*sigh* It’s much harder to post pictures right away when you’re working with film rather than digital.  Oh well. Here’s my rose.  Do any of you have any idea what variety she might be?  I really like her. For ID purposes, here’s some different pictures that I took last year.  The smell is really light, not [...]

Need help identifying a North Carolina tree. Found just outside of Johnston County (7B), growing mostly along the shoulder of the road but also in yards. Trees spotted as tall as 50-60 (?) feet. Has billowy white blooms and dark green tapered leaves. Reminds me of a very tall Crape Myrtle–even a Ligustrum–but not as [...]

I took out a bunch of ugly and unfixably neglected pine bushes last summer. There was a scrawny, one-twig shrub had been trying to survive between them- I left it because it had just a few flowers and even something really scruffy in the empty gap was better than nothing. I’m very glad I let [...]

A month or so ago, I got over-excited about some temporary warm weather we were having and thought that spring had arrived. I went to a nursery, bought a few tomato transplants, and promptly put them in the ground. The next day it got cold and rained, rained, rained for several weeks. Much too cold [...]

Some dusk pictures of my jumbled, crazy backyard garden. Because it makes me happy! View from under my Lady Banks arbor one directionView from the other direction artichoke about to be swallowed by (soon to be thinned) borage raised bed with train track, cauliflower, zuchinni and clarkia G scale windmill, bole beans, carrot, garlic, and [...]

Pictures behind the cut. These bugs are just hanging out on my tomatoes because they like the shade right? They aren’t going to decimate my three tomato plants just when I had hoped to finally have some home grown tomatoes, right?? Also, the black spot on my heirloom tomatoes (where the bugs seem to be [...]

I bought this hanging basket cuz I thought it was pretty!!! Does anyone know what it is??? Thanks in advance!!! :)

We’re in the middle of a property dispute (shared garden with 5 parcels) and it looks like we might at the very least have to take down our hedge to provide more room for another neighbor who might be losing a significant portion of their own garden. The removal of the hedge in itself is [...]

My husband and I live in a small town about an hour outside of Raleigh, NC. All but one of these pictures was taken at a place called Broadwell’s Nursery which is in Angier, a few towns over from us. Broadwell’s is a wholesale nursery that is open to the public. The second nursery was [...]

Lack of a car never stopped an enterprising soul from getting soil any time they want. Gods all bless whoever thought up the wheel.