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Design Plans ❦ Container Gardens ❦ Horticulture ❦ Botany ❦ Floriculture ❦ Landscape Renovations (oh, also Epicurean 🧑🏻‍🍳 Swashbuckler) ❦ Metro Atlanta, Georgia Zone 7b •design•install•enjoy•
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🍽️ September is National Mushroom Month! What better way than to celebrate than with a Mushroom Forest Focaccia? As a garden designer, I often bring my botanical interests into the kitchen! #gardenscape #mushrooms
A collection of cooked mushrooms, ready for assembly. From top left, clockwise: brown shimeji, shiitake, king trumpet, maitake (hen of the woods), and lion's mane. The mushrooms have all been baked or sautéed before placing on the focaccia. A closeup of the assembled Mushroom Forest Focaccia, featuring Maitake (hen of the woods), Yellow Oyster Mushrooms, Brown Shimeji, King Tower and Enoki Mushrooms. Sprigs of dill, chives, asparagus spears, and Italian parsley are also tucked into the mix. An overhead view of the assembled Mushroom Forest Focaccia, ready for baking. Fresh out of the oven! Overhead view of the toasted Mushroom Forest Focaccia with herbs, ready to serve. The parmesan cheese has browned into a lovely golden crust.
September 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🌿🌱Lilium michauxii (synonym: Lilium carolinianum), official wildflower of North Carolina, noted for its heady fragrance. Named for Andre Michaux, a noted 18th Century naturalist and explorer of the Southeastern United States. #NativePlants
Close up of an orange lily with long green filaments and brown anthers extending below the flower. An image of a second lily can be seen in the background.
August 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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🌱🌿 Hymenocallis coronaria (cahaba lily, catawba lily, shoal lily, shoal spider lily) native only to AL, GA, SC, parts of NC. Under consideration of the Endangered Species Act. Only 50 populations left in the 3 states. A significant population remains in the Broad River, GA. #NativePlants #SciArt
Vintage botanical illustration of a white spider lily with a broad green leaf to the left, and an illustration of the bulb on the right. S.T. Edwards - Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 36: t. 1467 (1812)
August 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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🌱August bloomer: Lycoris x straminea 'Caldwell's Original', a fall-foliage emerging hybrid. #lycoris
August 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Current obsession (well one of them anyway): Lithops aka stone succulents. Better than gemstones in a jewelry box. #Lithops #StoneSucculents
A closeup view of a bowl of Lithops, aka stone succulents. They actually look like the cross section of a brain when you think about it! There are numerous colors and each one has two sections which mirror each other. They are green, gold, mauve, sand, and rust. Closeup view of a spotted, rose-colored Lithops with a pale green, open mouth. Overhead view of a pot of Lithops in a round white pot on a slatted table.
August 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Cape Fuchsia (Phygelius) with its tubular blossoms attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. "Phygelius" comes from the Greek word "phyge", meaning flight or avoidance, "in consequence of its having so long escaped the research of botanists" according to W.J. Hooker (1855). Native to South Africa. 🌱🌿
Ruby-red tubular flowers line the dark stems of the Cape Fuchsia, which tower above a mound of green foliage.
June 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Rhododendron 'Abbey's Re-view' is a prolific spring bloomer... and is supposed to rebloom in the fall, but I've never had that happen. However, it IS spectacular in bloom, also heat and drought tolerant and so recognized by the American Rhododendron Society, Rhododendron of the Year Award 2018.🌱🌿
Rhododendron in full bloom with its lilac-purple flowers completely covering the shrub which is now about 10' tall. A magnificent shrub for full shade gardens because it really stands out in spring. Close-up of the blooms with a little sunlight to highlight the extraordinarily vibrant, lilac tones. The rhododendron is so completely covered with lilac-colored blooms in spring, you can hardly see any foliage.
March 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Scots Pine from the book Wurzelatlas, a study on root research by Lore Kutschera, Erwin Lichtenegger and Monika Sobotik, all members of the Austrian Pflanzensoziologische Institut. 🌿🌱

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A black and white illustration of a Scots Pine. The tree is growing above ground, but below the surface is an illustration of the expansive root system of the tree which grown much deeper than the tree is tall.
March 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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'tis the season.
