In my neck of the woods, it has been snowing like crazy. We set a new snowfall record for the month of December and January isn’t looking much better. So I have been taking advantage of the wintery ...

The early summer wildflower season has arrived. Before long, alongside roadways and woodland edges, some of our more robust native plants will be flowering. By “robust” I mean high growing and stout.

Seems there is a bird for every color of the many blooms we can grow in our very own gardens. And as some birds just seem to blend in, this one stands out! The northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis ...