Pineapple sage is one of my favorite herbs to enjoy in late summer. Buy it now, when it's a teeny seedling and plant it in a full sun spot with plenty of growing room. Pineapple sage will grow into a mighty bush filled with scarlet flowers that lure in the hummers in late summer. Read more on pineapple sage at the link in my bio. #gardening #pineapplesage #acookandhergarden #springgardening #gardening #gardeninginthesouth #gardeninglife #gardeningingeorgia #herbs #growingherbs
My George L. Tabor azaleas that light up my front yard every spring. These have been in the ground for nearly 30 years. I plant Encore azaleas now and wrote up a little bit about adding azaleas to my landscape on the blog. Check out the story at the link in the bio. #springgardening #acookandhergarden #gardeninginthesouth #gardeningingeorgia #gardening #azalea #azaleas
A single, beautiful bearded iris in my crazy quilt front flower bed. I don’t remember planting it, but I’ll take it. 😊 #beardediris #springgardening #acookandhergarden #gardening #gardeningingeorgia #gardeninglife #flower #gardeninginthesouth
Remembering the Queen Hearts Brunnera from last year. She was a beauty and settled in quite well next to the Japanese painted fern on the edge the shade bed. She’s yet to emerge this spring and I feel a little like Brandon DeWilde running after the gunfighter at the end of the film, “Shane, Shane, don’t go!” I guess some plants were just meant for a season. Brunnera is hardy in zones 3 to 8, so it could be the summer heat just about did her in. Or it could be she’s taking her time to wake up. Cool, silent Shane never explained and Queen of Hearts will likely keep her secrets, as well. Will keep you posted. #brunnera #perennials #gardeninginthesouth #shadegarden #shadegardening #acookandhergarden
What’s happening in your May garden? I rounded up my favorite things about May in my Georgia garden and included them in a blog post. Check out the link in the bio for Your Georgia Garden in May. #acookandhergarden #gardening #in #Georgia #gardeningingeorgia #springgardening
First strawberries of the season! Not enough for strawberry shortcake or jam, but perfect for snacking when I’m checking on my garden. #strawberries #acookandhergarden
Here’s a lively idea for a springtime cut flower bouquet ~ using asparagus spears to decorate the base. It’s a simple trick that makes a whimsical and fun presentation. Check out the steps at the link in my bio. #gardeninglife #acookandhergarden #flower #cutflower #bouquet #howto #diy #Asparagus #spring #bouquet #springbouquet #springbouquets #asparagusbouquet
This spring, while I’m cleaning up the shade garden beds beneath the pin oaks, I decided to rescue the oak seedlings that I typically pull up and discard. I potted three in containers and set them in the woods near my potting table so I’ll remember to water them in the hottest days of the year. Check out the story link in my bio. Do you rescue seedlings? Have you grown oaks from acorns? #acookandhergarden #gardening #gardeninglife #gardeninginthesouth #gardeningisfun #garden #growing #gardeninginspring #shadegardening #oaks #acorns #trees #treesofinstagram #mighty #oaks
Blackberry winter is the phrase country folk use to describe late spring days when winter bites back. Wild blackberries may be in bloom or even fruiting, and Mother Nature lets you know it’s not summer until she says so. Blackberry plants are one of many aggressive plants on our property. I leave them in the wilder parts and pull them out of the more civilized spots. About a decade ago, I wrote a story about blackberry winter and included a recipe for blackberry dooby, a tasty kind of stewed fruit and pastry combination. Check it out on my blog, link in the bio. #acookandherbooks #blackberries #acookandhergarden #blackberry #gardeninglife #gardening #gardeninginthesouth #blackberrydooby #dessertrecipes
