Category - Plants

Sizzling Succulents

Succulents are all the rage these days and for good reason: they are beautiful and easy to grow.

Few plants can bring a taste of the tropics to temperate gardens quite like ginger lilies or...

A few years ago, I dubbed myself the #CrazyGrainLady. Though I had very little experience growing...

Movies set in the South often feature images of trees dripping with purple wisteria or the white...

Native dahlias found in the mountains of Mexico and Guatemala are the genetic source for the modern...

Ask most southerners about growing muscadines, Vitis rotundifolia, and a sense of pride and...

People often tell me that they would happily add more southeastern native plants to their...

If you are thinking of adding more native plants to your garden, but don’t want to sacrifice on...

Few flowers are as evocatively beautiful as the big-flowered clematis hybrids.

You don’t have to have a green thumb to grow herbs. In fact, some herbs can be overly happy in...

Bees are the “A Team” of pollinators. Nothing and nobody pollinate plants better than bees.

I am not an orchid aficionado. I cannot get Cattleyas to flower, Dendrobiums never rebloom for me...

During the dead of winter, our senses long for the summer ahead. I use this time of the year to...

When most North Carolinians think of a lady slipper orchid they picture the native pink Cypripedium...

If your plans don’t include a trip to the Caribbean, you can still enjoy a sense of the tropics...