Southern Gardening: Tasty, nutritious kale brings garden beauty
This weekend, I was excited to see that one of my favorite fall/winter vegetables is beginning to play a prominent role — if not center stage — in my ornamental landscape and culinary garden. Of course, I’m referring to kale.
Southern Gardening: Use Telstar dianthus for cool season color
One of the attributes I look for when choosing annual color plants is how hardworking they will be in my home landscape.
Southern Gardening: Use snapdragons for lively fall landscapes
I like growing snapdragons when the seasons shift to cool weather. The colorful flowers are like a floral kaleidoscope in the landscape.
Gary Bachman: Plant crotons for fall foliage color
What a rollercoaster recently for Southern Gardening!
Southern Gardening: Prepare gardens before storms arrive
I write this while contemplating what a wild year 2020 has been. There’s no need to remind anyone about the pandemic that has literally changed our landscape.
Gary Bachman: Attract Monarch butterflies with milkweed selections
Many of my gardening friends are already on the lookout for the annual migration of Monarch butterflies on their way to their Mexico wintering grounds. Witnessing this migration is awe-inspiring.
Southern Gardening: Still time to plant and enjoy summer pentas
We’re already into our September garden, and lots of great things are going to happen.
Southern Gardening: Garden enjoyment up as pandemic remains
I’ve been thinking about the whole COVID-19 pandemic experience we’ve endured for the last several months — like social distancing and face masks — and the activities we look forward to enjoying once again.
Southern Gardening: Try herbs for late summer gardens
In the late summer and into the fall, some of my favorite garden plants are the annual herbs.
Southern Gardening: Find garden spots for ornamental peppers
Last week, I told you about culinary peppers that I like to grow and ultimately consume. This week, I want to share another way to use peppers in our second summer garden and landscape.
Southern Gardening: Tropical hibiscus makes late summer color splash
I’m staying with the theme of second summer this week because I was out in my landscape early this morning taking care of a task that was hard to do but inevitable.
Southern Gardening: Include sun coleus in Mississippi gardens
A couple of weeks ago, I gave you my thoughts on the second summer season in our Mississippi landscapes and gardens.
Southern Gardening: Hardy Summer Storm hibiscus is garden treat
One of my landscape joys is growing plants that share their big flowers with me.
Southern Gardening: Veggie gardens thrive despite summer heat
Each year as we approach Independence Day, my landscape and garden begin a transition to what I like to call “second summer.” This is due to the heat and humidity that set in anywhere from late April to mid-May.
Southern Gardening: Bring coveted blue to home landscapes
Everyone has a certain color that is their absolute favorite, and I’m no different. And while I really like the entire palette of colors available for our gardens and landscape, the one color I must have is blue.
Southern Gardening: Rudbeckia are great flower choices for heat
Over the last several months, I’ve been spending even more time in my home garden and landscape, and many of you may have done the same.
Southern Gardening: Use care when trimming storm-damaged trees
Last week was the traditional start of the storm season, and as if on cue, Tropical Storm Cristobal paid us a visit.
Southern Gardening: Tiny flowers can have a big garden presence
Many of the garden center stars that draw the most attention are plants with big, flashy flowers.
Southern Gardening: Use flowers that create mats of color in gardens
One of the landscape views many gardeners ignore is the horizontal plane.
Southern Gardening: Profusion zinnias give strong color all summer
I’m becoming increasingly optimistic about our 2020 Mississippi summer gardens and landscapes. COVID-19 is on everyone’s mind, but an upside to the virus is that more homeowners are gardening than ever before.