Thoughts about “Going Native” in Serendipity Gardens
Quite a few years ago, I learned how much I enjoy watching the antics of birds and frogs in Serendipity Gardens. I patted myself on the back because I did not use pesticides, did not rake leaves in the fall, and left lots of seedheads for birds through the winter. “I am gardening for wildlife, and I want to share my expertise on this topic with others,” I said to myself. Thus I began Serendipity Gardens, the blog.
How little I knew!
Being coached (thanks to Molly Greene) that Twitter would be one of the best ways to draw traffic to my blog, I began looking for Tweeps to follow who were interested in wildlife gardening. Suddenly, I was in a whole new world, and I realized that my own garden, with its mixture of native and alien plants that you can see in this photo, was not nearly the haven for wildlife that I had assumed it was (though it does host quite a few).
