MaineNatureDiary

Native and Non-Invasive Plant Update: Susan Hayward just informed me of a great plant guide titled, Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, which marks each plant with an (*) if it is  non-native. Awesome! I’m going to order one from Amazon today. I am also going to order: Last Child in the Woods (Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder) by Richard Louv, Reading the Forested Landscape (A Natural History of New England) by Tom Wessels, Bringing Nature Home (How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens) by Douglas W. Tallamy, and The Trees in My Forest by Bernd Heinrich. Many thanks go out to Bill Livingston, Pat Maloney, and Mary Bird for supplying copies of these awesome books for us to look at during the Forest Themes Workshop days. Oh yes…two more books in my order will both be by William Cullina: Wildflowers (The New England Wild Flower Society), and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines (A Guide to Using, Growing, and Propagating North American Woody Plants). Oh yeah, I am also ordering Stevie Wonder-The Definitive Collection…gotta have some good tunes to serenade all my plants with!