Larry Hurley shares his Photo of the Month featuring Meadow Blazing Star, a native perennial that’s a magnet for monarch butterflies. A must-have for any garden looking to support these beautiful pollinators!
A Bug Night by the pond in a nearby park… When I saw this in the park the other day, I was thinking of all the little folks going out for Trick or Treat. (My nine year old nephew reports…
Although bees, butterflies and hummingbirds get much of the credit for pollinating, there are loads of other pollinators in your garden. This is a photo of a (non-native) hybrid ornamental onion, Allium ‘Millenium’. This was the Perennial Plant Association Perennial…
It seems everywhere I go outside these past few weeks I am seeing more and more of these Spotted Lantern Flies. While they are very pretty, we all need to spread the word that they are invasive and damaging. The…
Sometimes sitting down with your grandchild to watch a special show that they say is just great, ends up being just that.
This is a photo of my brother-in-law David’s lawn, that I took on April 18th. “Lawn” is perhaps an overstatement. Maybe “Patch of Dirt Formerly Known as Lawn.” The lawn in question resides in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on sandy soil…
A few years before we closed Behnke’s, we were given a heads-up and posted photos of the Spotted Lanternfly, an invasive insect from Southeast Asia.
Check your shrubs for bagworms and if you find them, remove them. They are easy to find, they are little brown sacks about two inches long, hanging from branches like ugly little Christmas tree ornaments from The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Learn various environmentally-friendly methods to keep insects from harming your plants.
Children have such a sense of wonder and curiosity. Read about what happened when Stephanie and her husband went out for a walk with their grandson and he found a cicada.
