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Headline: ROLY-POLY…NOT A GAME!

Section: Nature

Date: April 8, 2026 by Sue Ercolini

‘Roly-Poly’ is not a game. In fact, it sounds more like a sport with maybe a horse in it. But it is none of that…not even a bug! We call them roly-poly bugs, pill bugs, potato bugs, and some Southern states even call them doodlebugs…. that’s my favorite! They look like shrimp crossed with an armadillo and they seem t...

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Headline: CROCUS FLOWERS BRING HOPE OF SPRING

Section: Nature

Date: March 11, 2026 by Sue Ercolini

Winter color is so important in the garden – it makes you feel a little more cheerful when you need it most.  And crocuses are the ideal cheer-giver in February and March with their yellow, white and purple flowers.  During the coldest days, dozens of crocuses display their delicate blossoms in gardens and lawns.  These spring ...

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Headline: WIGGLY SQUIGGLY EARTHWORMS

Section: Nature

Date: February 12, 2026 by Sue Ercolini

I have always had this ‘thing’ about wiggly, squiggly earthworms since I was about 8 years old.  My twin brother thought chasing me about the yard, putting a worm down my back was pure bliss!  That relentless harrying has made this somewhat an unpleasant article to write!  I do know the benefits of earthworms.  They ...

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Headline: AMERICAN ROBIN - A Sign of New Beginnings

Section: Nature

Date: January 14, 2026 by Sue Ercolini

The American Robin nicknamed robin may be one of the most familiar and beloved birds across North America.  They are easy to identify with their 10 inch long body; brick-red breast; dark gray wings, head, and back; short yellow beaks; and broken white eye-ring that surrounds their dark eyes.  In early mornings, male robins are among the f...

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Headline: THE CHRISTMAS WREATH

Section: Nature

Date: December 10, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

It’s hard not to get captivated by the sights, the sounds, the festivities, and goodwill of Christmas.  Just drive down any street in December and you’ll see homes adorned with lights, ribbons and bows, and greenery.  And, one very iconic feature that captures the spirit of Christmas hanging on front doors – a colorful w...

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Headline: MUM'S THE WORD

Section: Nature

Date: November 7, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

November is a beautiful time of year full of warm colors that brighten our landscape – fall flowers just starting to fade, bright colored leaves of the Japanese maples, a blend of cozy, transitioning weather, and lots of holiday cheers.  It is the time when changing temperatures, day length and plant pigments all combine to create a beau...

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Headline: Butterflies are FREE!

Section: Nature

Date: October 10, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

The title of this article takes me back to the 1970s movie Butterflies are Free starring Eddie Albert, Jr. and Goldie Hawn where a blind singer-songwriter, played by Eddie, lives alone for the first time and meets his free-spirited neighbor, played by Goldie Hawn…a watchable movie!   And, since this article is about butterflies, ...

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Headline: LOVE SONG OF CICADAS

Section: Nature

Date: September 15, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

Listen!  Do you hear it?  How can you not?  It’s the summertime sound of cicadas.  I found it rather daunting when I first arrived in South Carolina for I never noticed them in other areas of the country, though, they were there!   Their high pitch screech can reach 80 to 100 decibels in volume…equal to th...

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Headline: KWANSO LILIES - FRIEND OR FOE

Section: Nature

Date: August 12, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

I’m up early each day to enjoy the summer magic of dawn in my garden.  It’s the only chance I get to immerse myself in the tranquility of the morning.  I walk a little through the garden but mostly just to get to the far back corner to sit near our pond and waterfall. It’s a peaceful and beautiful place to watch the sunr...

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Headline: THE BUZZ ON BEE BALM...

Section: Nature

Date: July 10, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

My garden is a ‘wildlife habitat’ for bees, butterflies, birds and anything else that decides to walk, hop, or slither across our property.  I have a deer with a deformed leg called ‘Fawny’, a box turtle ‘Teddy’, a 5-foot black snake ‘Henry’ and, please don’t judge me, a wild turkey I call ...

