The forecast this week is for chilly weather compared to the past couple of weeks of unseasonably warm temperatures.
Cold air will kiss those emerging daffodils and tulips with lows in the 20s this week, but even though people may want to keep gloves and coats handy, the plants should do fine.
Tonight’s predicted low of [...]
It’s spring!
Nurseries and garden centers are bursting with colorful flowers. Store shelves are stocked with products promising to deliver greener and lusher lawns. Vegetable seed packets are packed tightly in store display compartments. And flower beds are begging for a weeding and a fresh layer of mulch.
Do the pleasant springtime temperatures and abundant golden sunshine [...]
Soon to be ushering in the season are the showy Southern Indica azaleas (Rhododendron indicum) which, with their hybrids, have come to be some of the most widely used landscaping plants in the coastal South, and with good reason. The plants are unsurpassed for their rich evergreen foliage, spectacular spring bloom, showy size and relative [...]
With weeks of abnormally warm weather, there are colorful surprises in flower at the Botanical Garden. In place of the barren or snow-covered landscapes commonly associated with January, snowdrops, witch-hazels, grape-holly, Dawn fragrant viburnum, camellias, winter honeysuckle, and Japanese apricot are all in flower. Some are quite showy, including the lush rose-colored flowers of camellia [...]
By Cathie Draine, Special to the Journal
Searing heat and growling blizzards evoke the same response in me: I retreat, grudgingly, indoors and clean closets, drawers and files. I start looking for a place to put al lof the small, miscellaneous (obviously important) bits and pieces. It’s the same with gardening. It’s hot. I’m going through [...]
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