One of my favorite times to visit Cheekwood is when the weather is less than perfect. For some reason, people in Nashville can only be outside if it’s sunny. All the better for me. My friend Jordan and I had the place to ourselves. And, the main attraction is inside the Mansion, so the weather […]
February Blooms – 2019
Old Tavern Coffee Estate – Blue Mountains, Jamaica
This Month in Gardening – February
Nothing to do for gardening in February? Not so! February is the perfect time to nail down some plans for your garden and get some seeds prepped and/or started. If you want to get a downloadable pdf checklist for February gardening tasks, as well as monthly newsletters, fill out the form below! Planning In case […]
The Green Thumb Myth
When Blogger Xchange posted on their Instagram a couple months ago that they were looking for guest bloggers for the blog on their site, I DM’d them right away. Blogger Xchange hosts meetups, classes, and mentoring to support local bloggers in Nashville, Memphis, and Minneapolis. Since I write about gardening, I had to think about […]
January Blooms – 2019
Weather has been a roller coaster so far this winter. Some weeks it feels like winter and other weeks it feels like spring. Some bulbs have started to come up. I’ve seen other people have snowdrops and daffodils flowering, but mine didn’t get that far before the freezing weather came back. I’ve never grown spring-flowering […]
This Month in Gardening – January
Winter weather has been a bit all over the place this winter, and our January weather has been rather mild comparatively. There are still some gardening items for this month, especially if you are considering sowing seeds indoors. Gardening in January consists mainly of reflecting on your garden over the past year – what worked, […]
Hopelands Gardens in Winter
Most people only visit gardens in the winter for their holiday light displays, but I like to visit them to get ideas for plants that give gardens winter interest. Like most gardens, Hopelands Gardens in Aiken, South Carolina has a popular winter lights display. I have visited Hopelands Gardens to see the lights, and of […]
Plants that Bloom in December
Not surprisingly, there are very few plants blooming in my garden right now (as opposed to previous months), but there are some standouts. The camellias, for one, are stunning! Even after a freeze knocks out some blooms, new ones come back. For this month’s Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, I only have a few blooms to […]