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Headline: MY BLUEBIRDS ATE MY PEANUT BUTTER & JELLY

Section: Nature

Date: June 10, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

I ate my share of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as a kid, and still love them!  It had to be Skippy, creamy with Welch's grape jelly and no substitutions, please.  Each day off I would go to school with a brown bag packed with a sandwich, one of mom’s chocolate chip cookies, and an apple ready to be eaten at lunch along with a ...

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Headline: RASCAL, A PESKY RACCOON

Section: Nature

Date: May 7, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

Rascal, our pesky raccoon has been around for several years and has outlived her time. Which makes me think that some of the offspring may be a second or third generation Rascal.  I know she is a female because every spring she brings her 4 or 5 babies around to find cat food, water and anything she can steal.  She is not quite as bad as ...

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Headline: SPRING FLOWERING TREES...Achoo!

Section: Nature

Date: April 8, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

Carolina Silverbills Eastern Redbud Longer days, warmer weather and flowers in bloom mean more time is spent enjoying our gardens.  Spring really has sprung and it’s early this year!  Our Southern red maples started flowering with gusto in early March followed by pear trees and cherry trees.   By the middle of Ma...

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Headline: DAFFODILS….A Little Bit of Sunshine

Section: Nature

Date: March 11, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

Spring always seems like a magical time of year, especially when glorious daffodils (Narcissus) are in bloom.  In the South you don’t even have to wait for the official day of spring, the spring equinox, this year Thursday, March 20th at 5:01 AM EDT.  My daffodils started pushing through the cold ground in January, soon covered with...

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Headline: BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Section: Nature

Date: February 11, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

Birds really do flock together in cold weather as one of their defenses for winter survival.  William Turner (1509-1568) was called ‘the father of English botany’ and coined the phrase ‘birds of a feather flock together’ in his satire The Rescuing of Romish Fox, an appropriate title for this article.   It&rsq...

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Headline: WILD RABBITS…NOT BUGS BUNNY!

Section: Nature

Date: January 17, 2025 by Sue Ercolini

This article is about wild rabbits, in particular, our Eastern cottontail. I bring up the cartoon character Bugs Bunny rabbit that was created in the late 1930s by Warner Brothers to make a point about rabbits.  The name bunny rabbit is really saying the same thing twice...bunny is the common name for rabbit while rabbit is a little more scien...

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Headline: STOLEN KISSES UNDER THE MISTLETOE

Section: Nature

Date: December 13, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

For many years when December rolled around, my father would hang mistletoe from the doorway of the living room to the dining area in hopes to steal a kiss on the cheek!  I thought it was rather disgusting and not so funny, but then I was just a little girl and didn’t understand the history and tradition of mistletoe.   It is on...

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Headline: AN OPOSSUM CALLED SI-QUA

Section: Nature

Date: November 7, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

Si-qua was an opossum that wandered around on our back deck for a couple of years.  Every night he managed to eat whatever dry cat food was left at the bottom of the bowl. Water was a necessity to wash it down, and I used to think they were rather dumb animals because he would walk in circles trying to find water when the bowl was right next t...

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Headline: TEENY-TINY, COLORFUL ASTERS

Section: Nature

Date: October 11, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

Summer came and went this past month, thank goodness!  I am not sure how much more heat and lack of rain some of our gardens outside of Simpsonville can handle!  Trees have been dropping their leaves for some time due to summer stress and we can only hope the remaining ones will give us vibrant fall colors.  With that in mind, many...

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Headline: ELEPHANT EARS...A Little Bit of Paradise

Section: Nature

Date: September 10, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

If you have ever seen an Elephant Ear, they can become huge plants with gigantic leaves; it’s a garden focal point for sure!  It’s no wonder their common name equates them with elephants because their leaves have some resemblance to the huge flapping ears that made ‘Dumbo the Flying Elephant’ famous.  And, on a ver...

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Headline: ROSE OF SHARON…Beauty or Beast

Section: Nature

Date: August 9, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

“A rose is a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” said Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.  It suggests that a name is just a label, and its importance is how it is, not what it is called.  And so be it with the ROSE OF SHARON, not a rose at all, not even in the same family.   The naming of plan...

