Navarre Garden Club

08/19/2026

Green Thumb Nursery has a beautiful selection of caladiums in red and pink. Open Saturdays. 10-1. Stop by to shop our plants. Also Fertilizer 30% off box store prices. 8425 East Bay Blvd

08/07/2026

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08/04/2026

Wild Birds Unlimited is proud to partner with Birdability, an organization working to ensure birding is accessible and welcoming to people of all abilities. ♿💚 Whether it’s exploring accessible nature trails 🌿 or simply listening to birdsong 🎶 from a patio, birds can provide a meaningful connection with nature.

Simple changes, like seating near feeders, clear pathways, or feeders placed near windows, can help create welcoming spaces where more people can enjoy the birds. 🐦🏡 Backyard bird feeding can also make birds more accessible by bringing them closer to home.

Visit the Birdability website (www.birdability.org) to learn how you can get involved.

07/22/2026

🐣Young birds need lots of protein and energy to grow strong and healthy. Parent birds look for insects, soft foods and high-quality seeds to feed their hungry chicks. 🐛🌻

You can help support the next generation of backyard birds by offering nutritious foods and fresh water! 💧💚✨

07/10/2026

Slow Simple Seasonal

05/14/2026

Sunday, 17 May!

Maddy is going to be representing Native Plant Company at this Wildlife Sanctuary event on Sunday.

She is bringing some really cute pollinator pots and resources for container gardening as well as a fresh selection of 1gallon native plants!

The wildlife sanctuary is an organization near and dear to our hearts.

They work so hard to rescue and care for our sweet wild critters when they are injured or displaced from living the city life.

Big thanks to

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05/09/2026

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Did you know...

04/06/2026

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You didn’t plant milkw**d.
It planted itself — because it was supposed to be there.

For thousands of years it grew in field edges, fence lines, road margins, and pasture corners. Not gardens. Not flower beds. The places people now call “messy.”

Then lawns arrived. And the plant that evolved to live between wild and human spaces became the first thing we removed.

So the monarchs didn’t disappear all at once.

They started skipping stops.

Migration isn’t one long flight.
It’s a chain of short ones. Each generation travels part of the route and hands it to the next. When even a few links are missing, the chain breaks quietly — a little further north every year.

Milkw**d is one of those links.

When you pull it, nothing dramatic happens.
You still see butterflies that summer.
But the generation after that never forms.

That’s why people think monarch decline is mysterious. It isn’t sudden — it’s cumulative.

The plant looks like a w**d because it grows where ecosystems repair themselves: disturbed soil, edges, ditches, construction margins. It is not invading your yard.

It is rebuilding habitat faster than humans can plant it.

You don’t need to turn your lawn into a prairie.
You only need to stop treating this one plant as an enemy.

Leave a small patch.
Even a corner.
Even just one.

For a migration that crosses a continent, survival often depends on a space the size of a doormat.

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04/01/2026

I am not killing your tree. I am not a fungus, a moss, or a disease.

That gray-green crust on the bark of your oak. The leafy stuff on the branch. The dusty pale coating on the fence post. You've been searching for tree disease treatments for three years.

I'm a lichen. And your tree isn't sick. It's certified.

A lichen isn't a single organism. It's two organisms fused into one — a fungus and an alga living together as one body. The fungus provides structure, protection, and mineral absorption. The alga provides food through photosynthesis. Neither can live like this alone. Together they form something that resembles neither.

I grow on your tree. Not in it. My body attaches to the bark surface. I don't pe*****te the bark. I don't steal nutrients. I don't block light from the leaves. I don't cause decay. I'm using your tree as a surface the same way a bumper sticker uses your car.

Here's why I'm actually a good sign.

Lichen cannot grow in polluted air. Air pollution kills me. If your tree is covered in lichen, the air around your property is clean enough to support me. Ecologists use lichen presence to map air quality — more lichen species in an area means cleaner air. Your lichen-covered oak is a certificate of air quality you didn't know you had.

The tree you think is declining because of me is usually declining because of something else — drought stress, root compaction, pest damage — and I happened to be on the bark when you noticed. I was here before the decline started. I didn't cause it.

I grow a millimeter or two per year. The patch on your oak branch that's the size of your palm has been growing for decades. I was here before the deck was built. Before the house was painted. Before you moved in.

🌿 What to do about lichen on your trees:

- Nothing. Leave it. Lichen on bark is not a problem and removing it accomplishes nothing except damaging the bark surface underneath

- If a tree covered in lichen is declining, the cause is underground or internal — root damage, compaction, drought, boring insects. The lichen is a bystander, not the culprit. Investigate the roots and soil before blaming the surface

- Lichen on a fence post, stone wall, or garden structure is the same organism doing the same harmless thing. It adds texture and character and indicates clean air

- If lichen suddenly disappears from trees in your area where it used to thrive, that's a signal worth paying attention to — it may indicate a change in local air quality

- Lichen on fallen branches is a building material for hummingbirds and gnatcatchers. Both species press lichen flakes onto the outside of their nests with spider silk for camouflage. The lichen on your oak may end up on a nest in your yard

Don't scrape it off. Don't spray it. It's not the problem. It's the proof that the air is clean enough for it to exist 🌿

03/28/2026