It is January and New Year’s resolutions are flying off the shelves — plans to lose dozens of pounds, join a gym, eat healthier. Read the full story
The marathon race to purchase the perfect gift is in full swing. My inbox is overloaded with “holiday bargains.” The mailman drops off about a dozen catalogs a week. The conservationist in me says “stop the madness” as I think of the trees being decimated to interest me in buying one more th… Read the full story
Alabamans have been busy observing the state’s bicentennial — 200 years since Alabama declared statehood — with parades, exhibits and programs. Over these two centuries, we have seen turmoil and we have seen calm, and we sing “Sweet Home Alabama.” Read the full story
I can remember my groovy house in the early 1970s. Orange shag carpet, orange plaid curtains, orange striped chairs, orange wallpaper. I even had an orange suit. Read the full story
The marathon race to purchase the perfect gift is in full swing. My inbox is overloaded with “holiday bargains.” The mailman drops off about a dozen catalogs a week. The conservationist in me says “stop the madness” as I think of the trees being decimated to interest me in buying one more th…
Alabamans have been busy observing the state’s bicentennial — 200 years since Alabama declared statehood — with parades, exhibits and programs. Over these two centuries, we have seen turmoil and we have seen calm, and we sing “Sweet Home Alabama.”
I can remember my groovy house in the early 1970s. Orange shag carpet, orange plaid curtains, orange striped chairs, orange wallpaper. I even had an orange suit.
Some years, summer never seems to leave; other years winter’s cold arrives during fall, and true fall becomes the overlooked middle child.
McClellan, once the site of Fort McClellan, is home to lush green spaces and thick forests. Where there were once tanks, guns and soldiers in uniform, there are now medical clinics, senior citizens’ homes, upscale neighborhoods and a gymnasium.
HEFLIN — If it grows out of the dirt in Cleburne County, Melanie Taylor Spaulding knows about it or wants to know about it.
Over the past months we have been exploring the color wheel to get our creative juices flowing. We are creating the perfect landscape using the tool of the color wheel to help the gardener (or the artist) design with color.
In recent months, The Southern Gardener has been exploring the enormous role of color on our cultures, our personal lives and especially our gardens.
We can use the color purple in foliage and flowers. Either way, we add a touch of drama to our gardens.
Adding color is an engaging experience as the gardener plays with contrasting and harmonious hues (and everything in between).
It was a Monday afternoon. Anja McCastle was putting the finishing touches on a yearlong remodel of her Jacksonville home. She had done much of the work herself.
Spring is a dress rehearsal for summer.
It seems like yesterday and also like decades ago that my husband, the dog, and I huddled in a tiny closet with cell phone, bike helmets (except for the dog) while a war raged around my home of 48 years. There is no way to describe the terror of the hour once my cell phone jangled “take cove…
It seems like yesterday and also like decades ago that my husband, the dog and I huddled in a tiny closet with a cell phone and bike helmets (except for the dog) while a war raged around our home of 48 years.
A gizmo called the Gardener’s Color Wheel is a fine way to create a perfect palette of colors in the garden.
Gardeners are individualists. Our tastes, our time, our budgets and our gardening spaces differ.
A practically non-existent fall and spring, terrible cold and heat, too much or too little rain and, of course, the big bad tornado.
Suggestions for holiday shopping are everywhere. An email announcing a Black Friday sale arrived the first of October. I was still swatting mosquitoes when colorful seasonal catalogs began to arrive daily. At that point, I was not feeling especially festive. Each company seemed determined to…
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. The gardeners know exactly where to go: outside.
The restaurant owner is living like it’s the 19th century — but with air-conditioning.
Many gardeners have completely shunned annuals in favor of perennials. Too much money to replace them every year!
Someone referred to me as “the gardener.”
The calendar officially marked the first day of summer as June 21. It seems summer’s heat arrived much earlier than its official beginning. Spring seemed practically non-existent this year.
Since the big wind came through my neighborhood on March 19, residents of the Avenues (the northeast) and the northwest sides of Jacksonville are working toward a new normal. It will be a long trip to that normal, full of bumps, detours, tears and frustration. With patience, fortitude and ti…
