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Posted by Lisa Wagner May 20, 2026

Swiss chard from the raised beds

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'No Child Left Inside'1
'Pizza' peppers2
'summer squash mix'1
a changing front garden4
a changing garden1
a cold March2
a early hard freeze1
a first audio clip1
A great seed company1
A Growing Challenge3

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Creating an ecologically-sustainable landscape

Increasing ecological diversity

Considerations for your landscape

Creating a pollinator-friendly garden (short)

Suggested native plants for pollinators

Native Plants for Pollinators

Learning about (SE US) native plants

Suggested references about learning more: click image to view

Woody (2009-2023)

He had a great run.

Pocket Meadows

Click on the image for a pdf version of the presentation.

Pocket meadow handout

Click to view.

Creating a Native Woodland Garden

Click for the pdf version.

Small scale native plantings

Containers, too!

Native Woodland Garden plant list

Click image to connect to list

Steps to create a native woodland garden

Click for handout

Creating a naturalistic landscape

Natives for containers

Suggested plants

Garden Bloggers Fling 2023

It was great!

Year-round vegetable gardening

Click on image to view presentation

Sustainable Kitchen Gardening

handout

Home garden design references

Creating a landscape that you'll love

Tapping into the creative side of gardening

Click to see a recent presentation!

Creativity handout

Click to view the pdf version!

Not all those who wander are lost

exactly...

natural

adj.
1. present in or produced by nature
2. of, relating to, or concerning nature
3. conforming to the usual or ordinary course of nature

About this blog

I'm an educator, writer, speaker, and naturalist, active in outreach around a variety of topics. Visit my website for more information.

My blog posts span two gardens over the last decade, one in the Piedmont of South Carolina and the other in the mountains of Western North Carolina, and now a new-to-us garden in Bas St. Laurent, Quebec. Our gardens have been increasingly home to native plants, birds, small mammals, and insects of all sorts. My gardening companion (my husband) is equally the gardener.

Woody, our rescue Golden, had been our fellow gardener, in the mountains of Western North Carolina, with new duties in Quebec. He followed his previous fellow goldens (and my former gardening assistants): Mocha and Chessie. They brought life to our gardens.

gardening

v.tr.
1. to cultivate (a plot of ground) as a garden
v.intr.
1. to plant or tend a garden
2. to work as a gardener.

Natural Garden Design

Non-profit outreach through presentations and consulting

My companion blog

Places of the Spirit

Native woodland plant list

Recommended species

Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and PIedmont

My gardening companion's first book

Waterfalls and Wildflowers in the Southern Appalachians

My gardening companion's second book: now available.

Designing with Plants

Click the image to view a pdf of the presentation.

About photos

I reduce the sizes of most images, but they're still bigger than what's seen on the blog (click to enlarge!)

Text and images are my original work, except where credited elsewhere. I'm glad to share photos with attribution.

Mocha (2000-2011)

He had a great run.

View from the living room

time to relax