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Native Son: My Favorite Garden

By Steven Chamblee • June 19, 2024

People ask me all the time… ”What’s your favorite garden?” That’s ridiculous, of course. It’s like asking to choose between a perfect ribeye steak, Junior Yokum’s home grown corn, Barbara …

Native Son: Hemlock Holmes and Dodder Watson

By Steven Chamblee • May 15, 2024

A Horticultural Murder Mystery … To Die For! It was a dark and stormy night … and I watched from a covered porch across the street as Mary Gold, wearing …

Native Son: April 18, 2024

By Steven Chamblee • April 17, 2024

So here I lay, upon the ground,Thinking deep thoughts, so profound:Like…”Will a kumquat come true from seed?”and “How did I get here?”… of course.(Seems I squatted down to pull a …

Native Son: Empress Tree

By Steven Chamblee • March 20, 2024

So … I’m cruising down a little neighborhood street in southwest Fort Worth when I spy this tree. Not just any tree. This particular kind of tree seems to stir …

Native Son: Live Oak

By Steven Chamblee • February 14, 2024

Sittin’ out here on the porch, basking in this rich darkness of a relatively warm February night in Fort Worth. Not just any darkness. I’m talking about that deep, cavern-like …

Native Son: Next Year’s Garden

By Steven Chamblee • January 18, 2024

Frozen in. Roads are iced. Milk and bread. Netflix. Seed catalogs. Seed stash. Perfect.So I’m working on a design for a Grandmother Garden. Grandmother Garden…oh my. Balsam Impatiens, Hollyhocks, Four …

Native Son: December 21, 2023

By Steven Chamblee • December 18, 2023

I got a Christmas gift a little early this year … a trip to the Atlanta Botanical Garden! So in the spirit of the season, I thought I might share …

Native Son: A Walk in the Woods

By Steven Chamblee • November 15, 2023

At the end of a 670-mile trip crossing the mighty Mississippi and cutting through the heart of those fall-festooned forests of eastern Alabama is Atlanta, Georgia. Aside from a few …

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