Upper South Regional Report

Moth Orchids -- Easy-to-Grow Houseplants

Although my home has been filled with houseplants since my early working years as an editor of a houseplant magazine, it wasn't until ten or so years ago that I started growing orchids. Or to be specific, phalaenopsis or moth orchids. I bought one on a...
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Garden Pruning
Snowdrops

Plan for a Vegetable Variety Comparison
Keep Amaryllis Growing
Join a Plant Society or Botanical Garden
Inspect for Frost Heaving
Make a Terrarium

What Vegetables are in Your Future?

Before I even began to crawl out from under the Christmas wrappings and ribbon, seed catalogs were overflowing from my mailbox. In only two months, it's going to be the time to plant the first of the hardy vegetable seed outdoors, while cabbage...
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Project BudBurst
Where To Buy Fruits, Berries, and Nuts

Watch for Pests on Houseplants
Set Up Lights for Starting Seeds
Make A Garden Photo Album
Enjoy A Green Smoothie
Plan for Berries

What Are Your Garden Resolutions?

As naturally flawed human beings, we are notorious for keeping to New Year's resolutions for only, on the average, about six weeks. Which, for gardeners, doesn't even get us to spring. For most of us living a four-season climate, winter is a wonderful...
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Growing and Cooking Vegetables
Bird Seed Dispensers

Give Evergreens the Brush Off
Brighten Dark Days with Houseplants
Inventory Seeds and Supplies
Read About New Plants
Plan and Prepare for Major Projects

Learning To See

No matter which holiday you celebrate, this is a sacred time of year for inner reflection and contemplation. Whatever your feelings about winter, each of the seasons help us to understand and appreciate the full cycle of life, and the darker season is a...
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The Poinsettia Pages
Don't Put Off What You Can Do Now

Dive Into Seed and Plant Catalogs
Utilize Pine Cones
Protect Tender Gift Plants
Make Winter Potpourri
Re-Pot Rosemary Gift Plants

An Abundance of Evergreens

When I was a child we had very little money, but my memories of Christmas are of abundance. Not because my parents went into debt buying toys, but rather that our home was filled with the joy of the season, to say nothing of lots of cookies and free...
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Christmas Trees and More
Decorating Window Boxes and Planters

Look For Christmas Presents at Garden Centers
Store Tools, Equipment, and Supplies for the Winter
Feed Pumpkins to the Critters
Clean Bird Feeders
Apply Anti-Dessicant Sprays

A Season's Worth of Gratitude

Are you a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty person? Do you see what you've accomplished or what still needs to be done? Are you proud of how your garden looks this year or do you keep making apologies? Recently, I saw an interview on television about...
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Autumn Blaze Maple
Waterproof Gloves

Prepare for a Living Christmas Tree
Protect Fruit Trees
Mow, Rake, Compost
Be Inventive with Kale
Start Paperwhite Narcissus

Houseplants: Winter's Antidote

Leaves are falling, the last tomatoes are ripening on the windowsill, and long johns are coming out of storage. I enjoy that there are four distinct seasons where I live, and the respite from outdoor chores is welcome at a certain level. Still, the need...
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Oakleaf Hydrangea
Garden Notebook

Enjoy Bok Choy
Transplant Trees and Shrubs
Plant Garlic and Shallots
Weed, Trim, and Clean
Get Amaryllis Ready

When the Frost is on the Pumpkin...

We all enjoy the eerie smiles from glowing jack o' lanterns, and, certainly, pumpkin pie is a quintessential part of Thanksgiving dinner, but did you know that many nutrition experts consider pumpkin a super food? With a wide variety of pumpkins now...
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Pumpkins
'Vibrant Dome' Aster

Make Fall Cleanup A Priority
Close Down the Summer Vegetable Garden
Manage Your Mums
Clean Out Containers
Utilize Pumpkin Seeds

Magical Moons & Seasonal Circles

As a child, an oft-repeated ritual was for my father to call mother and me out to the front steps to marvel at the sunset, the evening star, or a full moon. We listened, too, to the first notes of the peepers in the spring, noted when the earliest robin...
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Herbs for Healthy Living
Lo & Behold 'Blue Chip' Butterfly Bush

Begin Planting Spring-Flowering Bulbs
Harvest Tomatoes
Dig and Store Tender Bulbs
Have Protective Coverings Ready
Enjoy Fall Harvest

Big, Bold Flowering Onions

No winter would be survivable without the January flowers of snowdrops, nor can I imagine not breathing in the luscious scent of hyacinths or reveling in the glorious colors of daffodils and tulips. Yet each fall, as I add bulbs to the garden in...
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Lemon Coral Sedum
Corona Sharpening Tool

Dry Herbs
Get Houseplants Ready to Move Indoors
Practice Chainsaw Safety
Store Winter Squash
Think About the Birds

Tomatoes Year-Round

Luscious tomatoes, in all their wonderful shapes, sizes, colors, and forms, are the signature food of summer for many of us. For those who want to extend that pleasure to those many months when tomatoes are not available fresh from the garden,...
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Ornamental Purslane
Dramm Rubber Hose

Add Fall Color
Divide Daylilies and Iris
Repair the Lawn
Get a Jumpstart on a New Garden Area
Buy Bulbs

Upper South Regional Report

Moth Orchids -- Easy-to-Grow Houseplants

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Reminders

What Vegetables are in Your Future?

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Reminders

What Are Your Garden Resolutions?

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Reminders

Learning To See

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Reminders

An Abundance of Evergreens

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Reminders

A Season's Worth of Gratitude

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Reminders

Houseplants: Winter's Antidote

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Reminders

When the Frost is on the Pumpkin...

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Reminders

Magical Moons & Seasonal Circles

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Reminders

Big, Bold Flowering Onions

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Reminders

Tomatoes Year-Round

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Reminders