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Headline: BUTTERFLY BUSHES BRING BUTTERFLIES

Section: Nature

Date: July 11, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

Serendipity ‘luck or lucky’ is one of my favorite words when it comes to gardening.  On June 12th, we had over 40 people for a BBQ and tour of ‘Willowdale’, our wildlife garden.  The weather was perfect with temperatures in the low 80s and very little humidity...serendipity!  On June 13th, the temperatures wen...

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Headline: BUTTERFLY ROSE UNLIKE ANY OTHER ROSE

Section: Nature

Date: June 7, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

Roses in my garden are blooming like crazy with very little disease problems and no Japanese beetles, yet!  This seems to be an especially good spring for roses, most likely due to our mild winter and plentiful rainfall and they are showing off.  I choose to grow roses that are full of personalities like Brindabella’s floribunda, ...

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Headline: WONDERFUL WORLD OF HOSTAS

Section: Nature

Date: May 9, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

Hostas really are the perfect perennial for shade gardens. They are easy to grow, tolerate shade, have beautiful foliage, and flower in the summer.  Probably why they are the most popular perennial in the world!  And, in South Carolina, they flourish…here’s why!     The origin of hostas has been traced back to...

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Headline: LISTEN TO THE MOCKINGBIRD

Section: Nature

Date: April 8, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

Many years ago, as a kid, I remember looking out the window and seeing a most unwelcome distraction for our dog:  a Northern Mockingbird was harassing our 100-pound Weimaraner.  Duke was a family dog and a wonderful hunting dog…he could locate, point and retrieve a pheasant in no time.  But when it came to a mockingbird, the m...

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Headline: March Garden Magic

Section: Nature

Date: March 11, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

Helleobores-Lenten Roses Jane Magnolia tree March Gardens are magical places with beautiful early sunsets, cool breezes sending fragrances of jonquils, Edgeworthia 'paperbush', and pansies throughout the garden.   It’s the month that is filled with romance as birds return to find a mate and raise a family.   It i...

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Headline: I'M NOT A BUZZARD

Section: Nature

Date: February 14, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

Driving along Brushy Creek Road that goes from Powdersville to Easley, I was caught by surprise to see a large group of at least 50 or more black vultures and turkey vultures roosting in 3 trees next to the road.   They can be seen at this winter roost from early evening to morning before they take off for their daily feed.  I was fo...

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Headline: WINTER GARDEN BEAUTY

Section: Nature

Date: January 13, 2024 by Sue Ercolini

I read a quote by Mary Walton Upchurch, an award-winning landscape architect, ¨The best gardens are not only beautiful in the spring, summer and fall.   The best gardens are also beautiful in the winter.  You just look at them in a different way–You look for the structure of the garden.” She's right!  I never rea...

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Headline: O Christmas Tree

Section: Celebrations

Date: December 5, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree how lovely are your branches…sound familiar?  It's a song that many of us have sung or heard over the years from singers like Giveon, Michael Buble, Mariah Carey including oldies like Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, and Nat King Cole.  You would think that it is a heart-warming song about the Christmas ...

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Headline: LADYBUG FLY AWAY HOME

Section: Nature

Date: November 1, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

As a child I loved to play outside and why not?  We didn't have cell phones or computers, we had the old Royal typewriter or the IBM Selectric at school.  It was fun to play with for a short period of time trying to learn the keyboard…the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, remember?    But it did not compete with b...

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Headline: CHARMING HARDY BEGONIAS

Section: Nature

Date: October 2, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

There is something about gardens and garden friends that leave lasting impressions on us. One such person was my grandmother.   She was a cottage garden genius that made me aware of how breezes, warm sun and pollinators affected the plants.  And she taught me how the sunlight illuminated the many shapes, colors and textures of the fo...

