by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity I look at boxes. We will be leaving Elephant's Eye and Porterville in November. My l...

by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity When we were looking for land and saw the reeds and the weavers busy with their nests - ...

by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity When we left Cape Town, passed thru the Wheat Curtain, and began gardening in the Swartla...

by Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity in Porterville, near Cape Town in South Africa We have no manicured lawn. We've lea...

Once upon a time we walked down the panhandle, past the ash trees to the reed bed and the weaver’s nests. We were smitten. Giant or Sp...

That supermoon was a ‘ Strawberry Moon – This name was universal to every Algonquin tribe. In Europe they called it the Rose Moon. The rela...

Wistfully looking back at how our garden grew. We garden for wildlife. The most spectacular wildlife in our walled small town garden flies...

We garden for wildlife. If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it still make a sound? Between RL and gardening...

Altho I do garden for wildlife, it is not as a trained ecologist, this plant for that butterfly. We have a pond full of frogs for the visi...

The Ungardener loves Ungardening, pottering, DIY projects. If not a new one, then tweak the old.  At the bird feeder

There are no fairies at the bottom of our garden. Perhaps a solitary fynbos fairy ?   A weaver with the sparrows

When I reread Tuesday's poem, I found japonica and bees. Fitting in to my post for Wildflower Wednesday  in  Pollinator Week . Today...

Little by little we are refilling the pond,  after relining it . And how immediately life returns. The frogs have been with us, their lives...

EDITED January 2014 by  Diana Studer - gardening for biodiversity Found at the recycling depot in January 2010. The Ungardener has be...

Checking where, which site, my blog visitors came from, I fell over gimcw??? Gardening in mediterranean climates worldwide. They have added...

We have planted Melianthus in our new False Bay garden . Waiting for the sunbirds to find it. Return to October November last year. There...

We see and hear many young birds now. Teenagers who with their fluffy feathers are anyway bigger than mum and dad. Standing there with open...

Jacky Hangman. Dressed in black and white. As the judge used to wear a black hood, when sentencing a prisoner to death. Yesterday the sparr...

He is in his element. Trying out the new to him features one by one. Panasonic Lumix FZ100. U3A photographers sit while waiting for the bir...

If a  black stork  lands in our garden and we don’t see it, was it really there? This was our wildlife garden’s shining moment. My birding ...