by Greg Grant | Aug 3, 2020 | Greg's Ramblings
I seem to have been born in love with “lilies.” From the time I hit the ground growing, it was love at first sight with canna lilies, crinum lilies, daylilies, Lent lilies, rainlilies, spider lilies, St. Joseph’s lilies, and their geophytic kin. It turns out however,...
by Greg Grant | Jul 9, 2020 | Greg's Ramblings
Crinum lilies and I go way back, as they were among the first flowers I knew as a child. My Grandmother Emanis grew them along the front porch here in Deep East Texas where the audacious flowers bathed us with their powerful fragrance during summer evenings. She grew...
by Greg Grant | Jun 4, 2020 | Greg's Ramblings
This weekend I’m headed to my parent’s house to dig a piece of old “ham and eggs” Lantana camara too add to my perennial border. Over the past year, this border has gone from color themed to survival themed as it tries to endure the cats, dogs, and marauding chickens...
by Greg Grant | May 8, 2020 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
I recently ordered two cultivars of sweet potato slips from George’s Plant Farm in Georgia (tatorman.com). This will give me three different kinds to grow, one here in my cinder block raised bed after I dig my Irish potatoes, one in my raised fire ring bed at Big...
