For years, I have started each new year with a grand campaign for self-improvement. Often, I promise that I’ll paint something every day or that I’ll write something every day. Usually, I create an elaborate plan, and I write encouraging quotes for myself–words aimed to help me follow through. But my New Year’s resolutions never…
Category: Gardening
4 – Season Garden: A Year of Garden Native Perennial Plants – Garden Calendar
Image Credit: Camp Creek Native Plants https://www.campcreeknativeplants.com/ Image Credit: Camp Creek Native Plants https://www.campcreeknativeplants.com/ January American Witch Hazel Winterberry Holly American Witch Hazel American Witch Hazel – Image Credit Wikimedia American Witch Hazel – Image Credit Flickr Winter Berry Holly Image Credit: Tennessee Nursery https://www.tnnursery.net/ February American Witch Hazel Virginia Spring Beauty March American Witch…
How to Grow a Children’s Sunflower Garden
Years ago, I discovered the following free garden plan online at Better Homes and Garden. it requires a space that is about 6′ x 6′ and although it is supposedly a garden plan for children, I also think it is precious. 6′ x 6′ Because it is a beginner’s kitchen garden, I believe that…
How to Add Height to Your Garden
Jacki Kellum Garden 2022 I subscribe to the gardening principle that gardens should be layered, with taller plants in the back, medium-sized plants in front of those, and the shortest plants in front of the other two layers. The magazine Fine Gardening provided the following graphic to explain that tenet: Fine Gardening September and October…
Flowers that Grow Well in Mississippi
The Following Information is from the Mississippi State University Extension Service: Selected Annual Flowering Plants For Mississippi Gardens Annuals Scientific name Light Height Spacing Remarks Ageratum Ageratum houstonianum Full sun 6-20” 9-12” Edging; tall cultivars make good cut flowers Alyssum Lobularia maritima Sun to part shade 3-4” 6-8” Edging;…
Church in My Garden – A Jacki Kellum Garden Journal Post for Autumn
The grasses are arching above the places where the perennials had bloomed only weeks ago. The Purple Fountain grass is darker than most of my garden now, which is still a lush, verdant green. Like icing on its cake, feathery festoons topple from the tips of each spire of the ornamental grass. Some of the…
How to Create a Garden Journal – More about the Nature Writer Dorothy Wordsworth’s Nature Writing
If you are wondering how to create a garden journal, the most obvious answer is: Write. As usual, however, obvious answers are hardly ever true answers. Many times, they are insults thrust toward what a true answer might be, and while I often tell journalists and writers to do just that — just write! Nature…
How to Naturally Dye Fabric with Goldenrod
For many years, I have wanted to have access to a large stand of goldenrod, and finally, I have that this year–standing at the back of my yard. I must confess that this delightful patch of goldenrod is not actually mine, Rather, it is at the back of a vacant lot next to my yard….
Nature as a Theme in Literature
Map of the 100 Acre Wood in Winnie the Pooh Nature is often called The Wood in British literature “Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wild World,” said the Rat. “And that’s something that doesn’t matter, either to you or to me. I’ve never been there, and I’m never going, nor you either, if you’ve…
#28Days Journal Challenge Prompt: Mindfulness
Yesterday I bought an Apple Watch, and I am already in love with 3 of its features that I didn’t know I’d get, along with my watch. First and very nice: All of my spam calls [and the less numerous valid calls] show up on my Apple Watch. Within seconds, I can dismiss or accept…