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What I'm All About:

I grow cut flowers for brides and florists, but I also blog my gardening adventures as a commercial and home gardener. I primarily grow perennials in an effort to create a habitat for bees, birds, butterflies and other critters, but I also grow some favorite annuals every year from purchased or saved seed (or both!). In these pages you will find a mixture of advice, rants, growing information for flowers and herbs, links and resources, photo albums, and everything in between.

I live in Batesville, Mississippi, Zone 7B, so what I do in my garden may not necessarily work for you.

If there is anything you would like to see added to the site or have any gardening questions you think I can answer, please feel free to send me an e-mail. See my About me page for more info.

Recent Posts:

  • I’m still around
    Date: Thursday February 4, 2010 Planted in: Other Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    I’ve just been taking a winter break. It’s been too cold and wet to do much outside, so I decided to take a break from blogging for a while.
    The only thing keeping me sane is flipping through seed catalogs!

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    Happy Holidays!
    The Good News Is…
    Rain, rain go away!
    Gardening Goals for 2010

  • Time To Push Forward
    Date: Sunday December 27, 2009 Planted in: Other Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    Christmas is over, and the days are getting longer one minute at a time.  Everything in the greenhouse is growing and looking great, despite the high wind and freezing weather.  I’m putting together seed, plug and plant orders to send in, and fielding questions from potential customers.  2010 looks to be a good year. 
    I only [...]

  • Happy Holidays!
    Date: Tuesday December 22, 2009 Planted in: Other, Personal Notes Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    Whatever holiday you and your family celebrate this season, I hope it’s fantastic! My little brother is supposed to be home on leave from Iraq in a couple of days, so it may be a little while before I come back.  I will be visiting, eating, drinking, gardening, and being merry.
    Enjoy your time with the ones [...]

  • The Good News Is…
    Date: Thursday December 17, 2009 Planted in: Growing in the Greenhouse, Other, Perennials, Seasonal Gardening Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    I don’t think anything was killed.  The electricity blinked for a second last night while I was sleeping, causing the safety switch on my heater to trip. The temperature in the greenhouse was 30 degrees F this morning. Not what I wanted to wake up to.  All I could do was turn on the heater and [...]

  • Rain, rain go away!
    Date: Monday December 14, 2009 Planted in: Other, Personal Notes Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    I have bulbs to plant and brush to clear, so I was terribly disappointed when it rained all weekend.  I usually don’t mind working in the rain if it’s just a drizzle and the weather is warm.  That was not the case.
    Winter here isn’t frothy with snow, but it does get cold by my standards. [...]

  • Gardening Goals for 2010
    Date: Wednesday December 9, 2009 Planted in: Garden Planning, Other, Personal Notes Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    Since I posted my Blogging Goals for 2010, I thought I’d follow up with my gardening goals as well.
    I have several large projects I’m working on simultaneously. One woman with a only a machete, a few hand tools and a limited budget probably should not be so ambitious. My dad has promised to borrow a [...]

  • Recycling
    Date: Friday December 4, 2009 Planted in: Other Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    One thing gardeners are really good at is recycling. We use cardboard and newspaper as weed blocker, steal discarded yard waste from the curb to put in our compost piles, buy plants bound for the dumpster  because they were “just $1,” and turn almost any old piece of junk into “garden art.” 
    Along those lines, I’m begging people [...]

  • Time off for the holidays
    Date: Wednesday November 25, 2009 Planted in: Other Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    Time off means time off from blogging. I will certainly NOT be relaxing as long as I have an opportunity to work uninterrupted in my gardens and greenhouse and it’s bright enough to see outside.
    I will try to take pictures this week if I think about it. I get so wrapped up in working [...]

  • I feel as though I live in the 21st Century – at last!
    Date: Tuesday November 10, 2009 Planted in: Other, Personal Notes, Site Updates Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    After years of slow, unreliable internet service (I live in the Boonies!) I decided to go with HughesNet. DSL and cable are not available where I live yet, and my only alternatives are dial-up (I don’t even have a landline) or wireless through my old cell provider. Let’s just say the wireless was less [...]

  • Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers
    Date: Wednesday October 21, 2009 Planted in: Other Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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    Backyard Grown Gardens is now a member of the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers! I’m really excited about taking this step to increase my professional knowledge and network with the experts of the industry.  Look for my member logo, coming to the web site soon!

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    I’m still around
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