Jacki Kellum
While it might seem that it isn’t important, understanding your soil’s PH level is very important, and I have discovered that most cottage garden flowering plants need soil that is more on the alkaline side of the spectrum. Alyssum “Lobularia
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Butterflies consider several types of milkweed plants to be desirable for places to lay their eggs, and I’ll tell you about some of the milkweed plants that I have grown. Swamp Milkweed or Asclepias incarnata Monarch Butterfly on Swamp Milkweed
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Daylilies arrive just in time to hide the foliage of the iris that have completed their bloom cycle. In the above photo, the iris foliage is the dark bluish green in my garden that day. For may years, I was
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A Weed Is but an Unloved Flower – Ella Wheeler Wilcox When appraising nature, I am perplexed by the question, “Who which blooming plants are flowers and which are mere weeds that look like flowers?” Probably because I am
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I have a very distinctive taste in gardening–it is a bit like me. My garden is loud–in a prayerful sort of way. The colors in my garden clamor for attention and as they call, they challenge each other. But during
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Jacki Kellum Garden Early Spring “Long before winter is ready to leave the cottage garden, spring has started to coax blossoms from the bare branches and the cold dark soil. Hazel twigs are hung with yellow ‘lamb’s tail’ catkins, and
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The sun, coming through my sunroom windows in my New Jersey Home. Thank goodness for the sun. Almost as magical as watching the snowfall is that of the brilliance, when the sun returns to make driving safe and to brighten
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