Every shade gardener should know about the 3 H’s: hostas, hellebores and heuchera. These powerhouses bring color and texture to the shady spots in my garden. They’re not the only shade perennials, but they’re a great place to start. Of the three, I’ve discovered that heucheras are somewhat finicky. They like shade, but it has to be dry shade, darling. And if their conditions are not met, they’ll flounce faster than a teenager on TikTok. This sweet heuchera likes the shady western side of the azalea hedge, backed by Autumn ferns. She’s on a slight rise, near the winter daphne (also very particular about her accommodations.) Heuchera performs well in terra cotta pots tucked in the shade, too. #garden #acookandhergarden #gardeninginthesouth #gardeningisfun #gardeningisfun #growing #perennials #gardeninginspring #shadegarden #shadegardening #plants #gardeninglife #gardenlife #heuchera
In February, I sowed nasturtium seeds two ways: winter sowing method in bins, and also directly in containers. Both germinated quickly and put on healthy growth. These are the winter sown plants, potted up and placed on my full sun porch. They’re sweet plants and enjoying them as foliage plants first feels like a two-for-one deal. #garden #containergarden #gardeningisfun #acookandhergarden #containergardening #gardening #growing #growingfromseed #growingfromseeds #nasturtiums #gardening #in #the #gardeninginthesouth #wintersowingsuccess #wintersowingseeds #wintersowingmethod #wintersowingworks
A heartfelt thank you to the live goods merchant who ordered firecracker plant for my local The Home Depot garden center. I see this all over Florida and areas south of my zone 7a/8b garden. Firecracker plant is also called fountain bush or coral plant. It likes full sun. I’ve placed it temporarily by my front steps, but it’s slated for the mailbox for the duration of the summer. #acookandhergarden #gardening #garden #gardeninginthesouth #gardeningisfun #homedepotgardencenter #homedepot #flowers #containergardening #containergarden
Native tiarella cordifolia, foam flower, in the shady border. Purchased @ last fall’s native plant sale and planted thinking it would be a miracle for this fragile looking plant to survive winter. Well, here she is and I think she’s quite settled in with the Eastern red columbine and ferns. So far, a better choice than finicky heuchera. #acookandhergarden #native #plants #nativeplants #gardeningisfun #gardening #gardeninglife #gardeninginthesouth #gardeninginspring #perennials #shadegarden #shadegardening
It’s almost container planting time in my area. I’ve learned that it’s prudent to wait until we’re past the average last frost date of April 15. April bit back with a late frost in 2023 so I try to be patient before putting tender annuals out. This container by my mailbox was a fall-to-spring favorite last year. There’s flowering cabbage, rainbow chard, a bit of carex, sweet pink snapdragons and my favorite, curly parsley in flower. The violas along the edge were toast, but I hardly notice them. I get extra mileage out of the parsley. It’s a biennial, so when it’s time to leave the planter, I plop it in the flower bed and let it go another season. Pollinators like black swallowtail caterpillars appreciate parsley as a food source. #containergarden #containergardening #falltospring #fallcontainerdesign #springcontainerdesign #parsley #gardening #gardeninginthesouth #acookandhergarden
Tradescantia virginiana, common spiderwort, is a ridiculously easy to grow native plant. I put it in shade: happy happy. Plant in sun: same. The purple blue blooms last for just a day, but there’s always another ready to take its place. #acookandhergarden #nativeplants #tradescantia #spiderwort
Chive blossoms in my garden. These common chives from Bonnie Plants settled in years ago. They appreciate the mid-morning sun and respite from afternoon heat that the vegetable garden raised beds offer. I snip chive stems throughout the year to use in salads and vinaigrettes, but am content to let the bees enjoy the blooms. #chives #herbgarden #acookandhergarden #ediblegarden #ediblegardening #gardeninginthesouth
Reason #2 Why I ❤️ Snapdragons: the colors pop pop pop. If I were an organized gardener, I would be able to tell you the name of this cultivar planted in November, but I’m not that person. Still, I don’t need to know the name to enjoy the flowers in spring. Welcome to my version of #chaosgardening 🤣 🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸 #acookandhergarden #snapdragon #snapdragons #organizedgardening
