Gardens

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

Plus, tips for nurturing Eudora Welty’s favorite cactus

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

Digging into an old gardening tenet

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

Consider this advocate the Johnny Appleseed of one of the South’s most imperiled trees

One entomologist’s buzzy idea inspires an army of citizen scientists

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

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

Stop and smell the tea olives

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

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

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

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

One visit to Quarry Gardens and you’ll know this reborn, peaceful place is no longer the pits

Plus, the rose that smells like sweet tea

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

What to know to get ready, and one compelling reason not to sweep them from your yard

Pretty pollinators, predatory stink bugs, parasitic wasps—a thriving garden has it all

Come for the orchids, stay for the electromagnetic cooking at the first net-positive-energy botanical garden in the world