One of the advantages of gardening in the Piedmont is that we gardeners can aim to have something in bloom almost 12 months a year – but this takes some planning. Continue reading on The Local Reporter…
Category Archive: Gardens and Management
It’s hard to penalize a plant that is flourishing in our gardens, but there comes a time when […]
On a daily basis I bless my fence. When I first moved to Chapel Hill over one-quarter of […]
As gardens age, shady conditions take over. Where once you were gardening in full sun, you find now […]
As gardeners, we all know that weeding is an essential ingredient to maintaining a well-groomed garden. Groan all you want but if you’re going to have a garden you are going to have to weed. Continue reading on The Local Reporter...
Have I mastered the art of planting containers or just gotten bored? I stalk the garden centers looking […]
In April Kit attended a Zoom presentation on plant diversity led by Tony Avent of Plant Delights fame. […]
In the delirium of winter, Kit tends to go on an ordering spree of plants that will arrive […]
It’s a dangerous world out there. In the past few weeks, Kit and I have both been injured […]
A long time ago Kit mentioned to a rather snobbish gardening friend that she was thinking of planting […]
The Absentee Gardeners 