Activities - Growing Flowers From Bulbs
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Many of the earliest spring flowers grow from bulbs. The bulb is a store of food that lets the plant shoot up and grow before it is warm enough for most flowers.Only use bulbs that you can buy - never dig up bulbs that are growing wild!What you will need to get startedClay…
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Activities - Home-Made Sweet Homes for Native Bees
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It’s easy to build a “Bee Condo” for native bees!Many of the wild bees you may encounter in your backyard garden make their burrow homes in the soil. Some bees create hives in snags (a dead or dying standing tree, often with its branches broken off), or in holes in trees. The activity of…
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Just for Kids - Wildflower Activities
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From Celebrating WildflowersHome-Made Sweet Homes - Building Native Bee Nesting BlocksGrowing Flowers from BulbsGrowing a Surprise GardenPreserving WildflowersWild Flower Bookmark GiftFrom Our PartnersHow to Start a Butterfly GardenLandscaping for Wildlife (PDF, 713 KB)Make your own…
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Get out your crayons and get ready to color!Learn MoreVocabulary
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White Mariposa Lily (Calochortus eurycarpus)
White Mariposa Lily (Calochortus eurycarpus), iNaturalist, by Morgan Stickrod, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
By Gene Yates
USDA Plants Database, White Mariposa Lily (Calochortus eurycarpus) range map.…
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Southwestern Prickly Poppy (Argemone pleiacantha)
Closeup of a Southwestern Prickly Poppy flower on a roadside near Tombstone, Arizona. (© teesixb - stock.adobe.com)
By Charlie McDonald
Range map of the Southwestern Prickly Poppy (Argemone pleiacantha).…