UGA expands access to native plant certificate
State Botanical Garden educates Georgians about plants and pollinators.
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State Botanical Garden educates Georgians about plants and pollinators.
Many food crops depend on animal pollination to set fruit. In light of pollinator declines there is growing recognition of the need for agro-ecosystems that can sustain wild pollinator populations, ensuring fruit production and pollinator conservation into the future. One method of supporting resident wild pollinator populations within agricultural landscapes is to encourage and maintain floral diversity. However, pollinator visitation to crop plants can be affected either positively (facilitation) or negatively (competition) by the presence of co-flowering plants. The strength and direction o...
Dear Helen: My family is still in the process of planting our first vegetable garden. From reading your column, I gather that you have a more extensive area than we do for planting food crops.
Like many home gardeners observing how delayed the growing season has been this spring, I’ve been online almost daily, checking for indicators of summery weather on the horizon to advance growth and deliver the promise of vine-ripened tomatoes
Kerncrest Audubon Society will meet Thursday, May 19, at 7 p.m., at the Maturango Museum.