Grow Your Own Food – with Style!
What’s trendy in home landscapes right now? It’s not just outdoor living spaces that include kitchens,… [more]
An Intro to my story
Hi, I'm Connie, and I have been gardening for decades. I am a landscape architect, a lifetime master… [more]
Creating Glass Sculptures for the Garden
More Glass Garden Sculptures Having fun creating eclectic garden ornaments. I had so much fun with… [more]
Growing Lavender in the Southeast
During a cooking weekend at Callaway Gardens years ago, one of the most memorable tastes was a lavender… [more]
Recent Posts
Come to England with me!
The State Botanical Garden of Georgia is launching a new Garden Travels series – and Mike Sikes and I are the first speakers on Tuesday, March 26. We are inviting folks to gather together for a social hour first at 6:00 pm, enjoying dinner or coffee at Donderos’ Kitchen (Dutch treat,) then seeing a presentation [...]
Deer Resistant Plants in my Georgia Garden
This is adapted from a syndicated column I wrote in 2006 for Morris News. My garden in Georgia is suffering through a drought. Every weekend I water the dozens of new trees and the vegetable garden in an effort to keep them alive. This brings the deer out of the dry underbrush into my garden [...]
Dream Vacation for Garden Geeks – in Carolina.
This weekend I am reading up on the gardens I will soon be visiting in England. The adventure starts with a week in Sissinghurst, staying at the Priest’s House on the grounds. We can actually wake up in the morning, pad over to the window, and look out onto the famous White Garden. This stay [...]
Grow Your Own Food – with Style!
What’s trendy in home landscapes right now? It’s not just outdoor living spaces that include kitchens, it’s growing the food to cook in those kitchens. Trendy, topical, healthy, slow food – oh girl, you have got to jump on board. No, no, no – I’m not talking renting a tiller and digging up a rectangle [...]
Large Containers
Hey! – I wrote a guest blog on the Gardeners Confidence website about container gardening.
