New book, book tour, and more

The Art of Maintaining a Florida Native LandscapeThe Art of Maintaining a Florida Native Landscape Yay! My new book is now available for preorder from Amazon. I've covered a wide array of topics, which I think have not been covered sufficiently in other books and online resources.List of Chapters1....

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A lovely white rose

When the Garden Blogger's Fling was in Asheville a few years ago, I was lucky enough to win a gift certificate from a rose grower as a raffle gift.  She was a Florida rose grower who grew all sorts of heirloom roses, etc.I'm not a rose person who's willing to coddle them, so I picked the hardiest...

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Bird communication

An illuminating piece about birds at the N...

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Tomatoes, peppers, basil, and eggplant

I finally managed to snag warm-season transplants last week, and they're now in the ground (with the usual dance around spinach, lettuce, garlic, and the peas that are finally growing rapidly -- probably just to be zapped by hot dry weather).Soon to follow are the direct-seeded warm season veggies, although not that many. I sorted through my seeds today, matching up space to seed and will need...

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Chives and vegetables

The chives that I brought last year (from dividing long-established plants) are huge, witness to the power of organic fertilizer, I suppose. They were never this big in my Piedmont beds, which were amended, but obviously not as well as I thought!chives in flowerI've already planted the tomatoes,...

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Home in the mountains

It was a whirlwind weekend of moving up furniture and boxes last Friday, shedding furniture at local consignment shops,  sorting boxes to the right spaces, unloading and distributing them, shedding even more, etc.But it was good work. It didn't take as long to get things back into a semblance of home as it did to shed things.And it wasn't so difficult to honor the old house that we were leaving,...

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Moving to a new garden

We've been so fortunate to have a new "piece of earth" to move forward to -- there's so much that we've established of a new garden, over the past 6 years, from my raised beds for vegetables and pocket meadow in front, to the native woodland garden below the house (my gardening companion's work).We...

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