Earthly Delights Native Gardening LLC

04/07/2026

If you missed it, the recording of my talk 🌸The Garden is a Mirror: How to Reflect Yourself and the Natural World in Your Garden Design🌸 is now up!

Check out the lovely blog post written by Nik Haven of Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay Chapter to watch it!

Attendees of our March Garden Chat were treated to an inspiring presentation by chapter member, Miranda Yourick, owner of Earthly Delights Native Gardening. Miranda’s presentation “The Garden is a Mirror”, made me realize that I have a wild, witchy, whimsical garden, accented with paths and ar...

04/01/2026

Introducing Round-lobed Hepatica! The genus name "Hepatica" refers to the 3-lobed leaf that resembles the liver and which people thought could be used to cure liver ailments. You can find this adorable little plant blooming on rocky outcrops and in crevices. The flowers range from white to pink to purple and shoot up from the cluster of mottled foliage on fuzzy stems. Because they bloom so early, they are a critical pollen source for pollinators. Later in the season, the plant produces seeds with a nutrient-rich, fatty appendage called an elaiosome. Ants carry these seeds to their nests, feed the elaiosome to their larvae, and discard the seed, allowing for germination in a process called myrmecochory! 🐜🐜🌱

https://www.prairiemoon.com/hepatica-americana-round-lobed-hepatica

🌸The Birth Month Native Flower Project🌼 I love the idea of a birth month flower but because of when and where they were conceived of, all the flowers are European! In 2026, I will be painting a series of watercolors with a native flower that blooms in each month to replace the usual birth flowers!

What would you like your native birth flower to be??

03/31/2026

Things are popping off at the greenhouse right now! We’re about to have a surge in germination with this warm spring weather ☀️ The inside is officially full up with germination trays!

🌱Jacob’s Ladder 🌱Hairy Beardtongue 🌱Lanceleaf Coreopsis 🌱Purple Coneflower

03/26/2026

Our new greenhouse is a dream come true 🤩 She’s fully stocked with tons of growing space for our native plants 🌱 available to all of our design clients!!

True Craft Sheds is a pleasure to work with. Contact them to get your own custom shed or greenhouse!

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We’d love to work with you, whether it’s a zoom consultation to answer your burning questions or a full design and installation with maintenance plan! 🌸🌼 If you have pesky invasive plants holding you back from the garden of your dreams, we can help with that too!

Check out our website (in bio) or email us at [email protected]

The time is NOW to start planning for your garden this year! Let us help you create a delightful habitat for yourself and for wildlife in your garden! 🐝🌸🌾🍄🐛

03/23/2026

Dad and I transplanted some seedlings and started germination trays in anticipation of the greenhouse’s arrival!! We can’t wait to show you everything we’ve been working so hard on building 🥰

🌱Jacob’s Ladder 🌱False Sunflower 🐈 Peanut

03/08/2026

Join me for my talk at the Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay (WOCB) Garden Chat series!

The event is virtual and free, just register from the link on our Events page to get the Zoom!

Join me for my talk at the Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay (WOCB) Garden Chat series! The event is virtual and free, just register HER E to get the Zoom link! Description: While natural spaces are wild and behol den to the laws of nature, gardens are constructed by humans who wish to embody pa

02/21/2026

Some of our seeds were so eager for Spring that they started to sprout in the fridge!! Since the weather has stopped us from getting our beautiful new greenhouse installed, we put together a quick growing setup in the sun porch. I’m dying to get all of them growing soon!!

Species are Anise Hyssop, Lanceleaf Coreopsis, Black-eyed Susan, False Sunflower, and Jacob’s Ladder.

02/10/2026

THE GREENHOUSE REVEAL!!! She is stunning and we can’t wait to have her home!! 🤩

Working with True Craft Sheds is an absolute dream. Check them out for your own custom shed or greenhouse!!

02/06/2026

Oh, you thought you had to wait for February's flower? Introducing Skunk Cabbage! I'm real jealous of February birthdays because I LOVE Skunk Cabbage flowers. The spathe is a mottled dark purple and light green surrounding the spiky yellow spadix, which admittedly smells like a trash can in order to attract flies for pollination 😅 Skunk Cabbage is Maryland's earliest-blooming wildflower, creating enough heat to melt the frozen ground and allow it to bloom! It's a great reminder that despite the stillness of winter, life is still thriving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symplocarpus_foetidus

🌸The Birth Month Native Flower Project🌼 I love the idea of a birth month flower but because of when and where they were conceived of, all the flowers are European! In 2026, I will be painting a series of watercolors with a native flower that blooms in each month to replace the usual birth flowers!

What would you like your native birth flower to be??

02/06/2026

I love the idea of a birth month flower - mine is Lily of the Valley - but because of when and where they were conceived of, all the flowers are European! In 2026, I will be painting a series of watercolors with a native flower that blooms in each month to replace the usual birth flowers!

January is a little different because I chose a berry, not a bloom. There is nearly zero blooming happening in January, but you are sure to see the vibrant 🔴pop of red🔴 radiating from the Winterberry, Ilex verticillata, among the dreary background colors! Winterberries are also a vital food source for birds at this time of year!

Stay tuned for February's reveal!! Can you guess what it is? 🤔

What would you like your native birth flower to be??

02/05/2026

A great selling point for ecological gardening - less is more!!