From sea birds to song birds, we’re blessed with a wide assortment of beautiful birds to enjoy here in New England. If you’d like to make your yard a more attractive habitat for birds, here are some ways.
You can directly help the Honey Bees, Monarch Butterflies, and Hummingbirds you love so much.
As caterpillars, Monarchs feed exclusively on the leaves of Asclepias (commonly known as Milkweed), and simply cannot live without it.
Here are our favorite early pollinator plants that you can plant in your New England garden.
Imagine if everyone starting a new garden made the conscious decision to plant for our pollinator friends? It wouldn’t have to be 100%, but enough to increase the pollinators in their yard and neighborhood? Reducing the use of chemicals: pesticides, herbicides and fungicides also...
Because we practice IPM here at Rolling Green Nursery, the crops we grow are considered ‘bee-friendly’: no pesticides applied or nothing applied within the last 2 weeks. Since the day Rick began his landscape business 40 years ago, which slowly evolved into grower/retailer, Rolling Green remains ecologically mindful of...
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