Make Your Yard a Home
April 15, 2019
The Sycamore Greenway is home to a huge assortment of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators along its 2-mile stretch trail... Read More →
Coralberry: A Versatile Native Shrub
November 8, 2018
Our native coralberry is also called buckbrush. Most commonly found as a low, spindly, scrawny shrub with a few leaves... Read More →
Will You Pitch in a Patch?
March 19, 2018
Habitat is important. How many millions of acres in Iowa that once were prairie, teeming with birds, insects, and all... Read More →
Connecting Habitat
December 18, 2017
Imagine you are a tiny pollinator, buzzing around a preserve. You are a lucky bee, for there are plenty of... Read More →
Sacrificial Conifers
November 23, 2017
If you are thinking about planting a native woodland of oaks, hickories, black walnut, and their associates, consider including some... Read More →
From a Blank Slate to a Backyard Prairie
August 14, 2017
After moving to a house in a new development, my yard was a blank slate. I took the opportunity to... Read More →
Shellbark Hickory, The Tree That Used To Be
August 10, 2017
Today almost all hickory trees in Johnson County live on the uplands. You probably know them well – shagbark, bitternut,... Read More →
The Native Gardeners Dilemma: What is Really Native?
March 24, 2016
Many years ago a grad student and I embarked on a strip mine reclamation project near Oskaloosa, Iowa. One of... Read More →
