My Lenten Roses are Blooming
I’ve grown lenten roses (Hellebores) for many years. Their lovely blooms sometimes start appearing as early as late December. They…
I’ve grown lenten roses (Hellebores) for many years. Their lovely blooms sometimes start appearing as early as late December. They…
Over the last week and a half I’ve noticed daffodils blooming throughout Brasstown. Here on the north side of the…
When I was a girl Granny would go out into the cold and cut sprigs from her yellow bells and…
The plant commonly called dolls eyes gives me the creeps. I adored baby dolls when I was a child, but…
I remember in the 40’s going out in the fields and the edges of woods in the fall of the…
Granny has grown ageratum for as long as I can remember. It was one of the first plants she shared…
Carolina Phlox Polemoniaceae (Phlox Family) Phlox grows wild around my mountain holler. Since we’ve lived here I’ve let it go…
doghobble noun A common evergreen shrub (Leucothoe spp) having dense, tangled limbs and branches. [DARE labels this term “chiefly southern Appalachians”] 1926 Hunnicutt Twenty Years 124…
About a week ago I was coming around the side of the house when a splash of color caught my…
The mountains are just spectacular this time of the year. Every where I look I see the pinkish white blooms…
Trailing Arbutus As I walked back from Granny’s the other day I smelled the sweetness of a spring time bloom….
Years ago I planted my front bank in thrift. Over the years some of the plants have died, but I…