Left: Narcissus Kedron, bred by Willis Wheeler, a mid 20th century daffodil breeder and officer in the American Daffodil Association. Right: Narcissus Sailboat is a William Pannill award-winner. Both produce up to 3 blooms per stem, and perform well in the Southeast. 🌱🌿
A large mass planting of golden daffodils with mango-orange cups and strappy green foliage. The ground is covered in pine bark. A handsome cluster of small white daffodils with butter yellow cups and strappy green foliage. The white petals are swept back from the cups like sails, thus the name of this daffodil: Sailboat. The ground is covered in pine bark.
March 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Radiant Yellow Icicle Tower by Dale Chihuly, 30' tall, Atlanta Botanical Garden. #SundayYellow #Chihuly #sculpture
A brilliant golden yellow tower of glass icicles in a botanical garden near a long rectangular pool. It is early spring and the leaves are beginning to appear on the trees nearby. It is a cloudy day, so the yellow glass tower is particularly spectacular.
March 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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It's #SixOnSaturday 🌱🌿 and time for tulips and everything pink. Flower ID in AltText #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling
Clockwise from top left: Hyacinth Woodstock (deep magenta with pale lavender violets); Tulip Margarita (a tall single deep pink bloom with a purple stripe on the petals, in focus); two different tulips: Purple Flag (dark purple) & Flaming Flag (striped); Rhododendron Abbey's Review (a cluster of pink blooms); and purple stock (clusters of lavender blooms).
March 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Rare: Magnolia sinostellata is an endangered species, listed on the Red List of Magnoliaceae since 2016. "With many species popular in cultivation for their beautiful flowers and foliage, magnolias act as attractive flagships for tree conservation worldwide." - IUCNredlist.org established in 1964.🌱🌿
Pink and white blooms of a rare, deciduous magnolia in full bloom. The back of the petals have a rosy-pink stripe in the center of a pure white bloom.
March 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Dream Touch Tulip: this double-peony, early flowering tulip has rich, magenta-plum tones and snowy-white edging. The blooms are set off when combined with shades of yellow violas, Sedum Angelina, and the lacy foliage of a Hinoki cypress. 🌱 #tulips #gardeningfeed
Deep burgundy Dream Touch double tulips with white edging, surrounded by pale yellow violas, a golden conifer and trailing Sedum Angelina. A close up of the double-petaled, plum-toned Dream Touch Tulip.
March 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Finally. We've been waiting for more than 3 months for this tree to arrive from Iseli Nursery in Orgegon. Worth the wait, as the final specimen for a landscape renovation we completed late last year: Picea omorika 'Pendula Bruns' (weeping Norway spruce). #GardenDesign #gardeningfeed 🌱🌿
A 12' tall, narrow weeping spruce in a winter landscape. There is a wooden fence running behind the tree and a number of deciduous trees highlighted by a blue sky.
March 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Hand-colored engraving, Johann Theodor de Bay (1612), Florilegium Novum, Yale University Art Gallery. 🌿🌱 #tulips #gardeningfeed #SciArt #botanicalart
A colored illustration of a collection of tulips in red, gold, and orange tones. There is also an illustration of a tulip bulb in the lower right corner.
March 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Picea orientalis 'Skylands'. One of my favorite #conifers. I planted a pair of these more than 20 years ago for a client, and the new homeowner wants to find another one. They're from a nursery in Oregon. Best with some shade here in the south, remarkably tolerant of our Georgia heat & humidity. 🌱
A glorious spruce tree in the center with golden green needles. It has draping branches packed with short needles with a narrow growing habit. To the left are the branches of a deodar cedar. Close up of the golden yellow and green needles of the Skylands Spruce.
March 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Tulip 'Crystal Star' and Anemone Giant 'Lord Lieutenant'.🌱 a
A photograph on a sunny day with bright yellow fringe tulips mixed with lavender-blue anemones.
March 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Cornus alternifolia (1788) by Charles Louis L'Héritier, Dom. de Brutelle. Commonly known as alternate leaf dogwood or pagoda dogwood, it is a Georgia native. Little tufts of white blooms appear above the glossy green foliage which is arranged on graceful horizontal branches. #NativePlants #SciArt 🌿
A vintage black and white illustration of a dogwood branch with its handsome foliage and clusters of small blooms. This dogwood has alternate leaves, rather than opposite leaves, thus the common name, alternate-leaf dogwood. The blooms will turn to berries to provide food for birds in winter.
