Using Georgia Native Plants

Common names can be tricky and our native “ginger” is no exception.  These plants are in the genus Hexastylis if they are evergreen and Asa...

I garden for wildlife.  I enjoy blooms and attractive foliage as much as anyone, but my plants do double duty.  My plants support wildlife: ...

Arbor Day is celebrated on different dates throughout the U.S. due to climate differences. For Georgia it is the third Friday in February – ...

This week I had a chance to go on a field trip with the Georgia Botanical Society to observe some of the native woody plants in their winter...

While I have a number of native vines in the natural area of my yard, it was several years before I decided to add new ones to the landscape...

The grey days of January can be a discouraging time for the gardener.  The once bright and crisp leaves of fall have faded to brown and lie ...

As a companion piece to my posts last year on Winter Twigs and Leaf Identification , this post gives some tips for learning how to identify...