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Headline: CANTANKEROUS YELLOWJACKETS

Section: Nature

Date: September 4, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

Yellowjackets on trout Gardeners, children and pets BEWARE…it’s that time of year!  And yellowjackets (also spelled yellow jackets) are hungry and cantankerous in the fall due to less food.  Now, I know that you all have heard stories about unfortunate individuals cutting their lawns and accidentally running over yellowj...

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Headline: BRIGHT AND CHEERFUL BLACK-EYED SUSANS

Section: Nature

Date: July 29, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

Have you ever thought about the colors you choose?   Some people believe that you can predict a person’s personality traits based on their color preferences….maybe so!  My garden is full of rich, vibrant colors of red, orange and blue flowers paired with lots of yellow Black-Eyed Susans and white hydrangeas…cheerf...

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Headline: Sweet Pea Flowers are a Scented Beauty

Section: Nature

Date: July 1, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

My pink perennial Sweet Peas, Lathyrus latifolius, are blooming so beautifully this cool spring adding color and a light scent to my butterfly garden.  They are adored by bees and butterflies, and are the perfect flower to climb the posts of my old birdhouses that are still used by blue birds.  I love to pick sweet peas early in the morni...

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Headline: ROCKIN´ IN YOUR GARDEN

Section: Nature

Date: May 31, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

One might think that rockin´ in your garden  would  be about  singing  a song or dancing a jig.  And if that is who you are I say, dance away!  But for me it is about making  the  most of  your  landscape by  adding  rocks, stones or even boulders to your garden. Havi...

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Headline: IMPATIENT FOR IMPATIENS

Section: Nature

Date: May 2, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

This wacky spring weather is driving me crazy!  These cold mornings just won´t give up mak-ing it impossible to plant my impatiens.  And you know, as soon as the morn-ings stay above 50 degrees, it probably will jump right into summer.  At least it did last year!  My husband tells me I should be more pa-tient for patience ...

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Headline: The Bottle Tree...

Section: Nature

Date: March 11, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

My late grandmother on my mother’s side, known to us as ‘Mum-mum’, mum being the English version of mom, was my inspiration for gardening.  Her very small home on an acre of property was surrounded by an English Cottage Garden...a garden style ahead of its time in our area.   There were annuals, perennials and flowe...

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Headline: Parade of Poppies

Section: Nature

Date: February 20, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

Moving to Upstate South Carolina, gave me the opportunity to be introduced to a fellow Master Gardener and her beautiful poppies.  It’s a plant that I had never thought of growing before even though my last residence is well known for their golden California poppies.  She passed along a handful of her seeds, heirloom Breadseed Poppi...

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Headline: GARDEN BENCHES…A Time and a Place

Section: Nature

Date: January 23, 2023 by Sue Ercolini

A beautiful garden takes a lot of work pulling weeds, pruning, planting, cleaning up and so much more.  And most gardeners enjoy all parts of the process, although around August many of us may admit to being tired of watering and pulling all those weeds! Because gardening can take so much time, one of the hardest things for a gardener to do i...

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Headline: COOLER WEATHER BRINGS STINK BUGS…Home to Roost!

Section: Nature

Date: November 14, 2022 by Sue Ercolini

They say change is good and as gardeners we are intimately familiar with seasonal changes in our gardens.  Particularly in October and November when the days get shorter, the nights cooler and our gardens are starting to fall into their annual slumber.  It's a time when we begin to clean out our beds, cut down our summer perennials, and d...

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Headline: AUTUMN IN THE GARDEN

Section: Nature

Date: October 18, 2022 by Sue Ercolini

It's an early October morning, the air is cool and the sun is rising above the treetops giving an amber glow to the garden.  The deer quickly eat as much of the corn and sunflower seeds left earlier for them, while the crows gather above in the maple tree waiting their turn to eat the remaining morsels.  As I enjoy my morning kaffee, a fe...

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Headline: ELEPHANT EARS REACH FOR THE HEAVENS

Section: Nature

Date: September 19, 2022 by Sue Ercolini

September is the time of year that Indian-Summer begins and the Autumnal Equinox will soon follow.  The Autumnal Equinox occurs twice a year, around September 22 in the Northern Hemisphere and March 20 in the Southern Hemisphere.  In September the sun crosses the ´celestial´ equator in a southerly direction and shines directly...

