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Can’t travel right now to see the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona? Come for a visit to the South Carolina Botanical Garden to see selection of the interesting native plants at the Chihuahuan Desert Garden Display.

“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” ~Rumi~

A walk through the quiet beauty of an early March garden.

It’s camellia time at the South Carolina Botanical Garden!

Daffodils are in bloom all over South Carolina and spring is almost here! Daffodils and Narcissus are the same plant. Narcissus is the scientific name given to the genus of plants commonly called daffodils.

“The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” ~Harriet Ann Jacobs~

A winter’s day walk in the South Carolina Botanical Garden. Walk quietly and softly, and you’ll be amazed at what you see.

Spring is arriving at Crooked Trail Farm.  Here’s what is blooming this week.

Come for a stroll in the beautiful South Carolina Botanical Garden.

What’s blooming at the South Carolina Botanical Garden this week.

Native spring wildflowers are blooming throughout South Carolina.

Clematis is known as one of the best perennial vines for your garden. They like cool roots and sunny tops.

“May Flowers Always Line Your Path and Sunshine Light Your Day.”

“I must have flowers, always, always.”

“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”

“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”

Horticulture Agent Barbara H. Smith’s Favorite Summer Annuals.

“Spring is when life is alive in everything.”           ~Christina Rosetti~

“A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of year.” ~William F. Longgood

A Stroll Through Historic Downtown Charleston Gardens

Beautiful Planters in Historic Charleston

A Recent Visit to the Funky Little Flower Farm in Beech Island, SC,  Specializing in Beautiful Crinums.

An Early August Stroll around Crooked Trail Farm Garden

Perennial Suggestions for a Pollinator Garden: Part 1

The quiet beauty of foliage textures and shades of green: Part 2

“Though she be but little, she is fierce.” ~William Shakespeare~

Mrs. Gloria Farmer’s Beautiful Garden

Charleston, South Carolina is known for beautiful gates and wrought iron architecture.

The quiet beauty of foliage textures and shades of green: Part 1

The Beauty of Summer Lilies.

Life in the Meadow Part 1

Meet Your Clemson Extension Horticulture Agent Team

“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, How Beautiful’ and sitting in the shade.”

An October Ramble around Crooked Trail Farm

“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.” ~Vincent van Gogh~

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.”