Category: How Does Your Garden Grow?

What are passalong plants, anyway?  In colonial America, it all started before commercial plant...

In case you’re wondering, ‘locavore’ is a made-up word for people who try to eat only locally...

And if it’s not alright, it’s not the end. That phrase was from a young hotel operator in India in...

“But nobody does anything about it.” This quote is widely attributed to Mark Twain, but it doesn’t...

This year’s Garden-A-Day event, celebrating National Gardening week, is June 6 to June 10, and...

For the coastal south, planting dates are very important. Most gardeners want to get out to till...

Everybody welcomes spring with joy. Every year. I do, too. But here comes the Humbug part: Hidden...

Recovery is a word fraught with meaning for gardeners and the infirm. How many times do I have to...

Garden columnist Alice Massey wrote a column with this title, and I liked it so much that I...

The Beaufort Council of Garden Clubs will hold a National Garden Clubs (NGC) standard flower show...

In what may look like a perfectly calm garden bed, the soil is literally crawling with life. Yes,...

Even the poets and writers disagree. So which is it – March or April?  Louise Penny says March,...

WHAT??? Who said that? Well, it was the corporate slogan of E. I. DuPont Nemours for decades....

A couple of winters ago, I wrote a column called “Winter Blues and Blahs.”  I don’t want to fudge...

2022 is here and for most of us, life has begun to ‘normalize,’ Omicron not withstanding. And for...

So what is the new Yuzu? It’s citrus that’s virtually unknown in the Lowcountry. I discovered it...

I’m curious.  Why “Live Oak”?  Aren’t all trees which aren’t dead, alive?  Well, I found that all...

You’d think it would be easy, and it would. Except it’s winter, not spring. The only thing in the...

Of course not. But if I’d said this was about soil, you’d have metaphorically turned the page...

If you can get beyond the two-and-a-half inch high expanse of meticulously maintained lawn; if you...