Gardens

split persimmon seeds

home & garden

A North Carolina gardener shares what kind of winter we can expect according to the fruit—plus her grandmother’s persimmon pudding recipe

a log cabin in Alaska

Travel

At Camp Denali and beyond, Southern women have been leaving their green-thumbed mark

A garden at the back of a house in woodland. It has a firepit surrounded by chairs

Home & Garden

At a restored North Carolina retreat, a revived garden bridges one couple’s home to the storybook forest at their doorstep

A pair of gardeners stand in a patch of colorful bromeliads

Home & Garden

On a South Carolina island, two gardeners tend to a vibrant sanctuary among the oaks

A sago palm

Home & Garden

Certain ornamentals can be as unexpectedly deadly as they are pretty

A collage of different blooms of roses

Home & Garden

The South is a friendly place to grow roses—if you know which ones to plant. Expert Paul Zimmerman shares his picks and tips.

Peonies in bloom

Home & Garden

Getting the dirt on these frequent backyard bedfellows

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