Posts in category Plants

Holy Hellebores! Landscape designer Troy Rhone tells all about Helleborus Lenten rose, shares tips for Lenten rose care and some of his favorite Lenten rose varieties to consider for your garden

Gardening enthusiast Mary Walton Upchurch engages in a little horticultural hyperbole where the graceful branches of the ornamental tree are at stake.

Garden designer Troy Rhone explores the many merits of foxgloves, growing foxglove flowers, and favorite foxglove selections

In the short story “Lilacs,” Kate Chopin wrote, “When the scent of the lilac blossoms began to permeate the air, …

Becky Brinkman, the Fuqua Orchid Center Manager for the Atlanta Botanical Garden, shares tips for selecting healthy orchid plants, growing them at home, and daily care of your orchids

Shasta daisies are unassuming (and drought-resistant) crowd-pleasers

Timeless and venerated, the South’s ubiquitous ornamental tree has a special resonance

Landscape and garden designer P. Allen Smith shares some of his favorite salvia varieties for adding flavor to the garden and the kitchen

For a welcome respite from snow and ice, step into the tropical paradise of the Conservatory on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina

“It’s like shaking pepper out of a shaker. It’s that simple,” writes gardener Mary Walton Upchurch of the seeds saved from dried poppy pods. Sow your own poppy seeds this fall, and reap the benefits year after year.

When temperatures cool (and a few weeks before it freezes), it’s time to plant daffodils. Gardener Mary Walton Upchurch tells us what she’s learned about growing these cheerful harbingers of spring and shares her favorite varieties too.

Sunny beds of nectar-rich blooms and caterpillar-friendly host plants will bring butterflies fluttering your way. Gardening enthusiast Mary Walton Upchurch shares her tips.