Here’s an excellent article (with photos) that has the how to’s: http://nativeplantwildlifegarden.com/growing-native-perennials-from-seed/ Head out to your garden now and collect some seeds from your favorite plants — and see what comes up! 🙂    

Don Davis from Ontario passed along this great information – especially click on the video embedded in the article. Ilse shows how to collect milkweed seeds and how to plant them: Excellent article and video with Ilse Gebhard from a year ago,  illustrating how easy it is to plant a suitable area with milkweed seed. […]

Mona Miller put together this excellent video on how to collect Common Milkweed seeds with fantastic tips on how to do it without getting the fluff all over your house 🙂 httpv://youtu.be/fhjkC1Mbzlg

At the Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun, the largest fund raiser is the spring “Service Auction” in which members offer to provide services, such as swim lessons, theme dinners, wine tasting, child care, aerial tour of Loudoun in private plane, apartment in London, or anything that they have skills in and would like to share.  […]

Lori Berry led her troop, Cadette troop 458, in creating a wonderful Monarch Waystation right at the entry way to Morven  Park’s Carriage Museum.  This is a wonderful location because not only does it get good sun that the Monarchs and other pollinators and wildlife will enjoy but it also will be seen and enjoyed […]

Here’s one of the latest Monarch Waystations that was just created here in Loudoun!  What a wonderful design! On Saturday, June 22nd, Paxton staff and volunteers from our community created a butterfly-shaped Monarch Waystation. * The time series of photos show the steps taken to create our garden. With generous donations of native plants (milkweed and […]

Here’s a wonderful video from Cornell that talks about milkweed – the biological arms race between the plant and the animals that love it: httpv://youtu.be/WXHeqxf1kDE

With the high winds and strong rains that we’ve had recently, some of our gardens have taken a beating. When a heavy plant like a common milkweed falls, it may have a tough time getting back up — but all is not lost — grab a tomato cage and let the plant stand up in […]

Donna Quinn, our Habitat Herald coordinator, also writes articles for her community newsletter. Here she shares some wonderful insights between us and the insects around us. Please do not spray pesticides in your yard – they’re not good for you, not good for the environment in which we live and that we rely upon. Small […]

Audubon at Home Wildlife Sanctuary registration and certification is now a partnership project of the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy and the Audubon Society of Northern Virginia. Certifying properties as wildlife sanctuaries is a volunteer implemented program. The core of the program is the “Healthy Yard Pledge” that stresses the following actions: Conservation and protection of water, […]