Don’t get too comfortable in your shorts and flip-flops just yet, for winter will most assuredly return for another round or two or three. But as I was out and about our fair city today, I couldn’t help but notice that spring–just when I need it the most–has finally begun to peek slowly and cautiously…
It’s Sunday afternoon and much of the South is bracing for yet another nasty swipe by Old Man Winter. He has already taken a couple of good whacks at us this season and it looks as though tonight’s snow and ice may extend as far south as Birmingham and perhaps even further! To help chase…
Hi everyone! I thought I’d share a few photos from the garden. It has been nearly two years since I moved and as some of you know, it took all of the first year just to get the beds whipped into shape, the weeds under control and gain some sense of control over what was…
I’m sure that for each of us there are a host of characters who played important roles in our lives, especially when we were children. My cast of characters happens to be a rather long list and oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, almost all of them had something to do with shaping me as…
I sat down at the computer today prepared to blog about Hedychium, or ginger lily, but as I was scrolling through my photos this iris (cultivar ‘Total Recall’) caught my eye. It reminded me that I had just been in a garden earlier this week where the remontant (re-blooming) iris were in their full fall…