Using Georgia Native Plants

Echinacea purpurea (white cultivar) Growing up in the South, white clothing was a way to reflect the sun and stay a little cooler when ...

As a wave of 90+ degree temperatures washes over North Georgia where I live, summer is just getting started. We are only 1 month into summ...

I briefly mentioned in a 2018 blog that, thanks to a tip from one of my blog readers, I realized that a plant had been misidentified. C...

Either this year is a very good year for my alternate-leaf dogwood ( Cornus alternifolia ) in terms of fruit or I just happened to notice it...

Oenothera fruticosa I was surprised by a bloom on this sundrops plant ( Oenothera fruticosa ) this week. I wasn’t expecting that it wo...

I like to occasionally profile small nurseries that sell native plants. This week is a relatively new one—it was started in 2014—and it ...

Butterfly population records are full of occasional strays. In the last few years, I’ve had stray Zebra longwings and American painted la...