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Being beautiful: Make the gifts as special as the graduates

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Adele Elliott: Pomp and circumstances

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Southern Gardening: Plan now for later irrigation needs

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A Stone's throw: Two more thoughts

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Adele Elliott: Hidden

Posted 5/18/2013 in Columns

Some states in the northeast have been invaded by cicadas this month.

Local landscapes: My magnolias look sick!

Posted 5/18/2013 in Columns

The older leaves of your Southern Magnolia are yellow and dropping all over the lawn. The remaining green leaves are even hanging down, giving the plant a sad, sickly look.

Being beautiful: Soak it up

Posted 5/18/2013 in Columns

As I write this, it's been raining so much the past few days. Of course, my ferns are joyfully soaking up every raindrop.

Southern Gardening: Salvia varieties create colorful, informal feel

Posted 5/18/2013 in Columns

Many gardeners try to give their landscape the feel of an informal cottage garden. This garden concept has a loose, flowing feel, kind of like you just let plants grow wherever they happen to pop up in the landscape.

A Stone's throw: Two thoughts

Posted 5/11/2013 in Columns

This is Mother's Day, that occasion set aside to pay tribute to the women who got us started in life.

Southern Gardening: Million Bells varieties provide summer colors

Posted 5/11/2013 in Columns

If we ever move into the warmer -- even hotter -- summer season, I'm looking forward to the prolific flowering of calibrachoa.

Possumhaw: Mothering by intention

Posted 5/11/2013 in Columns

We sat at the kitchen table conversing over coffee. In time, Heather noticed that Chloe, the youngest, had disappeared.

Southern Gardening: Homemade plant tags give gardens personality

Posted 5/4/2013 in Columns

Like many home gardeners, I used to put plants in my landscape without worrying about labels because I was sure I'd remember what was planted where. And like most of you, I would end up scratching my head wondering what I had planted where.

Adele Elliott: Local magic

Posted 5/4/2013 in Columns

I love stories about magic. Geese lay golden eggs, straw is spun into gold, and genies grant wishes with only a rub or three on a brass lamp. Of course, we know that life is not a fairy tale.

Southern Gardening: Lobelia and delphinium - good reasons to 'feel blue'

Posted 4/27/2013 in Columns

Has the search for blue flowers left you feeling blue?

Being beautiful: Long-lasting lip color for about 10 dollars

Posted 4/27/2013 in Columns

One question I am asked most often by women is about stains -- not the red wine stains on your favorite sofa or grass-stained couture from an outdoor picnic, but instead the ones you hope will stick around.

A Stone's throw: The Scone of Stone

Posted 4/27/2013 in Columns

Never having received an accolade myself, I decided the next best thing would be to create one.

Adele Elliott: No state is an island (with apologies to John Donne)

Posted 4/27/2013 in Columns

Most of the time, Mississippi seems like an island, surrounded by the rest of the states. In many ways, that is a good thing. This state, especially the Golden Triangle area, has less crime than many other places and possesses a wealth of creative talent and natural beauty.