Posts by Jenks Farmer
Fabulous! Tritellia laxa ‘Queen Fabiola’
Isaac Introduces Himself….
So I guess I should get on it and go ahead and do this blog post. Let’s start off with an introduction. Hi, I’m Isaac Kirwan and I’m the first intern for the crinum lilies. I’m 19, live in Greenville, and I go to Spartanburg Community College for Horticulture. Now most people I talk to…
Read MoreTime or Money
Years ago, Dr. J.C. Raulston did a presentation for me at Riverbanks Botanical Garden which he called Time or Money. It was about how in gardening some people think the later can substitute for the former. He showed that you can plant little plants and take care of them and wait or plant big plants…
Read MoreWhen Modern Landscaping Practices Kill Perfectly Good Plants
I spent the day pulling up thousands of dollars worth of tea olive and other shrubs, then filling a 33 foot long dumpster with them. 15 feet wide and 250 feet long, the shrub border that failed was planted 5 years ago, with really nice plants, by someone else. It’s a shame, it makes me…
Read MoreJenks & Tom’s Road Trip to Raleigh
Serial Internships & Old Dorm Stories
You know how they have classes for college freshmen intended to weed out the slackers? Well, back then, I was a self weeder. After an academically embarrassing freshman year, I left Clemson to do an internship with the Greenery on Hilton Head Island; spraying all the chemicals it takes to keep that fantasy world green.…
Read MoreNew Cover
Hey, We got a new cover for the book! Choosing it has been an interesting experience, I’ll write about it all one day. Today is gardening. Tomorrow morning I’ll write about our new intern. But what do you think? Our professional photographer friend from Augusta, Sharon Wilson took the pic.
Read MoreFall Garden Visiting Slide Show
November has been a busy time with garden visiting and talking and trading plants and such. Here’s a little slide show of a few of the gardens we’ve visited. We’re still dividing plants, no it’s not too cold. But next week is sharing time again; on Monday, Bob Polomski & Jenks talk about Deep Rooted…
Read MoreFlorence Museum
Take a few minutes to enjoy progress and planting at the new The Florence Museum, where I was asked to create an organic, free form garden in a huge rectangular courtyard which is surrounded by rectangular buildings. And, where the plants all have ties to the geographical origins of items in the museum collection! It’s…
Read MoreWhy We Grow Our Own; Old Way Just Works Better for Propagating Crinum Lilies
Oh Man That Hurts! Two years of cultivation and care and now we have to dump all of these crinum lily bulbs. Why? Because the person I bought them from sold them as one thing, but in actuality, they are a mix of colors and habits of growth. Since they were tiny products of a…
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