Most if not all of the people denying climate change exists really don’t know, yet they plant the yellow flag and oil refineries for us all.
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Named after the city of Athens, Georgia, this yellow-flowered sweetshrub is a rare beauty.
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Oxeye daisy’s golden disc surrounded by white rays is a flower form familiar to us all.
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I’ve wanted to grow Virginia creeper, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, for a long time. I asked my favorite nurseryman where I might find it. He laughed and told me to be patient.
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Rare in my garden are annuals, their uniform sameness unrelenting through summer. The common poppy is an exception I am happily willing to make.
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Magnolia grandiflora is a big tree and somewhat out of fashion these days. If a gardener has a large garden and room and the need…
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My mother loved foam flower, Tiarella cordifolia. My wife Angela likes it too. I was always cool towards this native perennial. I seem to be…
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Buff beauty is a Hybrid musk rose introduced in 1939 in the United Kingdom by Ann Bentall. I ponder what it must have felt like…
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Looking like a character straight from the pages of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, the man appeared, singular and alone, along with a…
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I was seventeen the first time the fragrance of Calycanthus floridus hit me, standing in the Georgia woods. I’m glad this memory is written down somewhere,…
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Plant Annabelle hydrangea in areas of the garden shaded from the afternoon sun. The flowers, when they come, will light up your landscape. Native to the eastern United States, smooth hydrangea, Hydrangea arborescens, grows 5′-10′. The native species’ flowers are less showy than Annabelle hydrangea.
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