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Garden Week in Georgia: Hard-Pruning Rosemary or Down the Rabbit Hole by RGC Blogger Suzy Crowe
This winter, my neighbor cut down a 50-year old maple tree on the east side of my back yard, instantly changing the light in my yard. My rosemary, which had crept toward the house in search of light, could now grow straight up. It needed hard pruning so that it could flourish in the new sunlight.
Of course, I hard to research how to prune rosemary before daring to attempt such a drastic pruning. My research told me to hard-prune rosemary in the winter before the rosemary started growing again. Sources also cautioned…
Each bulleted item is a link–click on the hot pink links to open the chosen website in a new window
The Garden Club of Georgia Affiliates focused on horticulture & environment
- African Violet Club of Greater Atlanta
- American Camellia Society
- American Hydrangea Society
- Atlanta Chapter of American Ivy Society
- Atlanta Orchid Society
- Daylily Society of Greater Atlanta
- Georgia Hosta Society
- Georgia Iris Society
- Georgia Native Plant Society
- Georgia Perennial Plant Association
- Greater Atlanta Begonia Society
- Greater Gwinnett Rose Society
- Historic Oakland Foundation
- Monarchs Across Georgia
- North Georgia Camellia Society
- Rome African Violet Study Group
Other Organizations
- American Daffodil Society
- Atlanta Audubon Society
- Atlanta Gardening Connection/ Atlanta Botanical Garden
- Callaway Gardens
- Center for a Sustainable Coast
- Cherokee Garden Library
- Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens at Historic Bamboo Farm
- Columbus Botanical Garden
- DeKalb History Center
- Fred Hamilton Rhododendron Garden
- Georgia Conservancy
- Georgia Department of Natural Resources
- Georgia Department of Transportation
- Georgia Perimeter College Botanical Garden
- Georgia Urban Forest Council
- Georgia Wildlife Federation
- LeConte-Woodmanston Plantation and Botanical Gardens
- NESPAL—National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory
- Savannah Botanical Gardens
- Southeastern Flower Show
- State Botanical Garden of Georgia
- Waddell Barnes Botanical Gardens
Books About the Environment, Nature & Ecology…these are titles & authors, not links
- Bringing Nature Home, Douglas Tallamy
- Small Space Gardening Ideas, Philippa Pearson
- The Living Landscape, Doug Tallamy & Rick Darke
- The Natural History of Wild Shrubs and Vines, Donald Stokes
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast, Leonard E. Foote & Samuel B. Jones, Jr
- Wildflowers of Georgia, Linda Chafin
- The Ultimate Guide to Wildflowers of North America, Joan Barker
- Appalachian Wildflowers, Thomas E. Hemmerly
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South, Sally Wasowski
- Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv
- The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
- The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, Darrin Lunde
- Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
- The Forest Unseen, David J. Haskell
- The Nature Fix, Florence Williams
- Your Brain on Nature, Eva M. Selhub & Alan C. Logan
- In Open Country, Rahawa Haile
- A Walk In the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, Bill Bryson
- The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey, Derick Lugo
- Alta California, Nick Neely
National Garden Clubs Resources
Programs to Beautify, Preserve and Protect
- Plant America Inspiring Gardens Across the Americas
- Blue & Gold Star Memorials Honoring Those Who Served Our Country
- Penny Pines Saving Forests $68 at a Time
- National Garden Week Celebrate National Garden Week in Your Community
- Youth Programs Activities to Engage & Award Opportunities
- Running Waters Global Partners Running Waters
National Garden Clubs Resources
Schools for Members and Non-Members
- Environmental School Relationships, problems, problem solving
- Flower Show School Horticulture curriculum, design, flower show procedure
- Gardening School Plants, pests & diseases, gardens
- International NGC Schools Flower show schools & educational schools
- Landscape Design School Planning, procedure, completion
- Multiple Refreshers New info for NGC accredited Environmental, Gardening & Landscape Design consultants
- Flower Show Symposiums In-depth, more advanced Flower Show School subject
Books About the Environment, Nature & Ecology…these are titles & authors, not links
- Garden Blessings: Prose, Poems and Prayers Celebrating the Love of Gardening, June Cotner
- Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Elizabeth Eustis, et al.
- The Secret Life of Plants, Peter Tomkins
- That Wild Country: An Epic Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of America’s Public Lands, Mark Kenyon
- Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home, Heather Anish Anderson
- The Adventurer’s Son: A Memoir, Roman Dial
- End of the Rope: Mountains, Marriage & Motherhood, Jan Redford
- Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray
- Going to Ground: Simple Life on a Georgia Pond, Amy Blackmarr
- House of Steps: Adventures of a Southerner Removed to Kansas, Amy Blackmarr
- Blind Courage, Bill Irwin, 1st blind man to complete solo, unassisted 2,175 mile Appalachian Trail through hike
- The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness, John Hanson Mitchell
- Cutting Back, Leslie Buck
- Prairie Fires, Caroline Fraser
- The Widow Cliquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo
- Wild, Cheryl Strayed
- The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey, Derrick Lugo
- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Choked: The Age of Air Pollution & the Fight for a Cleaner Future, Beth Gardiner
- Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West, Heather Hansman
- How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time, Will McCall
- Sustainability Made Simple, Rosaly Byrd & Lauren Demates
- Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, & Alice Waters Changed Our World, Andrea Barret
- I’m Not a Plastic Bag, Rachel Hope Allison
- Fiction The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard
- Fiction The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
- Fiction Salvage the Bones, Jessmyn Ward
- Fiction The Excellent Lombards, Jane Hamilton
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