Southern Gardening

All gardeners know there will come a time that we will need to protect some of our landscape plants from freezing temperatures. Let me show you some tips on bundling up your plants from the coming cold temperatures. Make sure your plants are well watered going into a cold weather event. This is especially true for plants grown in containers. The moisture in the root zone acts as a buffer to falling temperatures, providing insulation and releasing heat as it cools. Plants grown in containers have the advantage of being portable.

Valentine’s Day…….the season of LOVE. Don’t limit your affections for that special someone to just a single day. As a gardener, your love can bloom all year long. Planting gomphrena in the landscape symbolizes an unfading love. If you want to set off fireworks of love in your garden, then try Fireworks gomphrena, a 2010 Mississippi Medallion winner. The flowers are produced in prodigious numbers and are a long lasting hot iridescent pink that are sure to create colorful explosions all season long. A perfect love can seem like paradise.