Whose woods these are? I think I know! Mine! My yard is an overgrown maze of weeds, vines, leaves and plants that look like they’ve barely survived a nuclear winter. After neglecting it for so long as well as dealing with the overabundance of rainfall last September and a recent knee surgery, [...]

Aerial Photo of Douglasville, GA courtesy Telegraph.co.uk
This past Fall was a particularly trying time for me and some of my neighbors. In September 2009, certain areas of Georgia were flooded out where there were no official flood zones. We were graced with torrential rainfall that is only seen once a century. [...]

The downturn in the economy has created a surge in the phenomenon known as Staycations, where people opt to stay home instead of spending money on expensive vacations in other cities. In an effort to tighten financial belts in response to an era of vast uncertainty about the future, people are seeing the wisdom [...]

Journaling is a time honored tradition that allows the writer to record his or her most secret and sacred thoughts, however, it has also become useful in other applications. The explosive popularity of gardening has reincarnated the journal into a natural extension of how we approach the way we plan and maintain our gardens. Despite [...]

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I’m not a big fan of cold weather.  For obvious reasons, no one aspires to become the human equivalent of a popsicle, so having to withstand constant wind shears is no one’s idea of having a good time. However, for me, the worst thing about this time of year is watching your garden [...]

As I walk through the tall arched wrought iron gates, I pause briefly to glance at a cherub faced sentry urging me down the pathway. Immediately, I’m greeted by a kaleidoscopic explosion of honey-colored buddleias, diffident irises and sweeping climbing roses painted in brilliant pinks surrounded by hedges of variegated hydrangeas each larger and more [...]

One of the challenges any gardener faces is how to adequately utilize their garden space. Whether the space that you have allotted to you is a small plot or a vast canvas, it is oftentimes a chore trying to constantly improve and make it visually pleasing.
There are some tried and true methods that you can [...]

It has been raining non-stop for the past two days and intermittently for the past week.  This is typical weather for an autumn day in the south.  It’s a blessed relief from the harsh humid weather that we have to contend with from April until November, so the raindrops may be inconvenient at times, it’s [...]

The scorching hot days of summer have finally arrived! I really haven’t gotten as much done as I would have liked by this time of the year, but what can you do? At this point, I still have to mulch a rather large bed, plant a 3 gallon hydrangea and a few perennials, finish pressure [...]