Category Archives: Gardening

Gardening

Creating Soil Where Your Roots Thrive

Getting back to our roots takes on a slightly different meaning for gardeners. Growing great plants requires a firm commitment to create soil conditions where roots can thrive — one of the basics of horticultural success. 

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Mahonias Help Beat Winter Doldrums

If the world had aligned properly and I been born a trust-fund baby, I would be writing this from the cabana of a beach house in a place where the January temperature hovers in the 80s.  Hawaii or one of … Continue reading

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A Cactus for the Holidays

Ask most folks about a plant at Christmas and they’ll mention poinsettias or Christmas trees. Both of those are traditional parts of our holiday celebrations, but neither sticks around much past early January. If you want a great Christmas plant … Continue reading

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No Tea From These Camellias

Sweet iced tea is as southern as magnolia blossoms and chopped pork barbeque. It’s probably blasphemous to admit, but I, as a redneck southern boy, don’t like sweet tea. That’s almost as bad as admitting that I don’t particularly like … Continue reading

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Celebrate What You Can Have

The cooler days of autumn are perfect for festivals celebrating the bounty of another harvest, but my warped mind started thinking about another “bounty” — the HMS Bounty of Mutiny on the Bounty fame. Captain Bligh’s (at the time he … Continue reading