Recapturing bulbs for the southern gardener
Six Weeks of Friday Letters, One Field Guide A few weeks ago I found myself out on the back patio until midnight, surrounded by blooming
A Lawn That Blooms Before It Grows The prettiest thing a Southern lawn can do happens in February, while the grass is still asleep: drifts
The September Surprise Right now — the hottest, most discouraging stretch of the gardening year — the smartest planting you can do is for a
If You Can Only Grow One People ask me some version of this question at every talk: if I could only plant one crinum, which
The Flower That Outlives the House There is a rent house on my drive to work with two crinum clumps out front the size of
The Trumpet That Refused to Die Every March I start watching the old homesites, because April belongs to a flower most garden centers have never
More Than Just Décor This time of year we all love the pumpkins and sunflowers that come with fall and Thanksgiving decor, but what about
Should I Fertilize Bulbs? Everything you need to know about fertilizing flower bulbs! It’s a question I get as The Bulb Hunter (or just as
Is the Hippeastrum vittatum an heirloom bulb? It is an heirloom bulb. In fact, they’ve been around and documented since the 1800’s. They’ve also been
The Magic of Flower Bulbs in Florida’s Zone 9b We had a customer ask about what to plant in Lake County, Florida, so we decided