Children’s Area for My 2023 Garden in Mississippi – Plant List Included – BH & G Plan

Although I’m getting a late start on this plan for this year, I am about to embark upon an effort to turn an iron obelisk that I have owned for years into a children’s garden area. Iron Obelisk in Jacki

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Plants in my 2023 Mississippi Garden

On May 1, 2023, I moved to Water Valley, MS, and as soon as I had emptied most of my boxes, I began using the cardboard to create garden spaces. My first challenge was to camouflage an air conditioner unit

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Celebrating Color in My Cottage Garden

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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Second 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

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Growing My Way Back Home – September 1, 2001 – Jacki Kellum Garden Journal Entry

I began my day this morning the same way that I have begun it for the past few weeks. This morning, as soon as I walked out the back door, I almost sprinted to my rose arbor that my Super

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Watch 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

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