March 2024
Protecting our Beaches with the Naples Botanical Garden
Read more: Protecting our Beaches with the Naples Botanical GardenI love the beach. I’ve spent at least part of every summer since I was born on the same small barrier island off the southern tip of New Jersey—swimming, looking at tidepools, rejoicing when I spy a piping plover patter by the water’s edge, and generally breathing easier. It’s my happy place and I’d like…
PRFCT Moment: Edwina’s Bee Beach
Read more: PRFCT Moment: Edwina’s Bee BeachBees need pesticide-free flowers for nectar. They need safe places to rest and to nest. For some that is open stems in which to lay their brood for the coming year, for others it is mud—little potters building their homes.
8 Tips from Leslie Needham on Designing Gardens that ‘Blur the Edges’
Read more: 8 Tips from Leslie Needham on Designing Gardens that ‘Blur the Edges’“A garden needs a heartbeat,” said Leslie Needham, founder of her eponymous design firm in Bedford, NY. And Needham will be the first to admit that her former English-style garden—tightly clipped hedges, filled with plants originating from around the world—didn’t have quite one. “It was pretty stagnant,” she says.
PRFCT Moment: Leaving Stems at The Battery
Read more: PRFCT Moment: Leaving Stems at The Battery“Here’s a picture demonstrating our practice of leaving stems for cavity nesting native bees. We recommend home gardeners start cutting back in mid-April (at the earliest), leaving stems, like we’ve done here with Bluestar (Amsonia hubrichtii), at a minimum of 18-inches tall. Bee babies are sleeping in them!