While you’re spending a week soaking up the sun on a tropical vacation, your garden will be doing the same thing back home. Unfortunately, it won’t have buckets of sunscreen and a few poolside cocktails to keep it cool. Instead of coming home to brown grass and...

Family gardening is a great way to get your kids active and outdoors. Bonus? You can teach them lifelong skills like planting, weeding, and cooking from the garden. Unfortunately, if you simply drag the kids along on your next gardening excursion, you’re more likely...

Hydrangeas are a staple of the Southern garden, providing the landscape with visual depth, deep color, and hundreds of blooms each summer. But there’s another reason Southern gardeners go gaga for hydrangeas: they love sunlight. And that’s one thing that’s never...

When you’re a kid, nothing beats summer vacation. Students spend months anticipating ice cream by the pool, trips to the beach, and two months without a page of homework. Unfortunately for their parents, an adult’s homework is never done. Summer pushes busy Woodstock...

Nothing beats the feeling of accomplishment gardeners get when they serve up dishes straight from the garden. Not only does it guarantee quality and freshness, it earns plenty of accolades at summer dinner parties. If you’re looking for a few fresh recipes to show off...

When spring arrives, it sweeps gardeners into a rush of anticipating, planting, and harvesting color. Spring is all about what’s new, transforming the garden and giving new plants a chance at life. But as the Georgia sun heats up and summer looms on the horizon,...

Okay, the police are not trolling the neighborhoods looking for bad landscaping (though a few HOA’s might be), but we can right a few wrongs when it comes to landscaping. Steer clear of these common landscaping mistakes as you tackle your yard this spring. Landscaping...