
The Evelyn Jackson Wild Life Garden
celebrates biodiversity in the burbs.
Raleigh, North Carolina — USDA hardiness zone 7b
Garden Color Explosion
Posted by Linda Watson | Jul 25, 2023 | garden highlights | 0 |
Supports for Floppy Pitcher Plants
Posted by Linda Watson | Jul 22, 2023 | gardening | 0 |
I-Beam Planters
Posted by Linda Watson | Jul 19, 2023 | projects | 0 |
Blooming in the Heat and Rain
Posted by Linda Watson | Jul 13, 2023 | garden highlights | 0 |
Use Coconut Body Care to Repel Mosquitoes
Posted by Linda Watson | Jul 13, 2023 | environment | 0 |
Garden Highlights
Lotus Blooms
by Linda Watson | Jul 25, 2023 | garden highlights | 0 |
I’m thrilled that the lotus is blooming again. It didn’t bloom last year, so I had it...
Garden Color Explosion
by Linda Watson | Jul 25, 2023 | garden highlights | 0 |
Blooming in the Heat and Rain
by Linda Watson | Jul 13, 2023 | garden highlights | 0 |
Happy Solstice!
by Linda Watson | Jun 21, 2023 | garden highlights | 0 |
Plants
Buttonbush Blooms!
by Linda Watson | Jul 5, 2023 | plants | 1 |
The Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) invites a wide variety of pollinators with its spiky...
Dutchman’s Pipevine
by Linda Watson | Jun 21, 2023 | plants | 0 |
Little Redhead Indian Pink
by Linda Watson | May 11, 2022 | plants | 0 |
Dwarf False Indigo ‘Pixie Periwinkle’
by Linda Watson | Apr 27, 2022 | plants | 0 |
Pollinators
Pipevine Swallowtail
by Linda Watson | Jun 21, 2023 | insects, pollinators | 0 |
I’m thrilled that at least one Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly is visiting the garden this...
Bees in the Garden
by Linda Watson | May 22, 2023 | insects, pollinators | 0 |
Monarch Butterflies
by Linda Watson | Aug 17, 2022 | insects, pollinators | 0 |
Scoliid Wasps
by Linda Watson | Aug 9, 2022 | insects, pollinators | 1 |
Birds
Aunt Heron
by Linda Watson | Nov 23, 2022 | birds | 0 |
This morning, I was explaining to Bruce that the reason I started keeping my camera next to me on...
Red-Shouldered Hawk Goes for a Swim
by Linda Watson | Oct 24, 2022 | birds | 0 |
Woodpeckers
by Linda Watson | Aug 11, 2022 | birds | 1 |
Water Attracts Birds
by Linda Watson | May 4, 2022 | birds, Uncategorized | 2 |
Other Wildlife
Possum and …. wow!
by Linda Watson | Aug 23, 2022 | mammals | 0 |
I was excited to get a much better look at the Possum after I moved the wildlife camera back to...
First Possum! (with video)
by Linda Watson | Aug 13, 2022 | mammals | 0 |
Deer visit at Night (with Video)
by Linda Watson | Aug 10, 2022 | mammals | 1 |
Blue Dasher Dragonfly
by Linda Watson | Aug 8, 2022 | insects, other wildlife | 1 |
Gardening
Supports for Floppy Pitcher Plants
by Linda Watson | Jul 22, 2023 | gardening | 0 |
Some of the pitcher plants in the bog garden grew so long and thin this year that they flopped...
Use Coconut Body Care to Repel Mosquitoes
by Linda Watson | Jul 13, 2023 | environment | 0 |
Rain Gauge and Citizen Science
by Linda Watson | Jan 26, 2023 | environment | 0 |
Planting a New Native Natural Area
by Linda Watson | Dec 19, 2022 | gardening | 3 |