Garden Adventurer: Getting Gaudy: The Colorful Crotons
After all the Christmas baubles and bangles have been put away, the ol’ homestead often seems void of cheerful color. The garden is normally…
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Garden Adventurer: The Temptation of Tulips
With apologies to Shakespeare, when it comes to tulips, to grow or not to grow — that is the question. While there are some…
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Last weekend for the Triangle Parade of Homes
The Triangle Parade of Homes is an annual, free tour that is open to the public. It is one of the best ways to…
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Home Tour: Bold and Beautiful
When Aimee Nugent and her family moved to Apex, they were on the hunt for a new-construction home in a new neighborhood. They wanted…
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Welcome to the Zoomtown
In the early days of the pandemic, remote work was a temporary solution for many office workers. Now a permanent option for many, that…
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How does your garden grow?
Earlier this year, the annual Fuquay-Varina Garden Tour, hosted by the Fuquay-Varina Garden Club, showcased eight homes to nearly 400 guests. Cary Magazine got…
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Garden Adventurer: The Sneaky Strawberry Bush
If you like sneaky plants, let strawberry bush (Euonymus americanus) surprise you. How? For starters, the name seems to imply a larger, bushier version…
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Garden Adventurer: Impatient? Plant Autumn Crocus
For any impatient gardener, crocuses are great bulbs to grow. Planted in the fall, their thin leaves start peeping out of the ground at…
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Garden Adventurer: August Lilies
When there is a need for foliage plants with visual elegance to doll up semi-shady spots in the landscape, gardeners often turn to hostas….
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Garden Adventurer: ‘Millenium’ Allium is More Than a Spellcheck
Millenium — if I had spelled this word that way on any of my eighth-grade English papers, a grade far south of “A” (a.k.a.,…
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