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Native Son: July 16, 2020

By Steven Chamblee • July 16, 2020

Preface from Neil…I got a call from my dear friend Steven Chamblee first thing this morning. He’d been up since 3, and figurative wads of paper were all over the …

Encounter With Grace

By Steven Chamblee • June 17, 2020

So I’m buzzing around the arboretum on the Gator, hauling pine straw bales and other supplies to keep the volunteers happy and on task, when I stop to fill a …

Top Five Great Little Moments — In the Southern Living Garden This Month

By Steven Chamblee • May 20, 2020

So I’m out there in the developing Southern Living Garden, diggin’ holes and pluggin’ shrubs with a first-time volunteer named Chance. As one of my regular volunteers, Joyce, is nearing …

Native Son: With a Little Help from My Friends

By Steven Chamblee • April 15, 2020

10:05pm…and I am up for the day. My circadian rhythm, which is peculiar enough already, was sucker-punched by the Great Easter Power Blackout that rendered my trusty CPAP as worthless …

Native Son: Top Five Reasons NOT to Plant a Garden

By Steven Chamblee • March 18, 2020

What’s with all these maniacs and their gardens? Life is complicated enough without all this soil toil, this botanical bother, this horticultural hullabaloo. Who needs it?!?! I humbly present to …

Native Son: Big Ideas, Bad Ideas, and Little Red Wagons

By Steven Chamblee • February 18, 2020

My brain is still buzzing from attending the annual conference of the Texas Association of Botanical Gardens & Arboreta (TABGA). This year’s host was the Dallas Arboretum, and, like everything …

Native Son: Everyday Miracles

By Steven Chamblee • January 13, 2020

Do you believe in miracles? I mean…other than the obvious ones, like surviving a little drive up Hwy 75 in Dallas on any given Friday. I mean little miracles, everyday …

Native Son: December 19, 2019

By Steven Chamblee • December 18, 2019

Mere days before Christmas and I haven’t bought a thing. No jewelry for my wife, not a necklace, not a ring. Yesterday, I got a phone call from the fabulous …

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