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Mountain Garden: Flexibility Pays Dividends

In what might be called the “garden whisperer” approach, there’s much to be said for letting the plants have a role in the plans.

Mountain Garden: Holy Moly! It’s a Castor Oil Plant

The plant’s poisonous seeds don’t preclude growing “something out of maurice sendak’s imagination.”

Mountain Garden: Irresistable Irises

Easy to grow, easy to keep and easy to look at, bearded irises have a long history of beauty.

25 Garden Tips for July-October

From assessing (don’t plant too closely) to zucchini (don’t let them get as big as ball bats), here’s how to grow better.

Restoring a Neglected Flower Garden: Learning from Mistakes

Two butterfly gardening neophytes pass on six valuable lessons drawn from experience.

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Left: Old-fashioned rambling roses, accidentally spared, bloomed exuberantly around and over the old mulberry stump. Right: The spidery blooms of witch hazel appear in late October, lighting up the woods as autumn’s foliage fades.

Mountain Garden: Flexibility Pays Dividends

In what might be called the “garden whisperer” approach, there’s much to be said for letting the plants have a role in the plans.
The white flowers, clumped along the stem, are easy to miss. They expand into clusters of spiky scarlet seedpods containing ricin-laced “beans.”

Mountain Garden: Holy Moly! It’s a Castor Oil Plant

The plant’s poisonous seeds don’t preclude growing “something out of maurice sendak’s imagination.”
Worth the wait: A passed-along rhizome produced just leaves for several years. Then this.

Mountain Garden: Irresistable Irises

Easy to grow, easy to keep and easy to look at, bearded irises have a long history of beauty.

25 Garden Tips for July-October

From assessing (don’t plant too closely) to zucchini (don’t let them get as big as ball bats), here’s how to grow better.
What a difference a few months makes! The lower right corner of the butterfly garden, July 29.

Restoring a Neglected Flower Garden: Learning from Mistakes

Two butterfly gardening neophytes pass on six valuable lessons drawn from experience.
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Much of the Oklawaha Greenway is lined with trees.
The Good Walk

Walking Oklawaha Greenway

Located just minutes from downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina, this 3.25-mile scenic pathway winds through forests and wetlands.

May 1, 2026

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