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  • Dozens of brightly colored flowers rise on long, slender stems from a mass planting in a flower bed.

    Benary Giant, Magellan are great garden zinnias

    Zinnias are annual flowers that perform extremely well in our hot and humid Mississippi gardens and landscapes. In fact, home gardeners can have these beautiful flowers blooming from May all the way to frost in fall.

    One group of zinnias that I can’t get enough of is the Zinnia elegans. These zinnias are the long-stemmed kind that are perfect for the cutting garden.
  • A man in a baseball cap stands in front of long tables with a crowd of people in the background.

    MSU experts gather research, educational needs from producers

    2020 marked Bill Fitts’ 27th consecutive appearance at the annual North Mississippi Producer Advisory Council meeting.

  • MSU Extension offers irrigation training in Delta
  • Woman in a green dress with a bag around her shoulder stands in front of a gate holding a laptop computer.

    Census data determines state, federal allocations
  • A gray shark with a white undercarriage and face sits atop a board on a boat.

    Effective management allows for sustainable shark fishery

  • Slender, green seedlings grow in rows under lights in black trays marked by white tags.

    MS Medallion honors Garden Gem tomato

    I’ve promoted the 2020 Mississippi Medallion winners Colorblaze coleus, beautyberry and Luscious lantana for the last three weeks. Now, I want to tell you about the fourth and final 2020 selection, Garden Gem tomato.

    This will come as a surprise to the Southern Gardening Nation, but I think I’m starting to like eating fresh tomatoes. I’m certainly looking forward to picking fresh Garden Gem tomatoes this summer.

  • National speaker headlines MSU conference March 6-7
  • A man stands behind a table while demonstrating equine dental equipment on two horse skulls.

    Workshops, courses educate horse owners

    The romantic idea of owning and riding horses often does not match the costly and time-consuming reality of maintaining them, a discrepancy being addressed in workshops aimed at making horse ownership more rewarding.

    Clay Cavinder, horse specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, offers a one-day workshop and a six-week program to address the tremendous amount of information that a horse owner must absorb.
  • A bumblebee climbs on a single, pink-and-orange cluster of blooms.

    Find a place for Luscious lantana in flower gardens

    One of my favorite easy-care, flowering plants has to be lantana. This low-maintenance plant is highly tolerant of the hot, humid summers in our Mississippi gardens.

    It’s no wonder that lantana has been selected as a Mississippi Medallion winner three times.
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