How sweet to enter my new garden, beautifully designed by my husband, to find my favorite green allies and native
New Garden at Flying Cactus
friends waiting for me in group right in the center of the growing space. We had mulched heavily at the beginning of the winter in hopes of smothering some of the grass [...]
As everything is dry and brown here in north central Florida, I am missing the autumn fields full of partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) blossoms—bright yellow flowers on extensive branches of fernlike leaves. When a plant is abundant, I always wonder if it is native, and if it is, I know there must be uses for [...]
The title for this post is a false statement because really you can’t grow St. John’s wort Florida, although many of its cousins flourish here. Hypericum perforatum, the namesake of the Hypericaceae family, does not like Florida, although it is rated in most plant guides as suitable for this climate.
Hypericum perforatum in pot.
For many [...]
If you find that many of your favorite culinary herbs wilt, “melt,” and otherwise succumb to the Florida heat and humidity, consider creating a rock garden. After years of basically abandoning the “kitchen” garden during the summer, I finally decided to return to a passion of my childhood.
When I was growing up New Jersey we [...]