native plants – Talking Pictures

Successes in the Garden for Native Plants: the Monarch and the American Lady, in Brooklyn!

September 16, 2019 CNQ 0

A Monarch caterpillar feeding on a Milkweed in our treebed in Bed Stuy. Two caterpillars ate almost the entire plant in a couple days. So I moved them to another milkweed in an empty lot […]

You wanna do something for the birds and the bees? Native Plants in October at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

October 4, 2016 Talking Pictures 0

These are snapshots I took a few days ago which Uli Lorimer, Curator of the Native Flora Garden, kindly identifies and explains how they fit into the ecosystem. Yes, even in New York City we […]