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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 …

Native Son: September 21, 2023

By Steven Chamblee • September 19, 2023

Last month I left you at the beginning of a little jaunt through the Columbus, Ohio’s, magnificent Franklin Park Conservatory. I unashamedly love this place, and must admit that she …

Native Son: On the Road Again…

By Steven Chamblee • August 15, 2023

Left Longview, Texas, headed off for Columbus, Ohio, to attend the Cultivate ’23 show, but I wound up in St. Louis, Missouri instead. Stupid GPS! Maddening gadget! Nagging voice constantly …

Native Son: Hot For Chocolate

By Steven Chamblee • July 19, 2023

Dense fog slithers slowly through the steaming jungle, swallowing the sunlight and submerging the entire forest in a deep sweat of droplets. Birds and monkeys cry out from the boiling …

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