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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In the most recent Simply Gardens newsletter, Coffee On the Patio, I wrote about ways to stay cool in the garden. I want to expound on one of the ideas-planting from the cooler palette of colors. Except for my butterfly garden I keep the color scheme in my yard to blue, green, and white. I [...]
Continue readingI’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 [...]
Continue readingWhen 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. [...]
Continue readingDespite 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 [...]
Continue readingHere’s one good thing for a gardener who is tired of winter: if you plant material that has winter color like camellias, Japanese magnolias, red bud, etc., you can cut the branches and bring them inside to enjoy.Try forcing bulbs, too, to give you a lift that carries you through the second, and often very [...]
Continue readingI 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 [...]
Continue readingMy 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 [...]
Continue readingMost of you who know me understand that I’d be hard pressed to leave the Gulf Coast. However, if I had to, my love for all things green would lead me straight to N.C., which is where I’ve been all week. Reveling in the most spectacular nurseries, arboretums, and gardens in the southeast, I am [...]
Continue readingInspiration comes anywhere anytime, and for me, mostly when I’m traveling. When I see an interesting landscape I pull out the camera and shoot away. Sometimes I can incorporate an idea into what I’m working on at the time, or I might file it away for future jobs.
In this case, while visiting my newly engaged [...]
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