COVID has produced a plethora of flowers including azaleas, dogwood and others blooming this spring. There are a couple of spring flowering shrubs that you may rarely find in landscapes. One flower of ...

Few plants can be considered as quintessentially Southern as the magnolia. Their big, waxy, glossy leaves juxtaposed with heady, fragrant flowers are familiar sights to Southerners. They bloom in a ...

Fragrant jewel-toned blooms and handsome foliage shine on this shrub-sized magnolia. 'Stellar Ruby' magnolia from the Southern Living Plant Collection is unlike any banana shrub you’ve seen. These ...

I think that my interest in gardening was heavily influenced by my maternal grandmother, who in 1926, built a Craftsman bungalow in Pensacola with her husband. She early on installed several camellias ...