Detroit Garden Center

10/22/2024

09/29/2024

Here's an interesting article about lag times for exotic species to become invasive. Average time? 40 years. Longest lag time? 320 years for Sycamore maple in the United Kingdom. Plant native. Preserve the planet. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240306150501.htm #:~:text=The%20international%20team%20found%20that,average%20time%20being%2040%20years.

09/22/2024

It's... raining...?

09/07/2024

LEAVE THE LEAVES!!!

08/13/2024

Or, to see something of all of them in ourselves....

What we don’t know about the natural world always far exceeds what we do.

08/03/2024

This weekend - including "The Secret Garden" - an event space including great programming for adults and children, free wildflower seed and beautiful art! Come and join us for a great day! (Check out the bottom right photo!)

06/05/2024

"Now the industrialized world that made, and saved, the honeybee as we know it is being called on to save other insects—the ones that really are in trouble. This will be trickier. When you ask experts what a layperson should do for all pollinators in 2024, they have a lot to say: Use fewer insecticides, inside and outside. Convert mowed lawn into habitat that can feed wild animals. Reconsider your efforts to save the honeybee—not just because it’s a diversion, but because honeybees take resources from wild bees. Buy organic, and look for food grown using agricultural practices that support beneficial insects. Get involved with efforts to count and conserve bees of all species. (The experts do not think you should buy a lip balm.)

"What they are getting at is … an inconvenient truth: America does have an insect-biodiversity crisis. It is old and big—much older and much bigger than colony collapse disorder—and so are the solutions to it. The best require returning our environment into something that looks much more like the place the first American honeybees encountered. Having a backyard beehive isn’t the answer to what’s ailing our ecosystem, because having a backyard is the problem. Buying ice cream from a global food conglomerate isn’t the answer, because buying ice cream from a global food conglomerate is the problem. The movement to save the honeybee is a small attempt at unwinding centuries of human intervention in our natural world, at undoing the harms of the modern food system, without having to sacrifice too much. No wonder so many of us wanted to believe."

For years, people have understood them to be at imminent risk of extinction, despite evidence to the contrary. Why?

06/05/2024

Come one, come all!

Join us for our Annual Spring Garden Tour! The event is free and open to the public. Plus, we're going to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of the birth of our kitty Pandora Grace Diane ("Dora") with cake and cookies! We've been madly preparing the gardens for our Annual Spring Garden Tour - so c...