Garden South at Jitterbug Farms

06/10/2024

Looking to see if anyone is interested in learning some basic propagation methods I use.

03/20/2024

Happy Heavenly Birthday Momma. Had the cards played a different hand you would have celebrated 84 years today. I still look for you. I brought a rider today who wanted to come. He said he missed you and it had been ten years since he had seen you! “Well almost” I miss you my mother, we will see you soon enough I know. Happy Birthday Sibie!

07/25/2023

I think I have developed a new giant Agava strain. The first picture is the normal variegated one. Look at the second picture though. Look at the much more defined and broader yellow margins on this one. It was a pup from the mother plant and I got 11 more pups from this new strain. One is almost completely yellow. I think it may be time to email Monrovia! Lol maybe I have something interesting for the Gardening world!

03/12/2023

After planting tens of thousands of bulbs in the South zone 7b I must say most were very disappointing this year! Excessive rain, lack of chill time as we had virtually no winter of consistency, and rapid rise and fall temps forced bulbs to sprout the freeze. I must say it was at best disappointing thus far. Some success. Right now I’ll say about 80% failure rate and I planted 32,950 bulbs. Very heartbroken this spring! My bulbs were of the best quality and sources from some of the best suppliers so I am certain I had great stock. It just wasn’t meant to be. Tonight we have a freeze warning! Not everything was bad though!

01/26/2023

Hellebore are my Winter favorites!

09/19/2022

Heartbroken to say goodbye! Thank you for always being a consistent light!

08/01/2022

https://youtu.be/x-oHQqg7n9M

In this weeks plant reviews I found some really nice Thuja’s and a Penstemon grass.

07/28/2022

https://youtu.be/zK6WHZV97Ag

In this video I walk you through the recovery process of saving 15 sun damaged hydrangeas and what I do to rejuvenate them. Cost is about 1.80 each and abou...

07/23/2022

New Garden Video Idea

07/23/2022

Plant Reviews Week 27 Video Series start

This video provides a quick review of plants I have selected for my garden in Sanford NC zone 7b.

07/23/2022

Plant Reviews Week 28

Reviewing five new plants this week, Illicium parviflorum BananAppeal “Small Anise” tm, Candycane cocktail shrub rose, Kalanchoe luciae “Fantastic”, Lophospe...

07/23/2022

Plant Reviews Week 29

Euphorbia Firesticks, Yucca Bright Star, Sunbeckia Luna Black Rudbeckia, Golden Triumph Boxwood Buxus, Serpentine Blue Atlas Cedar, ...