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“April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden” ~Marty Rubin~

Monet Bridge Garden and the Manor House at Gibbs Gardens, Ball Ground, Georgia

Part 2~A Visit to Congaree National Park, located near Columbia, South Carolina. Plan a visit to this amazing place soon!

Part of the Clemson Horticulture Team recently visited the Landsford Canal State Park in Chester County.  It was established in 1970 when Duke Power donated 194 acres. The park has now grown to 448 acres and contains the original 2 miles of the Landsford Canal. The canal was built between 1820 and 1825 to bypass the Catawba River rapids. The rocky shoals of the Catawba River contain one of the largest populations of the Rocky Shoals Spider Lilies.

Congaree National Park is a 26,692.6 acre park near Columbia and is the only national park in South Carolina. It preserves the largest tract old growth bottom hardwood forest left in the United States. Part 1

“The word May is a perfumed word…It means youth, love, song; and all that is beautiful in life” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~

Summer Perennials Are Great Additions to Your Garden.

Stroll Around the Beautiful South Carolina Botanical Gardens

“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” ~May Sarton~

WHAT TO SAY ABOUT A YEAR that never really relented weather-wise? Well, maybe this: I’m exhausted, as is the garden. But even with insane precipitation and freakishly timed fall snowstorms followed by a too-warm early winter, I found lots of things to love among the many losses. Some highlights, and lowlights, in a giant new slideshow to close out the 2011 garden year.

See What Is Blooming at Crooked Trail Farm This Month.

In the language of flowers, lilies represent purity, royalty, devotion, and innocence.

Daylilies are in the genus Hemerocallis. In flower meaning lore, daylilies represent forgetting about the past and faithful bonds as the flower only lasts one day.

Coming in different shades of green, red, ivory, orange, copper, pink, and brown, crotons offer a splash of color wherever you plant them! This striking tropical plant comes in more than 100 varieties, making it quite tough to pick the best! Here are some of the best Types of Crotons that you can grow inside your home and outside!

You can never get bored of a potted palm indoors.

“In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day.” ~Aldo Leopold~

“Ah, lovely June, thy sunny days are here, The world seems gayer for thy coming; The glad birds sing their shrill and tender songs, And all day long the bees are humming. All fairest things are of thyself a part: Ah, lovely June, so sweet thou art!”

Plan a visit to Greenwood, SC to see 55 living topiary sculptures that will be on display until July 8th. Here are a few favorites!

Honeydew or cantaloupe – whichever way you swing is fine by us. We won’t judge, so long as it’s a muskmelon.

A multitude of people kick-start their day with a steaming cup of coffee. A hot brew, fresh from the coffee maker, fuels them for a new day. But coffee brewed in a moldy coffee maker is hardly an appealing thought, is it?