Why I love snapdragons, part 1. These tough little guys reseed and pop up in the unlikeliest places ~ like the inhospitable space between the road and the garden. #snapdragons #gardeninginspring #acookandhergarden #flowers
I’m weak enough around plants. Books do me in. The Master Gardener Volunteers of Cobb County Plant Sale had a shelf of books that needed new homes. Brought these treasures home for $2. That’s right ~ 6 books for a total of two bucks. Dictionary of Plant Names falls open to the entry on fothergilla, named for John Fothergilla, an English physician who grew American plants. Preparing to nerd out over this one as well as Ball Red Book 12th edition from 1974. Stocking Up: How to Preserve the Foods You Grow, Naturally (13th printing, July 1976). Binding crackles when I open it. In contrast to a well-loved issue of Herbaceaous Perennial Plants by Dr. A, @armitageallan , 2nd printing, published in 1989. A book club edition of How to Prune Almost Everything from 1968 looks to be descriptive and nearly devoid of images and illustrations. A Country Garden in Your Backyard looks promising ~ published by Rodale and with a blurb from one of my all-time favorite garden writers, Barbara Damrosch. Rainy day + a stacks of books = perfect day. #acookandhergarden #gardening #garden #books #gardenbooks #gardeningbooks #acookandherbooks
Third visit to The Home Depot this week. I’m gonna need a bigger buggy. And a truck. 🧡🧡🧡 #springblackfriday #homedepot #homedepotgardencenter #saturdaymorning #gardening #gardenlife #acookandhergarden #gardeninginthesouth
Hypericum, commonly called St John’s wort, in my garden. Planted six in my new flower bed on the edge of the woods last fall. Purchased from The Home Depot and put in the ground the week of Thanksgiving. Happy and ready for summer. #acookandhergarden #hypericum #stjohnswort #gardeninginthesouth #boughtfromhomedepot #perennials #homedepotgardencenter
Oxalis, also called wood sorrel. A sweet little plant that minds its own beeswax in the woodland garden and shows up in early spring in between the hellebores and the hostas. Brought her home from the local Master Gardener plant sale about five years ago, planted her in my deep shade garden and she’s the same as she ever was. Some gardeners kvetch about this plant’s aggressive tendencies. Maybe they have it in more light? As far as I’m concerned, and in keeping with my “live and let live” gardenmantra, oxalis can spread out a bit more and I won’t complain. Go forth and multiply, my dear. #liveandletlive #liveandletliveinthegarden #gardening #oxalis #woodsorrel #liveandletlive🌸 #acookandhergarden
Spring is so close to popping out here in the Atlanta area, and my calendar is overflowing with garden tours. I so appreciate home gardeners who generously share their spaces for a day or a weekend. On my blog, I rounded up a list of garden tours that I hope to attend this spring. Check out the link in my bio. #mastergardener #georgiamastergardener #gamastergardener #acookandhergarden #gardentours #atlantagardentours #georgiagardentours #atlantagarden #atlantagardener 53w
The days dwindle down, to a precious few…and I have just a few more weeks to enjoy my summer flower pots. This caladium-cordyline-asparagus fern-sweet potato vine combo was a no-fuss champ all season long. Check out my blog post for details, on A Cook and Her Books (and gardens, too!). #containergardeningideas #containergardens #caladiums #sweetpotatovine #acookandhergarden #zone7bgardening
Figs are the first plants mentioned in the Bible that we can grow in our gardens. This week on my blog, garden expert @shelleycramm of Garden in Delight writes about growing figs in her garden. She says it's the kind of gardening that speaks to your soul, and I agree. Check out the link in my bio and follow Shelley for more stories about faith and the natural world. (Photo: Shelley S. Cramm) #acookandherbooks #acookandhergarden #figs #gardening #growfood #growfoodathome #gardencomm #gardening #gardencommunity
You may see the light coming in at a different angle, or catch a cooling breeze. All I know is that I’m ready for fall so I can put more plants in the ground. 🦋🌸🦋 to enable my local gardener friends, I rounded up Atlanta area plant sales on my blog. Let me know your favorites! #plantsales #atlantaplantsale #atlantaplantsales #georgiaplants #georgiaplantsale #acookandhergarden #mastergardener #gamastergardener
