I will admit that I love flowers. I also love gardening. I am not the most proficient or the neatest of gardeners, and I have a taste for the less than manicured bed.

It's six-o'clock and I hear a rattling sound outside my kitchen window. Nerve impulse from ear to brain make an instant identity match with the Baltimore oriole.

Pay close attention to your azaleas now to prevent ghastly yellowed and stippled leaves caused by the azalea lace bug.