Monthly Archives: March 2016

Very warm weather has encouraged many plants to bloom!

Hellebores 

   
    
 
Witch hazel 

  
Forsythia 

  
Asian magnolia

  
Star magnolia

  
This weekend will be the perfect time to plant lettuce and other Spring vegetable!

 

Most gardeners and laypersons like everything tidy and neat. I am not one of those! I like to leave dead perennials in the garden through out the winter for interest and as a narrative to the passage of time. I have a pile of dead limbs in the far rear of my half-acre as a “wildlife” habitat. Some seasons birds will nest there. Other seasons snakes make it their home. I don’t mind the snakes as they eat the voles who do so much damage to my favorite plants. I only have to remember to make noise and move slow enough to allow them time to move away from me.

I come across so many links on the internet on gardening and nature ideas which I share on my Facebook or Instagram pages but thought I would write a post about them. Here are a few.

Building hotels for native bees and pollinators.

http://www.realfarmacy.com/build-bee-hotels-to-help-save-native-bees/

Check with you state park office for classes for nature and gardening:

http://www.ncparks.gov/

Your local Cooperative Extension is also a good source for education on gardening and nature:

https://gardening.ces.ncsu.edu/

Turn off the TV and get out and walk around downtown or have lunch in a public garden:

A few of my favorite in the Piedmont of North Carolina:

The Sarah P Duke Gardens at Duke University

http://gardens.duke.edu/

J C Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University

https://jcra.ncsu.edu/

The North Carolina Botanical Gardens at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Home

Most cities have a website for their downtown areas:

http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/districts

Attend an art event. They are usually free.

http://artsplosure.org/

North Carolina has a great web list of state-wide cultural events:

http://festivalsandevents.com/festival.php?state=NC

Take a cooking class:

http://www.surlatable.com/category/cat510419/Class+Locations

Check out my facebook or Instagram for more information and ideas:

https://www.facebook.com/Arthur-in-the-Garden-305353468606/

https://www.instagram.com/arthurinthegarden/

P.S. Write a journal.

🙂