LIFE'S A GARDEN

THE PEOPLE OF Mississippi have spoken. A medical marijuana program is being put into place as I write this. There is so much work to be...

LOOKS TO ME LIKE things are about to get real around the Mississippi gardening world. This week’s temperatures are hovering around the...

AT GARDEN WORKS we have two rooms we have made available to garden clubs to hold their meetings. When the covid came around the garden...

I CAN REMEMBER when I was in the third grade and going to St. Richard’s catholic school my father came home with the news that we were...

FEBRUARY IS A MONTH I eagerly await as far as getting back into the yard. I have to admit I’ve been pretty lax in my yard since around...

I WAS THINKING about a trip Mimi and I took to Jamaica. We were ready for a break and our slow season had arrived. By that time we had...

WHEN I THINK ABOUT all the different aspects of garden centers I realize that tropical plants are one of my favorite categories. I am...

IT FEELS LIKE THE Mississippi winter has finally arrived. Our plants outside were growing just like it was springtime just before New...

WE CAN CALL IT ANOTHER year in the books. Christmas is behind us with this week of further languishing and trying not to look at the...

BY THE TIME you read this it’s going to be what I call “Deep Christmas.” Deep Christmas is when it’s really getting late to be finding...

IT SEEMS LIKE THIS is the week that things get kind of serious. We know all year long that Christmas is coming every year. This is when...

THESE ARE THE GOOD old days in the garden world. The temperatures are beginning to drop, the rains are beginning to fall and the hours of...