After being an active member of the Durham County Extension Master Gardeners for 13 years, Kit Flynn now holds emeritus status. For five years she was the gardening correspondent for “Senior Correspondent” and shared “The Absentee Gardener” column with fellow Master Gardener Lise Jenkins. She has given numerous presentations on various gardening topics to Triangle organizations and can be reached at howyourgardengrows@icloud.com.
- May is for gardening
- Taming that middle-age spread
- A reader’s reply
- Knock Out Rose: A Knock Out Introduction
- Read Your Garden Catalogs—Correctly
- Favorite plants in April
- Please do your research
- The Mighty Hellebore
- Juggling with solar panels
- Favorite plants in March
- Don’t Give Up
- Plant With a Strategy of Lessons from the Leaf
- The Camellia: A Good Reason to Live in Chapel Hill
- Protective Practices Around Poison Ivy
- Thoughts on February Plants: A Spring Tease
- It’s Spring, So Let’s Think About Fall
- Reading Your Garden
- Let’s Think About Garden Latin
- Favorite Plants In January
- What Ever Happened to Bedbugs?
- Do as I Say, Not as I Do
- To Plant the Right Plant in the Right Place: Read the Sun
- Favorite Plants in December
- A Loss in the Garden
- Timidity in the Garden
- History in the Garden
- My Most Expensive Purchase
- Let’s Consider the Deer
- Favorite Plants for Early November
- Be Careful What You Read
- Garlic Capers
- The Trials and Tribulations of Purchasing a Tesla
- The Abused Crapemyrtle
- Hurrah for the Chile Pepper!
- Garden Failures
- The Need for Garden Democracy
- Welcome Fall!
- A River of Grass
- Garden Hypocrisy
- Favorite Plants
- The Importance of the Perennial Border
- A Favorite Plant: Euscaphus japonica
- Alaska’s Great Horticultural Export
- Let’s Get Rid of Garden Pornography
- A Favorite Plant: Spigelia marilandica
- Patience and Prudence
- The Search for Sustainable Roses
- An Obsession with Roses
- Why Do I Garden?
- Mastering the Fine Art of Weeding
- The Elegant Edgeworthia
- Taking on Magenta
- An Old – New Rice
- Teacher’s Pets
- Too Cold to Garden? Read a Book
- For Greater Diversity, Think Palms
- Welcome to the World of Hydrangeas
- Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks
- Try Annual Vines
- Hostas: Remember the Flowers
- The Joys of Container Gardening
- The Mighty Acorn
- Rethinking Mulch
- Mastering the Art of Growing Dahlias
- All Hail to Our Camellias
- Saying Goodbye to the Annuals
- Patience is a Virtue
- Hello Fall!