Southeast Regional Reports
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Southeast Regional ReportsWhat’s Wrong With My Camellia?
Ponder the camellia (Camellia spp. and cvs., Zones 6–10) for a moment: It’s a glossy rich evergreen with a dense and pleasing form. It loves heat and can survive droughts.…
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Southeast Regional ReportsOrnamental Grasses That Shine in the South
Late summer in the South is when people really start to take notice of ornamental grasses in the garden. There is good reason for this, as the heat of summer…
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Southeast Regional ReportsGrowing Blueberries in the South
There are two times of year I truly love the blueberry bushes in my backyard. The first, of course, is during harvest. Piling mounds of the little beauties into buckets…
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Southeast Regional ReportsGrowing Venus Flytraps and Other Carnivores in the Southeast
We gardeners love our plants, and we relish seeing (and fanning) the flames of plant passion burning in others. There comes a time in many kids’ lives when one particular…
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Southeast Regional ReportsRegional Picks: Tough Plants—Southeast
See regional picks for tough pretty plants, and read the article by Julie Lane Gray for even more ideas. It’s important to define first what I mean by a “tough”…
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Southeast Regional ReportsSouth August Garden To-Do List
August and January are the months when I’m most concerned about how my garden looks from inside my house. There are some days in August when I honestly just don’t…
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Southeast Regional ReportsSoutheast August Garden To-Do List
Seed now for spring-blooming cottage-garden favorites. If every spring you covet the drifts of breadseed poppies (Papaver somniferum, annual), love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena, annual), and rocket larkspur (Consolida ajacis, annual) in…
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Southeast Regional ReportsSouth July Garden To-Do List
July is sneaky. Wasn’t it just May? One day we open our eyes and we are smack dab in the middle of the year. High summer is here, and there…
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Southeast Regional ReportsSoutheast July Garden To-Do List
It’s high summer in the Southeast. As long as the rains show up, veggies, annuals, and weeds grow like wildfire in the scorching heat, and gardeners turn crepuscular—venturing out to…
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Southeast Regional Reports3 Pollinator Powerhouse Perennials for the Southeast
Pollinators are having their day in our sun. I’m talking about the focused rays of human attention and study. By now, you’ve heard the sobering statistics about the decline in…
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