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Finally, I took a good photograph of blue false indigo by taking a picture of a bee for my children.
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.
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 reputation of coming from the …
Named after the city of Athens, Georgia, this yellow-flowered sweetshrub is a rare beauty.
Oxeye daisy’s golden disc surrounded by white rays is a flower form familiar to us all.
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.
Rare in my garden are annuals, their uniform sameness unrelenting through summer. The common poppy is an exception I am happily willing to make.
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 for a gigantic evergreen as …
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 alone in my apathy towards …
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 to introduce such a beautiful …
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, a moment known only to …
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 …
From childhood onward we know purple coneflower in the American landscape.
A red buckeye I planted years ago was the first to yield actual buckeye nuts. I gave one buckeye nut to my son and another to my daughter. The buckeye …
Who was Frank Brownlee and why is a camellia named after him?
Yellow buckeye is native to a relatively narrow range of the Appalachian mountains. I love buckeyes without reserve. Their form echoes the American landscape on small scale, with a lazy grace …
When I was nineteen I was walking down a Georgia dirt road
A testament to Wright’s commitment to both architecture and the land.
My daughter Flynne asked for a terrarium last Christmas. I decided to build a terrarium and here’s what I learned. I had a professor during my undergraduate years in the …
flynne daughter, do you believe the prairies art? a horizon expanding. they mourn the death of Venice but i do not. all kings fall, but the people will remain, one. …
what i was trying to say is this: there are days, more than you can imagine, where knowing the guitar is there makes the struggle lift away. some struggles i …
(The following is in no way meant disrespectfully to chain link fence owners). I do not know if others have noticed that chain link fence owners who desire a rose seem …
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