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Historic Columbia Members Only Plant Sale Sept. 28 4-6 p.m.
The crew will be on hand to share our love of these special plants. We’ve tried to pick plants with South Carolina connections and of course, plants that thrive in our zone. This is a members-only sale but you can join now and get to come. Our plants are priced at a great value. We…
Read MorePineapple Lily, New York Times, and A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach
You can skip to various links in this story. 1. NY Times article on Pineapple Lily. 2. Our podcast discussion of pineapple lily or 3. Our shopping page for pineapple lily bulbs. Even as a teenager, I had penpals. Some of them, I still know. One became a famous horror writer. After adulthood and emails…
Read MoreSnowflakes or Snowdrops Bulbs that Outlast Us and Pretty Things Up for Folks that Come Later
I imagine he wore a fedora. One passed on or left accidentally by some traveler. His wife, the cook, the kitchen manager asked him to do it. Her kitchen, 100 yards from the house, revolved around a roaring fire. Like other outbuildings on the farm, it’s a practical, white, box of a building designed to…
Read More5 Seeds to Plant Now To Feed Your Soil & Soul in the Fall
Anticipation steeps on the farm. We, or maybe just me, are drawn to watching over our new seedlings as they mature into strong plants. I keep watch under the moonlight. I lend a helping hand to secure the grappling tendrils of a young Hyacinth Bean vine. Sometimes I go to this dark and mysterious place…
Read MoreJenkster’s Parsley Party Salsa
It’s too easy to grow and too good for your body to be used only as a garnish. Years ago, I came up with this way to use a lot parsley in a salsa — it is an unexpected crowd-pleaser inspired by a trip to Cambodia! The ingredients list is below. Here’s what to do:…
Read MorePlant List for Greenville Master Gardeners — Funky Little Flower Farm
The Bulb Lawn Ornithogalum umbellatum Star of Bethlehem Southern Snowflake Leucojum aesiveticum Read More Muscari neglectum Grape Hyacinth Tulipa clusiana Lycoris radiata Red Spider Lily Read More Lycoris sprengeri Tie-die Spider Lily Summer Bulbs Haemanthis aka Scadoxis Blood Lily Read More Amorphophalus sp. Read More Hymenocallis harrisiana Mexican River…
Read MoreFarm Lunch & Learn
A little farmstead down a bumpy dirt road, a lot of physical work and some ingenuity — that’s what American agriculture grew up on. Lots of us have come back to that after sowing oats around the globe, running away then thinking we could figure out a way to re-make those farmsteads with a new…
Read MoreNative Trees Handout
This is a plant list for a presentation for Columbia Green Foundations. We’ll leave it posted here for just 24 hours! TIPS Start Small Show Your Root Flare Plant for Diversity Take Care; Water, Lime, and Root Zone BIG TREES Bald Cyprus Taxodium distichum ‘Lindsey Skyward’, ‘Shawnee Brave’,…
Read MoreBuild Your Soil & Soul with Late Summer Cover Crops
Once I considered writing a book called Farm, Yard, Garden. The premise would be that farming and horticulture are based on the same science but used for different goals. What a mistake that would have been. Big agriculture and my farm, yard, or garden have almost nothing in common. Being a part of, a…
Read MoreEryngium pandanifolium Needs a Better Name & It Oughta Mention Tree Frogs
Like the best of “exclamation point” plants, giant eryngium adds evergreen structure to a garden. But like, drought-tolerant plants, the leaves look stiff and foreboding to some people. One garden client used to constantly tell me to leave my ‘pokey and prickly’ plants out of her designs! Some of those things can be hell to…
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