by Lanier Ivester | Jul 24, 2010 | Flower Reviews, Journal Entries
They’re lying in wait outside the kitchen door like children whispering over a surprise, giddy with the secret they keep. Blousy bright maids amid the tired leaves and blossoms, the only ladies of the garden tough enough to look fresh after what July’s dealt them. And...
by Lanier Ivester | Apr 8, 2010 | Farm Life, Flower Reviews, Journal Entries
There is something in the air today that feels like England. I caught its fragrance this morning the moment I opened the windows. A greenness that you could smell, inhale, be nourished by. A great leaping joy in growing things and in the songs of the birds. And when I...
by Lanier Ivester | May 11, 2009 | Flower Reviews, Journal Entries
After the heartbreak of last summer’s drought, I let it be known far and wide that I had officially become a three-season gardener: winter, spring and fall. After all, I reasoned, there are plenty of things that can be grown in the South over the winter; plenty of...
by Lanier Ivester | May 7, 2009 | Flower Reviews, Journal Entries
With a bound she leaped to the top of a hill and looked down into a dell carpeted with bluebells. She checked and paused, still poised on her toes with her arms stretched out. The bluebells ran down the sides of the dell in rivulets and gathered at the bottom...
by Philip Ivester | Apr 11, 2007 | Flower Reviews, Journal Entries
We had an absolutely blighting frost this weekend, and much of the tender new growth that was last week so fair and fresh has blackened hopelessly or hangs limp upon shivering boughs. Where has our lovely spring gone? On Easter Sunday I wore a wool suit and fur in...
by Lanier Ivester | Feb 2, 2007 | Flower Reviews, Journal Entries
While I’m certainly no expert on propogation, I thought I’d share my little successes in this most satisfying of garden practices, in the hopes that others might be inspired to take a few cuttings of their own–particularly when they see how simple...