This is a Gulf fritillary caterpillar. It’s much easier to photograph than a Gulf fritillary butterfly. The fritillaries flit from station to station in my pollinator bed, like sugared-up toddlers at a birthday party. This little guy, though, is enjoying the calm after the storm, munching away on a passionflower leaf. The passionflowers (Passiflora incarnata) popped up in the mulch beds and I pulled out as many as I could and potted them up. This vine settled in alongside a dwarf blueberry bush. #passionflower #gulffritillarycaterpillar #passifloraincarnata #pollinatorgarden #pollinators #caterpillar #zone7bgardening #mastergardener #butterflygarden #butterflygardening #acookandhergarden
Mexican sunflower, tithonia, is blooming now at high pollinator time. This beauty is about five feet tall and I probably need a stepladder to get a proper pic of the bloom. 😂 Butterflies and dragonflies continue to zoom through the garden, and a pair of hummers buzzed by yesterday afternoon. Later this week, August 18 and 19, I’ll participate in the Great Southeast Pollinator Census, counting pollinators as they land on the plants in my garden. Learn more about the pollinator census at the link in my bio. #pollinators #pollinatorplants #pollinatorcensus #tithonia #gardeninginthesouth #zone7bgardening #acookandhergarden
Pumpkin blossom in my garden this morning. One of my favorite A Cook and Her Books stories is about stuffed pumpkin blossoms. I stuff the tender blooms with goat cheese and fry them tempura style. It’s hard to believe it’s been 12 years since I wrote this story on my blogspot blog. It’s now lightly updated in the site. Check it out at the link in the bio. #pumpkinblossoms #pumpkin #stuffedpumpkinblossoms #acookandhergarden #acookandherbooks #gardeninginthesouth
The outside temperature in Vancouver at noon on Thursday was in the low 20s. Celsius, that is. About 70 Fahrenheit. 70 beautiful, perfect, clear-aired degrees. When we landed in Atlanta at midnight, the temperature was still in the 80s. (F, but who cares when it’s this hot?). Returning to my garden (kinda) made up for the cruel transition to hell-hot Georgia in July. I picked a basketful of ripe tomatoes this morning. Beautiful yellow pear, Romas, and a few more whose names are somewhere in the clutch of plant tags that I’ll rediscover when I declutter in winter. Oh, there’s that word, winter. It’s cold, right? For now, I’ll savor the tomatoes and wait for winter. Check out the link in my bio for my favorite tomato recipes on the blog. #tomatoes #acookandhergarden #vegetablegardening #tomatogarden #summer #gagarden #georgiagardening #gardeninginthesouth
Entering my favorite part of the garden year. Everything’s planted and cared for and now we wait for the wildlife to show up. The buffet is ready, just waiting on the guests. 🦋 All that is to say an Eastern tiger swallow tail found this Turk’s cap lily in the garden yesterday. 🦋 #pollinators #butterflies #butterfliesofinstagram #acookandhergarden #easterntigerswallowtail #zone7bgardening #gardeninginthesouth
Guy Clark sang it best: “Homegrown tomatoes/Homegrown tomatoes/What would life be without homegrown tomatoes? There’s only two things money can’t buy/That’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.” Check out my tomato recipes at the link in the bio. #acookandherbooks #tomatoes #homegrowntomatoes #guyclark #acookandhergarden #zone7bgardening #tomatorecipes #foodie #cooking #farmtotable
Refreshed the mailbox planting with pink mandevilla. This meant pulling out the flowering cabbage that still looked beautiful, but not exactly summery. Couldn’t bear to compost the cabbage, so I put it in a pot on my potting table. A rose by any other name… #acookandhergarden #zone7bgardening #mailboxplants #gardeninginthesouth #mandevilla
This is my “use what you have” garden season. And what I have is plenty of sedums, like fish scale sedum and Autumn Joy sedum. So so easy to propagate. Just pinch, snip and pop into potting soil. No rooting hormone needed. Read more about how I make these budget-friendly sedum pots on my blog. Link in bio. #sedums #acookandhergarden #frugalgardener #budgetgardener #greenthumbgardener #gardening #gardeninginthesouth #succulents #succulentsofinstagram #zone7bgardening
