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Build a Lavish Tropical Great Gatsby Garden

Gatsby is out in the movie theaters and audiences everywhere have been wowed with the views of the astoundingly beautiful gardens in the show. This movie and its gorgeous garden-filled sets really...

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In-Season Plants: Foxglove

One of my favorite colorful additions to a shade garden is the tall and funny-shaped foxglove. When I first started gardening, I was a little bummed that having a backyard full of trees meant that I...

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In-Season Plants: Confederate Jasmine

One of my favorite sweet-smelling vines is in bloom in my Atlanta, GA garden right now:  Confederate Jasmine. I started it a couple of years ago over a corner of the fence where I wanted to cover the...

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In-Season Plants: Gardenia

These days, when I walk down the stairs and around my garden path, I am greeted by the loveliest smell coming from my August Beauty Gardenia. The blooms are the purest white I’ve ever seen and the...

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In-Season Plants: Perennial Begonia

One of my all time favorite plants is my perennial begonia. We transplanted it here from my Mom’s garden, who transplanted it from my Great-Aunt Ruby’s garden. It has lovely heart-shaped leaves with...

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Best Fall Blooming Plant — Japanese Anemone Tomentosa ‘Robustissima’

Hands down, my favorite late summer and fall perennial bloomer of all time is the Japanese Anemone tomentosa ‘Robustissima’. An absolute non-stop flowering gobstopper for weeks on end by my front step...

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Tickled by Bunny Tail Grass

A few years ago I tilled up the entire lawn in my front yard and planted herbs, veggies, fruits and edible flowers, but I had a dilemma. How should I handle the strip that runs between the sidewalk...

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Suncatcher Tulips

  Nothing has served as a better “welcome home” greeting this spring than my  Suncatcher tulips.  The tulips began blooming in mid-April and continue to dazzle my slowly-waking front yard with petals...

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Lunaria: The Money Plant

Coin-shaped seed pods have earned Lunaria the common names of ‘money plant’ and ‘silver dollar plant.’ When I was young, one of my mother’s close friends had a garden tucked with all sorts of...

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