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Headline: ON THE WINGS OF A DRAGONFLY

Section: Nature

Date: August 15, 2022 by Sue Ercolini

We are right smack in the middle of the ´dog days of summer´, officially July 3rd to August 11th each year, and usually known to be the hottest and most unbearable days of the season, and the dragonflies are loving it.  No doubt, this heat and humidity has taken its toll on us and our gardens this summer.   Unfortunately,...

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Headline: BIRDHOUSES ADD CHARM TO THE GARDEN

Section: Nature

Date: July 12, 2022 by Sue Ercolini

Each morning I wake around dawn, walk outside, lean into the rising sun, and thank God for another glorious day!  It’s the time of day that most gardeners get to enjoy their gardens before the trimming, the digging and the weed pulling begins.  For me, not having my first drink of caffeine yet, the sweet scent of the Stargazer lilie...

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Headline: BLUE FLOWERS IN THE GARDEN

Section: Nature

Date: June 6, 2022 by Sue Ercolini

Blue Daze Campanula Bellflower It was just this weekend we celebrated Memorial Day honoring our military personnel who died while serving our country.  And with the Fourth of July quickly approaching, I think about how many gardeners will celebrate the Stars and Stripes with a flower garden bursting with patriotic pride of red, white...

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Headline: CALIBRACHOA…Worth a Million Bells!

Section: Nature

Date: May 9, 2022 by Sue Ercolini

I fell in love with Calibrachoas the first time I saw them; and even though it took me years to learn how to pronounce their name (kal-ih-bruh-KOE-a), I just had to have several for my hanging baskets.  Their color and texture are a gardener’s delight but more so for butterflies and hummingbirds.  One cool morning when working in my...

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Headline: EASTER LILY...Sweet fragrance of spring

Section: Nature

Date: April 11, 2022 by Sue Ercolini

During Easter season, when you walk into a store, you are suddenly aware of a strong, sweet fragrance from a display of your favorite spring flowers like daffodils, tulips, daisies, hyacinths, pansies and Easter lilies.  It reminds us that not only is Easter a celebration of rebirth, but when we start to see the first signs of life in our gard...

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Headline: GAZING BALL…Reflections of a Garden

Section: Nature

Date: March 21, 2022 by Sue Ercolini

Over the years, I have learned a lot about gardening.  I can see the vision of my grandmother’s beautiful cottage garden and remember totting larger than me bean poles to my father's vegetable garden.  Being introduced to gardening at such an early age has its benefits when it comes to growing plants.  You also learn to appreci...

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Headline: THOSE DANG JAPANESE BEETLES

Section: Nature

Date: February 22, 2022 by Sue Ercolini

I know most gardeners are not wondering about Japanese beetles (JBs) in the middle of February.  But I thought some people may assume that since January was so cold a lot of our insects may have been killed off and, hoping that the Japanese beetles were one of them.   Unfortunately, cold or even hot weather never seems to affect an i...

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Headline: JAPANESE MAPLES ADD DRAMA

Section: Nature

Date: January 25, 2022 by Sue Ercolini and Angie McLean

Geisha Gone Wild I'm a lover of all trees except for probably the Water Oak with their shallow roots and dead branches scattered everywhere.  But if anyone asks my favorite, it will have to be the Japanese maple (Acer palmatum).  My first real experience with these trees was when we moved to South Carolina about 18 years ago.&nb...

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Headline: EVER BLOOMING ABUTILON...Flowering Maple

Section: Nature

Date: November 22, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

I say, ``What once was old is new!’’ Who would have ever thought that flared pants, puffy sleeves, and pedal pushers would once again be back in style...not me! But that is exactly what has happened with Abutilon, commonly known as Flowering Maple and, I´m in love with it! Sue in her garden with her Flowering Maple Floweri...

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Headline: Autumn Gardens bring migrating Monarchs and more!

