by Clara Curtis | Apr 16, 2020 | Horticulture & Landscape
The great English gardener Gertrude Jekyll wrote, “A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches us to trust.” My maternal grandparents were great gardeners because they had to be. Their...
by Clara Curtis | Mar 29, 2017 | Horticulture & Landscape
When is the spring season these days? In February this year, Western North Carolina enjoyed warm, spring-like weather that made the tulips jump, buds swell and sap rise. Gardeners were out and about mulching and cleaning gardening beds of debris and leaves, wearily...
