Mason Bee Houses You Can Clean: 3 Effective Options

If you’ve ever bought a “bee hotel” from a garden center. The kind with the cute painted roof and bundles of hollow bamboo. You may have wondered later whether the bees were actually using it, and whether it was doing what the package promised. That quiet uncertainty turns out to be well-founded, and it comes … Read more

Foolproof Native Plant Garden Recipe for Your USDA Zone

Suburban native pollinator garden with monarch butterfly on butterfly milkweed, clean sidewalk strip, zone 5b Chicago

Have you ever stood in a garden center with a handful of seed packets, wondering which ones actually belong together. Or whether any of them are truly native to where you live? If so, you are in very good company. It’s one of the quietest struggles in the whole native plant world, and it catches … Read more