Section: Nature

Date: October 11, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

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Headline: Autumn Gardens bring migrating Monarchs and more!

Section: Nature

Date: October 11, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

Good morning, autumn...what a glorious time of year!  I don´t look at it as the coming of winter but as the ending of probably a hot, dry summer and now, the beginning of cooler mornings, light rain and colorful, fall flowers.   Chrysanthemums are blooming along with other fall perennials like asters, ageratums, goldenrod, autu...

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Headline: CONFEDERATE ROSE...It’s Southern Charm and Beauty

Section: Nature

Date: September 24, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

One autumn, a few years ago, while visiting my brother in the Greenville area, I noticed huge bushes with hundreds of white and pink flowers.  Now, I have been a gardener probably since the time I could walk, but I never saw a plant like that and was told it was a “Confederate Rose”.  I knew then if we ever moved here, I must ...

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Headline: Catch A Twinkling Firefly - Lightning Bug

Section: Nature

Date: August 20, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

Call me a romantic, for I would like to think that in our lifetime all of us will experience something magical when it comes to nature.   And I don’t mean catch a ´falling star´ and put it in your pocket but something much more real than that!  As a kid, I never had to look any further than my own backyard.  No...

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Headline: FINDING THE ULTIMATE HYDRANGEAS

Section: Nature

Date: July 23, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

Mixed aluminum accumulation When walking around my garden, I didn’t realize I had so many different hydrangeas, mostly because of my friend Maggie who sniped and broke off any hydrangea branch she saw in anybody’s garden!  I used to tell her I was going to report her to the ´garden police´ but no matter, for she wa...

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Headline: EVOLUTION OF MS. PICKLES...Silly Garden Scarecrows

Section: Nature

Date: June 18, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

As I sit outside in my garden near my scarecrow, Ms. Pickles with her rag--mop hair attached to a 4 x 4, I’m inspired to write this garden article about scarecrows.   And my humble apologies to those who may have a fear of scarecrows, figuring if there’s a fear of clowns, there must be one for scarecrows, too.  So, I look...

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Headline: Crazy in love with Coneflowers

Section: Nature

Date: May 21, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

Coneflowers seem to cast a spell upon my gardening soul!  Their daisy-like flowers, bright colors, long blooming time, and ease of care make them the workhorse of my summer and fall wildlife garden.  They are beautiful and dependable, thrive in full sun and heat, have virtually no pest problems and can take less water than most other pere...

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Headline: PRAYING MANTIS...Cool, Calm and Ferocious!

Section: Nature

Date: April 27, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

I know a lot of people don’t like to talk about bugs and insects.   But the praying mantis is one of those more iconic insects that´s loved by many and stands out in our gardens.   It´s size, beautiful colors, and graceful form and movements almost commands us to look and ponder.   Which is probabl...

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Headline: WILDFLOWER GARDEN...Everlasting and Beautiful!

Section: Nature

Date: March 27, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

There was a time when our county was once full of Wildflowers and wildflower meadows with many beautiful varieties of flowers that supported our pollinators...birds, butterflies, bees, ladybugs and all.  But since the 1930s, due to our population growth and development, we have seen a loss of much of our ´unimproved grasslands´ tha...

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Headline: WE CALL HIM 'BROKEN TAIL' - Life of a Gray Squirrel

Section: Nature

Date: February 22, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

It was a warm, sunny afternoon on this particular day in June when I had my first encounter with ´Broken Tail´.   I had just finished another busy day in the garden and was feeling pretty good about my accomplishments.   Since I was still in a state of euphoria, I was not quite prepared for what happened next.  ...

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Headline: SNAPDRAGONS' Dragon Flowers

Section: Nature

Date: February 20, 2021 by Sue Ercolini

Every once in a while, you meet someone who can change your life in a most profound and positive way. That’s what happened to me as a child when my grandmother Sykes, mum-mum, lived within bicycle distance of our home. By now you know she was an avid gardener with numerous varieties of annuals, perennials, and roses growing in her garden bord...

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