Southern Gardening: Use lemongrass as annual or perennial
Last week, I focused on the 2018 Mississippi Medallion Winner fancy leaf kale. This week, let’s look at a second 2018 winner: lemongrass.
Southern Gardening: Fancy leaf kale named Mississippi Medallion winner
Garden catalogs start piling up by the front door at this time of year, and our two recent cold spells gave me time to look at them.
Southern Gardening: Nandina shrubs offer gorgeous winter color
The weather to start 2018 has certainly been crazy.
Southern Gardening: Be patient assessing plant damage after a hard freeze
I’ve been hearing and reading comments about the extreme cold we’re experiencing and how unusual it is. But to tell you the truth, these temperatures are not that unusual.
Southern Gardening: Make spring rudbeckia choices now
If you’ve been thinking about gardening this holiday season, it’s probably about poinsettias and other decorative indoor plants.
Southern Gardening: Gary lists his 2017 garden favorites
For the last Southern Gardening column of 2017, I want to take a look back at some of my absolute favorite plants from my home landscape this past year.
Southern Gardening: Crape myrtle upkeep does not include murder
As gardeners make New Year’s resolutions for their landscapes in 2018, I want to encourage all of them to resolve to correctly prune crape myrtles from this day forward.
Southern Gardening: Try black-eyed Susan vine for a resilient ground cover
Most folks have poinsettias and entertaining on the agenda during the holidays, but for this week’s column, I want to highlight a plant that has been an outstanding performer for me all year.
Southern Gardening: Poinsettias bring Christmas cheer and colors indoors
It seems like I’ve seen Christmas decorations in stores for at least a couple of months.
Southern Gardening: Ancient myths can find a place in modern gardens
Celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends got me thinking about traditions and beliefs, some popular in the distant past but gone by the wayside today.
Southern Gardening: Sorbet violas are big winter performers
The last two weeks, I’ve told you about two of my top three cool-season flowering bedding plants.
Southern Gardening: Choose Telstar dianthus for winter, spring color
Even though the air is still warm in many parts of Mississippi, it’s time to plant annual winter color.
Southern Gardening: Kale, cabbage are pretty and delicious in winter
This year, I’m getting an early start on my ornamental kale and cabbage planting for the fall.
Southern Gardening: Heirloom Confederate rose thrives across state
I have weekly favorite plants, as you may know, and one of my favorites started blooming in earnest over the last couple of weeks.
Southern Gardening: Use native beautyberry for fall landscape color
After cleaning the mess from Hurricane Nate, I had the chance to participate in two outstanding field days in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Southern Gardening: Last-minute preparations save gardens from storms
While Hurricane Nate was obviously not in the same class as Katrina, the last hurricane to hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast, it did provide gardeners a lesson in getting their landscapes ready before a storm.
Southern Gardening: Cannas thrive in heat, resist disease
Cannas are commonly grown as large-specimen plants and look fantastic mass planted in landscapes.
Southern Gardening: Use Gulf Muhly grass for winter looks, color
I know some homeowners who look at ornamental grasses and wonder what is the big deal; these plants are only grass.
Southern Gardening: Color fall gardens with ornamental peppers
Late summer and early fall are among my favorite times of the year because the ornamental peppers are starting to really color up.
Southern Gardening: Fall brings nekkid ladies to Southern landscapes
This is the time of year many gardeners have been waiting for all summer.