Around here many of us tend to think of Azaleas as a feature primarily of Southern gardens. Maybe that's because Azaleas are so closely associated with the Masters Golf Tournament (which is played just sixty miles from our Greenwood, South Carolina home), or it could be that many Southerners occasionally assume that anything that they [...]
With all the interesting new choices we're getting this year, I find that I keep coming back to flowering vines as a topic. Between my love of flowering vines and my almost compulsive fascination with unusual blooms, I don't see how I could not write often about some of these great new flowers. Take these [...]
Several of my coworkers and I were given planted Amaryllis bulbs last week. The stalks on each were just beginning to make their way into the world. The obvious move for us was to agree to race, to see whose Amaryllis grew the fastest. However, the problem with having several Amaryllis plants in the same [...]
It hasn’t felt much like Spring is coming around here lately, but this morning I noticed that my patch of daffodils next to my driveway is starting to come up. That was very heartening for me. Of course, I still have a lot to do in my garden before the weather starts to turn, but [...]
Earlier this month, a friend asked me to help her design a few plantings along a pathway through a wooded part of her land here in Greenwood. Wooded areas are often difficult to plant in, as you need low-maintenance, deer-resistant, full-shade plants. Hopefully she'll be pleased when I show up in a few weekends with [...]
We are absolutely ecstatic to announce that this year’s Wayside Gardens Collector’s Edition is now available on our website. We got to work with the amazing Ken Druse (I listen to his podcast, Real Dirt, every Saturday, and so should you), which was a tremendous honor and pleasure for everyone at Wayside Gardens. The collection [...]
I was at my mother’s house this weekend, and I couldn’t help but notice that the backyard fence seemed a bit more exposed than usual. I could easily see out the back window all the way to the road. It seems that my father’s late-summer yard cleanup exposed a bit more than he’d expected.This isn’t [...]