Category: How Does Your Garden Grow?

LIFESTYLE | How Does Your Garden Grow?

Gardening for Well-being

by Wendy Hilty | Jul 15, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

Gardening has always been regarded as a hobby that provides health benefits. The physical act of...

Made in the Shade

by Wendy Hilty | Jul 1, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

What was the most popular plant in both the United States and Europe in the mid nineteenth...

Tomatoes: A Fruit with an Identity Crisis

by Wendy Hilty | Jun 17, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

I have trouble with tomatoes! According to novelist John Updike, “Of plants tomatoes seemed the...

Soaking Up The Sun With Succulents

by Wendy Hilty | Jun 3, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

We are beginning our hot and humid weather and some of my plants are feeling the heat.Warm nights...

Oh Deer!

by Wendy Hilty | May 20, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

That beautiful face, those big eyes, those long eye lashes, those ears – so beguiling, so...

Awesome Annuals

by Wendy Hilty | May 6, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

Annuals seem to get a very bad rap from some gardeners. Currently they are coming in by the pallet...

Let ‘s Keep It Simple

by Wendy Hilty | Apr 21, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

I recently gave a mini workshop for new Butterfly Garden volunteers and invited newcomers to...

Beautiful and Beneficial Buffers

by Wendy Hilty | Apr 8, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

“Good fences make good neighbors” so the saying goes. In fact, fences and barriers have been in...

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

by Wendy Hilty | Mar 25, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

And I do not mean Christmas. From the beginning of April into the middle of May is perfect here...

Weeds, Weeds, and More Weeds!

by Wendy Hilty | Mar 12, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

In most parts of the country, winter is a time to relax and stay inside with a good book. The...

The Snow and Ice Have Melted – Now What?

by Wendy Hilty | Feb 25, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

The great freeze of 2025 has ended and you are surveying the damage. Your first temptation is to...

So You Moved Down South…

by Wendy Hilty | Jan 28, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

With so many new residents in our area, I decided to give a few pointers on what to expect...

How to Survive a Polar Vortex

by Wendy Hilty | Jan 14, 2025 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

Polar Vortex—that is an awfully sophisticated name for what I have always called a “cold snap.”I...

Hopefully Heralding a Happy Horticultural Year!

by Wendy Hilty | Dec 17, 2024 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

I have been fortunate to get several gardening books for Christmas and two of my favorite books...

Deck The Halls With Boughs of Holly!

by Wendy Hilty | Dec 3, 2024 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

Fa La La La La! And all that. I love to sing Christmas carols. But then I love to sing...

Is This Your Cup of Tea?

by Wendy Hilty | Nov 19, 2024 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

Yaupon holly is native to South Carolina as well as other states in the American South. You have...

House Plants Are Iffy

by Sandra Educate | Nov 5, 2024 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

House plants and containers are troublesome. At least they are for me. I tend to view house...

Seeds and Bulbs for Fall

by Wendy Hilty | Oct 22, 2024 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

Many people order bulbs to plant in the autumn for spring flowers. I also order flower seeds. As...

Tubers and Rhizomes and Corms, Oh My!

by Sandra Educate | Oct 8, 2024 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

‘What are those things, anyway?” “They’re geophytes.” “Well, that didn’t help much.” Okay,...

My Favorite Fall Flower

by Wendy Hilty | Sep 24, 2024 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

As the weather finally begins to cool down, now is a great time to plant perennials and...

Rain, Rain, Go Away

by Sandra Educate | Sep 10, 2024 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

This past summer of 90 degree weather and much more rain than we needed sure is playing havoc with...

Help! The Shrubs are Eating My House!

by Wendy Hilty | Aug 27, 2024 | How Does Your Garden Grow?, Lifestyle | 0

I recently got an email that went like this: “When do I prune my shrubs?” Me: “What variety are...