A Pole Bean Revival in Ashe County
The magic beans lay hidden away, in darkness and ice, as the world outside warmed to the notion of beans in a can. They had once been so bountiful, these beans, garnishing Sunday supper plates from...
View ArticleBloom Where You’re Planted in Durham
Chartreuse sweet potato vine and weeping rosemary spill over the edge of a low, rust-colored metal trough. Russian sage — whose small purple flowers painted at the ends of silvery green stalks could be...
View ArticlePlant Joy
During the winter, Griggs keeps succulents and tender perennials in a heated greenhouse, which utilizes century-old windows from the church that her husband’s family has attended for almost as long....
View ArticleRaleigh’s Temple of Blooms
When Mark Weathington isn’t traveling the globe, looking for new plant species, he’s often at the JC Raulston Arboretum, where he’s worked for about 16 years. photograph by Charles Harris Stuck on a...
View ArticleGrowing Up at Carolina Home & Garden
At Carolina Home & Garden, Brian and Stephanie Watson, with daughter Logan Blake, relax in the sunroom, an event space furnished with chairs and pothos vines. photograph by Baxter Miller In the...
View ArticleTaking Shape at Ash’s Japanese Maple Nursery
Next year will mark four decades of marriage and maples for Nancy Parra-Ash and Thomas Ash. photograph by Matt Ray Photography Beneath an emerald ceiling of loblollies, at the end of a one-lane road...
View ArticleWinter at Montrose Gardens
Winter is Nancy Goodwin’s favorite season at Montrose, where snowdrops and irises brighten the woods during the coldest months. photograph by Anna Routh Barzin A blanket of snow lies deep in the winter...
View ArticleA Southport Showstopper
Randy Meekins figured he was in the clear. An entire month had passed since his wife, Lynn, had discovered her dream house — the day she Googled “cute Southern coastal towns” and the two hopped in the...
View ArticleAsheville’s Earthen Abode
For almost two decades, landscaper Andy Brokmeyer rode his bike past “The Hobbitat” near Asheville’s Montford neighborhood. Craning his neck to see beyond the lot’s mature trees, he marveled at the...
View ArticleHope Blooms
At a small flower farm in Chapel Hill that abuts the properties where she and her son live, Rebecca Sorensen adds white peonies to a floral arrangement with statice, seeded eucalyptus, and wheat. Next...
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