Flower borders, interesting shrubs, and mixed perennial and annual beds give all summer color.

Twig furniture in the Smoky Mountains becomes part of the landscaping.

This is kitchen gardening 101 with a twist. The twist is…….. We are going to plant a vegetable garden hydrponically. The little cart above is a display at a nearby garden center and would not hold up to the process we’ll use in our backyard garden but isn’t it pretty? (every time I say hay–that [...]

I didn’t want to kill it. Confession: I know how to kill lamium and it’s easy. I had a very pretty patch of lamium which usually started blooming about right now. However, it croaked last season when I put pine needles in my beds. Has this happened to anyone else? It’s a mint so I [...]

We have some pitiful color when spring comes calling. Hard to find a tree worth looking at. It’s subtle. It doesn’t do anything to make North Carolina a place to visit.

A new garden magazine by the garden bloggers is due out February 14th, 2011. The first issue features over 30 of the best garden blogs on the internet. A Sample Copy is HERE It’s my project and I’m working very hard on it. Each month a new issue comes out on the 15th. The March [...]

The purplelicious Chastetree is a small tree bursting with deep lavender blooms.

Keeping up with almost 500,000 visitors is a full time blogging job.

Here is proof that McAfee http://www.McAfee.com/ is bullying me to use their software. These are screen shots from my computer showing that I can not comment in defense of myself unless I put their code on my website. I have tried to call that company, leave comments on the post about my website, and numerous other [...]

Have you heard? Garden Bloggers are creating a magazine! It will go live on February 14th. The first issue is free and can be viewed at Best Garden Blogs.com . You won’t have to buy a year’s subscription. You can pay from month to month. Download the whole magazine or just your favorite articles. There [...]

http://www.McAfee.com/ is bullying me into doing business with them. They killed me on my first day going live with my new website. They called us kitchen gardens a bunch of dangerous people.

Is it shameful to claim yourself as a garden writer and then you have no clue what the above rose is called? I have a file in my computer called Forgetting their name in pictures. I’m sure you all do though it may have a different name. I am of the belief that you don’t [...]

Wick away excess water from you seed trays. a little trick using terry cloth

Suppose, the Best Garden Blogs from all over the world, started their own magazine? Would it be a hit? Would it be filled with pages and pages of your outstanding photos? There aren’t enough garden blogs featured in magazines. How can we inspire gardeners if they can’t see our gardens. We need to get exposure [...]

Nothing grows more lovely than the iris in its wonder. The irises with floppy ears and long necks do go blunder. I long to be in an iris field when the blossoms sway and banter. I long to be in an iris field when the red dirt turns to color. Nothing grows like an iris [...]

Building Flowered Burms certainly does create interests. Well what is a flowered burm anyway? Well don’t google it with your safe search turned off–whoa…let’s not go there. Ok, a burm is a manmade hill. Most are made to enhance or obstruct a view. The one above was strategically placed at the Bob Timberlake Gallery in [...]