Southern Gardening: Use mulch for beauty and weed, temperature control
Early in the gardening year is the best time to tackle some gardening tasks before we go all-in planting our color and vegetables. Mulching your landscape beds should be at the top of that spring checklist.
In the Garden with Felder: Landscape layout, not plants, dictate a garden type
I have a neighbor who loves pruning potted plants into ancient-looking bonsai shapes.
Start of the new year a perfect time to begin gardening projects
The day-to-day pace of January is a bit slower! The 175 Santa Clauses are back in the boxes awaiting their trip back to storage. Then the 200-plus nativity sets will need to be packed up! During the process, my mind wanders — remembering the giver or the trip where they were purchased. Then thoughts of gardening projects that need to be done kick in and a warmth fills my soul.
In the Garden with Felder: Wildflowers in the lawn play important role in nature
Tis the season to hunker down in the garden, unless you are not a big fan of lawn wildflowers.
Southern Gardening: Make room for portulaca in your 2022 landscape
I follow a checklist for many of the plants I consider using in my coastal Ocean Springs garden and landscape each year. The plants need to thrive in heat and humidity, be drought tolerant and not need much garden supervision.
Southern Gardening: Make plans for 2022 garden season now
As I was thinking over the holidays about how my 2022 home garden will look, I was still harvesting heirloom tomatoes and various peppers from my 2021 garden. Can you imagine collecting fresh tomatoes and peppers on Christmas Day, let alone on New Year’s Day?
In the Garden with Felder: Covering plants in cold weather doesn’t necessarily help
Okay, we finally got bit by normal winter weather, albeit a few months later than usual. But because of unusually warm past few weeks, didn’t we have the most glorious flowering New Year’s Day ever?
Southern Gardening: Evaluate 2021 landscape to make plans for 2022
I like to close every year with a look back at plants that were some of the solid performers and those that were surprises in my landscape and garden.
Southern Gardening: Days of browsing garden catalogs are mostly over
Besides this being the multiple holiday season with Christmas and then New Year’s back-to-back, it’s also the time when many gardeners start planning their landscapes and plantings for the coming year.
Southern Gardening: Cassias add yellow blooms to coastal, fall landscapes
We’re in the season when social media is lit up with gorgeous images of flowering shrubs. The sasanqua camellias are particularly beautiful this fall, and how about the reblooming azaleas like Encore and newer Perfecto Mundo from Proven Winners?
Southern Gardening: Colorful poinsettias set holiday mood indoors
This is one of my favorite seasons — but aren’t they all? — for enjoying my membership in the horticulture community.
Five questions with Anthony Thaxton
Artist Walter Anderson’s iconic prints and drawings of the Gulf Coast are ubiquitous in the homes of Mississippians. With his new book and film, Anthony
Christmas shopping for the gardener
What was your favorite Christmas gift? I remember a metal dollhouse from Santa when I was about 5 or 6. The red mesh-like stocking was
Be thankful for garden’s beauty and performance
This Thanksgiving week, I’m recovering from a particularly nasty infection in my leg. I’m not looking for sympathy, but it has given me the opportunity
Southern Gardening: November is ideal bulb-planting time
When leaves fall and landscapes begin to look bare for winter, it can be easy to think it’s time to stay indoors. But fall is the ideal time for a variety of landscape chores.
Southern Gardening: Autumn reveals lichen presence in landscape
I usually don’t need a calendar to tell where we’re at in the four gardening seasons of the year. Each season fills my email inbox and social media channels with the current landscape and garden problems and concerns.
Growing with O: November garden tips
The beauty of the fall leaves excites me.
Southern Gardening: With extra care, gardeners can enjoy Barbados cherry
One fun gardening activity I enjoy living on the Gulf Coast is collecting and growing interesting tropical and subtropical fruit trees.
Southern Gardening: Ornamental peppers have use as holiday decoration
As an ornamental horticulture guy, I’m always thinking about how to expand or extend the usefulness of our landscape and garden plants. I’ve been toying
Southern Gardening: Plant cool-season pansies now for blooms all winter
I’m enjoying the changing weather that has finally arrived across Mississippi, and many of my summer annuals growing in planters and containers are getting a second wind. But, unfortunately for them, it’s time to get cool-season color planted.
