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WORDS: Stop Crape Myrtle Mutilation!
Have you seen this month’s copy of Southern Living? There’s a wonderful article in it about the right way to prune crape myrtles. Steve Bender, the garden editor of the periodical, has been a long time foe of the practice of topping crape myrtles; but in this month’s issue, he pulls no punches in his…
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WORDS: ‘Honesty’ is out of the ordinary
As I work my way through my New Year’s Resolutions, we come today to my resolve to have a few plants in my garden that are a bit out of the ordinary. I hate it when I’m predictable, and I hate predictable gardens. It is a wonderful thing to be walking through a garden and…
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WORDS: Gardening in Catastrophe’s Shadow
Let me formulate a philosophical question. How can a person involve himself in something as trivial as horticulture, especially ornamental horticulture, in times like these? We live in the shadow of wars and rumors of war, the shadow of potential plagues (SARS), and the even deeper shadow of weapons of mass destruction. Discussing the fragrance…
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WORDS: Gardening Books
Last week (in the Daily Sentinel) we discussed New Year’s resolutions. One of mine was to read more books on gardening. So, I thought that this week we would look at some of the books on my reading list. Actually some of them are still on my shopping list, but many can be easily found…
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WORDS: Sugar Cane
Several weeks ago I said I had spent some time stripping sugar cane and then seeing it squeezed out and cooked into syrup. I promised I’d tell you about it, so here it goes. A friend, Greg Grant, lives in Arcadia out in Shelby County and is from a family that has grown sugar cane…
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WORDS: The Biltmore
\My wife has been reading a very interesting book of late, the title of which is The Devil in the White City. Among other things, the book is about the great world’s fair in Chicago during the 1890’s. Well, our family likes to read to one another when we come to passages we think others…
