Jacki Kellum
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 moreI 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
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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
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Yesterday, I was working in my garden, and everything was distastefully dry and parched, but the air was pendulant from the humidity and the heaviness that often presents itself prior to a rain in the South. In anticipation of the
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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
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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
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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
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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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