Articles

Conifers are Coming....To Life!

 

This was written by both Jody and I, and published in the Summer 2008 Conifer Quarterly

        After many years visiting the Southeastern Flower show in Atlanta, and two years as a vendor, we took the broad and exciting step to become an exhibitor.  This would mean creating a landscape display for upwards of 40,000 people to see during the course of the five day event. 

 

La Nina and the Southeastern Weather

Published in the Winter Issue of the Southeastern Scion 2008

In the midst of our winter,  a moderate La Nina is hitting its peak. The Southeast has seen the full effects of this oceanographic phenomenon, as evidenced by our severe drought the last couple of years. I saw Mr. Adamec on our local FOX station, with hopeful news that this weather pattern will soon end, and with luck bringing us more rain this summer.   I found this information enlightening, as it explained why we are having such crazy, and devastating weather here in our region.
 

 

Constructing a Southern Landscape with Conifers

 

Published in the Fall issue of the Conifer Quarterly 2006

In the summer of 1999, a small Hollywood juniper (Juniperus chinensis ‘Tortulosa’) was planted in the front of a yard filled with mature red oaks and simple fescue.   With its upturned branches and deep green foliage, this young tree would soon start an evolution, if not a revolution, in the Karlin garden.  A small step to beautify our property would, over the course of six years, lead to many, many, (did I say many?) conifers to follow.

 

Coniferous Caviar

Published in the Summer issue, 2005, of the Southeastern Scion

 

Starting Small - get together with ACS members

Previously published in the Winter 06 Conifer Quarterly

On an unseasonably warm November day, the high was 77 degrees, they came from nearby, they came from afar.   Down the dusty gravel road dry from almost no rain since July,  just past Suburbia to our home and gardens in Conyers, GA ,  they came for a Conifer Society get-together. Twelve guests arrived, with 7 attending their first get-together.  The maples showed off their reds, oranges and yellows, while the conifers bragged on their yellows, blues and many greens.