love
I tried really hard to come up with a cheesy title for this piece based on the continual 80s music soundtrack I have in my head, and I think I succeeded. Name the band, get a free prairie!* But more to...
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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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Thinking About Fruit and Fragrance
English ivy under a Deodar cedar where other evergreens were removed.When we purchased our home last year, the front southwest corner had overgrown evergreens that poked into the path. The trunks had...
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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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Garbage In, Garbage Out
Garbage in-Garbage out. I had never even heard this phrase until a meeting with a reputable design/build company at a landscaping brainstorming session at a mega water park in the Wisconsin Dells. I...
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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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