Using Georgia Native Plants

This blog post was inspired by an article published recently about ‘tree blindness.’ It was a story about people living in a city with tree...

Question mark butterfly I enjoy seeing butterflies in the garden; I think of them as one of the fruits of my labors, along the lines of...

Carolina mantis Praying mantis is a pretty well-known insect; kids love ‘em, and they're always fun to see, right? That’s the way ...

A new book came out last year by Larry Weaner and Thomas Christopher. It is titled: Garden Revolution: How our landscapes can be a source...

Even the adults benefit from the 'weeds' August is one of the peak caterpillar months around here. Last year I had a lot of fun...

We all appreciate flowers that do well in our gardens so it’s my turn to jump on the bandwagon that one particular phlox has inspired: Phlo...

Roadsides are a bit of an obsession with me. I love to explore them in search of native plants that might be surviving there, and I’ve be...