Simply Gardens

Carry your gardening spirit where ever you go with Kate Spade’s iphone cover. Isn’t this fabulous?!! The colors lift my spirit and make me want to stop what I’m doing and stroll through my own garden. There’s just something about flowers that soothes and energizes the soul and Kate gets it with her vibrant designs.
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I’m not the trendy type of gal who is always up on the latest – I tend to stick with classic designs, finding that I save time by not chasing the newest, must have thing on the market. BUT…there is this current trend that is classic in nature in which you might be interested- the [...]

When the cedar waxwings arrive for their annual feast of the Savannah holly berries, I know spring has arrived. Nature has it’s own rhythm, and I can almost tell time by her if I pay attention. I thought the birds were early this year, but in reading my past journals they are right on time. [...]

Despite the fact my garden looks like a bomb exploded in it, signs of spring are emerging. Look around- the saucer magnolia, red bud, and Chickasaw plum trees are blooming. My daffodils are about to pop open in Pensacola, while up in the Alabama country the snow drops are in full bloom [...]

I spent yesterday feeding my soul at the Gulf States Horticultural Expo in Mobile, Al.  My colleague, Ellis Bullock of Outerspaces Landscapes, and an old college friend, David Ellis, with Woerner’s said it is a “must see and do” , and they were so right. Especially after the two weeks of below freezing weather we [...]

My brother-in-law knows what a hibernating bear I become in the winter at our cabin in western Alabama. Even when it’s sunny, if the temperature is less than 50 degrees, I tend to stick by the fireside. I thought he was using extreme imaginative measures enticing me outdoors with claims of seeing “ice flowers”. I [...]