Around The Garden World - Day 66 (Laurel, Mississippi)

A year after Katrina hit Mississippi, I visited my friend Joanna Cranford's childhood home in Laurel, Mississippi. Her mom was eager to show us a horticultural oddity that resulted from the hurricane that blasted through this town from Katrina. 

 There is a rose growing inside the guest bedroom.

 This window hasn't been opened in years.

 But somehow this rose stem blew through the closed window and spent the next year growing and blooming in this room

 I also has able to enjoy this colorful garden up the street with camellias and redbuds

 The winter vegetable garden ready for spring

 pretty late winter garden rooms

 Blooming Rosemary

 And this eclectic garden:

 Classic on one street, and quirky on the next!

Around The Garden World - Day 60 (Nashville, TN)

These were my favorite containers of the season so far:

Red twig dogwood, Red Bor kale, Golden lysimachia (creeping jenny) and True Blue pansies. 

 The really sad part of this picture is that the client thought they looked too modern, and I think the few remaining leaves on the branches kind of threw her off to how striking this will look when these leaves drop off - I had to replace the whole thing with very boring sky pencil hollies and dusty miller. I loved the red twig against the white wall.

Left planter - Nandina filamentosa, heuchera, pansy, lysimachia. Middle planter - Camellia, Acorus grass, pansy. Right planter - Color Guard yucca, red pansy, lysimachia.
These planters were able to stay as they were planted .