Using Georgia Native Plants

In my travels, I occasionally come across a particularly nice display of a native plant in a designed landscape. I usually take a photo of i...

  Penstemon smallii A couple weeks ago I wrote about my garden’s new Penstemon species. They are still blooming – along with several other ...

  For those of us who talk about plants a lot, common names can be as vexing as they are useful. Common names for the same plant can vary, t...

  Long ago, perhaps sometime around 2008, I bought a beardtongue perennial at Home Depot. It was grown by a fairly local nursery and was lab...

  Doug Tallamy’s new book is entitled “ How Can I Help: Saving Nature With Your Yard .” Many of us have heard him speak a number of times a...

You've got to celebrate those plants that take your breath away. This week I rounded the corner to my backyard and caught sight of this ...

  For centuries non-edible gardening has focused on what is pleasing to us. Explorers have brought back plants from lands far and wide to en...