Alison Baker

What makes a gardener fall in love with native plants? For me, the explanation’s simple: native animals. There’s nothing I like more than seeing a ruby-throated hummingbird hovering at the crossvine, grey squirrels collecting acorns or a praying mantis lurking in the clematis. And the more native plants you have, the more (more…)

I am not an avid birder. Getting up in the dark on one of the shortest days of the year in order to go outside and stand in the frost, hoping to see a bird, is not my idea of fun.

But then comes the day after Christmas, and there I am, (more…)