February 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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February Favorites: Leucothoe fontanesiana 'Little Flames' is a dwarf, evergreen shrub for shade. The cold turns the leaves a vivid red. Pair it with Viburnum tinus 'Lisarose' which also tolerates shade. Bouquets of fragrant blooms appear in early spring. Both are deer resistant. ♥️🌱♥️🌿♥️
February 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Spigelia marilandica 'Little Redhead' is a North American native wildflower, more compact than the native Indian pink. Blooms mid-May and stays in bloom for a couple of weeks. Cut them back for a re-bloom in July. It's a wonderful hummingbird plant. Day 14 #20DayPlantChallenge #NativePlants 🌱🌿
A cluster of cardinal-red tube-like flowers with yellow highlights. The foliage is bright green and creates a nice contrast to the deep red. A close-up of Spigelia 'Little Redhead' cardinal-red tubular blooms with yellow peaks.
February 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Common names: trout lilies or dog-toothed violets. Prefers cool, damp climates and shade. Can be difficult to establish although 'Pagoda' the hybrid is vigorous and performs well in Zones 4-9. Royal Hort Award of Garden Merit in 1993.
Yellow lily-like flowers dangle on stems above sage-green clumps of foliage
February 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Erythronium 'Pagoda' is a cultivar of the genus Erythronium in the family of Liliaceae. Its origin may be as a hybrid between Erythronium tuolumnense and E. californicum 'White Beauty' (thought to be a cultivar of E. californicum). #NativePlants to Tuolumne County, CA. Day 14 #20DayPlantChallenge 🌱🌿
A low-growing mound of green foliage with butter-yellow, lily-like flowers suspended above a rosette of leaves. It is a native to western North America but grows well in other regions of the U.S.
February 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Previous post: winter clean-up of the same garden. Here: photos from last summer, 3rd year of an ongoing project. The emphasis has been around the pond garden which has 3 connecting ponds. The client wanted as many perennials and blooming shrubs as possible. My instructions: cover every inch. 🌱
The pond and a blue ceramic fountain bowl can be seen in the back to the right. In the front is a pink and maroon daily with fronds of grass peeking in on the left. Other flowering perennials can be seen growing around the pond. Looking out toward the pond garden from under a white Limelight hydrangea. Brick path leads off to the left, and a stone walkway leads off to the right, around the pond. Groups of flowering perennials are growing around the pond. Peak time at the pond garden: black-eyed susans are blooming with orange day lilies and shasta daisies. Large evergreen trees on the left provide privacy from the next door neighbor. There are tall pine trees at the back of the property, leaving an open view to the golf course. More summer blooms: orange day lilies and shasta daisies in the foreground. Dozens of other perennials are in bloom around the pond.
February 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Winter clean-up today, getting the garden ready for spring. This is the 4th spring I've worked on this garden. Definitely looks like dead of winter right now, but clearing the grounds, shaping the Japanese maples, pruning the hydrangeas, prepping the beds - in 2 months it will be transformed. 🌱
An overview of the pond gardens in the dead of winter on a sunny day. There are three ponds that are connected by small waterfalls. Stone paths wind through the garden. Large ceramic bowls act as fountains that feed into the ponds, even in winter. The koi are asleep at the bottom of the deepest pond, which is about 5 feet deep. Long view of the back garden: there is a butterfly garden on the left and a rose garden to the right of the sod line. Everything is dormant now. Long shadows of trees fall across the grass. A stone bridge across one of the ponds that isn't running at the moment due to pump repair, but the deepest pond is visible on the right with the ceramic bowl feeding water into the pond. There are koi at the bottom of the pond where they hibernate in winter. Photos of the garden in spring will be in the next post.
February 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Conifer “scales” make these plants efficient in the aborption of pollutants. Foliage is referred to as scale-like because it resembles fish scales: overlapping like scales on a fish. The scales wrap around each other, connecting to the stem underneath. /21 🌿🌱 #phytoremediation #botany #horticulture
A close up of the foliage of Thujopsis dolobrata (stag-horn cedar) which shows the classic scale-like foliage that conifers are known for. This foliage pattern allows for the best absorption of air pollutants and particulate matter.
February 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM