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Cottage Garden Living
Jacki Kellum
How to Create A Cottage Garden – Gardening Class Taught by Jacki Kellum
The Mini Pumpkin Obelisk That I’m Planning for My Garden Next Year & What to Do with A Crop of Mini Pumpkins
During the gardening year of 2020, I was busy building raised beds and filling them with soil. I also added several perennials and flowering shrubs to my garden. One of my challenges for next year is to plant a mini
Read moreCamellias in My Garden & Their Zones – Camellias Are Southern Shrubs
I lived most of my life in Mississippi, and nothing sings the song of Mississippi more eloquently than Camellias. Currently, I live in the Ozark Mountains, and I no longer have the advantage of Mississippi’s Planting Zone. One of the
Read moreSecond Spring in September – Jacki Kellum Garden Journal
September 15, 2021 – Wednesday Albert Camus said: “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” In several ways, I do agree with Camus that the leaf-turning time of year is another spring-like celebration of color, but
Read moreRainy Days and My Garden: I Love the Rain! – Jacki Kellum Garden Journal – September 5, 2021
Yesterday, I was working in my garden, and everything was distastefully dry and parched, but the air was heavy from the humidity and the heaviness that often presents itself prior to a rain in the South. In anticipation of the
Read moreLife Is Just A 2-Step Dance: Celebrating Fall & Planning for Next Spring In My Garden – September 2, 2021 – Jacki Kellum Garden Journal
September 2, 2021 – Thursday. It is another relatively cool day today. No, it is not a flannel shirt day. I’m just saying that instead of a 100-degree morning, it is more like 80 degrees outside. I need to do
Read moreWatch the Painted Parade! – August 30, 2001 – Jacki Kellum Garden Journal
August 30, 2001, Monday – Watch the Painted Parade! It rained last night, and although the sun has begun to peek from behind the clouds now, there is still a heavy wetness about my entire garden today. Several of my
Read moreAn End of August Song – My Garden Looks at the Coming of Fall
Over and again, I recommend 4-Season Gardens. I currently live in the Ozark mountains, and in a few months, the weather here will get brutally cold. Tender plants will need to be moved inside or else they will die, and
Read moreWatching My Garden Turn Itself Into Autumn – To Everything There Is A Season
Nothing sings the song of autumn more eloquently than coneflowers withering on their stems. Mid-July I was at a nursery, purchasing a perennial that had passed its season, and I explained to the salesperson: “It’s ok. Spring will come again.
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