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| Hampton Park hollyhock, Charleston, South Carolina Success in growing hollyhocks has eluded me thus far. Maybe this year? |
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| Here is one of several Chinese fringe flowers I bought with an Abide-A-While gift certificate a group of generous colleagues gave me almost ten years ago. Lately I've allowed the Loropetalum to sprawl. The effect late last January? Magnificent! |
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| A year or two ago I traveled to Carolinia Nursery in North Augusta, SC to find this Star Magnolia which I brought home and planted out front. I bought it as a reminder of the Star Magnolia I saw in Kyoto, Japan soon after the March 11, 2011 earthquake. |
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| Just one of several day lilies descended from ones I purchased from Roycroft Nursery in Georgetown, SC. |
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| This rambling rose I brought from eastern North Carolina where it thrived on a ditch bank. |
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| It must have been nearly twenty years ago that my daughter brought home a starter for this rambling rose after a visit to the site in central North Carolina where her father and his third wife were building a home. These roses bloom profusely each May. |
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| Growing on the Eastern North Carolina farm that has been in my family for generations, this quince is beginning to dwarf the woodshed. |
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| This mockingbird often kept me company in the garden last winter. Will it return? |
