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:
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 [...]
Date: Wednesday December 16, 2009 Planted in: Growing in the Greenhouse, Perennials Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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I decided to try my hand at growing agapanthus from seed. I didn’t read any advice about growing them, lest I be disappointed in my own efforts. I sowed the seed about six weeks ago, and I’m just now starting to see germination. Of eighteen pots, I have four sprouting.
I nearly gave up on them. [...]
Date: Tuesday April 28, 2009 Planted in: Flower Gardens, Perennials Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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When people ask me what my favorite flower is, I never hesitate to say “Sunflowers.” They are so bright and cheerful, and easy to grow. There’s nothing quite as striking, to me, as a vase full of yellow and orange sunflowers.
I feel like I’m betraying all the other flowers out there when I [...]
Date: Friday April 17, 2009 Planted in: Perennials Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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Depending on what part of the country you live in, you can plant just about anything in a “rock garden.” I’ve started one with a mixture of sedums, groundcovers, bulbs, shrubs, herbs and perennials.
The bed is right near the road on a slope above a ditch. It sits between two sawtooth oak trees, and the [...]
Date: Thursday March 5, 2009 Planted in: Perennials Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
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Spring planting of perennials will soon commence. In fact, there is probably a minimal selection available at your local garden center now, depending on where you live. I worked in the front yard after work yesterday until the sun set, and I found my echinacea and veronica sprouting up from their roots. [...]
