Your cart is currently empty!
Light Pollution and the Importance of Darkness For Wildlife
Discover how artificial light affects migratory birds, nocturnal animals, and wildlife in your garden, and learn how to create a safe refuge with darkness.
During this season, we have a large number of visitors at the Vallarta Botanical Garden from the winter territories of Canada and the United States. In the same way, we receive a large number of feathered traveler, (known as birds!) from those territories, who come in search of food and warmer temperatures. This is the case with our bird of the month for February: the Gray-black Warbler (Setophaga nigrescens).
While in Mexico, it inhabits coniferous and oak forests where it uses its excellent skills to hunt insects and their larvae. This species is characterized by having a yellow dot in front of the eye, which stands out from all its grayscale plumage and has a very particular buzzing song that you can hear here: http://bit.ly/3kPMpP6
If you are lucky, you can find it in our garden this month, and don’t forget our Bird and Nature Festival. Let’s celebrate together the diversity of our resident and migratory birds!
Comments
More From Gardening Calendar
Veggie Bites – Rose Petal Jelly
I brought a four-cup measuring cup with me and filled it with rose petals. My first batch of rose petal jelly is ready to eat.
Gardening in the Month of September
Get ready for winter in your Ottawa garden! Pruning, fertilizing, watering, and planting are the tasks of the day. Plant spring bulbs, fall-flowering annuals, and divide perennials to add color until October. Don't forget to dig and store dahlias, cannas and more. Time to get pruning!
On Planting Daffodil Bulbs in the Fall
If you are fairly new to bulb planting, I suggest that you start with daffodil bulbs. Very few creatures will bother these bulbs. They do well in almost any situation, and they increase their number each year. Tulips, hyacinths, crocuses, and other tasty bulbs are more difficult. Greetings fellow gardeners,
A Great Year for Growing Peppers
I am going to try to save the seeds from which to grow peppers. Probably best to buy more seeds, collect seeds as well and do a comparison.
Common Milkweed Host Monarch Butterflies
Milkweed is the only host plant for monarch butterflies. In summer, the female monarch lays eggs on the underside of young leaves.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.