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Some old and some new varieties to try.

Scale insects attach themselves to the host plant and suck out the plant juices or sap. This particular scale is commonly called Japanese maple scale, but it c…

One to try, and two to avoid!

So much to do, and so little time!

While not the traditional Memphis in May, it was a quick overnight trip packed with fun.

This plant is growing in my flower bed and I don't recognize it. Please advise — is it a weed or a good plant?

A perennial, a shrub and a tree this week.

I had a birthday season this year along with many more events, it was a great month!

Another road trip to the annual quilt convention.

All of my Althea were luscious till mid-late last summer, when the first two started looking bad: branches losing leaves and drying up. I watered and fertilize…

Spring is finally here, or maybe it is summer already. April was a month of ups and downs, winter to summer and back again — so who knows what is in store.

Life is getting back to normal, and it is good to see people out and about.

A great book with an eye-opening story.

One plant will be easy to find, another is obscure.