Made any resolutions for 2009? My list includes the usual (eat less and exercise more), but I’m also thinking green this time around. When it comes to my next year’s garden, I resolve to: keep my indeterminate tomatoes staked as they grow, instead of waiting until they start to fall over. weed more often, so the [...]
We admit, we’re a little nosy here at the 2009 flower show. What are you passionate about? C’mon, you can tell us. After all, the theme for the show is Passion: How Do You Bloom?, and there’s no wrong answer to the question. Passion is for… Flowers Gardening Life well-lived Garden parties Sharing with friends [...]
Lately I’ve been getting a new garden catalog in the mail almost every day. Today brought a packet of info from the Trial Gardens at the University of Georgia in Athens. Ooo la la….the gardeners there have given their thumbs-up to some stunning new plants for 2009. Known as the Athens Select 2008-2009 Plant Collection, [...]
It’s dreary and rainy here today, pretty typical weather for December in Atlanta, so I decided to dig out some photos from last summer. I was looking for some colorful reminders that spring is coming, and I found these pictures. You might recognize the yellow and black butterflies as Tiger Swallowtails , the state butterfly [...]
Merry Christmas! We are so excited about what next month will bring: the launch of the 2009 Southeastern Flower Show on January 28. We’re passionate about the gardens and ideas we’re going to share with you, as speakers lecture on everything from African violets to oak trees, and experts tell you how to find the [...]
” ‘Twas the night before Christmas, And all through the house Not a creature was stirring, Not even a ……..” Okay, this isn’t a mouse. It’s Cornbread, one of the little cats that likes to hang around my garden–possibly because I keep out a bowl of kitty chow for my furry neighborhood visitors. He’s pictured [...]
Have you checked your mailbox lately? Mine is starting to fill up with new seed catalogs, and yesterday, I got one from Tomato Growers Supply Company, a mail order business that will celebrate 25 years in 2009. Tomato Growers, as you’d guess, specializes in tomatoes, and there are some delicious new varieties coming onto the [...]
Remember those bottle trees you used to see in yards all around the South? They were actually dead trees that creative gardeners decorated by sticking empty colored bottles onto the bare branches. Gardening author and radio personality Felder Rushing still has a couple in his front yard in Mississippi. Click here to see what I’m [...]
Do your spirits need a lift in this cold and rather dreary season? Enjoy this picture of late summer flowers, sent in by Patti, a gardener who photographed them while on vacation at a Montana lodge last August. Patti writes, “I couldn’t believe this lodge was able to keep so many beautiful flowers going during [...]
Ho, ho, ho! Christmas is coming, and I’ve got a gift for you gardeners out there. My publisher, B&H Books, has created an absolutely gorgeous calendar for 2009, packed with beautiful garden photos and growing tips. It also contains quotes and scripture from my new book, Mustard Seeds: Thoughts on the Nature of God and Faith. You [...]