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Category: Flower Feature Series

  • Fall Flower Feature: Asters

    Seeing our native plants provide ecoservices – contributing food and habitat for surrounding plants – gives us a new appreciation for the relationships they foster. This fall, we’re excited to spotlight one of our favorite autumn flowers: the native aster.

  • Summer Flower Feature: Big Bluestem

    This growing season, we are welcoming native grasses to center stage. Though they provide valuable habitat for insect life and nesting material for the birds in the spring, we have noticed how underutilized and undervalued they are in urban gardens. Let’s change that! First, we’ll learn a little background on our featured plant; Big Bluestem…

  • Spring Flower Feature: Red Maple

    We are chuffed to be unfurling out of our winter-inspired fetal position. Our mornings have been spent basking in the warmth of the sun and making plans for gorgeous gardens all around Macomb.  Jen, the owner of MTG, was traveling through Europe last month and found herself captivated by the sunny yellow blooms of the…

  • Winter Flower Feature: Echinacea (Coneflower)

    In choosing which flower to feature this winter, we didn’t have to dig very far back in the archives. Our recent blog, “Love Letter from the Birds,” highlights echinacea’s relationship with the birds. In this post, however, we are focusing on the design elements that echinacea adds to a winter garden, as well as how…

  • Fall Flower Feature: Solidago (Goldenrod)

    Goldenrod is so in.  Our relationship with this bright fall icon has grown and we couldn’t be more tickled. You may remember our blog post titled “A Love Letter from the Birds” where we share how the birds are communicating with us through their BFF, goldenrod. We feel like the birds want us to talk…