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How to Plant Pansies

It’s pansy planting time here in the southeast.  We are busy cleaning up the spent begonias and petunias before they turn to mush in the next week or two.  Then we replace them with pansies.  Glorious...

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How to deal with mums

How to deal with mums: Ruth Shaw asked, What do I do with my Chrysanthemums when they quit blooming?   Garden mums custom grown for a late October wedding I am writing this with the expectations of...

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Summertime care for Knockout roses

Knockout Roses and summertime maintenance. Over the last few years nothing has affected the color of our landscape like the Knockout rose.  Originally this rose was praised as “maintenance free” (and...

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Time to think about pansies.

Time to think about pansies. Dekie and I are going to plant pansies at the farm next weekend.  Last week we went to the grower and picked out the colors she wanted. We will plant about a thousand...

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October pansies for a May wedding

Planting pansies in October for a May wedding.  Dekie has decided that the wedding will be in the middle of May at her father’s northwest Georgia farm.  The ceremony will be down by the lake and the...

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Make a Beautiful Mixed Flower Creation With a Wire Basket and Coconut Fiber...

Use coconut matting to line a wire hanging basket for mixed flowers. Read on I call it “coco mat” and it is one of the nicest innovations for planting wire hanging baskets to come along in a long time....

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