Gardening Gloves

It's Time to Move Your "Summering" Plants Indoors

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:56:55 -0400

I have a colleague who spends the summer months along the rugged coast of Maine, and returns to life in North Carolina around this time of year. My family likes to "summer" along the North Carolina beaches and mountains. And I have a Christmas Cactus and some Peace Lilies that summer on the front porch.

What's the Best Way to Plant Fall Mums?

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:38:42 -0400

Mums are good fall plants, but do they grow better in the ground or in a pot?

Perfect Weather for A Hike

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:04:42 -0400

Lovers of nature, unite! The weather is perfect this time of year for a hike ... so lace up your boots, grab your kids and your dogs, and hit the trails.

Small Gardens Still Pack A Punch

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:08:20 -0400

You don’t need acres and acres to plant a sustainable vegetable garden for your family. In fact, if you’ve got a patch of sun in your postage size yard, or space for a terracotta pot on your porch or your apartment stoop, you’ve got space for a garden.

We Need Help With Our Huskie!

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:13:27 -0400

Dear Miss Fifi:

Quick Tip | Cure for the Common Garden Critter

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:50:57 -0400

I always love quick and easy gardening tips, particularly when they come from great friends. Take, for example, my great friend Sue Coy. She and her family live in northern Durham County, and her garden is overly natural and shady and just beautiful. Filled with ferns, hosta, columbine, lilies, foxglove, azaleas, dogwoods, deciduous trees and hardwoods, and pines, it's a classic North Carolina garden.

What Are You Doing to Celebrate Earth Day?

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:48:43 -0400

Gardeners of the Piedmont ... Unite!

Pollen Protection

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:43:00 -0400

I found a great statement about pollen from Achoo Allergy: "Trees, weeds, plants, and grasses release small reproductive cells called pollen, which cause allergic reactions for millions of people. Most pollen are light enough to be windborne and are found everywhere, both indoors and out."

The Lovely Narcissus

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:13:25 -0400

Poor Narcissus, the handsome fella doomed by the avenging goddess Nemesis to fall in love with the water nymph Echo, who could only repeat the words of others. The early-Spring flower is said to have sprung from where he died by the riverbank, and it's also fabled to have been the last flower Persephone picked before being swiped by Hades.

Tales from the Orchid Recipient

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:02:48 -0500

I thought about calling this "The Orchid Exterminator," in honor of Susan Orlean's book, The Orchid Thief, but figured that was a little maudlin. Important to note, though, is that of the two orchids I have ever owned, I have managed to kill them both. John Laroche, I am not.