Birdsong Pleasure Garden

06/11/2026

Wow...

06/09/2026

Come join us June 14 Flag Day 🇺🇸🇺🇸

06/07/2026

Another lovely week meeting 'new garden loving friends' and seeing first time critter visitors to our Garden.

A romantic and celebratory week with "new gardening friends" from California, Williamsburg, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and folks from right here in Page County. So great that these lovely folks find us and come to us to immerse themselves in the Garden.
We love it!

As the majority of the spring nectar plants are diminishing (or going dormant) and start to shift to the summer pollen and nectar blooming plants, we share this time with our critters by celebrating June as National Pollinator Month.

Bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, moths, beetles, and other pollinators do far more than add movement and beauty to the garden. They help flowering plants reproduce, support local ecosystems, and play a direct role in the food we grow and enjoy.

From backyard vegetable gardens to fruit trees, native perennials, and summer annuals, pollinators are part of the quiet work that keeps gardens productive and alive.

A successful pollinator garden should:
> Grow host plants, like Milkweed. Find you local list.
> Avoid heavy pesticide use, especially when plants are in bloom.
> Leave a few natural areas with bare soil, hollow stems, leaf litter, or grasses for nesting and overwintering insects.
> Have a shallow dish with stones, a birdbath with a landing area, or damp soil can give pollinators a safe place to drink.

Most importantly, think of your pollinator garden as a living system, not a one-season project. Each plant you add helps create a healthier, more resilient landscape. Which will bring your people gardening friends to come and enjoy.

06/07/2026

06/02/2026

What do Gardens offer to its visitors?

Chemically, a human being is primarily made of water, 65%, and organic molecules: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen. The Earth is also made of these same chemicals and elements.

We are ''bathed'' in this same abundance of molecules and elements while walking through, enjoying, and absorbing a Garden. Being indoors does not offer the same abundance.

Observing the natural order—seasons changing, trees growing, ecosystems balancing without divine intervention—reminds us that we are a small, grounding part of a vast, beautiful universe.

These mindfulness and science-backed habits calm our nervous system using methods like deep-breathing, meditation, and regular physical activity. And as it has been discovered, these practices alter our brain chemistry to actively lower cortisol and anxiety.

Gardens offer us a reflection of ourselves in a regenerative way that leave us better than the way we were found.

The plus? A really nice way to meet people of the same ilk.

06/02/2026

So many unnecessary killings of coyotes in Page County.

06/01/2026

05/23/2026

Are you familiar with the Shenandoah Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society?

They are having a FREE Native Plant Garden Tour next weekend, Saturday & Sunday, May 30th, 10-1 pm, and 31st, 1-4 pm, 2026.

The Shenandoah Chapter supports the Virginia Native Plant Society's mission to protect and preserve the native plants of Virginia and their habitats.

They have events such as plant ID walks, plant sales and swaps; while supporting conservation initiatives like removal of invasive plants from public lands, and encouraging gardeners to learn about and grow native plants on their properties.

Membership is open to anyone who wants to learn about and appreciate native plants, and their members range from native plant curious, to expert. https://vnps.org/

The Shenandoah Chapter covers the counties of Augusta, Highland, Page, Rockingham, and Shenandoah, and the cities of Harrisonburg, Staunton, and Waynesboro.

This is a link, below, to the 2026 Spring Native Plant Tour and the Homeowners' Gardens that will be available for a "look see".

https://sites.google.com/view/rvnpt?usp=sharing

Two days of open-house style native plant tours