The Urban Gardener with Ms. GreenJeans

12/15/2023

Thanks to MSU Extension Service for this important info.

Here’s your landscape checklist for December! Some tasks include...

🌸Plant camellias, azaleas and hydrangeas.
🌳Plant trees and shrubs.
📪Order seeds.
🐦Put out feed for birds.
❄️Bring cold-sensitive container plants indoors during freezing temperatures.
🟤Apply 6-8 inches of mulch to flower beds.

Learn more about each of these tasks + find further resources here: https://ow.ly/WeKT50Qi5Rf

11/07/2023

11/05/2023

Thank you, MSU Extension Service for these tips:

Here's your landscape checklist for November! Some tasks include...

🌳Plant trees and shrubs.
✂️Prune back dead or damaged tree limbs.
🌹Propagate roses.
🌼Plant winter and spring annuals like pansy, pinks, flowering cabbage and kale.
🌸Plant summer blooming perennials like iris, daylily and daisy.
🟫Add layer of mulch to garden and flower beds.

Learn more details about each of these tasks here: https://ow.ly/yus050Q3cCf

10/03/2023

Thanks to our friends !! 🥦🥒🥕🌽

It's October! Here are some landscape tasks to consider for this month:

🌱Plant hardy annuals and perennials.
❇️Fertilize and water fall mums.
✂️Prune back annuals like blue salvia and dianthus to the ground and mulch.
🟫Dig up caladiums and store bulbs for replanting next year.
🌳Prune back dead or damaged tree limbs.
🍂Rake leaves.
✳️Apply preemergence herbicide to your lawn.
🌼Plant spring bulbs.

Learn more about each of these tasks and find further resources on our blog: http://extension.msstate.edu/blog

09/01/2023

Thanks to MSU Extension Service for these tips!

Are you ready for September? Here's some landscape checklist tasks to consider...

🌼Order daffodil and other spring bulbs for October planting.
✳️Sow rye grass seed for winter lawns.
☑️Apply preemergence herbicide for winter w**d prevention in your lawn.
🌱Plant hardy annuals.
❇️Fertilize and water fall mums.
🐛Watch for garden pests and diseases.
🌸Pick flowers in bloom to create dry floral arrangements.

We explain more about each of these tasks + provide further resources in this latest blog post: https://ow.ly/oJ5h50PFHg3

08/02/2023

Thanks to MSU Extension Service for these tips.

Here's your landscape checklist for August! Some tasks include...

🌱Plant daylilies.
➗Divide and transplant Louisiana iris, Easter lily, canna, liriope, ajuga, and Shasta daisy.
🌼Plant mums for fall blooms.
💧Water plants.
🐛Watch for garden pests and diseases.
🌹Prune rose canes to encourage growth.

We discuss each of these tasks in more detail + provide further resources in our latest blog post. Find it here: https://ow.ly/aCbP50PpnEc

07/03/2023

Did you know there is a right way and a wrong way to water the plants in your garden? Ms GreenJeans has some tips for you.
It’s Sizzling outside, so make it count.

06/19/2023

Remembering my father, Sidney Branch Meadows, on Father’s Day.

Dad met Greg Smith in the U.S. Navy, in which both served in WWII.
Mr. Smith and his family had a camellia nursery in Mobile, Alabama, and Daddy had a horticulture degree from Southwestern in Louisiana.

Over the next 50 years, the two developed Flowerwood Nursery into one of the largest wholesale nurseries in the world.
I grew up on Dog River and right next door to Flowerwood.

We spent many hours of our childhood riding through the acres and acres of nursery stock: thousands of Azaleas, Camellias, and container plants lined up in beds as far as the eye could see. Learning plant names and growth habits entered our consciousness like the breath that entered our bodies.

Daddy taught us a reverence and delight over the miracle of nature and growth that happened right before our eyes.
We watched all phases of plant production: cuttings rooted, liners in massive greenhouses, containers combining to maturity in the field, and finally, all those plants loaded onto semi trucks to garden centers all over the country.

Thanks, Daddy, for the hours spent by your side, watching you create beauty for the world.

06/07/2023

Thanks to MSU Extension Service!

How are you doing in your garden chores?

04/16/2023

Ms. The Urban Gardener with Ms. GreenJeans shows you how to “pot up” your seedlings.
Check out her soil mix. 🥳

04/03/2023

In Case I Forget to Say it Enough

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Thank you for this day made
of wind and rain and sun and the scent
of old-fashioned lilacs. Thank you

for the pond and the slippery tadpole
and the wild iris that opened beside the pond
last week, so pale, so nearly purple,

their stems already flagged and bent.
Thank you for the yellow morels hiding in the field grass,
the ones we can only see when we are already

on our knees. And thank you for the humming
that rises out of the morning as if mornings
are simply reasons to hum. What a gift,

this being alive, this chance to encounter the world.
What a gift, this being a witness to spring—
spring in everything. Spring in the way

that we greet each other. Spring in the way the golden eagle
takes to the thermals and spirals up to where
we can barely see the great span of its wings.

Spring in the words we have known
since our births. Like glory. Like celebrate.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer