Using Georgia Native Plants

The leaves are starting to fall, many of them stressed by the hot temperatures and lack of rain in September this year. I’m not sure that it...

I have lived in Georgia for 31 years now but had never traveled to one of Georgia’s barrier islands until now. The Georgia coast is shor...

I love having native plants in my garden. Every moment that I can do so finds me slipping into the garden to find a beautiful flower, a hu...

Bidens / Conoclinium Yellow and blue flower combinations are some of the most appealing and at no time is that more apparent in the na...

Those of us who nurture our small plot of land see the rewards of our efforts in the daily visits of birds and butterflies. I see the bird...

Bidens aristosa I have a pretty yellow flower blooming in my garden this week: bearded beggarticks ( Bidens aristosa ). It is an annual ...

Hog peanut ( Amphicarpaea bracteata ) Native vines bloom throughout the year, starting as early as January in some years when the ye...