Paula Gross
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Southeast Regional Reports
Southeast: January Garden To-Do List
January is a fairly restful time for the Southeast gardener physically, but it provides fertile ground for growing your dreams, plans, and knowledge. Watch for frost-heaving of fall-planted perennials and…
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Southeast Regional Reports
Designing With Chartreuse in the Southeast
Chartreuse foliage—do you love it, or do you have the impulse to throw fertilizer at it? Either way, it makes you look, doesn’t it? That yellow-green shade owes its classy…
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Southeast Regional Reports
Five Native Shrubs for Moist Spots in the Southeast
In the Southeast, we can sometimes have wet years. The long springs of those years lure me into planting “just one more plant!” while I ignore the specter of summer…
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Southeast Regional Reports
Southeast October Garden To-Do List
October is the April of autumn. If the summer’s blanket of heat and humidity slowed your gardening to a crawl, cool winds are here to crank you back up to…
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Southeast Regional Reports
Southeast September Garden To-Do List
Is it fall yet? Nope, not in the Southeast, but that’s just fine with me. Late summer has its own flavor worth savoring. Sure, plenty of plants are looking dog-tired,…
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Southeast Regional Reports
What’s Wrong With My Camellia?
Ponder the camellia (Camellia spp. and cvs., Zones 6–10) for a moment: It’s a glossy rich evergreen with a dense and pleasing form. It loves heat and can survive droughts.…
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How-To
Why Plant Division Fails, and How to Ensure Success
Aftercare of divisions is critical when you’re slicing and dicing up your plants. Here are a few things to try or to avoid during the critical reestablishing period. • How…
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Southeast Regional Reports
Growing Venus Flytraps and Other Carnivores in the Southeast
We gardeners love our plants, and we relish seeing (and fanning) the flames of plant passion burning in others. There comes a time in many kids’ lives when one particular…
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Southeast Regional Reports
Southeast August Garden To-Do List
Seed now for spring-blooming cottage-garden favorites. If every spring you covet the drifts of breadseed poppies (Papaver somniferum, annual), love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena, annual), and rocket larkspur (Consolida ajacis, annual) in…
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Southeast Regional Reports
Southeast July Garden To-Do List
It’s high summer in the Southeast. As long as the rains show up, veggies, annuals, and weeds grow like wildfire in the scorching heat, and gardeners turn crepuscular—venturing out to…