Melinda’s Garden: Manage Mosquitoes to Better Enjoy Your Outdoor Space

Dine, play, and enjoy your outdoor spaces more than ever this year by managing annoying and disease-spreading mosquitoes. Use a multifaceted approach to boost your enjoyment and help keep mosquitoes away.

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The Beauty in Nature: Dancing on the Ocean

Two kinds of related oceangoing birds, Wilson’s petrels and Leach’s petrels, have several characteristics in common.

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Melinda’s Garden: Vacation Care for Container Gardens

Planning a few long weekends or a vacation may have you rethinking your garden plans. Don’t let time away from home stop you from growing flowers and vegetables in containers.

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The Beauty in Nature: Dace and Darters

Blacknose dace and Johnny darters are slim, 2-inch fish that live in various-sized waterways in the eastern United States, including southeastern Pennsylvania.

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The Beauty in Nature: Feathered Dancers

Up to six kinds of small birds nest or winter along flowing streams in North America.

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Melinda’s Garden: Designing a Wildlife-Friendly Landscape

We love watching the bunnies hopping across the lawn or ground squirrels scurrying away with a cheek full of seeds — that is, until they dine on our favorite shrub or take just one bite out of each red ripe tomato in the garden.

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The Beauty in Nature: Native Woodland Wildflowers

Early in April in southeastern Pennsylvania, many green shoots emerge from crunchy carpets of dead, fallen leaves on woodland floors and push toward the sunlight.

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Melinda’s Garden: Planning and Designing a Productive Vegetable Garden

Whether planning your first, second, or 10th vegetable garden, it can be overwhelming. There are so many tasty vegetables and never enough space and time to grow them all.

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The Beauty in Nature: Raptor Counterparts

Raptors are birds of prey, including hawks, eagles, and owls, that capture other creatures for food.

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