Picture yourself in a passionate embrace–at the flower show! No, friends, you haven’t stumbled onto the cover of a new romance novel, although the guy in this picture does look a lot like Fabio. This is a poster on display at the flower show, and as you can see, there’s a cut-out where the woman’s [...]
Ladies and gentleman, Elvis hasn’t left the building….he is in the building. Well, okay. There’s a poster of Elvis inside the Cobb Galleria, not the King himself. But I bet he’d be here if he could. After all, one of his biggest songs was about a “hunk-a, hunk-a burning love” He’d fit right in, because [...]
Gardening friends, there’s just one day left, and the 2009 Southeastern Flower Show will open its doors for the 22nd year! I can’t wait. Strolling through the fabulous gardens, smelling sweet-scented daffodils and narcissus, learning new ways to grow my favorite plants, and discovering new plants to grow—the flower show is the highlight of the [...]
Passion is the flower show’s theme this year, an emotion we usually associate with red. But did you know that green is the new color for passion? It is, thanks to the community gardens sprouting up in suburbs, schools, senior centers, and downtown areas. A community garden is simply a piece of land tended by [...]
As promised, here’s another preview of a 2009 Georgia Gold Medal winner, as chosen by the good folks at the State Botanical Garden in Athens. This is Amsonia hubrichtti, ‘Arkansas Bluestar,’ and it’s a terrific perennial for Southern gardens. In the spring, it produces mounds of billowy, willow-like foliage topped by star-shaped blue blossoms. In [...]
Did you know that North Georgia was once the site of a gold rush? You can’t make a fortune in the mines there anymore, but you can strike gold in your own backyard when you use the 2009 Georgia Gold Medal winners in your garden. Gold Medal winners are plants that have won the approval [...]
Flower show fans, want to know more about Mike? Mike McGrath, that is, who’ll be speaking from the Home Depot stage on the opening day of the show. At 11 A.M. on Wed., Jan. 28, Mike will tell us all about his passion for organic gardening, and share “Seven Secrets of Successful Organic Gardeners.” Here’s [...]
Dear Gardening Friends, Take a look at this picture. Don’t do this in your garden. Now, it’s not that I have anything against gnomes. They can be cute in their own stumpy, strange way. But why burden your beds and borders with–dare I say it? ugly statuary—when you can have a beautiful garden instead? Say [...]
One of the most attractive features you can add to a garden is water, whether it’s in the form of a pond, fountain, or man made brook. Water sounds so soothing when it gurgles and trickles and bubbles. Even the backyard birds can’t resist it; they’ll often drop by for a quick drink or bath. [...]
Maybe you’ve never heard of NOAA, so let me introduce you. NOAA is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, pronounced like No-ah, or Noah, the guy who built that big ark when it rained. NOAA is part of the U.S. government’s department of commerce (commerce? Yep. Apparently its mission to protect lives and property and [...]