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Life is better on the porch – by Diane Morey Sitton

By Diane Morey Sitton • July 9, 2024

It’s hard to be sure, but when you’re sitting on the porch the lemonade seems sweeter, the breezes seem cooler, and the birdsong seems more melodious than usual. Even life’s …

Gardening This Weekend: July 11, 2024

By Neil Sperry • July 9, 2024

Things move in fast forward when it gets hot. Here are things to check off your list this weekend. PLANT• Last call for planting fall tomatoes for most of the …

From the Sperry Garden: Peace Lilies

By Neil Sperry • July 1, 2024

They aren’t really lilies – not even close. They’re related to caladiums, anthurriums, philodendrons, dieffenbachias, aglaonemas and other plants with the unusual Jack-in-the-pulpit style blooms. But spathiphyllums do bring a …

Smilax, the briar

By Neil Sperry • July 1, 2024

We bought the 11 acres on which we live more than 50 years ago. It had a certain charm because it had a creek bed running through it. What I …

Dwarf Trident Maple ‘Miyasama yatsuba’

By Steve Huddleston • July 1, 2024

Trident maple itself is a small to medium-sized tree native to eastern Asia. You don’t see it very often this far south, but there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able …

Gardening This Weekend: July 4, 2024

By Neil Sperry • July 1, 2024

Here are the things I’d outline as the most pressing for this first weekend of July. PLANT• Fall tomato transplants. Choose small and mid-sized varieties. Protect transplants from hot afternoon …

Lovin’ the Blues

By Neil Sperry • June 25, 2024

We veteran gardeners certainly remember the time we saw our first fan flower (Scaevola aemula). Blue Wonder was first, and it was generally sold in big hanging baskets. Some of …

How Much Mulch Is Too Much Mulch?

By Neil Sperry • June 25, 2024

There’s a reason I bring this topic to our table today. This is the season when gardeners need to be thinking about mulching their beds. But that jumps too far …

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