Southern Gardening
url safe:
southern-gardening
Who said great looking gardens can be maintenance free? Here are a few tips for busy gardeners today on Southern Gardening.
One of the plants I remember from my youth is cleome with their spidery flowers today on Southern Gardening.
Gardening with bare hands can be satisfying but sometimes you just need a pair of gloves today on Southern Gardening.
It’s Mississippi and we all have pest problems in the landscape, I’d like to share a few tips on being proactive today on Southern Gardening.
There’s one area in almost everyone’s landscape that can cause a lot of problems today on Southern Gardening.
Now’s the time to start getting ready for this year’s tomato harvest today on Southern Gardening.
Believe it or not, spring is finally here. I want to share some ideas for bright color annuals that will be sure to dazzle in your landscape this year. Today Southern Gardening is at Pine Hills Nursery getting ready for the warm season. Now I think everyone knows I really like petunias. Let’s take a look at some of my new favorites. The Headliner Banana Cherry Swirl petunia is a beautiful new selection. The flowers have a really unique combination of delicious colors.
This always one of my favorite times of the year when the Mississippi Medallion Winners are announced. Let’s take a look at them. ‘Vintage Jade’ Distylium is a great evergreen alternative for foundation plantings. It thrives in full sun or part shade, tolerates drought, heat, and wet soil; and has excellent disease and insect resistance. It remains dark, glossy green throughout all four seasons; it produces small red flowers along its stem in late winter. Lemongrass is an herb packed with strong citrus flavor, and fantastic for the edible landscape.
There’s a plant that always delights wherever it’s grown. But I’m always surprised that more home gardeners don’t grow it. So if you only buy one flowering plant this year, make it calibrachoa. Calibrachoa are commonly called million bells and really live up to this name. Aloha Kona Blue Sky has flowers in a soft shade of silvery lavender; the stunning trumpet shaped flowers blanket the plant from late spring to early fall. Aloha Kona Honey Comb has flowers that are a sweetly golden honey color. I absolutely love the delicate red streaks that radiate out from the throat of the flower.
If you like beautiful and reliable flowering plants in your summer garden take a look at salvia. There are annual and perennial varieties to choose from, so you can’t’ go wrong with salvia in your landscape. Annual salvia is a popular choice for many gardeners because of it bright plumes of color. The Salsa series, is a good choice. Salsa salvia has medium to dark green foliage that really shows off the numerous spikes of colorful flowers. The tubular blooms are available in scarlet, purple and white persist for several weeks.