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Cuttings in the Heat: The Summer Craft of Making More From Less
From the Fields · Propagation · Aiken, SC. A dispatch from the summer potting bench on the craft of rooting semi-hardwood cuttings in July, with four plants we are propagating...
Gardening for the Dry Years: A Xeriscape Field Guide for the Changing South
Field Guide · Xeriscape & Drought · Aiken, SC. As Southern summers lengthen and rain grows less reliable, these are the drought-proof heroes now filling our propagation benches: the salvia...
A Field Guide to Cold-Hardy Citrus
Field Guide · Cold-Hardy Citrus · Zones 7–9 — A practical guide to choosing, siting, and keeping citrus alive north of the citrus belt: the hardiness ladder, the three families...
Yerba Mate (Ilex paraguariensis): The Holly You Can Drink
Plant Highlight · Ilex paraguariensis · Ethnobotany — South America's caffeinated holly: the gourd-and-bombilla ritual, its kinship to our native yaupon, and how to grow and cure your own in...
The Sultan of Salvia
Plantsperson Profile · Long-Bloom Salvias The Sultan of Salvia Rich Dufresne, the chemist who taught the Southeast to grow sage, and the network he worked through. By Fiona von Grey...
The Plants Bartram Saw
Field Guide · Native Flora · The Bartram Trail The Plants Bartram Saw A walk through the southeastern flora documented by William Bartram in Travels (1791) — and a quiet...
A Field Guide to Hardy Palms
Field Guide · Hardy Palms · Southeastern Natives The Northernmost Palm in the World, and the Seeds Coming Home to Aiken A field guide to the palms that actually grow...
The Hibiscus That Never Opens: Malvaviscus arboreus and the Slow Seduction of Turk's Cap
15 min · Ethnobotany, hummingbird ecology, and the Southern pass-along plant that blooms when everything else has given up.