Notes and Resources

As an employee, for many years I have come to the Norcross Sanctuary at night – usually to light the fire on winter evenings or to be sure that the …

Fall is definitely my favorite time of the year. I love the changing leaves, the crisp air, the berries that light up the landscape and the culmination of it all …

The maples are at their peak color.   The frost that is forecast for this weekend may be the end of most of our maple’s leaves.   Fortunately, the oak trees …

During this past spring and summer I have spent a lot of time talking about “native” plants.   Native plants attract native wildlife, native plants are tolerant of our strange weather, …

Asters and Goldenrods everywhere!   I often think that it must be fall when the asters and goldenrods begin blooming.  Truthfully, many asters begin blooming in early August and some goldenrods …

This week there was an announcement from NASA that there is more lawn in the United States than irrigated corn.    Lawn is important to our way of life, we use …

Mr. Norcross, our founder, was enchanted by the Pine Barrens in New Jersey. During his life this precious habitat was open to extensive development for the military (Fort Dix and …

Last week I had an opportunity to visit the Pinelands National Reserve in New Jersey. This encompasses 1.1 million acres in southern New Jersey reaching from the coastline to about …

Welcome back to Invasive plants. If you are reading this, I must have struck a nerve in your garden last week. Identifying and removing invasive plants is important. They are …

I wrote about invasive species in Beauty or the Beast almost 2 months ago, but I am again thinking about invasive plants. This time they are not at all beautiful. …