Water is increasingly become a scarce commodity for gardeners and many measures are being taken to make the most of the water supply we have. One of these measures is…
Spanish needles is a summer annual native to tropical America. It is found along most of the East coast, Midwest, South and west to California. Spanish needles prefers partial shade,…
Native from Nova Scotia to Florida and west to Mississippi where it grows in swamps, inkberry is a medium sized broad leaved evergreen shrub. It has a spreading habit and…
Roses have a reputation of being prone to problems causes by diseases and pests. Unfortunately, there is some truth to this belief but rose’s vary enormously in their susceptibility. Some…
One of the icons of the deep South, the live oak is often shown draped with Spanish moss. Its huge massive size, wide-spreading horizontal branches, and stiff, glossy, leathery leaves…
Gardens are made up of more than plants and Lindsay Barret Beorge’s book, In the Garden: Who’s Been Here? introduces the reader to some of the animals that might be…
The mallow family is best known for cotton, cocao, okra, hibiscus, and hollyhock, but includes other plants with showy flowers such as sidalcea, globe mallow, and lavatera, as well as…
This native of eastern and central United States is a small compact deciduous shrub with medium texture and rounded form. It produces yellow flowers about one inch across with five…
Roses are known to be susceptible to a variety of diseases and pests and compared to many other plants commonly grown in gardens they are. Of course, the kind of…
A native of woodlands in southeastern United States, bottlebrush buckeye is a wide, suckering deciduous shrub that needs plenty of room to grow. In summer, its palmately compound leaves are…
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