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May 2026

What Found Me When I Was Looking In All the Wrong Places (again...)
Sometimes the things we're looking for arrive on their own schedule. A photo essay from the Ted Stiles Preserve about missed expectations, unexpected…
 • Samantha Bean
Episode 30 | Looking in All the Wrong Places
A threatened shorebird, a gray afternoon at Sandy Hook, and the kind of encounter you don't go looking for. Episode 30 of The Flutter By Effect podcast.
 • Samantha Bean
9:38
Drought or Deluge? Nine Years with a Rain Garden
Rain gardens handle drought and deluge. Do they stop working when it stops raining? What this garden teaches about resilience and going with the flow.
 • Samantha Bean
FIELD NOTE 003 | Lost and Found in the Native Plant Garden
Why a native plant disappearing from your garden isn't always a loss — and what a vole, some bee balm, and a surprise sprout are trying to tell me.
 • Samantha Bean
Episode 29 | Why You Should Be Planting A Caterpillar Cafe
A butterfly garden needs more than nectar plants. It needs a caterpillar cafe. Discover why planting for the full monarch life cycle...including the…
 • Samantha Bean
5:42
Phenology At-a-Glance
Phenology is the science of nature's timing and arrivals. But what happens when that same calendar starts showing up in your own life? From bird and…
 • Samantha Bean
Episode 28 | The Secretive Garden: A Hidden Nest Told Me Everything (Almost)
Remember the bloom gap? This is what happens on the other side of the wait. A new episode for those who know that patience is part of the practice when…
 • Samantha Bean
8:56
I Made a Promise in March. A Tree Swallow Collected on It in May.
Sometimes, you go after something so wild you don't even know if it's worth it. Until it is.
 • Samantha Bean
Episode 27 | The Bloom Gap
It's May. You planted for pollinators. You went to the plant sales. You did everything right. So why does your garden look like nothing but green?
 • Samantha Bean
7:59
Bridgerton-Level Beauty: The Native Flower Giving This Non-Gardener Heart Palpitations
One must ask, is it possible to love a flower this much? This non-gardener is utterly undone and admiration aflame. Discover the red-lantern bloom that…
 • Samantha Bean
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