Plant Highlight · Bigleaf & Ashe Magnolia · Aiken, SC. On the bigleaf magnolias, a pair of Southern natives that grow leaves the size of canoe paddles and blooms you...

The Grower's Dispatch  ·  South Carolina A Field Report for the Summer Ahead Anniversaries worth celebrating, a drought worth taking seriously, and a closer look at what to plant when...

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...

Horticulture & Design  ·  Climate Resilience The Long Game: Why Woody Plants Are the True Foundation of a Climate-Resilient Garden What the next thirty years will demand from the home...

From the Nursery  ·  Garden Design Working With Water: Managing a Wet Garden Area Using Southeastern Native Plants A wet spot is not a defect. In much of the Southeast,...

Woodlanders Botanicals · Ethnobotany · Southern Ecology The Enchanted Trees of the South A botanical history of belief, survival, and synthesis in North America—told in leaf, smoke, and root, with...

There’s a certain sleight of hand in the Southeastern autumn. A kind of quiet alchemy, almost invisible if you only watch the trees from above ground. The leaves do their...

When it comes to cut flowers, most people think of delicate tulips, ephemeral peonies, and perky zinnias. But let’s talk about the real workhorses of the floral world: woody cut...