Groundcover plants, often overlooked in the plant pantheon, are hard workers in the landscape and solve many design challenges. Groundcovers...

   A gaggle of white terrestrial orchids are blooming on both sides of the path in my shady garden. My friend Mary couldn't believe they...

Background Back in the day protests were de rigueur and there were Love-Ins, Sit-Ins and Laugh-Ins. The first-ever Earth Day 1970 was inten...

Boxwood is a versatile evergreen shrub with a broad range of forms and sizes that has long been a treasured hedging plant in the garden. Fos...

Here's an addendum to my previous Dogwood post that goes out to all my bride-friends and their Moms. When assembling a program entitle...

The 74th annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival is this weekend, and trees all over Atlanta are blooming. Coincidentally, last Saturday night an em...

Easy Finds for Homemade Compost 1. Weeds (before they go to seed) 2. Spent garden plants and flowers (disease-free only; get rid of dise...