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Making your yard into a garden
Ever wonder what you house would look like with a new landscape? When you are going to be doing most of the work yourself, it may seem like an out-of-reach luxury to have a landscape plan drawn by a...
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Late Summer Pest: Foliar Nematodes
As disturbing as it may sound, there are microscopic roundworms called nematodes all around our natural environment. They live in the soil, on roots, in leaves and in many other unexpected places. The...
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Beach Sunflower
I was at Waterfront Park last week (to watch my friend Nathalie Dupree announce her write-in campaign for U.S. Senate!). While waiting for her to arrive and give her stump speech, I noticed that they...
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Fall Update: Baby Jay
Although she doesn't come when I call her anymore, I still see Baby fairly often in a nearby pine tree or at the feeder by my porch. I'm so glad that she has that distinctive habit of rubbing her beak...
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Butterfly Wing Magnified (a.k.a. Procrastination)
Wow, right? I was thinking that if I was a textile designer, I'd just take objects from nature, magnify them and pass them off as my own brilliant designs.
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A sound only a mother could love....or maybe not
I ran across this video I made of Baby eating crickets the other day. I had forgotten that she was totally demanding and voracious. And young Blue Jays are not what you would call "songbirds."More like...
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Pods and seeds
Even though Rattlebox (Crotalaria spectabilis) is a weed in our part of the world, I can't help but have some appreciation for it.Native to India, this yell0w-flowering plant becomes covered with...
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Sustainable Agriculture in the Lowcountry
Last week, I had the privilege to teach a class of up-and-coming sustainable agriculture farmers and activists through the Lowcountry Local First/Trident Tech continuing education class. It was a treat...
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A rose is not a rose is not a rose
While I am a total sucker for a dozen roses*, I am fairly ambivalent about roses in the garden.It's not that I don't love them. When climbing 'New Dawn' is in bloom, I covet those rambling vines. But...
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Adventures in Agriculture
Okay, y'all! I'm teaching the Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture program in the spring so I'd love a full class. If you are interested, more information is on my website.
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Going to Carolina In My Mind
My first real job (by real, I mean I had made the leap from hourly to salaried) was at Carolina Nurseries in Moncks Corner, South Carolina. I loved it.I was 24 and new to the Lowcountry. Just a month...
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Baby!
Next spring, I think I'm going to try to imprint either a fledgling Chickadee or Puffin.
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I love this.
I drive all the time. Plants can't come to me, so I go to them. That means that within the states of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia I know every inch of road, every clean bathroom and every...
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Just had to re-post this.
I love this planting of 'Mine No Yuki' Camellias. I wrote about them last year, but I wanted to share it again. 'Mine No Yuki' continues to be one of the very best Camellias available.Kari
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Sustainable Agriculture Class
I can't wait to be a part of this experience, learning from those that know more than me, teaching those that want to be a part of the land. Class starts in April!
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New Year.
finish each day and be donewith it. you have done what youcould. some blunders andabsurdities have crept in;forget them as soon as you can.tomorrow is a new day. you shallbegin it serenely and with...
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Focus.
The new year. I'm anxious to create some sort of calm. Closets have been cleaned out, the computer was taken to the computer doctor to fix (it's hopeless), I've made list after list of things-to-do....
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Mary Jo
Already February first and I haven't really acknowledged my little blog (I don't like that word) in the new year. I had high hopes about a daily entry. It just wasn't meant to be.I'm in a hotel room at...
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Native Replacement for Leyland Cypress
It's time to embrace an evergreen for screening other than Leyland Cypress (x Cupressocyparis leylandii) or Giant Arborvitae (Thuja plicata 'Green Giant'). Both of these trees have longevity issues in...
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The luxury of doing without
Remember when it was actually a big deal when watermelons arrived in the stores and farmer's markets in the summers? I can remember being really excited about eating ice-cold slices of sweet watermelon...
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Self-Proclaimed Underground Railroad for Birds
I've heard that Cedar Waxwings are back in town. If they don't come back to my weeping yaupon tree this year, I may weep myself.For the last two years, I've watch the spectacle from my office window as...
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Springtime is for Aphids
If you have new growth on a succulent plant, aphids are interested. And I'm seeing aphids (and other insects) everywhere-- roses, oleander, spirea, river birch. It's unending.So why now? Aphids are...
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I caught a black vulture!!
This journal has well established that I am obsessed with birds. That being said, I never thought that I would ever capture a wild Black Vulture. My adrenaline has only recently subsided.I saw this...
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My life in plants
Ahhhhh, Spring. It's the best season of the year. Autumn could be, if it wasn't the season that precedes winter.Windows open, music up, hair down. Birds singing, wind blowing, flowers growing.Here's...
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