Lessons About Plants & Gardens
Plant Tying, Staking and Tutoring with Found Objects
Me The Model
I’m one of those people who hates photos of me. But it’s happening. There’s one on this page I don’t mind but generally, ugh. Couldn’t someone have told me to buckle my belt? Lots this morning. the only good one was of Lorraine Clark……Here she is, with a single Nigella flower.
Read More20 Tough Plants for Parking Lot Gardens
For 80 years this was a parking lot. Can we reclaim, plant, green up even a little fringe of the space? It’s a tough spot. Days often reach just over 100 F which means asphalt surface could be about 140F in the daytime. That stresses many plants. Even plants that can tolerate that but need…
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Diversity
I picked up a glossy book of gardens designed by Miami guy — spectacular things; theatrical sets full of creativity. And I thought, wow, I could never have a book on my garden designs like this. They are too diverse, they’d look silly in a book —- a little tiny yard, a parking lot, a…
Read MorePic’s from the Lily Farm
Beauty Inside
In downtown New Orleans we’ve seen lots of real life. And walking the garden district is an amazing mix of ultra swank, fluffed-up places, cute renovated cottages and seriously poor shacks on the edges. But we had an agenda — figure out what fits in my friend’s front pots. To avoid the too, too trendy,…
Read MoreStone & Cob Floor in the Farm Studio-barn
Why make a stone using cob mixture as mortar? Part of our “barn/studio” walls are made from cob. We liked the process of mixing. We have fine, sticky red clay, lots of it, so we didn’t have to buy mortar mix. We wanted a natural, low cost floor. So instead of mortar or wood, we…
Read MoreBreeders
I’m not a good breeder. That requires a forsite and planning that my mind doesn’t do well. So, my crinum selections are all happenstance and simply noticing something cool that’s happened in the field. But I am a good gardener and part of being a good gardener is remember connections between plants and people. Sometimes…
Read MoreWednesday’s Garden
Yesterday was so busy I forgot to follow up with my promise of new gardens everyday this week. If you’re in 75 miles of Aiken, take this once year chance to buy at Woodlander’s Nursery. Yep, this world renowned nursery is open just once a year. Here’s Carl from Woodlanders. In Augusta, this killer private…
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