Making homemade bird seed is a great way to feed birds a nutritious and much needed wintertime meal. All while saving a lot of hard-earned cash in the process! If you love feeding birds, you know how expensive it can be to buy good quality bird seed blend. Although there are low cost bird seed …

Looking for a few ways to add a bit more interest to your home’s landscape in the winter? Wintertime can be a bleak time for flowerbeds, gardens and the home landscape. Most of the trees have lost their leaves. And there isn’t a flowering bloom to be found in sight. But just because mother nature …

With a simple cold frame, you can extend your growing season well into late fall. And, as an added bonus, begin growing crops earlier in the spring as well. In fact, depending on where you live, you might just be able to grow fresh vegetables all winter long. But perhaps best of all, it doesn’t …

DanWalt Gardens is aptly referred to as one of Billings best kept secrets. And after touring the garden and grounds, it’s easy to see why! Located on the southeast side of Billings, Montana, the garden grows on land that was once part of a 10 acre vegetable farm. It also happens to sit squarely in …

You might be surprised at just how beneficial attracting bats to your backyard and garden can be. To many homeowners, bats are far from a welcome creature. Maybe it was an unwelcome visit inside of their house. Or perhaps a memory or two of bat flitting about in an old horror movie. Whatever the cause …

Can ornamental grasses be cut back in the fall? Or, should they be cut back in the spring? That seems to be the question homeowners ask each year as their grasses begin to die off as the chill of late autumn arrives. After all, fall is the perfect time to cut back and divide most …

Tucked away on the southwest corner of 27th & Capitol Parkway in Lincoln, Nebraska is Sunken Gardens. And is it ever a treasure of a garden to behold! Overseen by the city of Lincoln, and powered by an amazing volunteer effort, the garden offers one of the most impressive displays of annual flowers around. And …

When it comes to gardening with a green thumb, keeping a garden journal can be a big part of the success! Garden journals are so much more than just a few thoughts about plants scribbled on a notepad. They can be a record of garden failures and successes, weather and pest issues, and of what …

Planting a few dwarf pear trees is a great way to add perennial fruit to your landscape. Especially when space is a big concern! Pears are one of the easiest and hardiest of fruit tree to plant. And one of the most productive. But for many fruit trees, it can sometimes be tough finding enough …

So just exactly how do honey bees survive winter? Do they hibernate? Do they migrate to warmer climates? Honey bees are indeed a truly fascinating insect. Not only are they responsible for pollinating a large majority of the food, they also lead an incredibly complex and amazing life within their hives. Especially when it comes …