Category: How Does Your Garden Grow?

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...

Spring: My move down here from the north was in the spring, and the first thing I noticed was that...

After missing two summers of Lunch and Learn classes due to Covid, the Lowcountry Master Gardener...

There are so many surprises in my yard in late August and September. Swamp milk weed plants are...

Most of the gardens in my life – the private gardens, the gardens of friends and relatives – have...

It has happened so gradually that we’ve barely noticed their departure.  It would be a safe bet to...

So, you want to have a beautiful garden in the Lowcountry?  Here are some tips from someone who...