Click below to listen to my Garden Bite podcast: Prepping the landscape for winter

To rake or not or not to rake? Another question I get all the time is what to do with your perennials?  What are the advantages/disadvantages to leaving them be?  

To assist wildlife, the answer is simple. Leave the leaves. They provide shelter for local wildlife including bees, beetles, butterflies, moths and more. This from the Xerces Society: At the end of summer, mated queen bumble bees burrow only an inch or two into the  … [Continue reading]