It Is Baby Snake Season! I'll am the first to admit that I don't like snakes. Several years ago, a few days after the water department sent 3 guys to our house to change out the pressure reducer, days later we found a rather large black snake in the house. We finally determined that the guys left the basement door opened while they were working, and it came in to enjoy the cool basement. Sunday before last, it happened again! Steve had gone into town to pick up our grocery order, so I was home...alone. Walking to my closet through the bathroom, nothing was out of the ordinary. But, as I came...

10 Best Native Perennial Plants For Bee Gardens ! Pollination gardens are created with friendly native plants that bees love. Our native bee and non-bee pollinators such as birds, bats, butterflies, ants, flies, moths and beetles are attracted by the brightly colored, contrasting flowers that open seasonally filled with nectar and pollen for food sources. When we reference bees in our articles (unless otherwise noted), they are native bees (about 4000 species) found in North America - not the Honey Bee which was brought in from Europe by the Early American settlers. Native plants are...