One native plant that I have naturally occurring on my property is Partridgeberry Mitchella repens L.. When I first discovered it, the plant was in an area of dark, overgrown shade and doing just fine. It looked healthy enough but for the first two years never flowered or berried and I kind of ignored it. [...]

This is part II of Garden Smackdown’s Play Natives Forward, my list of perennial and annual plants which I am attempting to establish this growing season. Last year I concentrated on understory trees and shrubs (in the Year of the Shrub), and the year before that it was cleaning up invasives and thinning trees (in [...]

I came upon some much abused Christmas rose still trying to bloom on my woodland floor. These plants flower in winter in my Georgia garden, making them a welcomed friend. Legend of the Christmas Rose The Legend of the Christmas Rose is the tale of Madelon, a young girl seeking to worship the Christ Child. [...]

This is an excellent native plant resource put out by the North Carolina Native Plant Society. You can search by plant type, i.e. tree, shrub, fern, evergreen, etc or bloom time by month, light sun/shade requirements and water needs. Please give them a visit and find the perfect native plant for any spot in your [...]

I have four large Camellia, Winter’s Star. Dang things are blooming like mad right now and it’s the first of October. These shrubs were already here when I moved in two years ago and both years they bloomed November -December. It kind of bums me out that they chose now as I had figured them [...]