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Native Son: The Horticultural Grinch

By Steven Chamblee • November 18, 2020

Note from Neil…This story, a great one, first appeared in e-gardens in November 2018. It’s even more fitting in this year of the pandemic. Many of you did not see …

Native Son: Homecoming

By Steven Chamblee • October 15, 2020

Got asked to do some Master Gardener Intern training back at my old stomping grounds, Chandor Gardens. I’m always happy to oblige when asked to do anything for the Parker …

Native Son: My New Old Friend

By Steven Chamblee • September 16, 2020

“Time is too long to those who mourn, too short to those who laugh,but to those who love, time is eternity.”—Theodore Klein Once in a great while, I get lucky …

Native Son: Top Ten Reasons to Visit the Longview Arboretum

By Steven Chamblee • August 19, 2020

(I can’t believe I’m writing the first seven words of this article…)Since the mid-August cool down began, things are looking up at the Longview Arboretum & Nature Center. Sooooo, if …

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 …

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