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Gardens

A community garden

Home & Garden

This centuries-old gardening tradition helps ward off unwanted visitors in a sustainable way

A woman reaches for flowers in a garden

Home & Garden

A blend of chaos and order, its beautiful blooms inspired a mother-daughter photo project

A woman stands in a water lily pond

Home & Garden

For generations, a North Carolina family has propagated long lines of lilies and lotuses in their aquatic gardens

A monarch caterpillar on a milkweed flower.

Home & Garden

Don’t be intimidated by tales of finicky seeds in the fridge. Here’s everything Southerners need to know to get milkweed in the ground and support the monarch migration.

Home & Garden

Daffodil bulbs aplenty, a griddle made for camping, and more must-haves for the backyard and beyond

A sieve full of okra

Home & Garden

And why it’s totally fine to let some pods grow big

A cat walks through a path of a community garden with lush garden boxes of flowers and veggies

Home & Garden

Seeds, vegetables, and flowers with tasty flavors and surprising backstories

An Epiphyllum Oxypetalum flower

Gardening

Plus, tips for nurturing Eudora Welty’s favorite cactus

A greenhouse

Travel

An extensive restoration at Reynolda honors one of the South’s most iconic glasshouses

A garden with lettuces

Southern Explainer

Digging into an old gardening tenet

A wood pavilion on top of a pond with plants

Travel

Something beautiful grows every season in these strollable, delightful green spaces

An illustration of a woman gardening with a botanical figure of a woman behind her

This Land

A grandmother’s gift sparks a curiosity now fed by an urban botanical wonderland in Atlanta

A woman stands in front of a vine-covered barn with two small dogs

Home & Garden

A conservationist family built a natural classroom to nurture native species and budding artists alike

A blooming magnolia

Home & Garden

Stop and smell the tea olives

A woman swings on a swing in her garden

Home & Garden

Native plants color the canvas for a Lowcountry artist and landscape architect

A child standing on a ladder eating juneberries.

Home & Garden

My dad named the Jennybelle Juneberry—aka serviceberry—after me, and now it heralds summer for Southerners everywhere

A garden with palms

Travel

How a veterinarian with a green thumb turned a junkyard into a palm paradise

A cardboard box under a hydrangea

Home & Garden

Skip the pulling and especially the spraying, and join me in sheet mulching

Pink roses in a bush in a park

Home & Garden

Plus, the rose that smells like sweet tea

A collage of three photos. On the right a cardinal, on the left a bird with red speckles, in the center a clear bird feeder with a camera attached.

Gardens

A smart bird feeder, a bounty of garden seeds, avian artwork, and more thoughtful finds to delight both birders and feathered friends