Virginia Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) Image Credit: Native Wildflowers Nursery Height: 6″ – 10″ Spring Beauties are Ephemerals. “A spring ephemeral is a native plant that blooms in early spring and only lasts a short amount of time. They are woodland wildflowers that emerge, then quickly go dormant.” Google ai First Blossom Noticed in May Garden…
Tag: Mississippi Native Plants
How to Create a Sense of Depth and Height in Your Garden – Also a Word about Raised Beds
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 Issue 2021 in…
Perennials I Plan to Add to My Garden
American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) Height: 36-72″ tall (3-4 ft) Image Credit: American Meadows Aster ‘Purple Dome’ (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) – 3 Plants Image Credit: American Meadows Height: 36-48″ tall (3-4 ft) Baptisia Wild Blule (Baptisia australis) Image Credit: American Meadows Height: 36-48″ tall (3-4 ft) White Baptisia or False Indigo (Baptisia alba) IImage Credit: American Meadows…
How to Create A Pollinator Garden in Mississippi: A Plant List
Biosystems Engineer and Native Garden Expert Nate Venarkse recommended the preceding video and he said: “if you want to stick to MS native plants with the same design, you’d need white false indigo and downy pagoda mint instead of purple false indigo and Agastache.” Nate Venarske, Facebook Post White False Indigo Purple Coneflower Butterfly Weed…
Butterfly, Bird, and Bee Gardens – Plans and Plants – Consider Native Plants
I planted Swamp Milkweed in my New Jersey garden, and I had a host of monarch butterfly visitors who laid eggs there. It was thrilling to watch the monarch caterpillars become glorious butterflies in New Jersey, and I am ready to start my Butterfly Garden now in Mississippi. As I plant my butterfly garden, I’ll…
Mississippi Native Wildflowers – What Are They? A List
Black-Eyed Susans [Rubeckia] in Jacki Kellum’s Garden Several years ago, I wrote a post saying that I am a Black-Eyed Susan kind of gardener, and I suppose that is why I love native plants. That post begins as follows: “I have a very distinctive taste in gardening–it is a bit like me. My garden is…
Coral Honeysuckle – Mississppi Native Plant – Focus on Flowers
Coral Honeysuckle – Image Credit Wikimedia Coral Honeysuckle Jacki Kellum Garden 2017 In 2023, I moved to a house in Mississippi that was devoid of a garden, and I have been working overtime, trying to solve that problem. In about August, a friend thrilled me with the gift of a Coral Honeysuckle. I had not…