Category: Photography
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P. Allen Smith’s Garden2Blog, Part III
After visiting Marlsgate Plantation and P. Allen Smith’s original garden home, Gaines, we were off on yet another Garden2Blog adventure to a gardener’s mecca, Moss Mountain Farm. One of the best parts about Garden2Blog was having the opportunity to casually tour P. Allen Smith’s garden home retreat. I must have taken 400 photos inside the…
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Scenes from the New Garden Bed
Full disclosure: I am a Proven Winners Garden Guru, however, I was not compensated for these photos, nor for purchasing these plants. I buy them because I love them.
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Bringing Butterflies to your Garden
An organic garden may host so much more life than vegetables or ornamental flowers and shrubs. Growing and nurturing new species of plants can attract a multitude of wildlife…birds, four-legged creatures, amphibians, and insects, including butterflies, all of which can be beneficial to the garden and delights to the gardener. When I planned our garden this spring, I made sure…
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Preserving the Harvest–Heirloom Tomato Sauce
An abundance of tomatoes freshly harvested from the vine or carefully picked from a local farmer’s market is a beautiful thing. Tomatoes are the number one crop grown in American backyards, and anyone who has enjoyed a just-picked tomato, ripened on the vine and still warm from the sun knows why. It’s a food memory…
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A Walk on the Wild Side
While we mostly grow organic vegetables at Cowlick Cottage Farm, we try not to be one-dimensional. Knockout roses, daylillies, hydrangeas, jasmine, clematis and ginger all have a home here, too. They don’t get nearly as much attention as the tomatoes, okra and squash do, though. So when I plant flowers, they need to be able…