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Today I am thankful for family, friends and my wildflower garden. I am thankful for time I spend outdoors, for the critters that live and vi...

Hamamelis vernalis is a lovely native shrub/small tree that blooms when you have just about given up hope that winter will end and warm...

That it's the best bloom in years adds to my delight. Every branch is covered with fragrant spidery crepe paper flowers that never...

We can wander the garden and see the last of the fall blooms. One of my favorites is a little witch hazel tree that never fails to bloom ...

 She's blew into town and left a frozen world in her wake. ice not snow I hoped the snow that was forecast would arrive and prote...

Is blooming in my Middle Tennessee garden right now. It's a splendid little native tree that is too often overlooked for its flashie...

When we moved to this property there was a canopy of secondary growth shagbark hickories, oaks , a Slippery Elm and a few hackberries all...