Carpenter ants protect aphids in exchange for access to honeydew: For more on this phenomen see page 229 of Doug Tallamy's 'Bringing Nature Home'

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Read Bringing Nature Home by Doug Tallamy

Cottontails selectively prune grass and wildflowers

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A few of the things in bloom at WPWP on May 24, 2011

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Amorpha fruticosa is also known as Indigo bush

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Elderberry flowers

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Dick Bennett video promoting OMNI's sixth-annual peace-garden tour

Cicada outgrows exoskeleton on May 22, 2011, at WPWP

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See today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for news story.
See Web site featuring Cicada information: Magicicada

Karen Rollet-Crocker to present program on landscaping with native plants at 5:30 p.m. today at her home on Mount Sequoyah

Landscaping with Native Plants

Native plants in a landscape help preserve our Ozark identity, provide food for our birds and insects and are well suited to our soils and climate. Karen Rollet Crocker, recently retired UA professor of landscape architecture, invites us to see how she is using native plants in her home landscape and to hear what she has learned during her years of designing gardens for others, including the native landscape for Compton Gardens and the heritage gardens at Peel Mansion, both in Bentonville.

Crocker’s talk and demonstration on landscaping with native plants is scheduled for Tuesday, May 10 at 5:30 p.m. at 951 N. Pembroke Road in Fayetteville . The rain date is Tuesday, May 17 at the same time.

Directions: from Mission Blvd (45) go up the hill on Rockwood Trail (.6 mi). At the top turn left on Pembroke and go to the first corner on the left side (west side).

Attendees who want starts of native plants are invited to bring a couple of small pots with soil in which to take them home.

The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Fayetteville Tree and Landscape Advisory Committee. For information, call 871-7023.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Landscaping with Native Plants
Community Events
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: 951 N. Pembroke Road, Fayetteville
Landscape Architecture Professor Karen Rollet Crocker

Contact: Fayetteville Tree and Landscape Advisory Committee
Phone: 479-871-7023

Amorpha fruticosa or false wild indigo bush: a beautiful display up close

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These shots from 40 feet with zoom lens don't do justice to the beautiful, tiny flowers

May 7, 2011, photos from WPWP

Doug Tallamy tells us about 'Bringing Nature Home' to provide habitat for wildlife

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June 9, 2010, photo offers preview of coming month's prairie beauty

Monarch butterfly on Asclepias tuberosa

Evening primrose a showy spring flower on prairies and forest edges all over the Ozarks

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