Ruellia caroliniensis, a native petunia, on the edge of my woods. Blooms last for just a day, but it makes up for it by seeding easily. #acookandhergarden #nativeplants #wildpetunia #ganativeplants #zone7bgardening
Borage with an agastache photo bomb. 🌸 Grow it for the blue flowers, the bees 🐝 will thank you. I grow it next to the keyhole garden that’s filled with tomatoes, basil and peppers. And not far from the strawberry patch. 🍓 #acookandhergarden #pollinatorweek #zone7bgardening #zone7bgarden #herbgarden #borage
In my novel, Monarda B. Baum (“call me Mo”) is a good time gal with a fondness for purple. The Belle Watling in the story. (Trying to work in propensity to mildew, but worth keeping around 😉.) #zone7bgardening #acookandhergarden #pollinatorplants
Today’s arrangement of hostas courtesy of the voles. They even chewed the stems off at the crown, thoughtful little creatures. #hosta #acookandhergarden #hostas #gardeninginthensouth #zone7bgarden
The strawberry bed in the garden is like a little snack bed. It never produces enough at one time for strawberry shortcake or jam. But when I’m working in the garden, I’ll peek under the leaves and find a handful. I check daily to get them before the slugs & other critters do. It’s the gardener’s treat. These were a @bonnieplants ever-bearing variety planted in 2017 and divided many times over. They love the cool, wet weather in spring and fall. #strawberries🍓 #gardeninginthesouth #strawberrygarden #ediblegardening #acookandhergarden
My cool spring planting by the mailbox will transition to heat-loving plants over the next month. Still, I’ve loved this combination of ‘Bright Lights’ Swiss chard, flowering kale, parsley, Carex, and snapdragons. The pansies are pretty much toast in the planter, but that’s ok. I like to let the parsley & kale bolt and give the bees and butterflies a little refreshment. #pollinatorgarden #containergardening #springflowers #gardeninginthesouth #zone7bgardening #zone7b #acookandhergarden
This @provenwinners Brunnera macrophylla “Queen of Hearts” is settling into its new home next to the Japanese painted fern in my shade border. It’s one of my treasures from last week’s @georgiaperennial mini-symposium and auction. I’m a new member to the group, and it was a great event. I made new gardening friends and brought home new plants. In between, we had lots of laughs and learning from speakers @armitageallan and @deebenarc. #acookandhergarden #zone7b #zone7bgardening #perennialgarden #perennialplants #brunnera #gaperennial
Spring is so close to popping out here in the Atlanta area, and my inbox is overflowing with garden tours. I so appreciate home gardeners who generously share their spaces for a day or a weekend. On my blog, I rounded up a list of garden tours that I hope to attend this spring. Check out the link in my bio. #zone7bgardening #mastergardener #georgiamastergardener #gamastergardener #acookandhergarden #gardentours #atlantagardentours #georgiagardentours #atlantagarden
I’m dreaming of butterflies, bees and more in my summer garden. New gardeners ask me how to bring the pollinators into their gardens and if they live in Georgia, I tell them about the Southeast Pollinator Census. This citizen science program is open to South Carolina and North Carolina residents, too. Learn more at the link in my bio. @southeastpollinators #pollinators #pollinatorgarden #acookandhergarden #monarchbutterfly #southeastpollinatorcensus #georgiapollinatorcensus #mastergardener
Spring is coming, I just know it. Gray, cold and wet winter weather is hanging on, but my calendar is filling up with garden tours. One of my favorites is the Penny McHenry Hydrangea Festival & Garden Tour slated for Saturday, June 3, 2023, in Douglasville, Ga. Mark your calendars, friends, it’s almost showtime. See link in bio. 🌸🦋🌸 @hydrangeafest #hydrangeas #acookandhergarden #gardentours #signsofspring #celebratedouglascounty #hydrangeafest
Merry Christmas, everyone, from sunny and cold Georgia. May your holidays be merry and bright. 🎄❤️🎁❤️🎄Be well! #merrychristmas #acookandhergarden #acookandherbooks #camellia
