Jacki Kellum
I enjoy several things about gardening. I like watching things grow, and I like spending time outside in nature. But I think that I most enjoy the kaleidoscopic splashes of color that are ever-changing around me, according to the time
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September 3, 2021 – Jacki Kellum Garden Notebook Coral Red Dogwood Shrub – Image Credit: My Gardening Life Today, I pruned away some of the dying branches on my Coral Red Dogwood shrub. I bought this gem on clearance, after
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This is the third time that I have launched a Cottage Garden Living website. I began garden blogging at least 10 years ago, but for one reason or another, I would repeatedly suspend that effort. Yet, I have consistently been
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During the summer of 2021, I discovered Summer Carnival, which is a variegated variety of hardy hibiscus. Summer Carnival Foliage To be clear, it is the leaves of Summer Carnival that are variegated and not the blooms. The foliage of
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Over the past few years, I have cultivated a taste for coleus plants. I grew up during the 1950s, and I do not remember that the coleus plants of my childhood were as vividly colored as they are now. The
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I currently live in the Ozark Mountains, but I grew up in the very flat cotton-farming countryside of the Bootheel of Southeast Missouri. That was a long time ago–a time when the kids helped pick the cotton during the fall.
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