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Cut flower gardens can provide seasons of fresh flowers with a plan and some gardening effort. Photo by: stock.adobe.com
May 28, 2024

Do you enjoy having cut flowers around the house? With the right preparation and some gardening labor, you can harvest your own blossoms just outside the back door.

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May 27, 2024

Mabel Murphree’s Tupelo garden has an impressive variety of plants, but what really caught my attention when I visited were her purple blooms.

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May 20, 2024

Amid the bustle of everyday life in Tupelo, Mississippi lies a hidden gem -- Dale Smith’s backyard woodland garden. I recently had the pleasure of touring this garden where beautiful plants thrive around every corner.

Success Stories

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Volume 10 Number 1

Cruising into Madison County, you see a cultivated urban landscape full of brick edifices and manicured lawns spring up around you. Your cell phone announces your turnoff, and you comply, turning onto an older road that soon turns to gravel.

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Volume 10 Number 1

Susie Harmon laughs when she relates her granddaughter’s observation of her favorite pastime.

A woman with a straw hat and round-framed glasses holding a bunch of flowers and smiling.
Volume 10 Number 1

A broken-down car on a Sunday afternoon in 1983 led two attorneys to purchase forestland in Hancock County. Forty years and about 500 acres later, La Terre Farms in Kiln has wide-ranging industries that include a holiday greenery business and cut flowers grown for florists across the Gulf Coast and New Orleans.

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Unique Native Plant Garden, June 2024
Thursday, June 27, 2024 - 5:00am
Carrot Family Flowers, June 2024
Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 5:00am
Clamatis, June 2024
Thursday, June 13, 2024 - 5:00am
Daylillies, June 2024
Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 5:00am
Plants with Purple Color, May 2024
Thursday, May 23, 2024 - 5:00am

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