The last few weeks have been beautiful but dry here in the Atlanta-ish area. I think that’s why the Angel’s Trumpet (brugmansia) is a little later to arrive than in previous years. I’m just happy it’s here. Growing brugmansia is like having an annual tree in my front flower bed. Just when I start to question why I put such a large plant in front of my house, frost arrives and I trim it back and wait another 10 months for it to emerge and bloom all over again. 🌸🦋🌸 #acookandhergarden #angelstrumpet #brugmansia #gardeninginthesouth #zone7bgardening
This is why I keep a garden journal: so I know that the Monarchs visit my garden the second week of October each year. There’s not many, often just one or two. But I make sure to have plenty for them to eat when they visit. The Benary’s Giant zinnias and the grocery store dahlias, with a side of butterfly bush make a fine feast for the flight south. I grew milkweed this year, but it did not flower. Ever the hopeful gardener, I believe next year will be better for the milkweed and the Monarchs. Until then, I’ll enjoy this moment in the butterfly garden. #monarch #monarchbutterfly #pollinatorgarden #zone7bgardening #acookandhergarden
Camellia sasanqua just off the driveway. The cool and crisp dry weather means a beautiful fall season of blooms. #camellia #camelliasasanqua #acookandhergarden #gardeninginthesouth #zone7bgardening
Fall is the best time to garden, says Joe Lamp’l of @joegardener. I recently talked with Joe in his beautiful vegetable garden that’s the setting for his TV show, podcast, online courses, and brand new book. “The Vegetable Gardening Book” publishes September 6. The book is a thoughtful, thoroughly researched, expert guide to organic vegetable gardening. It’s an enjoyable read whether you’re settling in and dreaming of a garden, or need expert advice on a gardening question. Check out my story (link in bio) about my visit to the GardenFarm. (Photo by Tobi McDaniel) #iamajoegardener #acookandhergarden #acookandherbooks #gardening #fallgardening #joegardener #vegetablegardeningbook #organicgardening #vegetablegardening #thevegetablegardeningbook #fallgardening #garden #gardenbooks #authors #authorsofinstagram
I’m catching up on my spring garden tour photos & posts. These are from the Cobb Master Garden Tour in May. It was a beautiful day in the gardens! Thank you, Cobb MG’s for putting on a great, inspiring event! See the link to the story in the bio. @cobbmastergardeners #hosta #gardentour #hostas #cobbcountymastergardeners #cobbcountyga #mastergardener #mastergardeners #springgarden #gardeninginthesouth #acookandhergarden
A bit of research crossed my desk a few years ago that essentially said the late summer gardener wants to be rescued ~ from pest and disease pressure, too much zucchini, unrelenting heat or nonstop rain, you can fill in your August garden problem. I know I don’t think about August in April, when I’m angsting about seedlings that may be hurt by a late frost, or just getting all my plants in the ground before the inevitable dry & hot weather comes in. “We are hateful, awful people,” Julia Roberts admonishes her tribe in ‘Steel Magnolias.’ “sometimes we don’t know how lucky we are.” That May be a leap, right, but the older I get, the more I think everything we need to know has been discussed in a Julia Roberts movie. Back to this garden (not my own): tomatoes, hydrangeas, rudbeckia, abelia, melons, peppers. A bountiful harvest and the promise of fall. #acookandhergarden #gardeninginthesouth #tomatoes #steelmagnolias
The Eastern Tiger Swallowtail in my garden, about a week off it’s typical occurrence, but that’s ok. 🦋 welcome, friend + tell the others. 🌸 #acookandhergarden #zone7bgarden # #butterfly #plantingforpollinators #easterntigerswallowtail #pollinatorgardening
I gathered all the cherry tomatoes in the bazillion separate bowls in my fridge and roasted them. Just tossed them with EVOO (can’t help healing RR in my head), S&P then roasted at 425 F for about 45 minutes. Next, I plan to use them in a roasted tomato & summer vegetable soup. What are making with your farmer’s market/garden produce? #acookandhergarden #acookandherkitchen #somanytomatoes #tomatoes #cherrytomatoes #summerfood
Volunteered Saturday morning at a Master Gardener community garden event and checked out the mid-summer bounty. Abundant tomatoes and zinnias, cukes and okra in flower, and a magnificent poke weed setting fruit for the birds. #communitygarden #gardeninginthesouth #acookandhergarden #zone7b #m #mastergardener #tomatoes🍅
