Good Earth Gardens

02/21/2026

Get ready!! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AQHQu27m6/?mibextid=wwXIfr

HUMMINGBIRD LOVERS GET READY! The great hummingbird migration has just started...with several sightings already along the Gulf Coast. You'll start to see even more into March across the Southeast and will continue to spread north through May. Get those hummingbird feeders out!

10/26/2024

**Thank you everyone for the overwhelming response! We will be in touch this coming week with plans. If any other landscaper/land managers would like to be included, please message us. Cheers! 🌻 Hey everybody. These are challenging times in the nursery business, and as a native nursery and small business, doubly so. We are competing with the big guys. The corporations owned by private-equity firms with big money backers that we don’t have. I know you small business landscapers are feeling it, too. We want to help and feel that the best way to do so is through collaboration. I am compiling a list of native landscapers to plan a meet up with and if you and your organization want to be on it, please message us. Let’s get through these hard times together and bring some happiness to each other, too. 🙌🏻

02/13/2024

Good guidance 🐝 https://xerces.org/blog/dont-spring-into-garden-cleanup-too-soon?fbclid=IwAR3UHwjBgiofICZGT0h9fZ8uuBVf9UZnyNwZJf81DYvBCN4umvUNNuMOMhY_aem_AQ7D7837BjsSdvh1TRTUEA5_gZqmEnPoIVMtOoF8uHo7rIsPnL9u2AaGVmw4BK4_mjU

Early spring garden cleanup can disrupt critical invertebrate habitat and leave pollinators out in the cold. Our guidelines will help you determine when cleaning up won't bug the pollinators in your space.

07/21/2023

04/13/2023

Good advice - Don’t drink and fly.

Don't drink and fly.

This time of year, fruit-eating birds such as cedar waxwings and American robins often eat fruit that has started to rot and ferment. A byproduct of fermentation is the production of alcohol.

The consumption of these fermented fruits can cause the birds to lose much of their coordination and capacity to fly. This can cause them to crash into windows and other obstacles. Sadly, they can also die directly from alcohol poisoning if they ingest enough of the fermented fruit.

Another possible cause for drunken flying is that the birds have eaten Nandina (sacred bamboo) berries. This exotic invasive plant is used in landscaping and draws cyanide from the soil, depositing often lethal doses in its bright red fruit.

Learn from our feathered friends and consume fruits responsibly.

01/15/2023

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We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service know that pollinators are the engine that run healthy habitats. While we’ve been actively working to restore and conserve millions of acres of land, we need your help. Whether you have a few feet on your apartment balcony, a yard in need of landscaping or s...

11/10/2022

Another reason to leave the leaves 🍂

Here’s another reason to “leave the leaves” and not mulch or burn them this fall. In their last act as a caterpillar, Eastern Tiger Swallowtails (Papilio glaucus) crawl down to the base of their host tree and pupate in the leaf litter. At this stage, the brown caterpillar and pupa blend in well with the detritus and a light covering of fallen autumn leaves insulate the pupa from cold winter temperatures.

If you want to see more of these beautiful butterflies in your yard next spring, here’s something to consider with your leaves. If you’re going to pick them up, gently blow or rake your leaves into a planting bed or wild space on your property. Spreading them out in a layer of loose leaves that’s less than 12 inches deep is best (think of the typical leaf depth in a hardwood forest), but this may not be manageable for all homeowners. The leaf litter will allow any Eastern Tiger Swallowtail pupae attached to the underside of the leaves to have a chance at successfully overwintering and then emerging from the leaf litter next spring.

Given their beauty and abundance, it’s easy to see why Eastern Tiger Swallowtails are the state butterfly of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.

10/21/2022

STATE OF THE BIRDS? NOT GOOD
According to the recently released State of the Birds 2022 report ... Over half of the bird species in America are declining ... What can Georgians do? Here are three key ways:
• Support conservation done through the State Wildlife Action Plan by buying or renewing an eagle or monarch license plate, or annually renewing one of the older designs such as the hummingbird. Most of the $25 extra these tags cost goes to the Georgia Wildlife Conservation Fund.
• Contribute to the fund directly, online or through Georgia's wildlife state income tax checkoff.
• Learn about federal legislation designed to stem declines in wildlife not fished for or hunted. Following the birds report, some conservation leaders pointed to Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, a bipartisan bill pending in the Senate and supported by 70 percent of Americans. Excerpt from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Georgia Wild Newsletter

We Can Bend the Curve to Bring Birds Back The United States and Canada have lost 3 billion breeding birds since 1970—a loss of 1 in 4 birds, according to research published in Science in 2019. This steep decline in abundance can be reversed with new scales of conservation actions that benefit not

10/06/2022

Beautiful day to enjoy Tower Hill gardens and exhibits