Green Oak nursery is a Jackson icon. My mother and father started this garden center in 1960. They were pioneers of their day as there weren’t many garden centers at the time. I think Callaway’s and Barnes Brothers started just about the same time or maybe a little after. My parents were friends with those guys as they all started this business together in Jackson. Garden c enters have come a long way since those days as is common with the garden center business and family businesses the...

So far this has been a wild spring in so many ways. We’ve had temperatures in the upper 80s and we’ve had temperatures in the upper 20s all in a two week period. These warm days with relatively low amounts of rain have allowed for a lot of progress in our yards. The big question so far has been whether or not to start adding plants that are tender to the cold. Those plants that were cut back early enough like roses, and most of our perennials, have a lot of tender growth on them. These little...

Emmanuel came running around the corner to ask what was going on. I told him we had an emergency and needed to get back to the airport as quick as possible. He said he could make it happen. The lady from Delta airlines came on, understood the situation and asked what I would like to do. I told her we needed to get to Mississippi at all costs. Even if she had to put us in the luggage rack and reroute us through Hong Kong, I wanted to be on the front end of that storm before I got stuck...