My favorite annual this year is ‘Kong Rose’ coleus. It’s gorgeous and easy. Can’t say much more than that. 😊 #acookandhergarden #coleus #annuals #zone7bgardening #gardeninginthesouth #kongrosecoleus
My late summer garden: hardy hibiscus, anole with marigold, figs, hydrangeas, container with coleus, Persian shield and sweet potato vine. #gardeninginthesouth #acookandhergarden #hibiscus #pollinators #zone7bgardening
Face plants 😂. I filled one of my favorite planters with fish scale sedum and it’s taken off this summer. Check out the blog link in my bio. #acookandhergarden #containergardening #headplanter #sedum #succulents
Luna moth on a tree at the edge of the garden. #lunamoth #gardeninginthesouth #zone7b #zone7bgardening #acookandhergarden
Call it a proud tomato mom moment. I found parasitoid wasp eggs on an E-vil tobacco hornworm in my garden. The little guys will eat the caterpillar. Isn’t gardening just the coolest? #tobaccohornworm #tomatohornworm #parasitoidwaspeggs #vegetablegardening #gardeninginthesouth #acookandhergarden
I wrote a story about the E-vil tobacco hornworms 🐛 on my tomato plants 🍅 on my blog. See link in bio. #acookandhergarden #tobaccohornworm #tomatohornworm #gardeninginthesouth #vegetablegardening #tomatoes
More blooms and views from the @trialgardens at the University of Georgia in Athens. Read more in my new story on the blog. See link in profile. #gardens #trialgardens #gardeninginthesouth #gardeningingeorgia #publicgardens #acookandhergarden #acookandhergardens #mastergardener
Capturing azaleas at home at sunset. The whites bloom first and fade first, but the pinks are still going strong, including my favorite, George L. Taber. I remember very few cultivar names, but I always know George. 🌸 and speaking of memories, I take pictures of the hostas before the deer get to them. 🥂Happy Easter, happy spring 🌸 #springishere #azalea #hosta #acookandhergarden
A Garden Center loaded for a spring weekend is a beautiful thing. So much possibility. (Shop early, though, ‘cause it’s gonna rain.) #homedepot #homedepotgardencenter #springflowers #acookandhergarden #springishere #gardening
Dreaming of spring, staring at my box of @botanical_interests seeds and supplies. It’s a little like those first minutes with a new baby, when you just want to soak in all the hope, promise and possibility before the work begins. Give me a day to enjoy the box, then the planting will begin. 🌸 #gardening #dreamingofspring #botanicalinterests #seeds #seedstarting #acookandhergarden
Winter daphne, propagated 3 years ago and still in a nursery pot nestled under a mature stand of azaleas. I need to plant it ~ any thoughts on when (before the hot part of spring?) and where (it’s in protected deep shade now, can it handle unprotected partial shade?)? #acookandhergarden #winterdaphne #gardening
Breaking an IG fast with hellebores. I don’t mind winter, but I’m not crazy about cold. Hellebores fill the flower void between Christmas and spring. #acookandhergarden #hellebores #Lentenrose
One year and one month since it last bloomed. Welcome back, sweet camellia. #camelliasasanqua #camellia #gardeninspiration #gardeninginthesouth #acookandhergarden
October in the garden, part sun edition. Pineapple sage, ferns lined up to replace coleus, ligularia blooming. #zone7bgarden #acookandhergarden #gardeninginthesouth #pineapplesage
October blooms, full sun edition. Asters, sedum spilling over in a container, angel’s trumpet (brugmansia) and sedum ground over (Lemon coral and more). #zone7bgarden #acookandhergarden #asters #gardeninginthesouth #sedum
Look what I found in the flower bed, hiding under the angel’s trumpet and gaura and lilies and goodness-knows-what-else ~ a strawberry pot full of fish scale sedum! Earlier in the summer, I trimmed back the sedum in the bed as it was spilling onto the driveway. I stuck the sprigs in the openings of the pot, watered and hoped for the best. 🙏🏻 Live and let live is my garden philosophy. 🪴I’d say it did alright. Let’s see if it will survive winter outside. 🤞 #acookandhergarden #zone7bgarden #sedum #strawberrypot #strawberrypotsucculents #fishscalesedum